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 532 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 s.ix. DEO. 31,1921. was spent in Ireland, at Limerick ; in his own ' A Review of Fifty Years' Ministry, 1843-1893,' he refers to this pastorate as j having given him " the mastery of the j Irish problem by travelling all over the j island, and intercourse with all classes and i parties made me for life a Young Men's Man." He also took charge of congregations at Brentford, Islington and Camberwell, j but he will always be identified with his twenty years' ministry at the Old Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney, which old age and ill health compelled him to resign in March, ; 1894. He died at his residence, Orange Villa, Amhurst Road, Hackney, on Oct. 25, j 1 895, and is buried in Abney Park Cemetery, j The Rev. J. de Kewer Williams was a ! man who throughout his long life was j a lover of Hackney ; however long his > duties kept him away, to use his own words, he was always ready to return to his " own j dear native parish." He travelled a great deal and collected many works of art, books, &c., especially from the Low Countries ; indeed he had quite a number of examples of the paintings | of the old Dutch Masters, including a fine Rembrandt. His Cromwellian collection was unique i and well known to all students of that period. Mr. Williams was terribly dis- appointed when his offer to give the col- lection to the nation was refused by the Government. It was afterwards sold by auction by Mr. J. C. Stevens, at his well- j known rooms, 88, King Street, Covent Garden. The Rev. Mr. Williams, upon his retire- | ment from public work, had his useful labours acknowledged by a testimonial % which took the tangible form of a fine por- trait in oils, executed by Mr. J. Doyle Penrose. This portrait bears the inscrip- tion : "The Rev. J. de Kewer Williams. From friends of various persuasions and parties, 1894." It hangs in the Town Hall, Hackney, and was presented to the Hackney Vestry, on behalf of the subscribers, by the late Lord Russell of Killowen (Lord Chief Justice) " to hang with other well-known local celebrities in the Hackney Town Hall for all time." G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major. South Hackney. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Williams, minister of Zion Chapel, Hackney, and related to (? nephew of) the Rev. John Williams, the missionarv who was killed and eaten at Erromanga in 1839. He was minister of the Gravel Pits Chapel, Hackney, was a well-known and popular lecturer and. a great humorist. He had a private museum of a miscellaneous character. He had printed cards soliciting gifts of curios ; these cards were occasionally presented to his friends. He died in 1895. His sister Amelia was the wife of the Rev. Isaac Va'e Mummery, President of the Congregational Union, and they were the parents of the Rev. Alfred Williams Momerie, M.A., D.Sc., for whom see ' D.N.B.' WILLIAM BRAD BROOKE. Bletchley. "STANDARDS" (12 S. ix. 388, 454). Richard Chareley of Burford, Oxoii., gent., by his will dated Sept. 14, 1567, proved May 3, 1568, in the Archdeaconry Court of Oxford, leaves to his brother William Chareley of Chareley in Lankeshere my corselet harnesse a moresse pyke & my two cronycles of ffabyan and Hall & these to remain as standards in the house where he now dwelleth. A reference to the pedigree of Chorley of Chorley in the Lancashire Visitations shows this Richard to have been the son of William Chorley of Chorley, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Charnock of Charnock. From his will it appears that he married Annes (Agnes), sister of Symon Wisdom of Burford, the founder, in 1571, of the Burford Grammar School. He was Bailiff of Burford in 1555, 1560 and 1565 (see Gretton's 'Burford Records'). E. ST. JOHN BROOKS. JOHN EVELYN : REFERENCE FOR Two SAYINGS REQUIRED (12 S. ix. 430). 1. Evelyn's letter to Pepys dated from Dover Street, Jan. 20, 1702/3, begins : My worthy Friend, I had not deferred so long either from waiting on you, or giving you an account of my impertinent life, since I had last the happiness to kiss your hands at your Para- disian Clapham, had my own health and several other uneasy circumstances. . . permitted. . . . 2. The concluding words of the above letter are : In the mean time, I feed on the past conversa- tion I once had in York Buildings, and starve since my friend has forsaken it. EDWARD BENSLY. STEELE AND 'THE SPECTATOR' (12 S. ix. 331). The answer to the question whether it is "a fact that the articles in The Spectator attributed to Sir Richard Steele were not written by him at all, but