Gloucestershire biographical notes

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THE LIBRARY

Preface

THE " Notes " contained in this Volume consist of a series of papers which appeared in the Gloucester Journal during 1886, and also of several others which have been written since. The materials of which they are composed have been obtained from many sources, some of which 'are acknowledged in the body of the work. To enumerate all would be tedious and unnecessary ; but I would gratefully acknowledge my obligations to J. P. Wilton, Esq., whose large and valuable collection of local works has been of great help. Mr. C. H. Dancey, Senr., also an enthusiastic collector of Gloucestershire books, has likewise kindly afforded me similar assistance. It is difficult to describe my indebtedness to Mr. H. Y. J. Taylor, who by the loan of books, the contribution of original facts, and the collection of information, has much facilitated my labours.

Many of the clergy, both in the County and outside, of whom I have had to make enquiries, have most promptly and courteously replied, often furnishing particulars which could have been got from no other quarter. To these, and also to other gentlemen without whose aid and approval some of the sketches would not have been written, I beg to offer my best thanks.

Long as is the goodly array of names contained in this and the previous volume, I have still to say that " it is not presented as a full roll of our County Worthies ; it could be

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greatly lengthened by names from the lists of the dead and the living."

The tone of the present work will be found to differ in some respects from that of the Volume which I published twenty years ago. In reference to much contained in that book, I must say in the words of Sir Thomas Browne, written under somewhat similar circumstances: — "It was set down many years past, and was the sense of my conception at that time, not an immutable law unto my advancing judgment at all times ; and therefore there might be many things therein plausible unto my past apprehension, which are not agreeable unto my present self. [Preface to Relujw Mcilici.~\

Should the perusal of these pages afford my readers anything like the pleasure and interest which I have found in their preparation, my labours will not have been in vain.

J. S.

Gloucester,

Contents

BISHOP CARPENTER AND OTHER PRELATES . . . . . . . . 1

SIR EDMUND SAUNDERS G4

SIR JOHN POWELL 7G