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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. NOV.,

It is not often that one comes across such a storehouse of genealogical information as this old diary, which, in addition to the items I have referred to, gives particulars of the proceeding generation. It has fur- nished material for a very full pedigree of the family from 1534, but onTaccount of space an outline only is given.

Robert Moore of "Brerport," b. 1534, ob. 1601.

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Adrian,

born Antwerp, 1534, ob. 1618.

Adrian, ob. 1672. Adrian, ob. 1655.

Robert, D.D., born Antwerp, 1565. ob. 1640.

Robert, born 1618, ob. after 1657.

Adrian, born 1651, ob. 1740.

Adrian, ob. 1749.

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Anne=r... Edgell. VVm. Edgell. 3 daughters.

A niece of Wm. Edgell=rRiohd. Wyatt. Edgell Wyatb Edgell. Richd. Wyatt Edgell. Arth. Wyatt Edgell.

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2 sons. daughter.-

I might add that the second Adrian of the elder line was a lunatic.

FREDERIC ".TURNER.

WALTHAMSTOW'S HISTORIC MANOR HOUSE.

WALTHAMSTOW, six and a half miles from Liverpool Street Terminus, is normally lavishly served by road and by rail. Every good Londoner knows that it was once part of the Great Forest from which it derives its Anglo-Saxon name. Strangers may be reminded that it lies between Chingford on the north, Leyton on the south, and Wan- stead on the east, among the hillocks and undulations which border the suburban bank of the River Lea ; and it is claimed that a larger proportion of its denizens of all classes derive from the old Tower Hamlets and the ancient Stepney Manor than any other part of the Outer Metropolis, not even excepting the townships and villages abutting on the Great Eastern Railway to Loughton.

The Register of the ancient St. Mary's Church only begins in 1645, but Lysons is careful to name four persons who flourished for upwards of a century.

The fifth monograph of the Walthamstow Antiquarian Society (only founded so late as 1915) is devoted to Higham Hall, now known as Essex Hall the most ancient house in the parish of Walthamstow, and in Eliza- bethan days the Manor House of Higharn Benstead, given, it is said, by the Virgin Queen to her sometime favourite, the Earl of Essex. It was made famous again in the earliest part of the nineteenth century by Eliezer Cogan's school. This remarkable Nonconformist minister, a powerful preacher, a first-rate Greek scholar, and an accom- plished musician, for eight and twenty years from 1801 carried on the school, never taking a single day's holiday ; and he died in 1855 at the age of 93. As everybody ought to know, Walthamstow is rich in traditions of old and eminent Nonconformist educational associations scarcely less than middle-class Dissenting Hackney close by. For instance, the Rev. Samuel Slater, M.A., ejected from the collegiate chapel of St. Katharine-by-the- Tower, after some wanderings settled at Walthamstow and received an official licence from the Crown to teach in his own house. Doubtless he was the spiritual forerunner of Eliezer Cogan, who made the remnant of the old Hall, the Manor House of Higham Benstead, into a famous educational centre.

ELIEZER COGAN.

The fifth monograph of the Walthamstow Antiquarian Society sets out that Eliezer Cogan was born at Rothwell,in Northampton- shire, in 1762. He was the son of a doctor, John Cogan, " a Protestant Dissenter with moderate Calvinistic opinions," who had made Eliezer a good Latin scholar by the age of 6. The boy had a decided gift. for tongues, and though he learnt no Greek at Samuel Addington's Academy at Market Harborough and was self-taught in that respect, Dr. Blomfield, Bishop of London, said that " Cogan was the first Greek scholar in England " ; while Dr. Parr, eminent both as a Greek scholar and a Churchman, " placed Cogan among the first Greek scholars of his time." Eliezer was trained for the ministry at Daventry Academy, which he entered in 1780, and he worked under Toller, Kenrick, and Belsham. He became in 1787 the Presbyterian minister at Cirenc ester, and was soon recognised as one of the most learned Dissenting pastors of his day. However, in 1790 he^became^a schoolmaster,