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 baronetcy in the end of 1871, and chose the designation of Sir Emilius Bayley (all his sons have the additional baptismal name of Emilius).

&#42;&#8270;* That the ministry of the reverend Baronet is an earnest, scriptural, and effective one, may be inferred from the following list of his publications:—


 * 1) The Choice: Five Lectures on Confirmation. 1st edition, 1857; 2d edition, 1865; 3d edition, 1867; 4th edition, 1880.
 * 2) The Christian Life viewed under some Practical Aspects. 1867.
 * 3) Commentary and Sermons on St Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians. 1869.
 * 4) The Power of Goodness : a Sermon preached (in substance) in the Parish Church of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, on Sunday morning, April 2d, 1876, after the Funeral of the Rev. W. Conway, M.A., Canon of Westminster, and Rector of St. Margaret’s.
 * 5) The Meekness of Wisdom : a Sermon preached (in substance) in St. John’s Church, Paddington, upon Sunday morning, April 22d, 1877, on the death of Benjamin Shaw, Esq., M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
 * 6) Christian Treasure-Trove : an Account of the recent discovery of Ancient Manuscripts, containing the whole Epistle of St. Clement of Rome to the Corinthians, a.d. 98. Two Lectures delivered in St. John’s Church, Paddington, June 19th and 26th, 1877.
 * 7) Thorough : Being an attempt to show the value of Thoroughness in several departments of Christian Life and Practice, pp. xxxix. 386. 1st edition, 1878; 2d edition, 1879.
 * 8) The Spirits of Just Men made Perfect : a Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Tilmanstone, Kent, upon Sunday, December 8th, 1878, on the death of Mr. Rice, of Dane Court, who died November 27th, 1878, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Printed by request for private circulation.
 * 9) Deep unto Deep : Being an inquiry into some of the deeper experiences of the Christian Life. Pp. xxxvi. 384. 1880.

The conclusion of the preface to the last-named book has a good Huguenot ring:— It is not so much the abstract idea of suffering which proves a difficulty to the Christian as the endurance which it calls for. The tendency of all suffering is to depress the mind, to weaken the spiritual nerve-power (if I may so express it), and to deprive us of that courage of which at the time we stand in special need. Now, Christianity is emphatically a manly religion; quit you like men, be strong, is the apostolic exhortation. The idea of bravery underlies that principle of endurance which is habitually urged upon us in the New Testament. Let us be brave, then, if God calls us to pass through tribulation. The prospect which lies before the Christian is a grand one; the resources within his reach are ample : In God’s Word will I rejoice; in the Lord’s Word will I comfort me.”

 

Students of refugee biography will probably discover that refugees of this stock came to England both in the earlier immigrations and also after the Revocation Edict of 1685. The surnames Mariette, Marriott, Merrit, &c, seem to appear frequently, but I have not met with any pedigrees. There is, however, one celebrated family that adopted the spelling Marryat, as to which we are always told that the first settler in England was a French refugee, a fugitive from the St. Bartholomew massacre of 1572; and there being no reason to doubt the accuracy of this tradition, the family is memorialized in this chapter. As, however, they do not appear to have revealed anything more as to the past, we must describe them as we first find them, “a highly respectable family at East Bergholt, in Suffolk.” In the first quarter of last century they are found in London, where Thomas (afterwards Thomas Marryat, M.D.) was born about 1725. Dr. Marryat commenced his medical practice at Lothbury, a district situated behind the Bank of England; he printed some “Medical Aphorisms” in 1756, which he withdrew from publication in favour of his larger work, entitled “The Art of Healing; or, a New Practice of Physic” (which first saw the light in Dublin), latterly styled “Therapeutics; or, the Art of Healing.” He left London in 1762, and practised medicine in Dublin and several towns in the North of Ireland. He returned to England in February 1774, and practised successfully at Shrewsbury. Ultimately he settled at Bristol; and I find the last sad announcement in the Gentleman’s Magazine, "Died, 4th June 1792, Dr. Marryat, an eminent physician at Bristol.” In the ninth edition of his “Art of Healing,” he informs us, “This work has passed through five quarto editions at one guinea, and four in octavo.” A quarto edition was published at Shrewsbury in 1775; the fifth edition was a pocket volume, Birmingham, 1775, which was reprinted as the sixth in 1777, reproducing an autobiographical preface which had been given in the fourth. The last edition issued in his lifetime was the tenth, the preface being dated Bristol, July 1, 1791. [I have before me the fourteenth edition, Bristol, 1798.] He was the