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28 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S. X. JAX. 14, 1922. to ye hill, I made a shift to gett up to the scaffold where ye writ was read, wch was filld by my lord Craven Sr Ph Howard & many others of ye Court, soe that my lord maifor] who came downe to countenance ye selection agaynst me, was forced to stand in ye street in ye crowd : The writt being read, & the cry loud, on both sides ; I demanded the poll, and an adjornement to a convenient place to take it, wch my Lord mai required should be St Georges fields, but I insisted that Horsey Downe was the fittest place. To wch the bayliffe presently adjorned till two of the clock ; My lord mai j offended hereat went streight to ye councell, and complained of the disobedience of his officer, and prayed an order of ye counsell requiring the bayliffe to adjorne to St Georges fields wch he obteyned & sent it over to us in the evening. At two of ye clock, in ye afternoone on Wednesday, I came up to ye place appoynted for ye poll, wch my friends had so fully possessed that Sr Tho Clarges could not come near, and designed to have polld of as many as I could that evening : ' as the bayliffe was beginning the poll, I receved j a message from Sr Th Clarges to speake with me, wch with difficulty enough I obeyed, and came i to him when he objected to ye streightnes < of ye place and that he had noe friends up ! nor any clerke wch he could trust, & desired j me to consent to meet him at 6 in ye evening, with five of a side & noe more where we would agree of a regular proceeding on both sides, and fitt or selves for ye poll the next morning and soe we adjorned till 8 of yfc clock acordingly : When we were mett with 5 of a side, at 6 of ye clock according to or agreement, the bayliffe was served with an order from ye counsell, Requiring him ! to take the poll in St Georges fields and ' not ' elsewhere at his perill. When now I saw the j elction to be soe much under a force And the j place for ye poll soe much to my disadvantage, I I calld about 20 of my cheifest supporters to me and prayed their advice what to doe, 18 : whereof were positive, not to lay it downe. The j next morning acording to their advice I tooke j horse agayne and rode All along from my lodging I to horsey Downe where ye adjornemt was to be j made, and soe back agayne through ye street to St Georges fields ; And now I found my Numbers ! grow thiner soe that when I came into ye field i I called about 30 of ye most substantiall men I i had, who had well observed All these proceedings, I & desired their advice, professing to them that I as I first undertooke to stand at their request, and had conducted it hitherto by their advice, soe would I keepe my word with them, & not give it up without their consents and they upon consideration of All circumstances now advised that if it myght be kindly taken it would be fitt to give it up without polling one man. After I had taken this advice I went to Sr Tho Clarges, & profered him the election, if he thought it worthy his acceptance, and that if he thought it not a courtisye I did not doubt but notwth- standing my thiuer apearance I could well | maintein the poll till Saterday night. He told i me he did take it as a great respect done him, j after wch we both came together to ye place ! appoynted to take ye poll, where in a short speech to ye people I recommended Sr Tho Clarges to them and perswaded my friends to { vote for him, wch was done to the good content of All : Sr Tho Clarges & I raising 20 of each of ye partyes, to seal the Indentures, and soe or busines ended : Whether the difference between ye bayliffe and my lord mai may end soe well or noe I cannot say, but I find ye Aldermen willing to defend him & my selfe bound in All honesty to stick to him for he hath done nothing unworthy his place : I have gien you this long relation of the busines to prevent all mistakes about it, and whatsoever you may hear of it you may assure yor selfe this is ye truth. I shall now make what haste I can out of towne when I have seen All my scores payd wch have run higher than ever I would imagine, though in noe proportion to ye other side, Sr Tho Clarges his bills amounting to above 700H as I am in- formed and after All this I hope you will excuse me if I add noe more than that I am Yor most observt sone EDW : SMYTH Southw Saterd March 17th ROLAND AUSTIK. Gloucester. PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS, AJX 1714. THE following names are extracted from the Lists of Subscribers to Jeremy Collier's ' Ecclesiastical History,' vol. ii., and Walker's ' Sufferings of the Clergy,' both pub- lished at the close of Queen Anne's reign. A few names are duplicated, among them that of the father of Dr. Johnson. COLLIER. Bury Ralph Watson. C Mr. Jeffreys. Cambridge . . . . | Ml , Thurl e bame ^ Chippenham . . Roger Warne. Dublin .. .. Mr. Hide. (Abraham Ashwortfa. Durham .. ^William Freeman. Hull Thomas Ryles. Leeds . . . . John Swall (Swale), Litchfield . . . . Michael Johnson. Manchester . . .- . William Clayton. ( Joseph Button. Newcastle . . . . | Rich ^ rcL Banda i]. Northampton . . John Fowle(r). Norwich . . . Mr. Goddard. fMr. Clements. Oxori . . . . < Mr. Piesly. (Mr. Wilmot. Plymouth . . . . Benjamin Smithurst. Sheffeild . . . . Nevil Simonds. Witchurch . . . . Jonathan Taylor. Wolverhampton . . George Unite. Worcester . . . . John Montforci. Yarmouth . . . . Mr. Gray. York Mr. Billiard. (25) Cambridge Canterbury . . Chichester Chippenham . . WALKER. . . T. Webster. Edward Burgess. . . Mr. Webb. Mr. Warne.