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It is to Mr. Walter Bell, the author of that valuable and exhaustive book 'Fleet ~t in Seven Centuries,' that the credit giving publicity to this discovery is due. When he was searching the records of St. Bride's Church in Fleet Street, his attention was directed by Mr. A. W. Peart, the parish deck, to an entry in the Register of Christenings which showed that Samuel, the son of John Peapis and his wife Mar- garet, was baptiaed in St. Bride's on 3 March. 1632 3. The diarist was born on 23 Feb.. 1633, and it can scarcely be doubted that the christening which took place eight days later was that of the future Clerk of the Acts. The entry was printed by Mr. BeD in his book, but as he thought it might have escaped the notice of the reviewers, he wisely ' it. with corroborative details, in

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for 11 Jan., 1913. In a letter which appeared in the issue of that journal for 1 Feb. Mr. H. B. Wheatley

to the fact that John Pepys

i house in St. Bride's Church- yard since about the year 1614. He was his aoai Thomas, who died there on 15 March, 1663/4, and whose burial in St. Bride's Church three days afterwards was recorded by hi* brother Samuel in his 'Diary.' John Pepys retired from I^odon to Bramp- ton, near* Huntingdon, some years before file Great Fire occurred, and some people have thought that the diarist was bom there, but it is now sufficiently dear that he first saw the licht in hose in St. Bride's may quite possibly be W. F. PBTDEATTX.
 * ipceeded in the occupation of this house by

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2. In Charing Church, just in front of the organ, is a stone let into the floor, the on which reads as follows :

the body of Oatiierme Doing mife -Derinft Clerk. She was daughter of Wffl- Levet Esq who served kine Charte [we] and attended him on r

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Two KENTISH MEMOKL&LS CHAUES L 1. When

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other details of his career "pm- est, tres duxerat uxores satis
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ScalWd at the time of his Martyrdom. She de- Fartod tins Kfe Dee' 4* 1707 and left noe iaame.*

Here is a claim made on behalf of a servant of Charles at a time when details of the scene at Whitehall must still have been preserved by many contemporaries. Yet Levet is not recognized by history. Gardiner says positively that no one but Juxon was allowed on the scaffold. W. D. Fellowes. Historical Sketches of Charles the Fr with prints, mentions the attendant Herbert, who dressed the King's hair in the morning, and a Dr. Hobbs, who was his physician, but no other servant. The traditional account of the execution is so full of detail largely derived from Juxon himself that the omission of Levet, if he really was present, seems odd.

Perhaps, with a natural desire to make the most of his long service, he had worked up the story of his master's end until he persuaded himself and others of his presence on the scaffold. Friends, even if incredu- lous, would have been cruel in depriving him of "mentis gratissimus error," a delusion, at any rate, more creditable than that of George IV., who sometimes thought that he had been at Waterloo, and, according to if he left off liqueurs, would no more victories.

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THE ROBBERY 02? GAI>SHIIX ( l 1 Henry EL iL). In a ease tried in 19 Elizabeth, Manwood, J., said : "When I waa servant to Sir James Halea, ope

at Gadds Hffl within the of Ora"<td in Kesrt, and he sued the of the hasxliul ^JMTB jfr statute [Statute of

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to ml - mmmi 01 i Fart IL, p. 12.

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three wives who

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JASTE MAXWELI/S MOTHER. ^The famous Duchess of Gordon's mother, Lady Maxwell, died at Edinburgh 21 April, 1807 (Aberdeen Sonial,13May,1807). The Peerages either

as G, EL C. does (* Baronetage/ iv. 311).

J. M. BULLOCK.