note is illegible, and the last two names
in the deposition are of a different ink and handwriting from the
preceding part, but of the same ink and writing as the note.

An original summons to the feoffees, signed by the commissioners, is
preserved. It requires them to appear before the commissioners at
the Dolphin Inn, in Ely, on the 25th of the then instant January, to
produce before the commissioners a true account "of the monies, fines,
rents, and profits by you and every of you and your predecessors
feoffees receaved out of the lands given by one Parsons for the
benefitt of the inhabitants of Ely for 16 years past," &c. The summons
is dated at Cambridge, the 13th of January, 1641, and is signed by the
three commissioners,

"Tho. Symon.
Tho. Duckett.
Dudley Page."

The summons is addressed

"To Matthew, Lord Bishop of Ely,
Willm. Fuller, Deane of Ely, and to
Daniell Wigmore, Archdeacon of Ely.
William March, Esq.
Anthony Page, Esq.
Henry Gooderick, Gent.
Oliver Cromwell, Esq.
Willm. Anger.
Willm. Cranford.
John Hand, and
Willm. Austen."

Whether Cromwell attended the sitting of the commissioners does not
appear.

The letter from Cromwell to Mr. John Hand, published in Cromwell's
_Memoirs of Cromwell_, has not been in the possession of the feoffees
for some years.

There is, however, an item in Mr. Hand's disbursements, which probably
refers to the person mentioned in that letter. It is as follows:--

L s. d.
"Ffor phisicke and surgery for old Benson, 2 7 4"

Cromwell's letter appears to be at a later date than this item.

John Hand was a feoffee for many years, and during his time executed,
as was usual, the office of collector or treasurer. It may be gathered
from the documents preserved that Cromwell never executed that office.
The office was usually taken by the feoffees in turn then, as at the
present time; but Cromwell most probably was called to a higher sphere
of action before his turn arrived.

It is worthy of note, that Cromwell's fellow-trustees, the Bishop
of Ely (who was the celebrated Matthew Wren), Fuller the Dean,
and Wigmore the Archdeacon, were all severely handled during the
Rebellion.

ARUN.

* * * * *

DR. SAM. PARR AND DR. JOHN TAYLOR, OF SHREWSBURY AND SHREWSBURY
SCHOOL.

Looking at the Index to the _Memoirs of Gilbert Wakefield_, edit