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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. III. AUG., 1917.

The following words, written by Prof. "Fitzmaurice-Kelly in the Introduction to his ' Oxford Book of Spanish Verse ' (1913), seem pertinent :

" Ruiz and Lopez de Ayala combine, charac- teristically enough, moral laxity with devotional unction. Piety, the outcome of a fugitive re- morse and an abiding dread of the Hereafter, is a capital trait of the Spanish genius, and in this respect the Archpriest and the Chancellor are typical."

H. O.

ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL SUBSCRIBERS TO 'LiFE OF COLET ' (12 S. iii. 148, 282). Thomas Sclater of Catley, Lynton, co. Cam- Abridge, M.P. Bodmin, 1713-15, Cambridge,

January, till 'unseated 1 May, 1715 (and, as T. Bacon), 1722 till he died " of a Palsey, worth 200,OOOZ., and without a Will," Aug. 23, 1736 (Gent. Mag.) ; his library and pictures sold, 1737 ; son of Sclater; was a student at Trin. Coll., Cambridge, on Dec. 10, 1684 ; admitted a student of Gray's Inn (as of Hatley [sic, but should be Catley],

'Cambridge), Jan. 25, 1694 (Registers) ;

inherited the estates of his great-uncle Sir Thomas Sclater, Bart., of Catley Park, under his will, at his death, Dec. 10 or 19, 1684 ; took the additional surname of Bacon

"'between 1715 and 1722 ; married Elizabeth, sister of Peter Standley of Paxton Place, Hants ; she died Dec. 16, 1726, and was interred at Linton, under a handsome monument designed by Wilton (Burke' s Extinct Baronetcies,' which wrongly gives 1734 as the date of Mr. Bacon's death).

'Sir Thomas Sclater purchased considerable

estates in co. Cambridge, of which he was High Sheriff, 1686, and was created a

baronet, July 25, 1660; married Susan, daughter of Freeston of Norwich, and relict (1) of Cotton, and (2) of Rev.

Comber, D.D., of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, but died s.p. Dec. 10 or 19, 1684, aged 68 ; title

-extinct. Mr. Bacon devised his estates to the family of Thomas Sclater King, which gentleman sold them in 1768 to Lord

jVfontfort, who again sold them in 1771 to Dr. Keene, Bishop of Ely (Burke). Why the name of Bacon was adopted I have not found

out. The fact that his parentage was not recorded when he entered Gray's Inn may be taken to mean that he was over age, and his own master, his father being probably dead. The Registers of Trin. Coll., Cam-

' bridge, would, however, most likely give his

'parentage when admitted there.

" About the commencement of the seventeenth century a branch of this family [Sclat>r of Hoddington House, Hants, now Lord Basing], which had been lords of the manor of Slaughter]

co. Gloucester, settled in Cambridgeshire, of which the last male representative, Sir Thomas Sclater, of Catley Park, Bart., died s.p. in 1684." Burke's ' Landed Gentry.'

It is curious that in Boyer's ' Political State of Great Britain,' 1726, the death of Mrs. Bacon is given as " wife of Thos. Slaughter Bacon, M.P."

Would not Thomas Wotton, " at the Three Daggers and Queen's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street," the compiler of ' The English Baronetage,' 5 vols., 1741 (and query the " Thomas Wootton, bookseller," who died April 1, 1766, London Magazine), be the person inquired for ?

A " Robert Swinburn, schoolmaster, in the Old Jewry," died March 31, 1729 ('Histo- rical Register ').

A Robert (or Henry) Stevens, " serjeant at law," died March 21, 1739, aged 69 (Boyer's ' Political State of Great Britain ').

The " Rev. Price, at Thetford, Norfolk," died March 4, 1737 (Gent. Mag.).

A " Thomas Dickson, Alderman of London," died Nov. 20, 1729 ('Historical Register '), but I do not think there was an alderman of that name.

" Joseph Downing, printer," died Aug. 31, 1734 (Gent. Mag.). W. R. W.

KlRKPATRICK OF THE ISLE OP WlGHT

(12 S. iii. 299). James was a son of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, 1st Bart, of Closeburn, by his first marriage, in 1666, with the Hon. Isabel Sandilands, daughter of John, Lord Torpichen. His father's third marriage, to Grizzel, daughter of Gavin Hamilton, gave him great offence. The dispute ran so high that immediately after witnessing the ceremony he left the church, and severed his relationship with his family for ever. In 1686 he " emigrated " to England, and having gained the affections of Ann, only

daughter of the Rev. Hoar, at Romsey,

he married, and received with her a dower deemed at that time considerable. They removed to the Isle of Wight, and in 1704 purchased " a capital messuage or dwelling- house, with a large garden, in the best situation in Newport." He died in October, 1719, leaving his only son James, and daughter Jane, wife of Matthew Rolleston, Esq., amply provided for. The son married Esther Williams, by whom he had issue three sons : (a) James, b. 1756, d. 1818, married in 1786 Margaret Everett, daughter of Marvin Everett of Heytesbury (b. 1763, d. 1800). (6) John, b. 1757, d. 1810, married Susannah, eldest daughter of Joseph Godman of Chichester and Parkhurst, Sussex (b. 1765,