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as an exti-eme Rumper, after which his public life ceased. He died in 1669, and was buried at Pickering. Will dated Jan. 3, 1669, proved at York. W. D. PINK.

Winslade, Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

REV. JOHN DAVIES, D.D. (12 S. iv. 14). The Dr. Davies about whom the REV. T. LLECHID JONES inquires was my grand- father, and I have pleasure in supplying the following information with regard to him. He was the father of the Rev- John Llewelyn Davies, successively Rector of Christ Church, St. Marylebone, and Vicar of Kirkby Lons- dale, Westmorland, who died on May 18, 1916, aged ninety, and of Miss Emily Davies, LL.D., well known in connexion with Girton College and the movement for the higher education of women, who is still living, at the age of eighty-seven, and has helped me to put together these notes.

John Davies was born in 1795 in the county of Carmarthen, and was the son of James Davies, a Welsh farmer, who claimed descent from Llewelyn, the ill- fated Prince of Wales. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, then ruled by Dean Milner, and a stronghold of the Low Church party. Of his earlier years no record remains ; but he must have been a remarkably precocious youth, as he used to tell his children in after life that he was tutor in a gentleman's family when he was thirteen, and usher in a school when fourteen. Soon after leaving Cambridge he was ordained. His first clerical work was at Chichester, where he had as a neighbour Manning, the future Cardinal, with whom he was on friendly terms, though a good deal of lively controversy took place between them. In 1840 he was appointed Rector of Gateshead, and held that living for the rest of his life. He was also, from February, 1853, an Honorary Canon of Durham, and received the degrees of B.D. (1831) and D.D. (1844) from the University of Cam- bridge. He was one of the leading Evan- gelical clergymen of his day, and in 1829 came forward as a candidate for the Pro- fessorship of Moral and Political Philosophy in the newly founded University of London, receiving the support of Zachary Macaulay (the father of the historian), Thomas Chalmers, Michael Maurice (the father of Frederick Denison Maurice), and others. He had by that time become known as the author of an elaborate philosophical work entitled ' An Estimate of the Human Mind ' (1828; second edition, 1847). He also

wrote ' The Ordinances of Religion Practi- cally Illustrated and Applied ' (1832), and about twenty other books. He died at Ilkley Wells, Yorkshire, on Oct. 21, 1861. For a few of the above particulars I am indebted to Mr. Frederic Boase's ' Modern English Biography,' 1892, vol. i. col. 827. CHABLES LLEWELYN DAVIES. 10 Lupus Street, Pimlico, S.W.I.

The Rev. John Davies was inducted 3 Rector of Gateshead on Saturday, Feb. 8 r

1840 (' Local Collections, Gateshead,' 1840, p. 3). His monumental inscription, a free- stone tablet on a slate frame, is on the south wall of the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Gateshead, close to the chancel arch. It runs :

" Sacred to the Memory | of ) the Rev. John Davies D.D. | Rector of Gateshead | who died Oct. 21st 1861, and was interred | atSt. Cuthbert's, Bensham. | The Monument was erected by a body of his | parishioners as a testimonial of their esteem | for a pastor who had faithfully and zealously | performed his sacred duties in Gates- head for upwards of 21 years, and shown his flock an example of a meritorious and virtuous life. | During his incumbency | and mainly owing to his exertions | the new church of St. Cuthberfc'&

I and the Lady Vernon School, Bensham, | also, the new national schools, Gateshead j were erected | and many other institutions | tending to- the spiritual welfare | of an increasing population


 * were established."

The Newcastle Courant of March 12, 1886, contained the following :

" 1886, March 10. Died at St. John's Wood, in her 87th year, Mary, widow of the Rev. John Davies, D.D., Rector of Gateshead."

M. H. DODDS.

The Rev. John Davies, D.D., was born in 1795, in the parish of Llanddewi-brefi, Cardiganshire, and was educated in the Grammar School at Lampeter. After hav- ing been taught and teaching others, he went to England in 1815, and became a master in a school. He was at Oxford for a time, and then went to Cambridge, where he took his degrees of B.D. and DJ>. He was ordained by the Bishop of Norwich, and became Vicar of St. Pancras, Chichester. In 1840 he became Rector of Gateshead, and died in 1861 at Ilkley.

ABCHIBALD SPAKKE.

MAGIC SQTIAKES IN INDIA (12 S. iii. 383, 424, 454, 517). With reference to MB. ABTHUB Bo WES' s query as to the source of Albert Diirer's magic square, in the artist's days magic squares must have been well known among " booky " people. They were introduced by Manuel Moschopulus, who-