Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 6

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978


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Ann, b. Dec. 12, 1767;


Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1770, m. March 8, 1796, John Wilson;


Susanna, b. Dec. 1, 1771, m. Apr. 21, 1795, Lewis Heston;


Rebecca, b. Aug. 13, 1773, d. Apr., 1807; m. May 17, 1796, Jarret Heston;


Jane, b. Sept. 28, 1775, d. unm. Nov. 13, 1806;


George, b. Sept. 28, 1775, d. unm. June 13, 1805.


JONATHAN MARIS, born December 31, 1765, was only son of George and Jane (Foulke) Maris. He married, in 1791, Judith, daughter of John and Lydia Mc- Ilvain, of Ridley, Chester county, and died six years later, leaving an only child :


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JESSE J. MARIS, born in North Wales, Montgomery Co., June 18, 1793. He married, October 4, 1815, Mary West, born July 11, 1795, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Pusey) West, and niece of Benjamin West, the famous painter.


Some account of the earlier generations of the West family is given in these volumes under the title of the Gilpin Family, Thomas West, of Long Crandon, county of Bucks, England, the great-great-grandfather of Mary (West) Maris, having married Ann Gilpin, in England, and two of their sons later emigrated to Pennsylvania, and settled in Chester county.


John West, son of Thomas and Ann (Gilpin) West, came to Pennsylvania, 1715, a widower, and married there, 1720, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mar- gery Pearson, who came to Pennsylvania in the "Welcome" with William Penn, in 1682. John West returned to England in 1765, and died in Marlborough, Oxfordshire, in 1776. His children by Sarah Pearson were, William, Samuel, Mary and Benjamin, the latter being the distinguished artist, born in Chester county in 1738.


William West, eldest son of John and Sarah ( Pearson) West, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1724, was grandfather of Mary (West) Maris. He learned the trade of cooper in Philadelphia and followed that vocation until 1765 and then purchased a farm in Upper Darby (now Delaware) county, and became a successful and eminent agriculturist ; was elected to honorary membership in the Board of Agriculture, of England. He married in 1767, Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah (Passmore) Shaw, the former of whom died on his way from England to found a home in Pennsylvania. William and Hannah (Shaw) West were the parents of four children, Passmore, Samuel, Hannah and Sarah.


Samuel West, second son of William and Hannah, was born in Upper Darby, February 13, 1771, and died February 13, 1853. His father purchased for him a farm of three hundred acres in Chester county, which he called "Shepherd's Plain," where he resided from a few years after his marriage until his death. He married at London Grove Meeting, May 20, 1796, Mary, daughter of Joshua and Mary (Miller ) Pusey, and of a family that has been prominent in the affairs of Chester county from the time of Penn to the present time. She died November 6, 1832.


Samuel and Mary Pusey West were the parents of four children, Mary, the wife of Jesse J. Maris; Hannah, who married, October 6, 1819, Dr. Robert Mendenhall Huston, a native of Abingdon, Virginia, but reared from the age of ten years in Chester county, and for many years a very prominent physician of Philadelphia, died there, August 3, 1864, and his widow, on November 18. 1893, at the age of ninety-seven years; William and Sarah Ann West.


Jesse J. Maris was but four years of age at the death of his father, Dr. Jona- than Maris, and he went to live with his maternal grandmother, Lydia McIlvain, in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where his early life was spent and his early education acquired in the old stone schoolhouse, still standing. He finished his education at the New Garden Boarding School, Chester county, under the celebrated mathematician, Enoch Lewis. At the close of school days he entered the counting house of his uncles, the firm of R. & H. McIlvaine, lumber merchants of West Philadelphia, and remained with them several years, receiving a thorough commercial training. About the year 1814, he went with his friend,


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Pennock Passmore, on a journey over the Alleghany mountains, and as far west as Cincinnati, Ohio, then but a straggling village, and returned by way of Buffalo, New York, then recently burned by the Indians, leaving but a few houses stand- ing. The trip was made on horseback, much of it through an almost pathless wilderness, crossed only by narrow and obscure bridle paths. He next settled on a farm in Montgomery county, devised him by his uncle, William Maris, but a year later returned to Ridley, Delaware county, and set himself up in the lumber business there. On October 15, 1815, he married Mary West, as before stated, and went to live at Gwynedd on a farm left him by one of his Foulke ancestors. In 1820, they settled on a farm in Chester county, given to Mrs. Maris by her father, and there they passed the remainder of their lives. A man of untiring energy, broad and philanthropic views, generous and conciliatory in his inter- course with his fellow men, he exerted a wide influence for good in the com- munity in which he lived. His house was ever open to friends, acquaintances and travelling strangers, who shared the simple and unostentatious welcome of a model rural home. He was often called upon to act as peacemaker in local dis- putes, and frequently filled the position of executor, guardian, trustee, etc., in the settlement of estates and the transaction of business in his locality. He was a life-long member of the Society of Friends, and love to God and man were the ruling motives of his life. In 1841 he was elected President of the Bank of Dela- ware county, and was annually re-elected to that position until his death, Decem- ber 15, 1860. His kind courteous manner and conscientious care in the trans- action of the business of the bank, and intercourse with its patrons, contributed largely to the prosperity of the bank, and confided in and trusted by all who knew him, his death was regretted by none more sincerely than by those who knew him as President of the Bank of Delaware county with which he was so long con- nected. He was active in the anti-slavery movement, and especially prominent in the effort to prevent the kidnapping and carrying away into slavery of free negroes ; with two other members of the Society of Friends he attended several sessions of the Legislature and labored for the passage of a law to effectually pre- vent this evil, an effort in which they were finally successful. His widow, Mary (West) Maris, died October 9, 1878.


Issue of Jesse J. and Mary (West) Maris :-


Hannah Maris, b. Sept. 18, 1816, d. Apr. 6, 1887; became second wife of John Stokes, June 3, 1884;


JOHN MCILVAINE MARIS, b. Sept. 20, 1818, d. Apr. 23, 1892; m. S. Louisa Wain- wright, of whom presently;


Samuel West Maris, b. July 17, 1821, who m. Oct. 8, 1845, Sarah, dau. of Richard Wetherell;


William Maris, b. Nov. 11, 1823, m. Dec. 26, 1883, Lillian Hart, of Chester :


Jesse Emlen Maris, b. Nov. 6, 1825, m. Apr. 6, 1856, Mary C. Gaskill;


Sarah Ann Maris, b. Apr. 15, 1828, d. Apr. 21, 1871, unm .;


Dr. Edward Maris, b. March 15, 1832, d. June 13, 1900; was eminent physician; m. (first) Oct. 14, 1857, Eleanor K., dau. of Dr. Stephen and Catharine ( Murray) Wood, of N. Y .; she d. Apr. 14, 1871, and he m. (second) June 5, 1873, Rachel, dau. of Joseph and Mary (McCollum) Scattergood; she d. Jan. 5, 1903; had issue by first wife, four children;


Mary West Maris, b. Sept. 1, 1835, m. Oct. 3, 1855, George Sellers Garrett, of Landsdowne;


JOHN MCIL,VAIN MARIS, second child and eldest son of Jesse J. and Mary


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(West) Maris, born in Ridley township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 20, 1818, received the major part of his education at Westtown Boarding School, an educational institution under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends in Chester county. He taught the first public school in the district in which his father lived, and in 1836 became an assistant teacher in the school of the late John Bullock, at Wilmington, Delaware. Later in the same year he re- moved to Philadelphia, and began his mercantile career. He soon after engaged in the wholesale drug business, at 711 Market Street, where his son, Henry J .. still conducts the business under the old firm name of John M. Maris & Company, his father continuing actively associated with the business until about five years before his death. He was one of the organizers of the Drug Exchange, and its first president. In 1859 he was appointed one of the Guardians of the Poor, and in 1860 became president of the board, and during his administration many reforms were instituted in the care and maintenance of the poor at the almshouse, and in the medical service at the hospital connected therewith; a staff of physicians being organized, and a number of the leading physicians of the city became asso- ciated with the medical service at the hospital. Mr. Maris was appointed inspector of the Eastern Penitentiary in 1871, and continued to fill that position until his resignation twenty years later ; during a portion of which period he was treasurer of the Board of Inspectors. Mr. Maris became a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, and took an active interest in church work, contributing liberally to charity and mission work. He was actively associated in the organization and building of the Methodist Church, at Broad and Arch streets of which he was a trustee from its organization to the day of his death. He died in Philadelphia, April 23, 1892.


John M. Maris married, October 14, 1846, S. Louisa, eldest child of William Wainwright, for many years one of the prominent business men of Philadelphia, serving for a number of years as President of the Commercial National Bank of Philadelphia, by his wife, Mary Wood Reeves, of Woodbury, New Jersey, and of a family long prominent in the affairs of New Jersey. She survived him almost eighteen years, dying April 15, 1910.


Issue of John M. and Louisa (Wainwright) Maris :-


William Wainwright Maris, b. Sept. 20, 1848; m. Oct. 12, 1876, Anne, dau. of Dr. William and Anne Gerhard, and they have issue:


Anne Gerhard Maris, b. July 6, 1878;


John MeIlvain Maris, 3d, b. Ang. 31, 1879;


Henry Jesse Maris, b. June 18, 1850; member of firm of John M. Maris & Co .; m. Apr. 14, 1880, Susan, dau. of Robert and Susan D. Bryson, Harrisburg, Pa. They had issue :


Dorothy Wainwright Maris, b. Apr. 30, 1883; m. June 19, 1905, Alexander Payson Knapp, of Baltimore, Md .; they have issue Alexander Maris Knapp, b. April 25, 1907.


Henry MeIlvain Maris, b. Jan. 13, 1889;


Louis Bryson Maris, b. March 11, 1894, d. May 21, 1900.


John McIlvain Maris, Jr., b. Jan. 6, 1854; m. (first) June 17, 1880, Eleanor Bowman, dau. of Col. John B., and Eleanor (Bowman) Musser; ( second) Adelaide Lama- reaux, of N. Y .; had issue, by first wife, four children, three of whom survive;


Louisa Wainwright Maris, b. May 5, 1881, m. Jan. 12, 1904, Parke Ross, of Chicago, Ill., and they have issue :


Louisa Maris Ross, b. Nov. 1, 1905;


James Bowman Maris, b. Jan. 10, 1885; m. Dec. 29, 1906, · Edna Carpenter


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Saybold, of Cincinnati, O .; Arthur McIlvain Maris, b. Nov. 9, 1886; George Maris, b. Nov. 7, 1855, d. Jan. 11, 1890, unm .; Theodore Maris, b. Sept. 6, 1864, unm .;


MARY LOUISA MARIS, b. Apr. 11, 1866; member of Colonial Dames of America; m. Dec. 12, 1899, Isaac Roberts, son of Dr. Nathaniel R. Newkirk and his wife Martha Reeve, dau. of John and Anna (Hall) Bacon, of N. J., and descendant of Samuel Bacon of Barnstable, Mass., 1653, who was prominent in Colonial affairs in both East and West Jersey:


Isaac R. and Mary Louisa (Maris) Newkirk, have issue :- Louisa Maris Newkirk, b. Jan. 23, 1901; Martha Bacon Newkirk, b. Jan. 23, 1904.


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HARE FAMILY.


The Hare family is of French-Norman origin, being descended from Jervis, Earl of Harcourt, in France, who came into England with William the Conqueror 1056, from whom descend the Hares of Stow Bardolph, of which the American family is an offshoot. The branch of the family, descendants of Jervis, from which descended the Harcourts, formerly Barons of Wingham, and the Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, bore the arms formerly borne by Jervis, Earl of Harcourt, while the Hares of Stow Bardolph descended from Sir John Hare, Knight, son of Jervis, bore the same arms, with the augmentation of a chief indented or, granted to Sir John.


The lineage of the family of Hare "claimed to be a scion of the house of Hare- court, or Harcourt, in Lorraine, who were Counts of Normandy," is given in Burk's "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies" as follows :


SIR JOHN HARE, Knight, of Homerfield, Suffolk, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John de Ashton, and left a son and heir,


WILLIAM HARE, EsQ., who married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Mydleton, Knight, of Mydleton Hall, in Lancashire, and was succeeded by his son,


JOHN HARE, EsQ., who married Agnes, daughter of Sir John Shirley, Knight, of Whiston, in Sussex, and died leaving a son and heir,


SIR THOMAS HARE, Knight, who married Julia Hussey, of Lincolnshire, and was succeeded by his son,


NICHOLAS HARE, EsQ., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas de Wallingham, Knight, and succeeded to the hereditary estate of Wakeless Manor, hundred of Wangford, Suffolk, which extended into Homerfield, and was the father of


RICHARD HARE, EsQ., who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Seckford, Esq., of Suffolk, and was succeeded by his son and heir,


JOHN HARE, EsQ., who married Jane Melville, and was succeeded by his son,


THOMAS HARE, EsQ., who married Joyce, daughter of John Hyde, Esq., of Norbury, and was father of


JOHN HARE, EsQ., who married Catharine, daughter of Richard de Aunderson, and was succeeded by his son,


NICHOLAS HARE, EsQ., who was father of


JOHN HARE, EsQ., who married Elizabeth, daughter of Fortesque, Esq., and had two sons, the elder of whom, Sir Nicholas Hare, of Brusyard, Suffolk, purchased, 1553, the liberty of the hundred of Clockhouse, which included Stow Bardolph, and thirty-one towns adjoining. This ancient franchise was granted by King Edgar to the Abbey of Ramsey, to which it belonged until Henry VIII., at the dissolution of the monasteries, granted it to Lord North, who sold it to Sir Nicholas Hare.


SIR NICHOLAS HARE, was twice chosen Speaker of House of Commons, reign of Henry VIII., was Master of Requests, and Chief Justice of Chester. He was sworn in as Master of Rolls by the Privy Council, and was later Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He married Catharine, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Bass-


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inghourn, Knight, of Woodhall, in Hertsfordshire, and had issue, three sons and three daughters. The sons-Michael, William, and Robert-leaving no issue, his estates descended to


JOHN HARE, EsQ., second son of John Hare, of Homerfield and Brusyard, Suf- folk, who on failure of male issue of his elder brother, Sir Nicholas Hare, suc- ceeded not only to the hereditary estates but to Stow Bardolph, purchased by Nich- olas 1553. The name of the wife of this John Hare has not been ascertained, but he had ten children, namely :


NICHOLAS HARE, a bencher of the Inner Temple, who rebuilt the mansion house at Stow Bardolph, at an outlay of £40,000, and also erected a spacious dormitory adjoining the chapel there, for the reception of his remains and those of his fam- ily. He died 1591, leaving his estate to his next brother, Ralph Hare, who died without issue 1601, leaving it to the next brother, Richard Hare, Esq., known thereafter as "of Stow Bardolph," in whose line it descended for many generations. Roland and Edmond, the two next sons, died without issue. Hugh Hare, sixth son, also a bencher of the Inner Temple, and Master of the Court of Wards, also died without issue, and by will, dated December 25, 1619, devised an estate ex- ceeding £99,400 equally to his two nephews, John Hare, grandson of his brother Richard, and Hugh Hare, son of his younger brother, John.


THOMAS HARE, seventh son, of Leigh, in Essex, was the ancestor of the Hare family of Philadelphia ; of him presently.


John Hare, eighth son, married (first) Lucia, daughter of - Barlow. Esq., by whom he had no issue; (second) Margaret, daughter of John Crouch, Esq., of Cornbury, Hertfordshire, who after his death became third countess of Henry, first Earl of Manchester. By her he had two sons-Nicholas, who died without issue, and Hugh Hare, who was created Lord Coleraine August 3, 1625, and mar- ried Lucia, daughter of Henry, first Earl of Manchester, by a former marriage, the Earl's third wife being Hugh's mother.


Two daughters-Margaret and Elizabeth-complete the list of the ten children of John Hare, of Brusyard, Suffolk, and Stow Bardolph.


THOMAS HARE, EsQ., "of Leigh County Essex," seventh son of John Hare, of Stow Bardolph, was buried at Saint Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, London, May 24, 1572, as "Captain Hare." By his wife, Catharine, who was living May 6, 1572, he had five sons and three daughters.


SAMUEL HARE, eldest son of Capt. Thomas Hare, baptized 1548, died December 25, 1619. He married Melcah, daughter of James Colemore, merchant of Lon- don, and had among others


JOHN HARE, EsQ., of Leigh, county Essex, eldest son, born 1592, who married and had issue :


RICHARD HARE, EsQ., eldest son, of whom presently ;


Samuel Hare, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Edwards, Esq., of Arsley, county Bedford; had two daughters-Mary, who m. John Battersby, Vicar of Kirby, county Essex; and Jane.


RICHARD HARE, eldest son of John Hare, of Leigh, county Essex, born 1636; married (first), 1663, Katharine, daughter of Richard Edwards, Esq., of Arsley, county Bedford; (second), 1669, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Naylor, Esq., and a aunt of George Naylor, of Hurstmonceaux, whose sister his son, Bishop Hare. later married.


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FRANCIS HARE, D. D., Bishop of Chichester, only son of Richard Hare, Esq., born November 1, 1671; married (first), 1709, Bethia, only daughter of Francis Naylor, Esq., of Hurstmonceaux Castle, county Sussex; (second), 1728, Mar- garet, daughter and co-heiress of Joseph Alston, Esq., of New House, county Suffolk, and of Easthampton, county Berks.


While the several biographers of Bishop Hare give the date of his birth as No- vember 1, 1671, the records of St. Paul's parish, Covent Garden, show the baptism of "Francis, son of Mr. Richard Hare, by Sarah his wife," as occurring Novem- ber 15, 1670. From the same parish register we learn that "Bethia, ye wife of Dr. Hare, Dean of Worcester," was buried at St. James, Clerkenwell, London, January 18, 1725.


The record of the marriage of Francis Hare, Bishop of St. Asaph, widower, and Margaret Alston, of Edwardston, county of Suffolk, spinster, on April 23, 1728, at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, also appears on the St. Paul's records.


Bishop Hare was educated at Eton, and admitted to King's College, Cambridge, 1688, graduating with degree of B. A. 1692, and receiving degree of M. A. 1696, and D. D. 1708. While at Cambridge he was tutor of Sir Robert Walpole, and also of John, son of the distinguished Earl of Marlborough, the Marquis of Blan- ford, who died at college, February 20, 1702-3.


In 1704 Dr. Hare was appointed Chaplain General to the Army in Flanders, and he described the campaign there, in a series of letters to his cousin, George Naylor, of Hurstmonceaux Castle, which have been preserved, and in a journal preserved among Archdeacon Cox's papers in the British Museum.


In the autumn of 1709 he married his first cousin, Bethia Naylor, who became the heiress of Hurstmonceaux, upon the death of Grace Naylor, only daughter of her brother, George Naylor. The Hares took up their residence at Hurstmon- ceaux on their marriage, but Dr. Hare was obliged to join the camp near Douay the following April, and he left his wife at Hurstmonceaux with her family, which ever afterwards continued to be her home, little Grace, the heiress, being left to her guardianship. Bethia (Naylor) Hare died 1725, and her niece, Grace Naylor, dying 1727, Hurstmonceaux descended to Francis Hare, son of the Bishop and Bethia, born May 14, 1713, who eventually changed his name to Francis Hare Naylor, and, after his father's death married a sister to his step-mother, Charlotte Alston.


Hurstmonceaux Castle, the home of Bishop Hare during the minority of his son, Francis, is located less than four miles from the Sussex coast, at a point where the huge remains of the Roman Andreda break the otherwise monotonous sea-line, but divided from the sea by the flat marsh and meadow lands, known as Pevensey Level, the sea itself having once rolled almost to the ancient manor house of Monceaux, which preceded the castle on the same site. The latter is now in ruins, but still most grand and stately in its premature decay. It was built in the reign of Henry VI., and is said to have been the earliest large brick build- ing in England after the time of Richard II., and is considered a most valuable specimen of the transition of domestic building from a fortress to a manor house. Bishop Littleton writing of it in 1757, states that in his opinion it was at that time the largest inhabited house in England belonging to a subject. Its name is derived from the Saxon word Hurst, meaning a wood, and the name of the ancient holders


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Henry II. visited and slept in the old manor house, and one of his nobles, Roger de Tourney, was accidentally killed by an arrow while hunting in the park. In the reign of Edward II., Maud de Monceaux married Sir John Fiennes, Lord of Dacre, and brought the castle into that family, who held it until 1708, when Thomas Lod Dacre sold it to George Naylor.


Dr. Hare, in addition to the office of Chaplain General to the Royal forces, held the chaplaincy to the Duke of Marlborough, and in 1710 was made Royal Chap- lian by Queen Anne. He was elected a fellow of Eton 1712, became rector of Barnes, in Surrey, 1713, and held a prebend in St. Paul's from 1707 until his death, resigning the rectorship of Barnes 1723. In 1715 he was appointed Dean of Worcester, and 1722 was made usher of the Exchequer by Henry Pelham, brother of his sister-in-law, Lady Grace Naylor, wife of George. In 1726 he exchanged Worcester for the richer Deanery of St. Paul's, which he held until his death, and December 19, 1727, was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph, from which he was transferred to the See of Chichester 1731. He had lost his Royal-Chap- laincy about 1718, in consequence of his share in the Bangorian controversy, but on the accession of George II. he was in favor with Queen Catharine, who pur- posed making him Bishop of Bath and Wells, but the ministry remonstrated against giving these best preferments to the newly consecrated bishop. His fame as a preacher had, however, by this time become widespread. In 1736 his old pupil and fast friend and associate in letters, Sir Robert Walpole, proposed him as successor to Archbishop Wake, then rapidly failing, but Bishop Hare had recently opposed the government in some measures for the relief of dissenters, and Lord Herney, who had encountered him in that controversy, successfully re- monstrated against the appointment, saying that the bishop was "haughty, hot- headed, injudicious and unpopular." This seems to have been in some measure true, as Cole sums up his character as follows: "The Bishop was of a sharp and piercing wit, of great judgment and understanding in worldly affairs, and of no less sagacity and penetration in matters of learning, and especially of criticism. is sufficiently clear from the works he left behind him; but that he was of a sour crabbed disposition is equally manifest." The few influential friends he retained in his later years were the Pelhams, Walpoles, and other friends of the old Naylor connection.


Bishop Hare was a prolific writer, principally on religious and ecclesiastic sub- jects, and of a controversial nature. His second marriage, April, 1728, to Mary Margaret Alston, brought him a large fortune in the estates of "New House," in Suffolk, the ancient manor of Hos-tendis, Norfolk, and the Vatche, near Chalfont St. Giles, in Buckinghamshire. They resided at the latter place during his later years, and there the seven children of his second marriage were born. Here he devoted his leisure to literary pursuits. His publication, 1724, of a new quarto edition of Terrance, with notes, founded partly on communication from Bentley, which led to a controversy between him and Dr. Bentley, theretofore his intimate friend, who had intended to publish them himself, which lasted many years. Dr. Farr says of the bishop that "he proved himself quite a match for his antagonist, in his knowledge of the genius and spirit of the language." Bishop Warburton classes them together, "Good sense," he says, "is the foundation of criticism : that it is which made Dr. Bently and Dr. Hare the two greatest critics that were ever in the world." Bishop Hare was a fine Hebrew scholar, and published an edition


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of the manor named Monceaux. In the time of Walerau de Monceau, 1264, of the Psalms, 1736, in that language.




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