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13. Edward Hobson Hancock, d. IT Jan., 1814, in his llth year. Joseph Hancock, d. 9 Aug., 1817, aged 14. Samuel Hancock, Esq., father of above, d. 29 Nov., 1817, aged 48. John Hancock, Esq., brother of Samuel, d. 4 Nov., 1821, aged 64.

14. [A walnut panel, inlaid with pearl:] Lux Mundi. [A painting of the Adoration of the Magi, one of the figures being a portrait of T.H.] Thomas Hancock, 20 years assistant priest and lecturer in this church, b. 19 June, 1832 ; d. 24 Sept., 1903.

15. Mr. Richard Harris, son of Richard and Sophia Harris, d. at Lisbon, 18 Sept., 1825, in his 23rd year. Family vault in middle aisle.

16. Joseph Hulme, Esq., formerly of Bread Street Hill, and late of Islington, d. 12 Oct., 1826, in his 80th year.

17. Thomas Langley, Esq., many years wine merchant of York Street, Covent Garden, d. 30 Dec., 1787, aged 77. Hannah his wife, d. 6 Nov., 1761, aged 64. In middle aisle.

18. Elizabeth Ann, wife of Mr. Nicholas Maughan, of Earl Street, Blackfriars, only daughter of Mr. John Sheffield, of Brixton Hill, Surrey, d. 2 July, 1835, in her 24th year.

19. Matilda, 25 years wife of the Rev. John Mitchel, M.A., rector of this parish, d. 15 Jan., 1830. [He was son of John M., Rector of Grendon, Warwick; of Wore. Coll., Oxf., B.A. 1794. M.A. 1797 ; Rector of St. N.'s 1817 to his death 4 Apr., 1846 (Foster).]

20. George Nelson, Esq., late Lord Mayor of London, d. 23 Nov., 1766, aged 57. Mary Nelson, his 2nd wife. Erected by his only son George. [See Musgrave's ' Obit.' ; Fennell's ' Researches respecting Family History,' 1866, p. 43 ; he was very rich.]

21. Helen Jane Roper, b. 29 Nov., 1839 ; d. 29 Jan., 1907. The north and south portions of the east wall were decorated to her memory, 1908.

22. [Three panels of bronze, ebony, and marble : Shuttleworth arms, 3 shuttles, and motto " Utile, dulce " :] Henry Gary Shuttleworth, M.A., Ox- ford, sometime Minor Canon of St. Paul's Cathe- dral, Professor of Pastoral Theology, King's Coll., London, for nearly 17 years the beloved Rector of the parish of St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey. Born 20 Dec., 1850 ; died 24 Oct., 1900. His ashes are immured in the parish church of his native village, Egloshayle, Wadebridge, Corn- wall.

23. [On brass, diamond-wise, on the floor near the font :] Thomas, son of John Joseph and Alice Skilbeck, d. 11 Mar., 1817, aged 14 ; the above- named Alice d. 10 Feb., 1825, aged 47. [The father was a drysalter, 22, Bread Street Hill ; the son entered St. Paul's School 14 Aug., 1813 (' Adm. Reg.,' ed. Gardiner, 1884, p. 246).]

24. Mr. John Vaston, late of Bread Street Hill, merchant, d. 1 Dec., 1810, aged 83.

25. [On brass, on the altar-foot-pace : arms of the Bowyers' Company, and motto " Crecy, Poictiers, Agincourt " :] James Wood, of London, citizen and bowyer, buried near this spot 23 July, MDCXXIX.. This altar-step was relaid 1903, by the Worshipful Company of Bowyers, in grateful remembrance of his benefaction.

26. Three tablets in memory of departed members of the congregation, from 1885 to 1908 r 50 names.

27. [In gilt letters on a black board :] Bene- factions to the poor of the United Parishes of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey and St. Nicholas Olave.

Per annum. s. d~

1535. Mr. Weston 6 &

1572. Mr. T. Jennings. . . . 13 4~

1631. Mrs. Ann Broomsgrove. . 1 O 1

1641. Mr. T. Haselfoot, for the minister, clerk and sexton, also bread for the poor. . . . 24 1651. Mr. David Smith. . . . 084 1662. Mr. John Haydon. . . . 500- 1692. Mr. John Hockley. . . . 500" 1766. Mr. James Wood . . . . 050-

1566. Lady Leonard. . . . 2

1582. Barnard Randolph, Esq. .. 100- 1586. Mrs. Alice Field .. .. 13 4

1694. Mr. Justice Randall. . . . 180" 1704. Mr. Thomas Hedger, for bread,

per arm. 11. 17s. 5d. ; since 1816 10 10 0> 1819. Messrs. Blyth, Inglis & Co., No. 9, Old Fish St., for window lights into the churchyard. . . . 12 1819. Mr. John Reynolds, No. 5, Bread Street Hill, for window lights into the churchyard. . 050-

This Church was Rebuilt by Act of Parliament after the dreadful fire of London, A.D. 1666. Sir Christopher Wren architect. The cost was- 5,500Z.

28. [On a brass plate in the vestry.] In 1871 the New District Railway Co. paid 1681?. 10s~ compensation for damage done to the church in making their line. In that year the united parishes of St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Mounthaw were united, ecclesiastically, to St. Nicholas Cole Abbey with St. Nicholas Olave. The church of St. Mary Somerset was pulled down,, and 1028J., part of the proceeds of the sale, was reserved for the repair of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. These two sums, together with money received from the estates of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey and St. Nicholas Olave, were expended in the restoration of the former, in 1873, under a committee consisting of the rector and the churchwardens of the four parishes : Henry" Stebbing, Rector ; David Palmer, Charles Star- buck, Cole Abbey ; Charles Todd, Joseph Taylor,. Olave ; Henry Cockings, John Odhams, Somerset ? Thomas Cross, John Kahn, Mounthaw.

W. C. B.

KITTY CLIVE. It is said that Mrs. Clive- was born in London in 1711. This year is therefore the bicentenary of her birth. She died on 7 December, 1785, at the house- known as Little Strawberry Hill, Surrey,, which had been placed at her disposal by her friend and neighbour Horace Walpole- She was buried in Twickenham Churchyard,, and on the outer east wall of the chancel is- a plain tablet to her memory. Thence 1