Staffordshire, who died 1 June, 1707, leaving a son George, and four daughters. This learned and excellent man died 18 March, 1727-8, and was buried in Lewisham Church, where proper inscriptions perpetuate his memory, which have been printed in Thorpe's Registrum Roffense, p. 847-8. His sermons, preached at Boyle's Lecture, and his edition of Marcus Antoninus, are in the Lewisham Library; see this Catalogue, pp. 40, 63. His autograph is copied from a list of books written by him, which had been received from the Leathersellers' Company for the Library, 27 Oct. 1693. That acknowledgement was also signed by— His 20. JOHN TURNER, Master of the Grammar School. bond, for the safe custody of the Library, is dated 8 Sept. 1687. 21. MARMADUKE MILLINGTON, Master of the Grammar School; from his bond, dated 16 July, 1674. 22. JOHN NEWMAN, Master of the Grammar School; from his bond, dated 6 June, 1678. 23. GEORGE HUMBLE, descended of a respectable family in Yorkshire, was Master of the Company in 1628, and a benefactor to it by his last will, dated 8 Sept. 1638. He died in 640; and on the 6 Feb. 1644, the Court ordered his portrait to be placed in the Hall. His signature is taken from one of the Company's books, 5 Oct. 1630. He was a celebrated print-seller, and the original publisher of the valued historical works of Speed, of which subsequent editions were given to the Lewisham Library by his son 24. WILLIAM HUMBLE, esquire; who was admitted to the freedom of the Company by patrimony, 2 May, 1636. He was Warden in 1652, when the Library was first established. At the restoration of King Charles II. he being one of the Aldermen of the city of London, was raised to the degree of a Baronet a few days after the King's grand reception into the city. His autograph also is taken from one of the Company's books, dated 30 Nov. 1681. His Will was dated 11 Dec. 1686, and he died on the 26th of the same month. The Baronetey became extinct in 1744. His pedigree is registered in the Visitation-books in the Heralds' College, C. 24, fo. 35, and I. 30, fo. 41. 25. JOHN LOCKER, born 27 August, 1693, was educated at the Mercers' and the Merchant-Tailors' Schools, and at Merton College, Oxford. In 1718 he entered at Gray's Inn, and was called to the bar. He succeeded his father, Stephen Locker, as Clerk of the Leathersellers' Company, in 1719; and the signature, that is copied in the plate, was the last but one that he wrote in that capacity, at the distribution of Mr. Cater's yearly benefaction, namely on the 30th of January, 1759. He was also Clerk of the Company of Clockmakers. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. Stillingfleet, and died 30 May, 1760, leaving an only daughter. He was a F. S. A. and a friend of most of the learned men of his time. Dr. Johnson, in his life of Addison, says that Mr Locker "was eminent for curiosity and literature." He was a considerable benefactor to the Lewisham Library. His works are described in Dr. Wilson's History of the Merchant-Tailors' School, 1814, 8o. p. 1121 : see also Nichols-es Anecdotes of Bowyer. 26. THOMAS CANTUARIENSIS. The signature of the venerable Archbishop Cranmer is taken from the identical copy of Martin Bucer's commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, which the author dedicated to him, 25 March, 1536, three year's after his accession to the see of Canterbury. See this work, p. 24: at p. 20 it will be found that in this Library is another book bearing his autograph. It does not appear how these volumes escaped from his Library, which, after his martyrdom, 21 March, 1555, was forfeited to the Crown, and being deposited in the Royal Library, is now in the British Museum, where his books are marked with his initials at the foot of the binding. Among the MSS. in the Royal Library, are the Theological Common-place books of this learned and venerable person. A complete collection of his works is now being printed by the delegates of the University press at Oxford. |