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M.P. for that County 1656-8, and was in high favour with Oliver Cromwell. On Nov. 10, 1661, Sir Robert Mason wrote from Kingsclere in Gloucestershire to Secretary Nicholas saying :

" The person whom he has taken into custody is Edw. Herbert late of the Grange, near Magor, co. Mon., where he was Cromwell's tenant of part of the Marquis of Worcester's estate, but since the Marquis had power to recover it, he retired to Bristol. He was Cromwell's right hand, was talked of for Knighthood, and is an Independent. Suspects him now as an instrument of mischief, for he corresponds with malcontents and noncon- formists in Wales, Bristol, and other places." (Domest. State Papers).

His will was proved in 1667. He mentions in it his sons Edward, Walter, Isaac, William, Abraham, and Henry, and his daughters Elizabeth and Anne, and appointed as his trustees and executors, Charles Vann Esquire, Henry Rumsey, Samuel Jones, gent, and Thomas Ewins, minister of the Gospel. A fuller notice of him is in ' N. & Q.' (12 S. ii., 348) in a question I asked over the initial T, and in ' N. & Q.' same series, p. 436, in MR. W. D. PINK'S reply to my query.

CHABLES H. THOMPSON.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADTJA (12 S. vii. 31, 98, 152, 215). In answer to MR. WAINE- WRTGHT'S request the story of St. Anthony's commonplace book I found in a sermon on the Saint in ' Short Sermons (Third Series),' by Dom Francis P. Hickey, O.S.B., Washbourne, 1913. I do not know his authority, but suspect it to be ' S. Antonio di Padova, Taumaturgo Francescano, Studio dei Document!,' Quaracchi, 1907, by Fra Niccolo Dai-Gal, O.F.M.

In connexion with the original question it should be remembered that St. Anthony, though a profound theologian and gifted with a golden eloquence, was better known as the everyday friend of the people, ever ready to help them in their little daily needs and to work miracles in what we should call trivial matters. He was a popular saint, beloved by the country folk who were never tired of recounting how he had used his supernatural powers in their behalf. It was stated that he had represented to our Lord how sorely everyday troubles press upon our weak souls and our weak bodies and that our Lord had constituted him " our household friend." Consequently, a host of miracles which to the modern mind seem trivial occupy a large space in the earlier biographies of the Saint. There is a large

fourteenth - century literature concerning St. Anthony. The ' Liber Miraculorum r (1367-9), published Quaracchi, 1897 is a mine worked by most subsequent bio- graphers. The modern critical work of Fra Dai-Gal is now the standard authority. I regret that I possess neither of their works or would try to trace the original source of " the commonplace book."

ROBY FLETCHER.

IZAAK WALTON AND BANBURY (12 S. vii. 231). The entry in the Banbury Registers as to the baptism of an "Isaak Walton, son of Isaak Walton," on Dec. 6, 1635, is oi interest to students of Walton. It is, I think, just possible that the entry may refer to the author of the 'Complete Angler,' but most improbable. I can find no reference to Banbury in any memoir of Walton that I have read, and Sir Harris Nicolas (th<3 most painstaking and indus- trious of all Walton's editors) does not mention it. Now Walton married his first wife Rachel Floud et St. Mildred's, Cantor- bury on Dec. 27, 1626. The couple lived in either Fleet Stre3t or Chancery Lane for the fourteen years of their married life, and during that time, as far as has been at present learned, sev3ii children were born to them all of whom died in intancy. They/ wore :

Izaak, baptized Dec. 19, 1627.

John, baptized July 23, 1629.

Thomas, baptized Jan. 20, 1631.

Henry, baptized Oct. 12, 1632.

A second Henry, baptized Mar. 21, i634

A second Thomas, buried Aug. 19, 1637.

Anne, born July 10, 1640. All these entries are, I believe, from the- Registers of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street,, where Walton filled various offices.

It appears just possible that between the- birth of Henry the second, and the burial of Thomas the second, another sen was born,, but it certainly is no more likely than that the baptism of such a son should have taken place at Banbury with which, as far as we- know, neither Walton nor his wife had any connexion. W. COURTHOPE FORMAN.

The child baptized on Dec. 6, ^1635, cannot be identified with the Isaac Walton who died as Canon of Salisbury. The Canon was Walton's son by Bishop Ken's sister Anne, whom he married in 164.6. But according to a pedigree given in 'N. & Q.' (11 S. iv. 11), Walton's first wife Rachell Floud, married December, 1626, and buried