Gloucestershire.
[There were not only two, but three judges of the name of
Powell, who were cotemporaries, viz.--
1. Sir John Powell, mentioned in "N. & Q." (Vol. vii., p. 262.),
whose burial-place should have been printed Llangharne, as our
correspondent suggests. He was made a Judge of the Common Pleas
on April 26, 1686, and a Judge of the King's Bench on April 16,
1687. He was removed on June 29, 1688, on consequence of the
resolution he displayed on the trial of the seven bishops; but
was restored to the Bench, as a Judge of the Common Pleas, in
May, 1689, and continued to sit till his death in 1696.
2. Sir Thomas Powell became a Baron of the Exchequer on April
22, 1687, and was transferred into the King's Bench in June,
1688, to take the seat there left vacant by the removal of the
above Sir John Powell. He himself was removed in May, 1689.
3. Sir John Powell, or, as he was then called, John Powell,
junior, was made a Baron of the Exchequer on November 10, 1691,
removed into the Common Pleas on October 29, 1695, and into the
King's Bench in June, 1702, where he sat till his death in 1713.
He it was who was buried at Gloucester.
Britton has evidently, as Chalmers and Noble had done before
him, commingled and confused the histories of the two Sir
Johns.]
_S. N.'s "Antidote," &c._--I have just purchased an old book, in small
quarto, of which the title is--
"An Antidote or Soveraigne Remedie against the pestiferous
Writings of all English Sectaries, and in {360} particular
against Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Fulke, Dr. Bilson, Dr. Reynolds, Dr.
Sparkes, and Dr. Field, the chiefe upholders, some of
Protestancy, some of Puritanisme; divided into three Parts, &c.,
&c., &c. By S. N., doctour of divinity. Permissu superiorum,
MDCXV."
Who is the author S. N., and what other particulars are known respecting
it?