Jane Merewether, Merewether, M.D., of Devizes, who attended Bishop Ken in his last illness, d. 1761. In Collinfon's History of Somersetshire (Vol. III., p. 592,) the fucceffive poffeffors of the Parish of Ken are given from the Reign of Henry II. to the iffue of John de Ken, who was living at Ken in 1545. His Sons are faid to have left children who dispersed themselves into different parts of the country. The Heiress referred to in a note at p. 2 of this Life of Ken, was Chriftian, daughter and coheir to Chriftopher Ken, and married fucceffively to two Royalifts-Lord Poulett, and John Ashburnham. Honourable mention is made of her on a monument in Ashburnham Church. See Collins's Peerage,-"Poulett" and "Afhburnham." APPENDIX C. LIST OF NONJURING CLERGYMEN IN THE DIOCESE OF BATH AND WELLS. The following lift of names is taken from the Appendix to the Life of Kettlewell (a work published in 1718), and has been corrected by information moft carefully gathered from the records in the registry of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, and communicated by the courtesy and kindness of the Rev. John Hotherfall Pinder, Professor of Theology at Wells, and of Edmund Davies, Efq., fecretary to Bp. Bagot, the present diocefan. The fix clergymen first named, are mentioned in the registry as having fuffered deprivation for refusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Of Nos. 7 and 8, mention is made, but their deprivation is not recorded in the registry. Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, are not mentioned at all in the registry: an omiffion perhaps explained by the offices which they filled. There feems no reason to doubt this to be a correct lift of those "who were thought not to qualify themfelves upon the Revolution." The Lift of Nonjurors in Bowles's Life of Ken, (ii. 180), fo far as it has been tested by the diocefan records of Bath and Wells, is very incomplete. The biographical illustrations, added to the following lift, will not, perhaps, be uninteresting. 1. MR. SAMUEL THOMAS, B.D., Prebendary or Canon of Compton Dundon, founded in the Cathedral Church of Wells, and Vicar of Chard, was deprived of his prebend in 1691, and of his vicarage in 1692, for refusing to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. He was a divine of worth and learning; and having imbibed principles very different from thofe of his father, an eminent Puritan, ejected from Ubley, Somerset, in 1662,—is memorable for having directed the theological ftudies of Bishop Bull. 2. MR. WALTER HART, Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, |