He would be glad also to be referred to any documents tending to throw light on the obscure history of poor Mary's intriguing French secretary, Nau; as to where he was born, his connexions and avocations in early life; how, and by what secret influence he entered into the service of the queen; and, lastly, how he came to be pardoned, and what became of him afterwards? She declared, in her last hours, that he was the cause of her death?
Nhrsl.
LORD KING; THE SCLATERS; DR. KELLET, ETC.
(Vol. v., p. 457.)
If Balliolensis wishes for a more particular account of the Sclater family than that which follows, I shall be happy to correspond with him upon the subject.
Anthony Sclater, D.D., was vicar of Leighton Buzzard for fifty years, and died, aged 100, about 1620. His son—
William Sclater, D.D., Fellow of King's, and vicar of Pitminster in Somersetshire, is the person mentioned by Dr. Kellet. He was an exceedingly learned man, and the author of many theological works (for a list, see Bib. Bod. Cat.), some of which were published after his death, which occurred in 1627. There is a curious and interesting account of him in Fuller's Worthies, vol. i. p. 119. (see also Athenæ Oxonienses). His son—
William Sclater, also D.D. and Fellow of King's, was vicar of Collumpton, Devon, and prebend of Exeter, and appears to have kept up by several works and sermons the reputation of the family for doctrinal theology.[[2]] His son—
Francis Sclater, B.D. (Fellow of C. C. C. Oxon. May 17, 1667, æt. 17), was likewise a person of extraordinary learning and abilities, as appears from several notices, and more particularly from the inscription on a silver-gilt cup presented to C. C. C. in memory of him by his father; and from an elegant Latin epitaph which was placed on the south wall of St. James's, Clerkenwell.[[3]] He died in 1685, æt. 35, leaving a son—