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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 s.iv. APRIL, wis.
for lining of Coats, 1 ps. [torn away] if you
Ca[n g]et it, 1 Set of [torn] Strings [for] A
Horse, and some of the Silver and plaino
Shooes [of the] Bigness of yours but longfer].
Have nothing more at present (onely to desire you not to bee Melancholy), and to present my humble Service to Mr Marshall, Mr Littl[eton] and his Lady and all other freinds) but to subscribe]
Thy Reall and most affectionately Loving
Brother JNO. VICKTTBS
My Companion that came with me hither* hath ever since kep very close to me. have lately tryed 2 or 3 wayes to get rid of his Company, but he sticks still closer to me, though have a devise in my head that in 10 or 12 dayes will quite [torn] him of, and should he take snuff f [line torn away] I shall not be sorry Idem j y
If Mr Vincent will give you my receipt for his Moors, J pray take it. I thoxight to have sent some Mony to Invest for our shipps, but now shall forbeare till I see how things will goe, and doe advise you to give out as little mony as you can for any thing, beleiving their will bee A general! stop put to our businesse, which I fear will conti[nuej for some time Yours ut Supra
J. V.
R. C. TEMPLE. (To be continued.)
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL:
STEWARDS OF THE SCHOOL FEASTS.
(See ante, pp. 38, 68.)
THE names that follow complete the list of Stewards of the School Feasts concerning whom I am anxious to obtain further in- formation :
John Kersey, 1716.
John Knapton, 1724. Can he be identified with
John Knapton, a bookseller of London, who
died in 1770 ? Francis Loggin, 1717. Joseph Major, 1711. Simon Morse, 1711. Benjamin Mawson, 1713. Was he related to
Matthew Mawson, Master of Corpus College,
Cambridge, who became Bishop successively of
- James Price, who had been sent by Walter
Clavell to act as the Company's vakil, or agent, at Dacca and to keep an eye on John Smith, who was suspected of malpractices.
t Take offence, be annoyed.
$ Mohur, mohar, a gold coin, worth at this period about Rav 14.
Llandaff, Chichester, and Ely, and who went
up to Cambridge from St. Paul's in 1702 ?
Benjamin Marriott, of the King's Remembrancer's Office, 1723.
Richard Marriott, 1725. Can he be identified with Richard Marriott of the Ordnance Office,, who died in 1738 (London Magazine, p. 309) ?
John Marriott, 1728. He was a benefactor to the library of St. Paul's School in 1690. Was he a brother of Benjamin and Richard- Marriott ?
Thomas Norris, 1707.
Gabriel Neve, 1712. Of the Temple : he died in 1773. There is a portrait of one Gabriel Neve in the Inner Temple Hall. Was he related to William Neve, who was a benefactor of the library of St. Paul's School in 1700 ?
Peter Normansel, 1713. He was the son of John Normansel of London, and went up from St. Paul's to Trinity, Cambridge, in 1690,. aged 16.
Thomas Needham, 1716.
Henry Newcome, 1725. Was this the well- known schoolmaster at Hackney ?
Robert Pawlet, 1707.
Samuel Palmer, surgeon, 1709.
George Morton Pitt, 1711. Of Tarrant Preston, Dorset. He was Governor of Fort St. George, East Indies, M.P. for Pontefract in 1741 and 1747-56, when he died. What was his parentage ?
Sherard or Sherman Pickering, 1715.
Leonard Pead, 1715. Common Councilman for Cheap Ward ; he died in 1755.
Richard Rogerson, 1716. Was he one of the Norfolk family who were connected by mar- riage with John Postlethwayt, who was High Master of St. Paul's from 1697 to 1713 ?
Thomas Savage, 1726.
Edward Salisbury, 1728.
Richard Saunders, 1728.
William Tilson, 1707. Was he related to George Tilson, F.R.S., a Deputy Secretary of State,, who died in 1738, or to Christopher Tilson, ante, p. 68 ?
Humphrey Thayer, one of the Commissioners of Excise, 1707. He died in 1737.
Benjamin Tooke, 1708. He was the son of B. Tooke, and was a bookseller in Fleet Street who was immortalized by Swift and Pope.
William Tyrns, 1709. Attorney at law.
Thomas Trenchfield, 1712.
Charles Townley, 1717. Was he related to Sir Charles Townley, Garter King of Arms ?
Richard Truby, 1723. Can he be identified with Richard Truby, vintner of St. Paul's Church- yard, who was bankrupt in 1734 ?
Roger Williams, 1707. Can he be identified with the mezzotint engraver of this name ?
Charles Welham, 1710.
William Willcocks, 1714.
Richard Wyld, 1714.
Robert Williams, 1717.
Richard Walter, 1724.
Allen Webb, 1725.
Richard Young, 1713.
Edmund Wiseman, 1713. Can he be identified with Edmund Wiseman, wine merchant, who died in 1734 (Gent. Mag., p. 703) ?
Nathaniel Bishop, born 1720, Steward in 1755. Proctor, Doctors' Commons : probably father of Charles Bishop, who was admitted to the- foundation of St. Paul's School in 1761.
