D.

Rotherfield.

[We do not think Barnabas Oley was ever married, as his will,

preserved among Bishop Kennett's Collections, does not mention

either wife or children among the legacies to "his near kindred

and blood." His will, with its codicils, are curious documents,

and ought to be printed. See the _Lansdowne MSS._, No. 988. fol.

94.]

_Sweet-singers._--Swift says, in his _Abstract of Collins_, "Why should

not William Penn the Quaker, or any Anabaptist, Papist, Muggletonian,

Jew, or _Sweet-singer_, have liberty to come into St. Paul's church?"

Wanted, some historical notice of the Sweet-singers.

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