Oxford and Cambridge Club.
[Footnote 2: This Dr. Sclater appears to have been at one time minister of
St. James, Clerkenwell, from the following work in the Bodleian Catalogue.
"_The Royal Pay, and Pay-master, or the Indigent Officer's Comfort; a
Sermon before the Military Company, on Rev._ ii. 10. By William Sclater,
D.D., Minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, 4to. Lond. 1671."--ED.]
[Footnote 3: F. Sclater, S. T. B. C. C. C., Oxon. olim socius, Eccl.
Anglicanæ Spes, academiæ gloria, Eruditorum desiderium, Sanæ doctrinæ
contrà omnes regnantes errores, etiam inter iniquissima tempora propugnator
acerrimus. Vir fuit ingenio acri ac vivido judicio sagaci candore animi
egregio. Quibus accessit eloquentia singularis atque doctrina omnibus
numeris absoluta. Ideoque sive dissererit, sive concionaretur, ab illius
ore non populus magis quam clerus et literati avidè pendebant.... Obit.
Maii. 12. d. A.D. 1685. æt 35. Deflendus quidem multum, sed magis imitandus
Gulielmus SS. T.P. moestissimus Pater P.]
The following Notes are very much at the service of your correspondent
BALLIOLENSIS. It is true that they do not afford a precise answer to his
immediate Query, but they comprise particulars which may very probably lead
to it, and will at least be interesting in compliance with his request for
any notices respecting the family of Sclater.
Anthony Sclater was minister of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire for about
fifty years, and died at the age of nearly one hundred. His son, William
Sclater, was born there in 1577; educated at Eton and King's College,
Cambridge, B.D. and D.D., preacher at Walsall, co. Staffordshire; presented
to the vicarage of Pitminster, near Taunton, co. Somerset, by John Coles,
Esq.; and to a rectory in the same county by John, afterwards Lord Powlett.
Died at Pitminster, 1627. He was the author of the following works, and of
others unpublished:--
"A Key to the Key of Scripture, or an Exposition, with Notes, on the
Epistle to the Romans, &c. 4to, London, 1611. Dedicated to Sir Henry
Hawley, Knt., and four other Gentlemen."
"The Minister's Portion, a Sermon on 1 Cor. ix. 13, 14. 4to. Oxford,
1612. Dedicated to Thomas Southcote, Esq., of Mohun's Ottery in
Devonshire."
"The Sick Soul's Salve, a Sermon on Prov. xviii. 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612.
Dedicated to John Horner, Esq., and to the devout Anna his wife, at
Melles in Somerset."
"The Christian's Strength, a Sermon at Oxford on Philip. iv. 13. 4to.
Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to William Hill, Esq., of Pitminster."
"An Exposition upon the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to.
London, 1619. Dedicated to the Lord Stanhope, Baron of Haringdon."
"The Question of Tythes revised, &c. 4to. London, 1623. Dedicated to
Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells."
"A Briefe Exposition upon the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to.
London, 1629. Dedicated to 'John Pawlet, Esq., his very honourable good
Patron, and Elisabeth his Wife, his much honoured Patronesse.'"
"Utriusque Epistolæ ad Corinthios Explicatio, &c. Edited by his Son.
4to. Oxon. 1633. Dedicated to 'Edvardo Keletto, S. T. D. Sancti Petri
apud Exoniensis residentiario, nec non M. Georgio Goadio coll. Regalis
in Academia Cantabrig. Socio, suo non ita pridem tutori dilectissimo.'"
"A Brief and Plain Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachy, &c. Published
by his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to Mr. Henry Walrond of
Bradfield, Devon."
"An Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the Romans, &c. Published by
his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to 'John Bampfield of Poltimore
in Devon, Esq., a most eximious and exemplary Worthy of the West.'"
William Sclater, son of the above, was born at Pitminster; admitted member
of King's College, Cambridge, in 1626; Fellow of that College; Chaplain to
the Bishop of Exeter's Barony of St. Stephen's in Exeter, and preacher at
St. Martin's in that city, 1639; Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral; admitted
Vicar of Collumpton, co. Devon, 4th Feb. 1644, on the presentation of Roger
Mallack of Exeter, Esq. Living there in 1650, then styled B.D., and late
Fellow of King's College; D.D.; minister of St. Peter's-le-Poor, Broad
Street, London, in 1654. Died before 1660.
The following were his published works:
"The Worthy Communicant rewarded, &c.; a Sermon in Exeter Cathedral,
21st April, 1639. 4to. London, 1639. Dedicated to Dr. Peterson, Dean of
Exeter."
"Papisto-Mastix: or Deborah's Prayer against God's Enemies, a Sermon on
Judges, v. 31. 4to. London, 1642."
"The Crowne of Righteousness, &c.; a Funeral Sermon at St. Botolph's
Aldersgate, Sept. 25, 1653, for Mr. Abraham Wheelock, B.D., &c. 4to.
London, 1654."
The registers of Pitminster and Collumpton would perhaps assist in tracing
the descendants of these worthies, whose name still exists near Exeter.
Fuller, under "BEDFORDSHIRE," gives some further particulars. The works
above-mentioned may almost all, I think, be found in the Bodleian.