J. D. S.
Balliolensis will find an account of "William Sclater," whom he rightly supposes to have been at Eton and King's, in Harwood's Alumni Etonensis, p. 200., under the year 1593, 35 Eliz. He will there see that he died 1627, in the fifty-first year of his age, and was the author of Comment on the Romans and Thessalonians; Sermons at St. Paul's Cross; and the Treatise on Tithes, styled The Minister's Portion.
Under 1598 occurs "John Sclater." From a MS. account it is stated, "John Sclater, B.D., 1613, Rector of Holford, Somerset; then of Church Lawford, Warwick. (See Dugdale.) Query, If ejected 1662? if so, his farewell sermon in Collection A." (See too Harwood, p. 203.)
Under 1626 occurs "William Sclater," at p. 227. of Harwood, probably a mistake for 1625. In MS. under 1625 appears "William Sclater, son of W. S. of 1593, of Pitminster, Somerset, where his father was V.; R. of St. Steph., Exon.; D.D. 1651; Minister of St. Peter le Poor, Broad Street. (See Engl. Worth., 8vo., p. 21.) Pr. of Exon., Sept. 18, 1641. (See Walker, ob. 1656. See Wood.)"
Edward Kellet occurs in Harwood under 1598,
p. 204. The account of his works given there agrees with the extract from the Gentleman's Magazine. It is also stated that he was the author of a sermon entitled A Return from Argier, preached at Minehead, March 16, 1627, on the Re-admission of a relapsed Christian into our Church, on Gal. v. 2.: London, 1628, 4to, and that he was a sufferer from the rebellion. In Harwood he is described as Rector of Bagborough and Crocombe, and Canon of Exeter. The MS. account is very short. He is there described as "R. of Rowbarrow, Som.; Can. of Exon.—See his works in Wood."
J. H. L.
BIRTHPLACE OF ST. PATRICK.
(Vol. v., p. 344.).