[The above lines, "intended to allay the violence of party
spirit!" were spoken extempore by the celebrated John Byrom, of
Manchester, a Nonjuror, but better known as the inventor of the
Universal Short Hand. They will be found in his _Miscellaneous
Poems_, vol. i. p. 342. edit. 1773.]
_Rev. Barnabas Oley._--The part played by this active and loyal
clergyman, who was deprived of his vicarage of Great Gransden in
Huntingdonshire during the interregnum, is generally known to readers of
the early history of that period. Walker, who has a notice of him
(_Sufferings of the Clergy_, p. 141.), says he died in 1684, but does
not tell us whether he was married or not. I believe he was, and left
descendants; and the object of this Query is to ascertain what were the
names of his children, and with whom they intermarried.