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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. FEB., IMS.

October 12. For a round table w th a wanscote I or walnut tree fote, bought of S r Henry Croke, T..

25. For a sette of bedstaves bought by my j Laundres Mabel for my bed in my new chamber in the Temple, 4d.

November 28. For halfe a lode of great cleare coals bought of Jo. Harrison, 18s.

For seven sackes more of the like coales, 8s.

December 3. For a tinder boxe w th a steel and flint and for an extinguisher, 6d.

1616 /17, Januarie. To Jo. Harrison for halfe a lode of small coles and halfe a thousand of billets bought by my man a litle before Christide last, 20s. 6d.

Februarie. . . .For a paire of Goteskin gloves, I5d.

19. For 3 yardes of sad marble colored cloth to make me a riding cloke w th bases for my armes, 51s. 6d.

For 3 yardes of bayes to line it at 3s. Qd. the yard, 10s. Qd.

For a qrt. a yard of russet colo d velvet for the cape, 5s.

1617, April 21. For two paire of woosted white stockins knitte w th silke thread sent me from Mr. George of Norwiche, 20s.

For two combes brought for me by Jo. Adney, th' one of Ivorie, the other of wood, w th a case

for them, 3a. ^ HARVEY BLOOM.

ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL: STEWARDS OF THE SCHOOL FEASTS.

ACCOBDING to Samuel Knight, the author of ' The Life of Colet,' which contains much historical information concerning St. Paul's School,

" the first General meeting or Feast of the Scholars was on St. Paul's Day (January 25), 1660, or the following year. In the year 1664 it was intermitted till 1674 : then revived again, and continued till 1679."

The Feast was again revived in 1699, and continued, with certain omissions, to be held annually throughout a portion of the eighteenth century. The celebration con- sisted of a meeting of present and past pupils of the School at a service held on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul in St. Paul's Cathedral, or occasionally in some other City church. A sermon was preached by a distinguished Old Pauline divine, and the collection was devoted to various purposes connected with the School, such as the sending of certain scholars to the Universities, the apprenticing of others, the restoration of the library (which had been destroyed with the School buildings in the Great Fire), or lastly, the teaching of writing and arithmetic to certain boys, for which purpose the services of well- known writing masters, such as Edward Cocker, John Rayner, and Col. John Ayres, appear to have been obtained.

Eton, Charterhouse, Merchant Taylors',, and Westminster seem towards the end of the seventeenth century in some cases, or early in the eighteenth century in others to have followed the example of St. Paul's in instituting anniversary feasts which combined reunions of "old boys" with a religious celebration.

St. Paul's School is unfortunate in the fact that no complete registers of its pupils are known to be in existence for any year earlier than 1748 (nearly two and a half centuries after its foundation). For this reason the preservation of the sermons at the successive School Feasts has proved of great value, for, of those which are extant in print subsequent to the revival of the function in 1674, most contain a list of Stewards of the Feast, who were Old Paulines who had made a certain mark in the world.

Many of these names have led to the- identification of men of distinction in their day as pupils of St. Paul's, but there remain a large number whose careers have not been traced, or whose identification has remained a matter of surmise, and the publication of the names of such persons, with the date at which they served as Stewards, will, it is hoped, lead to further information which may lead to their recognition : William Bartlett, 1678. William Butler, 1674. James Cardrow, 1675. Charles Chamberlayne, 1675. James Escourt, 1678. Edmund Gardiner, 1674.

Thomas Goddard, 1677. He was Surveyor Accountant of St. Paul's School in 1699-1700, and was hence a member of the Mercers r Company.

James Hayes, 1678. Can he be identified with one James Hayes who matriculated at Corpus f Oxford, in 1648-9, was called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1656, and became Recorder of, and M.P. for, Marlborough in 1659 ? John Knight, 1678. Was this any relation of Samuel Knight, the antiquary who preached at the Feast in 1717, and was a Steward in 1723 ?

Richard Lightfoot, 1675. Was this a son of John Lightfoot, who was intruded Master of St- Catherine's College, Cambridge, in 1650 ? John Lightfoot, a son of the future Master of St- Catherine's, is known to have gone up to Peterhouse from St. Paul's in 1646. Francis Nixon, 1675. Henry Simmonds, 1674. Thomas Swallow, 1675. Robert Thompson, 1677. He was LL.D. of

Trinity Hall in 1670. Edward Trotman, 1675.

Edward Alexander, 1701 ; Thomas Alexander, 1702. Were these related to Thomas Alex- ander of Framlingham, Suffolk, who was