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of his advertisement," and he thankee

Shenstone on 11 April for sending him this

poem (B.M. Add. MS. 28959).

Perry was the son of Daniel Perry o

Pattingham, co. Stafford, where he was He matriculated from Oxford, on 14 Nov.

about 1713. Pembroke College

1731, aged eighteen, and a year later Shen stone entered it. He took the degree o: B.A. in 1736, and in 1737 was inducted to the vicarage of Clent, then in the county o] Worcester, but now in that of Stafford He died, being still the vicar of that parish on 14 Sept., 1780, and was buried there. On his appointment to the living he married Agnes Margareta, daughter of Walter Little- ton of Lichfield, and a connexion of the Talbot family. They had eleven children, one of whom, Littleton Perry, succeeded to the living, but did not enjoy a good reputation as a parish clergyman. A con- temporary account calls the Rev. John Perry ""Christian, scholar, poet, and divine" (Amph- lett, 'Clent,' pp. 147-60; Simms, 'Bibliotheca Staffs,' p. 357 ; Foster, ' Alumni Oxon.').

The Rev. Charles Parrott contributed poems to vol. iv. 296-302, and vi. 135-8. The first set was sent through Shenstone. The last piece, ' Ode to Cupid on Valentine's Day,' is reprinted in Dr. John Aikin's ' Vocal Poetry,' pp. 105-6.

The Rev. Henry Parrott, his father, a member of the Huntingdonshire branch of the family of Perrot or Parrott, belonged to Holywell in Hampshire, and married Catharine or Arabella Halford, daughter of Sir William Halford. Charles was bap- tized at St. Alphage, London, on 23 Sept., 1713 ; became scholar at Winchester College, .as founder's kin through his mother, in 1728, and matriculated from New College, Oxford, on 25 Oct., 1732, when his age was given as eighteen. He was a Fellow from 1732 to 1757, and took the degree of B.C.L. on 16 April, 1740.

Parrott was instituted to the vicarage of Heckfield, Hants, on 21 Jan., 1752/3, and resigned it in 1757 for the rectory of Saham Tony in Norfolk, both of them being in the gift of New College. On the death in 1764 of his relative the Rev. John Gary or Carey, Rector of Wootton, near Woodstock, he came into the possession of considerable property. He married Maria, daughter of Robert Francis of Norwich, and died on 12 Feb., 1787. A memorial tablet in Latin to him is in the chancel of Saham Tony Church. It gives his age as seventy- two. He left no issue.

Parrott was possessed of ample means and was very charitable in disposition. He restored the eastern portion of Saham Tony Church ; rebuilt the parsonage house, which had almost fallen to pieces through age ; adorned its gardens ; and left to the living certain land, the possession of which would be useful to his successors. His will was dated in 1785. Under it he gave 2,0007. for the purchase of land for the Warden of New College, 1,300Z. for the benefit of widows in the almshouse at Marshfield, and 2,711Z. 9s. Id. India annuities to provide for a schoolmaster and the education and apprenticing of twelve poor boys at Wootton. The last sum was bequeathed " agreeable to the late Mrs. Carey's wishes."

He was the author of two papers in The World : No. 38, in ridicule of an expensive taste in furniture ; and No. 74, on the night life of London, with the ' Ode to Night ' which is reproduced in Dodsley. (Kirby, ' Winchester Scholars ' ; Barnwell, ' Perrot Notes,' p. 130 ; information from the Rev. Hastings Rashdall of New College, the Rev. F. R. Marriott of Wootton, and Mr. D. Edgar Rodwell of 100, Philbeach

Gardens, S.W.).

W. P. COURTNEY.

THE LATE SIB W. R. CREMER, M.P. In The Daily Telegraph of 23 July there is a Diographical notice of this gentleman, in which the following paragraph occurs :

" He was born in Fareham, Hampshire, and, it is jelieved, was, as the name indicates, of German, or Alsatian descent."

Whether the name indicates a foreign descent or not, and apart from any special knowledge which the writer may have jossessed, it may be said to be doubtful f the late member of Parliament was of uch recent foreign extraction as this para- graph seems to suggest.

The name Cremer, even if it has a re- notely foreign origin, has surely been laturalized by some hundreds of years of ise. For instance, a manorial family of that name, bearing the alias of Skryme, was seated at Snettisham in Norfolk before 1600, and members of it owned considerable land in that neighbourhood. John Cremer, alias Skryme, died in 1611, leaving a large DONALD LIVETT.

family of sons. 2, Essex Court, Temple.

JOHN SHAKESPEARE, BITMAKEB. In a mutilated document headed " The Seuerall acquittances of the tradesmen artificers .... necessaries for his Highnes' seruice and Journay into Spain .... thousand and four-