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who was a recusant in 1592 (see ' Cal. Cecil MSS.,' iv. 263) ? and who was the Sir Thomas Gage who gave the information cited in Strype (' Ann.,' iv. 107) in a docu- ment dated the 16th of November, 1591 ? Probably in both these cases " Thomas " is a mistake for John, as it certainly is in ' P.C.A.,' N.S., xxx. 53.

Sir Edward's fourth son, George, may possibly be the George Gage of the parish of St. *Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, Esq., whose will (109 Lee) was proved in the Pre- rogative Court of Canterbury, 12 Sept., 1638.

The Gages mentioned in the Stissex Archaeological Collections, xlviii. 10, as ordered on the llth of September, 1586, to be committed to the Wood Street Counter, are not the sons of Sir Edward Gage, as therein stated, but Edward Gage of Bentley and John Gage of Haling.

Sir Edward's fifth son, Edward, to whom Gage's ' Hengrave ' and Burke's ' Peerage ' assign the wife of his namesake of Bentley, is credited by these authorities with a daughter Elizabeth, and in the former also with a son John. According to Dodd, ' Church History ' (ii. 426), he was also the father of the well-known priest George Gage, who according to the ' D.N.B.,' xx. 349, was a son of John Gage of Haling. Gillow (' Bibl. Diet. Eng. Cath.,' ii. 356-7) and Gage (' Hengrave,' p. 234) think there were two priests of this name, and there can be little doubt they are right.

Sir Edward's sixth son, Richard, is pro- bably the person of this name mentioned in the ' Concertatio Ecclesise ' in 1594 as living in exile at that date.

To pass to the Haling branch of the family, their completest pedigree is to be found in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iii. 7-14. There Robert Gage,* the founder of the family, is said to have died on the 20th of October, 1587, leaving an heir John, then aged twenty-four. His second son, Robert, had been executed on the 21st of September, 1586. Who then, was the recusant Robert Gage of Croydon who from ' Cal. Cecil MSS.,' iv. 272, appears to have been alive and at large in 1592 ?

John Gage of Haling, though on the llth of September, 1586, ordered to be sent to Wood Street Counter, was actually sent to the Clink on the 14th of that month, and shortly afterwards discharged (Cath. Rec. Soc., ii. 260, 268). On the 13th of March,

1553, not 1533.
 * Robert Gage of Haling was M.P. for Lewes in

1589, he was committed to the charge of Richard Fynes (i.e., presumably Fiennes),. Esq., to be kept at Banbury Castle or at the said R. F.'s house at Broughton ; but his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Wilford, Esq., of London, being lately dead,, he was released on bail on the 7th of June r 1590 ('P.C.A.,' N.S., xviii. 414; xix. 194). He took advantage of his liberty to enter- tain the Catholic priest George Beesly, who died, a martyr to his faith, on the 2nd of July, 1591, in Fleet Street. For this, John Gage was committed a close prisoner to the Tower on the 10th of January, 1591 ('P.C.A.' N.S., xx. 207). He and his wife Margaret,, daughter of Sir Thomas Copley (and so niece of the other Margaret Copley who married John Gage of Firle), are said to have been sentenced to death, but reprieved. In 'Cal. S.P. Dom., 1591-4,' p. 125, we find calendared a pardon of alienation for John Gage (of Haling), dated the 25th of Novem- ber, 1591. His eldest son, Henry, was born in or about 1597. This shows that Dodd and Mr. Gillow are right in making the priest George Gage, who was a friend of Sir Toby Matthew, and King James's agent in the abortive Spanish marriage- negotiations, a son not of John Gage of Haling, but of Edward Gage of Firle, for this George Gage was fifty-three in 1635. The ' D.N.B.,' xx. 349, is therefore wrong- on this matter. This George Gage, after his ordination in Rome in 1614 by Cardinal Bellarmine, first came to England in June,. 1617 (Hist. MSS. Commission, Tenth Rep.,. App. I., p. 101). He appears to have died? in prison in or before 1651.

The George Gage who on the 9th of June,. 1649, was appointed Vicar-General to the- Bishop of Chalcedon (Hist. MSS. Com- mission, Fifth Rep., p. 467) was probably the- third son of John Gage of Haling.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

INSCRIPTIONS AT NAPLES. (See ante, pp. 62, 161.)

THE following are all to the right of the< before-mentioned broad walk as you enter the Protestant Cemetery by the western gate, and Nos. 151-200 are either on or immediately under the south wall, beginning at the gate. Illegible or partly illegible inscriptions are marked with an *.

151. The Rev. Arthur Tidman, M.A., of Wood- stock, Oxon., ob. 3 Aug., 1852.

152. Rebecca, w. of Wm. Carrington, ob. 26 June,. 1841, a. 45. Wm. Carrington, 06. 4 Apr., 1855, a. 73..