Sunderland.
Dean Nowell's first Wife.—Churton, in his Life of Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, p. 368., is at a loss to know the name of the dean's first wife. He says:
"Of his first wife nothing farther is known but that he was married, either to her or to his second wife, in or before the year 1561. His surviving wife, Eliz. Nowell, had been twice married before, and had children by both her former husbands. Laurence Ball appears to have been her first husband, and Thomas Blount her second."
The pedigree of Bowyer, in the Visitation of Sussex, in 1633-4, gives the name of the dean's first wife:
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"Thomas Bowyer of London. | = |
Jane, da. and heir of Robert Merry, son of Thomas Merry of Hatfield. | = |
Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul's. 2nd husband." |
Y. S.
"Oxoniana."—To your list of desirable reprints, I beg to add the very amusing work under this title, and originally published in four small
volumes about fifty years since, and now become scarce. Additions and corrections would add to the value and interest of a work which preserves many curious traits of past times and of Oxford Dons.
Alpha.
An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert.—The recent editors of George Herbert have printed as his, among his Latin poems, the last two lines of the 76th epigram of Martial's eighth book: