King, Bishop of London, being accidentally present, thanked the judge for his good choice : but told him withal, that he had deprived the university of a singular ornament. Besides his constant preaching, he hath left behind him, many useful books, the witnesses of his piety and learning; and died, in the 59th year of his age, December 17, 163L

The following epitaph is engraven on his monument in Broughton church Northamptonshire :

ROBERTUS JACET HIC B0LT0NU3.

•- " -■ CiETERA NOVIT, . '

OCCUBITUS DEFLENS ANGLU TQTA

DIEM,

PRIMUS ET OPTIMUS HUJUg, EC . - ,

CLESIiE PKiECO '- • " ' . ^

DOCTISSIME PIUS QUI 17, DIE •-

DECEMB., ~ ' '

ANNO DNI, 1631, PLACIDE OBDOR MIVIT IN DOMINO."

Rev. Robert Bolton mar. Anne Boyce of Kent, and left one son, Samuel and four daughters. John Bolton, eldest brother of the above Robert, inherited his father's property at Blackburn, and was living in 1632. Among the names of his children, all of which are not preserved, we find Robert who was baptized at Blackburn in 1609, father to John baptized at the same place, in 1632. John died about 1700, at Sheffield, Yorkshire, he mar. Anne, and left Robert, b. at Blackburn, 26 July, 1688 ; and a da, Anne, who mar. Thomas Richmond. Robert emigrated from Sheffield to Philadelphia, Penn., in 1720, and mar. Anne Curtis, widow of Robert Clay, on the 19th Feb., 1721. He was for many years warden of Christ Church, Phila-