1591. May 14. Wittm Briges, gent. buryed oute of Hugh Evans his house.

June 7. William Lingeham, gent. buryed out of Partridge his house in Chauncerye-lane.

John Manfylde, the sonne of Henry Manfelde, gent. in the counti of Buckingham, was buried out of the Fryers. June 14. Wittm Hamonde, gent.

Sept. 19. Thomas Milles, gent.

Nov. 11. Nicholas Sares, gent. of Clyffordes Inn.

16. Daniell Darknoll, gent. out of Sr Tho. Sher

lyes house in the fryers.

29. John Tidneham, gent.

Dec. 9. Thomas Thorpe, gent. out of Crane court.
15. Phillip Mason, gent. out of Case's house, the

Red Lyon.

Feb. 25. Wittm Perreshouse, gent.

1592. March 31. Edmunde Dersley, gent. of Grayes Inne. April 11. Edward Doddinge, gent. doctor in phisicke. 29. Humphrye Bryges, Esquier.x

May 23. John Sprat, gent. of Clyfford's Inne. June 9. John Thruebee, gent. out of Mr Hores house. July 2. John Lucas, gent. out of Bushills house. Sept. 3. Frauncis Aldforde, gent. out of the fryers. p23. Henry Skott, gent. of Clyffordes Inne.y Dec. 10. Catherine, daughter of Thomas Shelley, gent. Jan. 26. Wittm Rise, gent. buryed out of Halwoodes house in Chauncery-lane.

Feb. 4. Thomas Dancombe, gent.

1593. April 18. Richard Bearde, gent. out of Shere-lane. May 7. Thomas Sandiforth, gent.

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17. Edward Hodson, gent. of Clyffordes Inne.

26. Alexander Rigbee, gent. out of John Oxleys.

p July 4. Elizabeth, the wyfe of John Quintin, gent. was buried out of Mr Tremas house, Fetter lane.

* Humphrey Bridges, Lent Reader of Lincoln's Inn 1576, and again chosen Lent Reader in 1588, but did not read on account of illness. He was one of the Governors of the Society from 1584 to his death; and in the paper Register it is noted, "A Bencher of Lincolns in, & died on the hether side of the house by the Kytchin, wel is or should be in our parishe, as heretofore may be shewd."

This was a victim of the plague, which carried off many in this and the following year: they are marked with a p in the original Register.

1593. July 10. Henry Nortrige, gent. oute of Symons Inne. Sept. 22. Hughe Cholmeley,z gent. oute of the fryers. p Oct. 9. Elizabeth Cholmley, vid. out of the fryers. Nov. 1. Hughe Catlyn, gent. out of the fryers.a Dec. 27. Willm Reader, gent. buryed out of doctor Lotts house.

Feb. 24. Jane the wife of Thomas Byssye, gent.b oute of Robustons house.

1594. April 17. John Brooke, gent. buryed out of Chauncerye-lane, beinge one of Lyncolnes Inne.

May 5. Raphe Burger, gent. buryed in the temple oute of Harts house in Ram alley.

July 22. Wittm Randolfe, gent.

Dec. 11. Thomas Flower, gent.c out of Chancery-lane. Jan. 7. Joyce, the wife of Rowland Clarke, knighte, deceased, beinge a widowe.

Feb. 7. Vincent Phettyplace, gent. buryed oute of Perce his house in Chauncery-lane.

1595. July 12. Roulande Watson, Esquier,d buryed oute of Chauncery-lane, in the Chauncell.

16. Luke Dyllon, gent. of Clyffordes Inne. Sept. 6. Mahittabell, the childe of Wittm Godsoll, gent. buryed oute of Mr. Hore his house.

Fewter-lane.

26. Thomas Lakes, doctor in phisicke,e out of

Jan. 9. Arthur Exetor, gent. out of Shere lane.
March 4. John Hooper, gent. out of Thomas Kitchin's.

1596. April 20. Philipp Lapp, gent. out of Shere-lane.

The following baptisms occur of daughters of Hugh Cholmeley: Briggett, Nov. 28, 1590; Johan, April 4, 1592; Dorethye, June 30, 1593.

"Thomas Catlyn, Gent. out of Fewter-lane," bur. Oct. 3, 1605. Johan, dau. of Mr. Bessie, bap. Oct. 18, 1579; Margarett, May 25, 1585. e Rose, dau. of Thos. Flower, gent. bap. Aug. 28, 1587; Frances, Feb. 13, 1590. Rowland Watson, Clerk of the Crown, third son of William Watson, of Newport, co. Salop, was of White Webbs in the parish of Enfield, Middlesex, "ob. 3 July, buried at St. Dunstan's 12 of the same month 1595." (Visitation of Middlesex, MS. Harl. 1551, f. 43 b.) See his pennon and surcoat in p. 99, where Nich. Charles erroneously calls him Thomas. He married (at St Dunstan's, Jan. 22, 1570-1) Jane, dau. of Hugh Griffith, gent. by whom he had issue, for which see the Visitation.

"Mris Elizabeth Lake, vid. out of Fewter-lane," bur. Dec. 9, 1596. This Dr. Lake was of a family seated at Smarden in Kent, whose pedigree will be found in the Visitation of that county. He was M.P. for Romney in 1603. Elizabeth was his second wife, and dau. of John Dryland, son of Richard, of Feversham.

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1596. May 5. Wittm Myñ, gent.8 oute of Horners house. 20. Thomas the sonne of Henrye Gaudye, Es

quire, oute of Mr. Cox's house.

Oct. 19. Richard Bruster, gent. out of Coote house.i 25. Fraunces Mawdet, a gentlewoman, buryed oute of Mr Flower his house, in the gardens in Chauncery-lane. Nov. 4. Wittm the sonne of John Johnes of Clyffordes Inne, gent. buryed, who hanged hymself.

13. John Tyndall, gent. out of Mr Bacon's house. Dec. 1. Richard Cheeke, gent. out of the fryers.

10. Dorothye, ye wife of Adam Dutton k of Dut

ton in the Countye of Cheshire, gent.

Jan. 22. Thomas Challenor, gent. buried out of Waynford's house in the fryers.

27. Henrye Deringe, clearke to Mr John Pyne, one of the benchers of Lyncolnes Inne.

Feb. 17. Fabian Phillippes of Colton in the county of Heref', Esquire.

1597. May 29. Danyell Chapman, gent. buryed oute of Mr. John Hare his house.

June 28. George Etheringe, gent. of Clyffordes Inne, who hanged hymselfe.

July 7. Xp'ofer Johnson, doctor in physicke.m

Sept. 6. Marye, a childe of Edmunde Myltons, gent. buryed oute of Joyce his house in the fryers.

Oct. 27. Thomas Goodrig, gent. of Clyffordes Inne. 28. Symon Edolphe, Esquire, died ye 28 and buryed in Paulles church.o

s Henry, son of Will'm Mynn, Gent. bap. Dec. 4, 1590.

"Alice, wife of Richard Bruster, gent.” had been buried March 21, 1593-4.

A younger son of that family; see Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 481.

' Probably a kinsman to the celebrated legal and political writer of the same name, who, according to Anthony à Wood, was the son of Andrew Phillipps, of an ancient family at Leominster in Herefordshire, but born at Prestbury, co. Glouc. in 1601. Fasti Oxon.

The following children of Dr. Christopher Johnson were baptised: Marye, June 15, 1587; Catharine, Nov. 25, 1590; Xp'ofer, June 15, 1592; Margarett, Aug. 25, 1594; Magdaline, Jan. 28, 1595. Dr. Johnson lived in Fleet-street; see a subsequent page.

• It is remarkable that this entry corrects the epitaph formerly in St. Paul's cathedral, which stated that Simon Edolph of St. Radigund's in Kent, Esq. died

1597. Nov. 15. Xp'ofer Ruste, gent.

Dec. 18. Martyn Brighouse, Esquire, and Justice of peace, of Lyncolnes shere.

1598. April 17. George Parrye, gent. oute of Clyffordes Inne. May 13. Thomas Isam, gent. oute of Chauncerye-lane. June 4. Robte Mason, gent. oute of Mortymer his

house.

lane.

23. Henrye Brayleye, gent. oute of Shere-lane. July 7. Edwarde Pamer (sic) gent. oute of Chauncery

Sept. 6. John Wells, gent. from the Crane. Feb. 4. Nicholas Blackwell, gent. oute of Giles his house in Chauncery-lane.

24. Richarde Fuller, gent. oute of Clyffordes Inne. March 19. Henry Hynslowe, gent. from St. Pulchers. 21. Richard Whaley, gent.P.

1599. May 10. Wittm Sharpe, gent. oute of Kenes house in Chauncery-lane.

Feb. 10. Nicholas Tounge, gent.

1600. April 20. Robert Butler, gent. from Mr. Rustę.

Sept. 12. John Fowke, gent. out of Mr. Gunters house. Dec. 2. John Parsons, gent, oute of Mr. Paynes house in the Fryers.

Jan. 12. Alice, the wyfe of Raphe Barsey, one of the Clerke of the Chauncery.

March 21. A chrizam childe of Robert Cotton, gent. 1601. July 11. Luke Lovies, gent. out of the Midle Temple. Oct. 27. Raph Buckley, a Clerke of the Chauncery.

on the nineteenth of Oct. 1597; but it was not erected until many years after, as H. Holland in his book of the Epitaphs, 4to. 1633, describes it as being on a "flat marble stone, done of late." It is not inserted in Dugdale's History of St. Paul's. Simon, son of Simon Edolph, was bur. at St. Dunstan's June 9, 1563. Philipp Pytt, Gent. was marr. to Anne Edolphe, Jan. 12, 1589[-90]. This was a dau. of Simon, and sister to Sir Thomas Edolphe, Knt. near Oxford. Visit. Kent.

Philip Pitt was of Iffley,

P Grace, dau. of Richard Whalley, bap. July 2, 1592. Margarett, dau. of Edward Whaley, Gent. bap. May 1, 1589; bur. Feb. 18, 1591[-2]; Richard, his son, bap. March 7, 1590.

¶ Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Fookes, gent. bap. Aug. 1, 1596; his son George, Nov. 30, 1604; Henry, Jan. 9, 1597, bur. Jan. 29, 1600; another Elizabeth, bap. July 12, 1600. "Bartholomew Fowkes, out of Whites Alley," June 9, 1624.

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1601. Nov. 9. The funerall of Luce the wyf of John Hare, Esqr was solempnized.q

14. Margarett, a chylde of Edmund Lo: Latimer. Dec. 19. Anne, the wyf of John Heath of the Civell lawe batchelor, s

29. John Jackson, gent.

Jan. 14. Wittm Morgan, gent. out of Willm Borrowes house in fetter lane.

22. Elizabeth, late wife of Frauncis Wesbee, gent. 24. Epolonep, the sonne of John Crooke, Esquier,

and Recorder of London,t

1602. July 5. Anthony Sherdelow, gent. of Lyncolnes Inne, out of Mr Owens house in Chauncery lane.

11. Tytchborne, the sonne of Richard Daye, gent.

out of Phillip Rosseters musicon.

Aug. 4. Elizabeth, daughter of John Knight, gent.
Sept. 5. Peter Wilcocke, gent. out of the fryers.

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Oct. 22. Willam Warneforde, fvant to Francis Kempe, gent. [scrivener in orig. register] and son of John Warneforde of Sevenhampton, in the county of Wilteshire, Esquire.

Feb. 1. Richard Nelson, gent. and a clerke in the Chauncery, owt of Syomons Inne.

March 2. Xp'ofer Mathewes, gent. & student of Lincolnes Inne, out of Mr Whelers house in Chauncery lane.

The daughter of

Barlow, Esq. and first wife of John Hare, Esq. the father of Hugh first Lord Coleraine, and of Nicholas, probably the same whose burial will be found hereafter under the year 1621. She was buried in the Temple church; see her epitaph in Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales, p. 178. Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls, uncle of John, was buried there in 1557; as were others of the family.

Edmund Nevill, the heir male of the Latimer branch of that illustrious family, who assumed the title of Baron Latimer after the death of his cousin the last Lord in 1577, and subsequently that of Earl of Westmerland; but was not successful in either claim, further than that the title of Baron was given him in courtesy, as in this register. See the history of his claims in Rowland's Memoirs of the Nevills, and in Surtees's History of Durham, vol. iv. On the 6th of Sept. in this same year (1601) "Anne, the daughter of Edmond Lo: Latimer was baptized, Fetter-lane."

On the 28th of June following, Alice his child was buried.

"Edwarde the sonne of John Crooke, Recorder of London," bap. Jan. 3, 1599; Ellenor, wife of John Crooke, Esq. bur. Oct. 17, 1608.

Margarett, dau. of John Knight, Gent. bap. Aug. 12, 1586; John, his son, Nov. 14, 1589; Elizabeth, June 8, 1591; Marye, Dec. 1592; Kynberye, a son, Feb. 2, 1594.