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ANDERSON. 227 11 foiution* and Judgements on the Cafes and M.itters agi- " cued in all the Courfs df WdrminlU-r, in ihc latter h nd " of" the Reimi of queen Kl.z.ibcth :" puhlifhed by John Goldefborough, elq. prothonotary of the common pleas, London, 1633, ANDERSON (ADAM), a native of Scotland, was brother to the Rev. James Andcrfon, D. D. editor o f the " Diplomata Scotia?' and Royal Genealogies," many I7 ^' p -' years fmce miniiter of the Scots Prefbyterian church in Swal- low ilruct, Piccadilly, and well known in thofe days among the people of that perfudfion refident in London by the name of Bifhop Andcrfon, a learned but imprudent man, who loft a coniidcrable part of his property in the fatal year 1720 ; he married, and had ilTuc a fon, and a daughter) who was the wife of sn officer in the army. Adam Anderfon was for 40 years a clerk in the South Sea Houfe, and at length arrived to his acme there, being appointed chief clerk of the Stock and New Annuities which office he retained till his death. He was appoinred one of the truftees for tftablifhing the colony of Georgia in America^ by charter dated June o, 5 Geo. II. He was alfo one of the court of ailiftants of the Scots corpo- ration in London. The time of the publication of his

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Commerce," a work replete with uieful information, was about the year 1762. He was twice married; by the full wife he had ilTue a daughter, married to one Mr. Hardy, a druggill or apothecary in Southampton {beet in the Strand, who are both dead without iflue ; he afterwards became the third huiband of the widow of Mr. Coulter, formerly a wholefale linen-draper in Cornhill, by whom he had noiflue j fhe was, like him, tall and graceful, and her face has been thought to have fome refemhlance to that of the ever- living countefs of Deirnond, given in Mr. Pennant's fiift Tour in Scotland. She had by Mr. Coulter a daughter, who was as meagre and puny as/be was hale and ftrong. Mr. Anderfon died at his houfe in Red Lion ftreet, Clerkenwell, Jan. 10, J 775- ^ e nac ^ a g ( '^ 1'brary of books, which were (old by his widow, who Survived him feveral years, and died in 1781, as her daughter allo did within a few days after her. ANDRADA (DiEco DE PAYVA D'), or ANDR ADIUS, a P.,II = ,; C . learned Portucuele, born at Conimbria, who diltin^uirned HM'. Cone, O ' ^* T j himfelfat the council of Trent, where king Sebaftian feni^^ him as one of his divines. He preached before the afltmbly c , t -. ,6. Q.2 the