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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Batteley, Nicholas

1904 Errata appended.
​BATTELEY, NICHOLAS (1648–1704), antiquary, younger brother of Archdeacon John Batteley [q. v.], was born at St. Edmundsbury in 1648. He went to Cambridge, and was admitted on 30 March 1665 a pensioner of Trinity College, where his tutor was the same Mr. Pulleyn in whose hands his brother had been. Nicholas took the degree of B.A. in 1668, and, moving afterwards to Peterhouse, proceeded M.A. in 1672. On 15 Oct. 1680 he was presented by the Earl of St. Albans to the rectory of Nowton, and became afterwards vicar of Beakesbourne, alias Livingsbourne, in Kent, to which living he was presented by Archbishop Sancroft on 24 Aug. 1685. At the same time he held the rectory of Ivychurch. In 1703 Batteley published a folio volume of the ‘Antiquities of Canterbury, or a Survey of that ancient City with its Suburbs, Cathedral, &c., sought out and published by the good will and industry of William Somner; the second edition revised and enlarged by Nicholas Batteley, M.A. Also Mr. Somner's discourse, called Chartham News, a relation of some strange bones found at Chartham in Kent; to which are added some observations concerning the Roman Antiquities of Canterbury, and a preface, giving an account of the works and remains of the learned antiquary, Mr. William Somner, by N. B. The second part is called Cantuaria Sacra, or the Antiquities (i.) of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church; (ii.) of the Archbishopric; (iii.) of the late Priory of Christchurch and of the present Collegiate Church founded by King Henry VIII, with a catalogue of all the Deans and Canons thereof; (iv.) of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury; (v.) of the Monastery of St. Augustine and of the parish churches, hospitals, and other religious places, &c. &c., enquired into by N. B.’ The work was illustrated. Batteley also left in manuscript a history of Eastbridge Hospital, which, after having been partially printed in Strype's ‘Life of Whitgift,’ was published in Nichols's ‘Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica,’ vol. i. (1780). Some valuable notes by Batteley in an interleaved copy of Dugdale's ‘Monasticon’ were used by Lewis in his ‘History of Faversham,’ 1727. Batteley died on 19 May 1704, and a memorial was erected to him in Beakesbourne Church. His son, Oliver Batteley, born in 1697, was educated at Westminster School; proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1716; took the degrees of B.A. 1720, M.A. 1723, and B.D. 1734; became rector of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, in 1736, and prebendary of Llandaff in 1757; and died in 1766. He edited in 1745 the works of his uncle John Batteley [q. v.]
[Hasted's History of Kent, iii. 500, 719; Nichols's Illustrations of Literature, iv. 92; Gage's Thingoe Hundred; Gough's Brit. Topogr. i. 452, 468; Welch's Alumni Westmon. (1852), 268.]
R. H.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Battel, Andrew

​BATTEL, ANDREW (fl. 1589–1614), traveller, was born in Essex about 1565. On ​20 April 1589 he sailed with Captain Abraham Cocke for Rio de la Plata. After a troublesome voyage they reached the mouth of the river in the autumn, but were forced by hunger and adverse winds to return along the coast of Brazil. Landing at the island of St. Sebastian (the site of the present Rio Janeiro), the crew was separated, and Battel with five companions was carried off by the Indians to the river Janeiro and delivered to the Portuguese. After four months' imprisonment he was transported to St. Paul-de-Loanda, the Portuguese settlement in Angola. He was imprisoned in that town for four months, and then sent 150 miles up the river Quansa and confined in a fort, till, through the death of the Portuguese pilot, he was employed to take the governor's pinnace down to Loanda. After an illness of eight months Battel was sent by the governor of Loanda, Hurtado de Mendoça, to Zaire, on the Congo, in a pinnace to collect ivory, wheat, and palm-tree oil. He was successful, and continued to trade for the Portuguese at Longo, but, attempting to escape on a Dutch vessel, he was thrown into prison for two months and then banished to Massangano in the interior, where he spent six years. After another abortive flight and consequent imprisonment, he was enrolled in a mixed force of Portuguese and natives and sent on an expedition to Elambo. In this campaign, which was successful, Battel received a severe wound in the leg. Afterwards he was employed in trading expeditions along the coast, and on one occasion he was left by the Portuguese as a hostage for two months with the Gagas. He was equipped with a musket, and by his shooting gained the favour of this tribe. He gives a full and striking account of the strange customs and superstitions which he observed among them, particularly of the human sacrifices of which he was an eye-witness. He managed to return to the Portuguese at Massangano, and for his services was made a sergeant. Hearing from some Jesuits that by the accession of James I peace was restored between England and Spain, he obtained the governor's consent to return to England. The promise was retracted, and Battel fled into the woods, resolved to wait for a new governor. At length he fell in with a pinnace belonging to an old messmate; he embarked, and was put down at the port of Longo. Here, by virtue of his shooting, he gained the goodwill of the king. At this point the narrative ends with a full description of the different regions of Longo, their natural features, and the customs of the negroes. After three years spent in this district Battel returned to England, having been absent eighteen years, and settled at Leigh in Essex. His veracity has been questioned, but his narratives have been partly confirmed by the similar account of the Congo district given by the traveller Lopez in 1591. Purchas refers to Battel as his neighbour, and testifies to his intelligence and honesty. He speaks of him as still living in his ‘Pilgrimage,’ the first edition of which was published in 1614.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Batten, Adrian

​BATTEN, ADRIAN (fl. 1630), organist of St. Paul's, the dates of whose birth and death cannot be ascertained, was educated in the choir of Winchester Cathedral under John Holmes. As Holmes left Winchester in 1602, the date 1592 is the latest that can reasonably be assigned for Batten's birth. In 1614 he was appointed vicar-choral of Westminster, and in 1624 he removed to St. Paul's, where he held the post of organist in addition to that of vicar-choral. He composed a large number of anthems, and a morning and evening service. Of printed compositions by him there are six contained in Barnard's collection and two in Boyce's ‘Anthems.’ Manuscripts of his compositions are contained in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 7337), in the libraries of Christ Church and the Music School, Oxford, of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and in Purcell's and Blow's collections in the Fitzwilliam. There is no doubt that Batten's works show great contrapuntal skill and considerable ingenuity and inventiveness; though Burney's depreciatory remarks on them would lead us to suppose that they were in no way remarkable. Batten is commonly supposed to have died about 1640; but Burney, on what authority we know not, states that he flourished during the reigns of Charles I and II, which would place his death at least twenty years later.
J. A. F. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Battell, Ralph

1904 Errata appended.
​BATTELL, RALPH, D.D. (1649–1713), divine, son of Ralph Battell, M.A., rector of All Saints' and St. John's, Hertford, was born on 11 April 1649, and received his edu​cation at Peterhouse, Cambridge (B.A., 1669; M.A., 1673; D.D., comitiis regiis, 1705). He became rector of St. Peter's Church, Canterbury, and of Edworth, Bedfordshire; subdean of the Chapel Royal; sub-almoner to Queen Anne; and prebendary of Worcester (1680). He died on 20 March 1712–13, and was buried in the cemetery of All Saints', Hertford. There is a mezzotint engraving of him by J. Simon from a painting by Dahl.
His works are: 1. ‘Vulgar Errors in Divinity removed,’ London, 1683, 8vo. William Haworth, in his ‘Absolute Election of Persons, not upon foreseen conditions, stated and maintained’ (London, 1694, 4to), animadverts on some of the ‘Pelagian errors’ contained in this book. 2. ‘A Sermon on Matt. vii. 12,’ 1684, 4to. 3. ‘The Lawfulness and Expediency of Church-Musick asserted,’ in a sermon on Ps. c. 1, 2, London, 1694, 4to.
T. C.
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# Trade relations between UK and Irish Free State (1936)

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Statement made in the House of Commons on 17 February 1936 by the Under-Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Douglas Hacking) on the relations with the Irish Free State
As a result of discussions during the last few weeks it has been agreed that the arrangement made a year ago in regard to the export of coal from the United Kingdom to the Irish Free State and of cattle from the Irish Free State to the United Kingdom on a pound for pound basis shall be continued. Following the arrangement of a year ago United Kingdom exports of coal to the Irish Free State in 1935 were 1,000,000 tons greater than in 1934, and it is expected that there will be a further increase in 1936. It will be remembered that the Irish Free State Government has recently removed the duty of 5/ a ton on United Kingdom coal.
Further, the United Kingdom Government will reduce by 10 per cent, ad valorem, or by a corresponding proportion in case of specific duties, the existing duties on live animals and on meat, except pigs and pig meat, and will make additional reductions in the duties on horses, sheep, and lambs, and mutton and lamb. Minor adjustments will also be made in reduced cattle duties. Arrangements for the regulation of imports of bacon and hams into the United Kingdom in 1936 will provide for an increase of 10 per cent, in supplies for the Irish Free State as compared with 1935.
The Irish Free State Government for its part will reduce by 10 per cent, ad valorem, or by a corresponding proportion in the case of specific duties, the existing emergency duties on United Kingdom goods. Finally the Irish Free State Government will reserve for the United Kingdom one-third of the imports of cement into the Irish Free State,
practically the whole of which has come from foreign countries in recent years. The reductions of duties on both sides will take effect on Wednesday, February 19.
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# Trade to Newfoundland Act 1698

The first legislation respecting Newfoundland passed by the British Parliament. A primary document in the constitutional history of Newfoundland, where it is known as King William's Act or The Newfoundland Act, it remained in effect through the eighteenth century.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Holland, Thomas (d.1360)

​HOLLAND, Sir THOMAS, first Earl of Kent of the Holland family (d. 1360), soldier, was the second son of Sir Robert Holland of Holland, Lancashire, and Maud, daughter of Allan la Zouche of Ashby, Leicestershire. He joined the expedition to Flanders in 1340, and took part in the battle of Sluys. In 1342 he was sent to Bayonne with Sir John d'Artevelle to defend the Gascon frontier. In 1344 he was chosen one of the founders of the order of the Garter. In 1346 he received a yearly annuity from Edward III, and the same year he accompanied the king in his invasion of France. He took an active part in the siege of Caen. While the town was being sacked by the English soldiers, the Comte d'Eu and Guisnes, constable of France, who had command of the place, and the Comte de Tancarville, with their suites, appealed to him to save their lives. They surrendered to him, and he afterwards disposed of the Comte d'Eu to the king for eighty thousand florins (Fœdera, iii. pt. i. 126). On the subsequent march of the army Holland had the command of the rear-guard. Some English soldiers, having either gone astray or been left behind at Poissy, were killed by the French. Holland thereupon returned with an armed force and burned the town (Froissart, i. § 265). At the battle of Crecy which ensued he held a command in the division of the Black Prince. After the battle he was appointed with four clerks to visit the field and make up lists of the killed. He was at the siege of Calais (1346–7). In 1354 he was appointed lieutenant of the king of England in Brittany and the adjoining parts of Poitou during the minority of the Duke of Brittany (Fœdera, iii. pt. i. 273–4). He received also at the same time an assignation of the entire revenues of the duchy. In 1356 he was governor of the Channel Islands, and in the following year warden of the fortress of Oruyk in Normandy (ib. iii. pt. i. 452). He was summoned to parliament as Baron de Holland from 1353 to 1356 inclusive. In October 1359 he was appointed jointly with Philip of Navarre lieutenant and captain-general in all the English possessions in France and Normandy, and next year he assumed the title of Earl of Kent, in right of his wife, who had succeeded to her brother John, earl of Kent. His crown is included in the armorial of Guildres Herald. He died in Normandy on 28 Dec. 1360.
He married before 1347 Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent [q. v.], and granddaughter of Edward I, who shortly after his death married the Black Prince. In his absence abroad his wife married William de Montagu, second earl of Salisbury, but on Holland's return this union was dissolved by papal commission (1349). He left three sons: Thomas [q. v.], who succeeded, Edmund, and John, afterwards duke of Exeter [q. v.]; and two daughters, one of whom, Matilda, married Hugh, grandson of Hugh Courtenay, second earl of Devon.
[Froissart, ed. Luce; Rymer's Fœdera, ed. 1830; Ashmole's Order of the Garter; Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 74; Doyle's Official Baronage, ii. 276; Beltz's Memorials of the Garter.]
J. G. F.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Holland, Thomas Agar

​HOLLAND, THOMAS AGAR (1803–1888), clergyman and poet, eldest son of Dr. Samuel Holland, precentor of Chichester and rector of Poynings, Sussex, who was sixth in descent from Robert Holland [q. v.], and of Frances, eldest daughter of Lord-chancellor ​Erskine, was born 16 Jan. 1803, and was educated at Westminster School and at Worcester College, Oxford (B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828). He was for some years vicar of Oving, Sussex, then rector of Greatham, Hampshire, and in 1846 succeeded his father as rector of Poynings, where he died 18 Oct. 1888. He married Madalena, daughter of Major Philip Stewart, and left surviving him four sons and three daughters.
Holland was a writer of verse from the time when his earliest effort, suggested by a visit to Dryburgh Abbey, received the warm commendation of Sir Walter Scott, almost to the close of his long life. His poetical range was a wide one, passing from the paraphrase of a mediæval hymn to playful skit and epigram, from the romance of Scottish history to the scenery and bird-life of his Southdown parish. ‘Dryburgh Abbey and other Poems,’ originally published in 1826, reached a second edition in 1845, and a third, with many changes and additions, in 1884. Holland was also the author of several occasional sermons and pamphlets, and of a very complete history of Poynings, published in the Sussex Archæological Society's ‘Transactions’ for 1863.
[Private information.]
T. E. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Holland, Thomas (1600-1642)

​HOLLAND, THOMAS (1600–1642), jesuit, born in Lancashire in 1600, being probably a son of Richard Holland, gentleman, of Sutton, and Anne his wife, received his education in the jesuit colleges at St. Omer and Valladolid. When Prince Charles visited Madrid in 1623, Holland, at the request of his fellow-collegians, went to the capital and addressed the prince in a Latin oration, assuring him of the loyalty and good wishes of the English students in the seminaries of Spain. He entered the novitiate of the English province of the Society of Jesus at Watten in 1620, and afterwards passed to the college at Liège and the House of the Third Probation at Ghent. Subsequently he was appointed prefect of morals and confessor to the scholars at St. Omer. In 1635, he was sent to England, and for seven years laboured on the mission in London, sometimes assuming the aliases of Saunderson and Hammond. At length, on 4 Oct. 1642, he was arrested and committed to the New Prison, whence he was transferred to Newgate. On 7 Dec. he was indicted for being a priest, was found guilty, and on 12 Dec. (O.S.) 1642 was executed at Tyburn in the presence of a large crowd, including Count Egmont, Duke of Gueldres, the Spanish ambassador, and almost all the members of his suite.
There is an engraved portrait of him in the ‘Certamen Triplex’ of Father Ambrose Corbie [q. v.], published originally at Antwerp in 1645. A miniature portrait of him is preserved by the Teresian nuns at Lanherne, Cornwall. A photograph by the Woodbury process has been published.
[Biography in Corbie's Certamen Triplex; Challoner's Missionary Priests, No. 147; Florus Anglo-Bavaricus, p. 76; Foley's Records, i. 542–565, vii. 366; Gillow's Dict. of English Catholics; Granger's Biog. Hist. of England, 5th edit., ii. 385; Marsys's Hist. de la Persécution des Catholiques en Angleterre, iii. 101–17; Oliver's Jesuit Collections, p. 117.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Holles, Frescheville

​HOLLES, Sir FRESCHEVILLE (1641–1672), captain in the navy, only surviving son of Gervase Holles [q. v.], antiquary, probably served as a volunteer in the naval campaign of 1665, but his first commission was as captain of the Antelope in 1666. He is said by Charnock to have lost an arm in the four days' fight off the North Foreland, 1–4 June; but this seems improbable, for he is described by Pepys (24 March 1667–8) as playing the bagpipes ‘beyond anything of that kind that ever I heard in my life, and with great pains he must have obtained it.’ He was, at any rate, able to command the Henrietta, a third rate, in the action of 25 July 1666, previous to which he had been knighted (State Papers, Dom., Charles II, clxiv. 124). In 1667 he was captain of the Cambridge at Portsmouth, but was employed by a special commission in command of the fireships for the protection of the Thames in June (Cal. State Papers, Dom., freq.; Pepys, 10 June). At this time he must have piqued Pepys's vanity, for the many entries concerning him in the ‘Diary’ are all abusive. According to these the men brought up from the Cambridge were ‘the most debauched, damning, swearing rogues that ever were in the navy,’ worthy of their commander, who was profane (14 June), useless (25 June), a coward (9 Aug.), a liar (28 Sept.), and as ‘idle and insignificant a fellow as ever came into the fleet’ (18 Feb. 1667–8).
After the peace with the Dutch, Holles appears to have held a commission in the land service, and (24 March 1667–8) while on guard entertained Pepys in a handsome room, with drink and the bagpipes, a ‘mighty barbarous music.’ In 1667 he was returned to parliament for Grimsby as his father's colleague. In 1672 he commanded the Cambridge in the squadron under Sir Robert Holmes [q. v.], which attacked the Dutch Smyrna fleet on its passage up Channel (13 March); and when Holmes's ship, the St. Michael, was disabled, he went on board the Cambridge. Holles fell in the battle of Solebay, 28 May, and was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel in Westminster Abbey (Nichols, Collect. vii. 376).
In 1662, being then ‘a bachelor,’ aged 21, he married Jane, daughter of Mr. Richard Lewis of Marr in Yorkshire, and widow of Mr. Crome, described as of St. Gabriel, Fenchurch, aged 30 (Chester, London Marriage Licenses, 24 Nov. 1662). By his will, ​dated 17 May 1665, proved 5 June 1672, he left her sole executrix and legatee. The name Frescheville has been spelt in many different ways; the spelling here followed is that of Holles's own signature (Egerton MS. 928, f. 40).
[Charnock's Biog. Nav. i. 236; List of Commissions in Public Record Office.]
J. K. L.
# Tuskaloosa Railway Company v. Gude/Opinion of the Court

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141 U.S. 244
Tuskaloosa Railway Company v. Gude
Ordered that the case be locketed and dismissed.

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# Tuskaloosa Railway Company v. Gude

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141 U.S. 244
Tuskaloosa Railway Company v. Gude
Action by Albert V. Gude and another under the firm name of Reiley & Gude against the Tuskaloosa Northern Railway Company. Judgment was rendered on a verdict for plaintiffs for $10,000, and execution was ordered to issue. By stipulation of the parties the time for filing a bill of exceptions was extended, but no bill of exceptions was ever filed. On the last day on which the bill of exceptions might have been filed, defendant filed in the clerk's office a bond which, after reciting the title of the cause, read as follows:
'Know all men by these presents that we, the Tuskaloosa Northern Railway Company, a body corporate under the laws of Alabama, the Tuskaloosa Coal, Iron, and Land Co., a body corporate under the laws of Alabama, and the Tuskaloosa Belt Railway Co., a body corporate under the laws of Alabama, all of the county of Tuskaloosa, in the state of Alabama, are held and firmly bound unto the above-named Reiley & Gude in the sum of fifteen thousand (15,000) dollars, to be paid the said Reiley & Gude, for the faithful payment of which sum, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally and firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated at Tuskaloosa, Alabama, the 23d day of May, A. D., 1890.
'Whereas the above-bounden Tuskaloosa Northern Railway Co. has prosecuted an appeal or writ of error to the supreme court of the United States to reverse the judgment rendered in the above-entitled cause at the spring term, 1890, of the circuit court of the United States for the southern division of the northern district of Alabama, holden at Birmingham, Alabama, by the Hon. JOHN BRUCE, Judge of the circuit court of the United States for the southern division of the northern district of Alabama: Now, therefore, the condition of the above obligation is such that, if the above-named Tuskaloosa Northern Railway Co. shall prosecure said appeal to effect, and answer all damages and costs if it fail to make said appeal good then this obligation shall be void, otherwise the same shall be and remain in full force and virtue.'
The record contained no other showing of the allowance of a writ of error or an appeal than the recitals of the bond. Plaintiff Gude, as surviving partner of the arm of Reiley & Gude, applied to the court below for a revocation of the supersedeas created by the bond. The application was denied, and plaintiff moves that the cause be docketed in the supreme court and dismissed.
[Statement of Case from pages 244-248 intentionally omitted]
John T. Morgan, for the motion.
PER CURIAM.

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