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who was a recusant in 1592 (see ' Cal.
Cecil MSS.,' iv. 263) ? and who was the Sir
Thomas Gage who gave the information
cited in Strype (' Ann.,' iv. 107) in a docu-
ment dated the 16th of November, 1591 ?
Probably in both these cases " Thomas "
is a mistake for John, as it certainly is in
' P.C.A.,' N.S., xxx. 53.
Sir Edward's fourth son, George, may possibly be the George Gage of the parish of St. *Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, Esq., whose will (109 Lee) was proved in the Pre- rogative Court of Canterbury, 12 Sept., 1638.
The Gages mentioned in the Stissex Archaeological Collections, xlviii. 10, as ordered on the llth of September, 1586, to be committed to the Wood Street Counter, are not the sons of Sir Edward Gage, as therein stated, but Edward Gage of Bentley and John Gage of Haling.
Sir Edward's fifth son, Edward, to whom Gage's ' Hengrave ' and Burke's ' Peerage ' assign the wife of his namesake of Bentley, is credited by these authorities with a daughter Elizabeth, and in the former also with a son John. According to Dodd, ' Church History ' (ii. 426), he was also the father of the well-known priest George Gage, who according to the ' D.N.B.,' xx. 349, was a son of John Gage of Haling. Gillow (' Bibl. Diet. Eng. Cath.,' ii. 356-7) and Gage (' Hengrave,' p. 234) think there were two priests of this name, and there can be little doubt they are right.
Sir Edward's sixth son, Richard, is pro- bably the person of this name mentioned in the ' Concertatio Ecclesise ' in 1594 as living in exile at that date.
To pass to the Haling branch of the family, their completest pedigree is to be found in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iii. 7-14. There Robert Gage,* the founder of the family, is said to have died on the 20th of October, 1587, leaving an heir John, then aged twenty-four. His second son, Robert, had been executed on the 21st of September, 1586. Who then, was the recusant Robert Gage of Croydon who from ' Cal. Cecil MSS.,' iv. 272, appears to have been alive and at large in 1592 ?
John Gage of Haling, though on the llth of September, 1586, ordered to be sent to Wood Street Counter, was actually sent to the Clink on the 14th of that month, and shortly afterwards discharged (Cath. Rec. Soc., ii. 260, 268). On the 13th of March,
- Robert Gage of Haling was M.P. for Lewes in
1553, not 1533.
1589, he was committed to the charge of
Richard Fynes (i.e., presumably Fiennes),.
Esq., to be kept at Banbury Castle or at the
said R. F.'s house at Broughton ; but his
mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas
Wilford, Esq., of London, being lately dead,,
he was released on bail on the 7th of June r
1590 ('P.C.A.,' N.S., xviii. 414; xix. 194).
He took advantage of his liberty to enter-
tain the Catholic priest George Beesly, who
died, a martyr to his faith, on the 2nd of
July, 1591, in Fleet Street. For this, John
Gage was committed a close prisoner to the
Tower on the 10th of January, 1591 ('P.C.A.'
N.S., xx. 207). He and his wife Margaret,,
daughter of Sir Thomas Copley (and so niece
of the other Margaret Copley who married
John Gage of Firle), are said to have been
sentenced to death, but reprieved. In
'Cal. S.P. Dom., 1591-4,' p. 125, we find
calendared a pardon of alienation for John
Gage (of Haling), dated the 25th of Novem-
ber, 1591. His eldest son, Henry, was
born in or about 1597. This shows that
Dodd and Mr. Gillow are right in making
the priest George Gage, who was a friend of
Sir Toby Matthew, and King James's
agent in the abortive Spanish marriage-
negotiations, a son not of John Gage of
Haling, but of Edward Gage of Firle, for
this George Gage was fifty-three in 1635.
The ' D.N.B.,' xx. 349, is therefore wrong-
on this matter. This George Gage, after
his ordination in Rome in 1614 by Cardinal
Bellarmine, first came to England in June,.
1617 (Hist. MSS. Commission, Tenth Rep.,.
App. I., p. 101). He appears to have died?
in prison in or before 1651.
The George Gage who on the 9th of June,. 1649, was appointed Vicar-General to the- Bishop of Chalcedon (Hist. MSS. Com- mission, Fifth Rep., p. 467) was probably the- third son of John Gage of Haling.
JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.
INSCRIPTIONS AT NAPLES.
(See ante, pp. 62, 161.)
THE following are all to the right of the< before-mentioned broad walk as you enter the Protestant Cemetery by the western gate, and Nos. 151-200 are either on or immediately under the south wall, beginning at the gate. Illegible or partly illegible inscriptions are marked with an *.
151. The Rev. Arthur Tidman, M.A., of Wood- stock, Oxon., ob. 3 Aug., 1852.
152. Rebecca, w. of Wm. Carrington, ob. 26 June,. 1841, a. 45. Wm. Carrington, 06. 4 Apr., 1855, a. 73..
