12 S. I. JAN. 8, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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year of his age 87, & in y e year of our IA 1646,
-when loyalty, & y e Church fainted, lay down, &
died. There lies W m . his only child, who marryed
first Katherin Cox, by whom he had Ann, John,
"Mary, W m ., & Richard, Deceasd. after a 5
yars (sic) widdowhood, he tooke to wife Martha
TVfayott of Abington,widdow, of y e ancient family
of the Wickhams, who brought him Elianor, &
Thomas, & built him this monument.
He dyed lune y 3 A. D ni . 1677. aged about 83.
Reader, prepare to follow.
5. On the floor toivards the nave.
Underneath lyeth Interred Thomas Willis Gent, and Rachell his Wife '(Parents of y e famous Physician D r . Thomas Willis. ) "She departed this life & was here buried July 5. 1631. And He (in Defence of y 6 Royal Cause at y e Seige of Oxford) August 4. 1643.
Also
Francis the son of Browne Willis of Whaddon Hall in y 6 County of Bucks Esq r . by Katherine his Wife who died at Oxford July 1. 1718. Aged ."8 Months & 23 days. In memory of whom the said Browne Willis hath
caused this stone to be laid here & thereon renewed y 6 Inscription
for his deceased Ancestors.
EDWABD S. DODGSON. Oxford Union Society.
AN EARLY CIRCULATING LIBRARY. (See 8 S. ix. 447 ; x. 99, 145, 259.)
" If any Gentlemen please to repair to my House aforesaid, they may be furnished with all manner of English, or French Histories, Romances, or Poetry : which are to be sold, or read for reason- able considerations."
This notice occurs at the end of the 1661 edition of Webster and Rowley's play ' The Thracian Wonder.' It was mentioned re- cently in a daily paper, but I do not think the notice has been placed on record in "* N. & Q.' The imprint to the work is as follows :
' London : Printed by Tho. Johnson, and are to be sold by Francis Kirkman, at his Shop at the Sign of John Fletchers Head, over against the Angel Inn, on the Backside of St. Clements, without Temple Bar. 1661."
R. A. PEDDIE.
St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.G.
""MURRAY'S RAILWAY READING." (See 11 S. xii. 432.) In a notice of book-catalogues an editorial mention of the above appeared to suggest that information might not be unacceptable. I have one of the publica- tions that were included in the series, bearing date 1853, and from a full advertisement on the back cover it appears that " Murray's Railway Reading ; containing works of sound information and innocent amusement : suited for all Classes of Readers," issued by the
well-known house in Albemarle Street, then
comprised some seventeen items, the price
ranging from 6d. to 5.9., but being generally
2s. Qd. Amongst the works are Lord Camp-
bell's ' Life of Bacon,' Lockhart's ' Spanish
Ballads,' Hallam's 'Essays and Characters,'
essays from The Times, Nimrod's ' Chace,
Turf, and Road,' Lockhart's 'Theodore Hook,'
Lord Mahon's ' Forty-Five,' James's ' ^Esop '
with Tenniel's illustrations, and Sir F. B.
Head's ' Emigrant.' How far this list may
have been extended I am unable to say.
W. B. H.
(SJmms*
WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
ANGLICAN CLERKS IN NON-ANGLICAN ORDERS.
IN September, 1749, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, who was described for the purpose as " the Most Reverend Thomas Wilson," became, at the age of 86, by election and without other consecration than he had theretofore received for the episcopal office, " one of the Anetecessors (sic) of the General Synod of the Brethren of the Anatolic Unity," and to him was given liberty to delegate the episcopal jurisdiction so con- ferred to the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Royal Almoner, and Prebendary of Westminster.*
At a date within the memories of many now living, Monsignor Jules Ferrette, who had been consecrated to the episcopate by Peter the Humble, Archbishop of Emesa, and afterwards Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch, consecrated the Rev. R. W. Morgan, curate of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, to the episcopate, and the succession thus begun has been perpetuated to the present day.t
Somewhat later Monsignor Luigi Nazari di Calabiana, acting, if the account be accurate, with formal sanction such as would have been required, consecrated the late Rev. T. W. Mossman, then and after- wards Vicar of East and West Torrington, in the Church of England diocese of Lincoln, to the episcopate. An attested copy of the records of this consecration were duly de-
- TyermanV Oxford Methodists, 'p. 188.
t Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 12, 1866. * Hazell's Annual,' 1902, art. 'Old Catholic.'
