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 us. xii. JULY si, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS.

(US. xii. 10, 56, 73.)

BISHOP PETER MEWS occurs to one at once. It will be remembered that he fought against Monmouth at Sedgemoor. The best account of his martial exploits is in Plump- tre's 'Life of Ken,' vol. i. p. 216. The story is told by Macaulay with his usual picturesque touches ; and Mews's life is dealt with fully in Cassan's ' Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells,' 1829. A letter ap- peared in The Daily Mail, 17 Sept., 1914, giving full details of how Mews brought up the guns at Sedgemoor.

In Hutchins's ' Dorset ' (1815 ed.) there is a curious mistake made by stating that Mews died from swallowing by accident the contents of a phial of hartshorn. He died normally, 9 Nov., 1706, at Farnham Castle. A boy at Winchester School foretold the day of his death and also his own death. The story is related in Gale's ' History of Win- chester.' There are portraits of Mews at Farnham Castle, at St. John's College, Oxford, and in the National Portrait Gallery. This last was the one engraved by D. Loggan, and represents the Bishop with a black scar on the side of his face. The portrait is reproduced in Cust's ' Na- tional Portrait Gallery.' The Farnham Castle portrait is reproduced in Fea's ' King Monmouth' (1902), p. 287.

John Dolben (1625^86), Archbishop of York, took an active part in the Civil War. In 1643, when Oxford became the centre of military operations^ many students of Christ Church became officers in the King's army. Dolben joined as a volunteer, and rose to the rank of ensign. At Marston Moor, 2 July, 1644, while carrying the colours, he was wounded in the shoulder by a musket ball. He took part later in the defence of York. Dolben was painted by Lely twice. One picture hangs at Finedon and the other at Christ Church engraved by Loggan, and re- produced in the ' Oxford Loan Collection,' 1905, plate 14.

John Fell (1625-86), Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, was one of the many students of Christ Church who bore arms in the Civil War. See ' D.N.B.' There are portraits of Fell in Christ Church Hall, and a statue in the great quadrangle.

William Bew, or Beaw, Bishop of Llandaff in 1679, was a major in the King's service. See Le Neve's ' Fasti ' and Stubbs's ' Regis- trum ' ; also Cassan's ' Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells ' (1829).

John Lake (1624-89), Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1682, Bishop of Bristol, 1684, and Bishop of Chichester, 1685, was at Basing House when it was taken, and at Wallingford. He had joined the King's army early in the Civil War.

Robert Creighton (1593-1672), Bishop of Bath and Wells, joined the King's troops at Oxford, circa 1643. He afterwards made his escape into Cornwall in the dress of a labourer, and embarked in order to join Charles II. abroad. See Cassan's ' Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells.' There is a marble tomb and effigy of Creighton in Wells Cathedral. Cassan says that there is a portrait of the Bishop in the Palace at Wells.

Bishop Polk of Virginia. See Daily Mail, 19 Sept., 1914. His portrait appeared in The Century Magazine, 1885, and in Nicolay and Hay's ' Lincoln ' (1890) ; also in Snow's ' Southern Generals.'

Bishop Henry Despenser of Norwich took part in quelling Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Full accounts are given of him in Capgrave's ' Book of the Illustrious Henries ' ; also in Froissart and numerous other authorities. Of recent accounts one of the best is in Oman's 'Great Revolt of 1381' (1906).

There is a good passage relating to the clergy and carnal warfare in Jeaffreson's ' Book about the Clergy,' 1870, vol. i. pp. 51-2. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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See article by Edward Lam plough on ' Bishops in Battle ' in ' Curious Church Customs ' (pp. 198-231), edited by William Andrews (1895). Also ' A Fight between the Mayor of Hull and the Archbishop of York ' in ' Old Church Lore ' (pp. 37-43), by William Andrews (1891).

JOHN T. PAGE.

'THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING ' AND 'THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN ' (11 S. xii. 27). The author of ' The Whole Duty of Man,' and the other books ascribed to the author thereof, seems to ba Richard Allestree, D.D. (1619-81), Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. In his life by A. H. Bullen in ' D.N.B.' it is stated that " it has been by some supposed that Allestree joined with Bishop Fell in writing the books put forth under the name of the author of ' The Whole Duty of Man ' " ;