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O'BRYAN, WILLIAM. (Con.).

A Jubilee Memorial of incidents in the rise and progress of the Bible Christian Connexion. Shebbear, Devon, published for the Bible Christian Book Committee, by James Thorne. Sold by all the Itinerant Preachers. Lond., G. J. Stevenson, 54, Paternoster Row, 1865, post 8°., pp. vi and 292.-2nd ed. 1866, 8o., pp. vi and 300.

NOTE.-Contains sketch of the life of Mr. William O'Bryan, p. 15, et seq.

Obedience to the call of God, a funeral sermon on the death of William O'Bryan. By S. L. Thorne. Sold by S. Thorne, 52, Union Street, Plymouth, 1868, 8°., pp. 31, 3d.

NOTE.-Contains a memoir of W. O'Bryan.

OBSERVER, AN.

Turn the wallet. Signed "An Observer." Rev. H. A. Simcoe's Light from the West, ii, 161–62, (1833).

A Visit to a Church Sunday School. With view of Bridgerule School House. ib., ii, 252-55.

ODGERS, JACOB (son of Nicholas Odgers). b.
Sewrah Moor, Stithians, 24 May, 1841.
The existence of God. By J. Odgers. Lond.,
G. J. Stevenson, 1867, 12°., pp. 132, 1/6.

The Ghost of John Wesley. By J. Odgers, The Observator, [No. 1.] n.p. or d. or printers name. [Printed and published by the Author, Stithians, 1870,] 12°., pp. 20, 2d.-2nd ed. n.d., [1870,] 12°., pp. 20, 2d.-3rd ed., revised and considerably improved. n.p. or d. or printer's name. [Printed and published for the Author by N. Odgers, Redruth, 1871,] 12°., pp. 20, 2d.

The Philosophy of War. By J. Odgers. The Observator, No. 2. n.p. or printer's name. [Printed and published by the Author, Stithians,] 1870, 12o., pp. 20, 2d.

The Devil's Claw. By J. Odgers. The Observator, No. 3. n.p. or printer's name. [Printed and published by the Author, Stithians,] 1870, 12o., pp. 20, 2d.

A sermon on the death of George Smith, LL.D., late of Camborne. By J. Odgers. The Observator, No. 4. n.p. or printer's name. [Printed and published by the Author, Stithians,] 1871, 12°., pp. 20, 2d.

The Farmer, B.A., or no royal path to fame. A poem, by J. Odgers. The Observator, No. 5. n.p. or d. or printer's name. [Printed and published by the Author, Stithians, 1872,] 12°., pp. 20, 2d.

The self ransomed slave. Biographical Sketch of Lewis Smith. By J. Odgers. Redruth, printed by N. Odgers, Penryn Street. n.d., [1871,] 12o., pp. 32, 2d.

ODGERS, REV. JAMES. b. Camborne, 1774. d. Exeter, 9 Dec., 1855. cf. Wesleyan Methodist Mag., lxxviii, 665, (1855); lxxix, 190, 844, (1856).

Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Sanders, who died at Lostwithiel, 9 Nov., 1832, aged 63. Wesleyan Methodist Mag., lvi, 154, (1833).

Memoir of Mr. John Eddy, who died at Kingsbridge, 9 April, 1832. ib., lvi, 750.

ODGERS, JOSEPH, of Camborne. cf. F. Trevithick's Life of Rich. Trevithick, (1872), ii, 98–

99.

A Tour to France in search of mines, with the imprisonment, trials, condemnation and acquittal of Captain Joseph Odgers, of Camborne, in Cornwall. Written by himself. Helston, printed by W. Penaluna, 1830, 12o., pp. 36.

ODGERS, NICHOLAS (son of Nicholas Odgers). b. Stithians, 23 Aug., 1839.

A Glance at the Universe. By N. Odgers, Schoolmaster, Stithians, Cornwall. Lond., Kent and Co.; Redruth, J. S. Doidge; Lond., H. J. Tresidder, 17, Ave Maria Lane, 1862, fcp. 8°., pp. 130, 1/-.

NOTE. An edition of 2000 copies. The words "second thousand" are printed on the titlepages of one half the edition.

The Mystery of Being, or are ultimate atoms. inhabited worlds. By N. Odgers. Redruth, J. S. Doidge; Lond., H. J. Tresidder, 1863, 8°., pp. 161, 1/6.

NOTE. This work is noticed in Professor Augustus de Morgan's "Budget of Paradoxes," (1872), pp. 376-77.

The Methodist Class Meeting. By N. Odgers. Lond., Kent and Co.; Redruth, J. S. Doidge, n.d., [1864,] demy, 18°., pp. 192, 1/6.

A Bible Catechism for Sunday Schools. Anon. Redruth, printed by J. S. Doidge, n.d., [1865,] roy. 320., pp. 32, 2d. Useful Tables for the use of Schools. Anon. Redruth, J. S. Doidge, printer, n.d., [1865,] roy. 32°., pp. 16, 1d.

The Dissolution of the Stithians Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School. By N. Odgers. Redruth, J. Jenkin, printer, Times Office, Fore St. n.d., [1866,] post 8°., pp. 56, 6d.

The Resurrection Body. By N. Odgers. Lond., S. W. Partridge and Co. n.d., [1870,] fcp. 8o., PP. 32, 4d.

ODGERS, W. BLAKE (son of the succeeding). b. Plymouth, 15 May, 1849.

King Arthur and the Arthurian Romances, a paper read before The Bath Literary and Philosophical Association, Dec. 22, 1871. By W.

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Blake Odgers, B.A., Of the Middle Temple, Law Student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Frontispiece. Lond., Longman; Bath, Will. Lewis, [printed,] n.d., [1872,] 8°., pp. 64.

ODGERS, REV. WILLIAM JAMES (son of James Odgers. d. Flushing, 1842.) Now (1873) Unitarian Minister at Bath. b. Flushing, near Falmouth, 29 Apl., 1810.

The claims of the suffering poor on Christian Benevolence. A sermon preached at Plymouth on behalf of the widows and orphans of those who died of Cholera. By the Rev. W. J. Odgers. Plymouth, printed and published by G. Hearder and T. Browne, Buckwell St., 1832, 8°., 6d.

The claims of the orphan. A sermon preached at Plymouth on behalf of the surviving relatives of Fort Major Watson, who lost his life by an awful fire in the Citadel. By the Rev. W. J. Odgers. Plymouth, printed and published by J. Bartlett, 1836, 8°., 6d.

Unitarians entitled to the name of Christian. A sermon preached at the Unitarian Chapel, Plymouth. By the Rev. W. J. Odgers. Plymouth, published by G. Hearder, 1836, 8o., 6d.

The tendency of free trade to promote permanent and universal peace. A Lecture delivered at Plymouth, 26 Feb., 1846, at a meeting of the Plymouth Free Trade Association. By the Rev. W. J. Odgers. Plymouth, N. H. Haydon, Tavistock St.; Lond., J. Mardon, Farringdon St., 1846, 8°.

A Report on the sanitary condition of Plymouth. By Rev. W. J. Odgers. Plymouth, I. W. N. Keys, printer, 9, Bilbury St., 1847, 4o., pp. viii and 58.

NOTE. This is "The Plymouth Health of Towns Advocate, published under the sanction of The Plymouth Health of Towns Association." It consists of 7 numbers, the pagination of which is continuous and extends from 1 to 58.

A brief history of the Plymouth Unitarian Congregation, and of the Institutions connected with it, to which are added a chronological table of important events and a catalogue of books in the Chapel library. By W. J. Odgers, Pastor of the Congregation. Lond., E. Whitfield, 2, Essex St., Strand; Plymouth and Devonport, R. Lidstone, 1850, 12o., pp. 40.

Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary enquiry into the sewerage, etc., of the borough of Plymouth. By Robert Rawlinson, Esq. Lond., Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1853, fol.

NOTE.-Appendix G., "Cholera Statistics of Plymouth in connection with the actual sanitary condition of the town" is by the Rev. W. J. Odgers.

ODGERS, REV. W. J. (Con.).

Unitarianism a positive and practical faith. A sermon preached at Little Portland St. Chapel, London, at the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association. By the Rev. W. J. Odgers. Published by the Association. E. T. Whitfield, 178, Strand, London, 1856, 8°., 6d. O'DOGHERTY, LIEUT.-COL. FRANCIS, R.M. d.

Notter, Landrake, 1819. cf. Gent. Mag., lxxxix, 282, (1819); European Mag., lxxv, 178, (1819). O'DONOGHUE, REV. FRANCIS TALBOT, B.A. (son of Lieut.-Col. Daniel Michael O'Donoghue). Incumbent of Godolphin, July, 1852, to Dec., 1855. Now (1873) V. of Walsden, Rochdale. b. Tipperary, 12 Dec., 1817.

St. Knighton's Kieve. A Cornish Tale. With a postscript and glossary. By the Rev. F. T. O'Donoghue, B.A., Vicar of Tickenham, Somerset, and Chaplain to the Marquis of Westmeath. Lond., Smith and Elder, 1864, 8°., pp. iv and 304, 10/6.

NOTE.-Mr. O'Donoghue m. 5 July, 1853, Ellen Catherine, eld. dau. of Will. Pascoe, of Tregembo.

OEYNHAUSEN, KARL VON.

Ueber das Verhalten des granites zum killas in Cornwall. By Karl von Oeynhausen und Heinrich von Dechen. Karsten, Archiv. f. Bergbau, Berlin, xvii, 3–29, (1828); Philos. Mag., v, 161-70, 241-47, (1829).

OFFRID, WILLIAM FIZ.

Gilbert de Ferrars grants to William fiz Offrid as a freeman, an acre of land at Wringworthy, and one small English acre (unam parvam acram terre Anglicam) and a half in his demesne; and acquits him of naifty and servitude. Very early undated deed penes the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, at Mount Edgcumbe.

OGILBY, JOHN. b. at or near Edinburgh, 1600. d. 4 Sept., 1676.

Britannia, Vol. i, or an illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof... By John Ogilby... Lond., printed for the author at his house in White-Fryers, 1675, fol.

NOTE.-Contains The Road from London to the Lands End, pp. 49-56; From Barnstaple to Truro, p. 67; From Exeter to Truro, pp. 137-38.

Britannia Depicta, or Ogilby improved. Being a correct copy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual Survey of all ye direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales...By Ino. Owen, of the Midd. Temple,

OGILBY, JOHN. (Сon.).

Gent. Lond., printed for, and sold by, Tho. Bowles, 1720, 8°., pp. 273.-4th ed., 1753, 8°., pp. 273.

NOTE.-The Road from London to the Land's End, pp. 59-67; The Roads from Barnstaple to Truro. 81-83; The Road from Exeter to Truro, pp. 179-81, in both editions. The Map of Cornwall and illustrations are engraved by Eman, Bowen.

OISELL, JOHN. circa 1392.

To the Justices of the Peace for Cornwall, to hear the complaint of J. Oisell, of Liskerred, against Sir Walter Pynhergard, Knight, Thomas his brother, and others for carrying away his goods and to do him justice. MSS. Camb. Univ. Lib., Dd. iii, 53, art. 249.

OKE, GEORGE COLWELL (son of Will. Jane Oke, who d. Truro, July, 1859). Chief Clerk to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, 1864. b. St. Columb Major, 8 Feb., 1821.

The Synopsis of Summary Convictions, showing at one view the penalties, etc., for 1300 offences, when proceedings must be commenced, what justices to convict in each case, etc., etc., etc., with an introduction, practical observations, forms and notes, embodying the entire law and practice relating thereto, an epitome of other matters usually coming before Justices out of sessions, comprising a full list of indictable offences and where triable, and an abstract of the Juvenile Offenders Act, with explanatory notes, etc., etc., etc. By G. C. Oke, Assistant Clerk to the Newmarket Benches of Justices, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; Lond., H. Butterworth, [Jan.,] 1848, 8°., pp. xiii and 397, 14/-.

NOTE. The 2nd ed. of this work is entitled The Magisterial Synopsis, and there are variations in the title-pages of some of the other editions.

The Magisterial Synopsis, comprising Summary Convictions, etc. By G. C. Oke. 2nd ed. enlarged and improved. Lond., H. Butterworth, [Dec., 1848,] 1849, 8°., pp. xxvii and 468, 18/-. -3rd ed. enlarged and improved. Lond., [Nov.,] 1850, 8°., pp. xxii and 586.-4th ed. Lond., [Apl.,] 1853, 8°., pp. xxxiv and 596, 21/-.-5th ed. enlarged and improved. Lond., [Feb.,] 1857, 8°., pp. xxx and 780.-6th ed. enlarged and improved. Lond., [May,] 1858, 8°., pp. xxxvi and 1018.-7th ed. enlarged and improved. Lond., [Nov.,] 1860, 8°., pp. xliv and 1129, 44/-. -8th ed. Lond., [Oct.,] 1862, 8°., pp. xxxviii and 1206, 50--9th ed. Lond., [Mch.,] 1866, 8°., pp. xxxviii and 1280, 52/6.-10th ed. In 2 Volumes. Lond., 1868, 8°., pagination continuous, pp. xl and 1402, 58/--11th ed. In 2 Volumes. Lond., 1872, 8°., pagination continuous, pp. liv and 1582.

OKE, GEORGE COLWELL. (Con.).

An improved system of solicitor's book-keeping, with forms of the several books and a practical exemplification of their working and division of profits or losses in cases of partnership, directions for posting, balancing, etc. By G. C. Oke. Lond., H. Butterworth, 1849, 8°., pp. viii and 80, 5/-.

The Magisterial Formulist, being a complete collection of forms and precedents for practical use in all matters out of Quarter Sessions, adapted to the outlines of forms in Jervis's Act (11 and 12 Vict., c.c. 42, 43). With an introduction, explanatory directions, variations and notes, (Brought down to 12 and 13 Vict.). By George C. Oke. Lond., H. Butterworth, [Feb.,] 1850, 8°., pp. xviii and 543, 21/-.-2nd ed. With considerable additions. Lond., [Sept.,] 1856, 8°., pp. xxx and 601, 21/-.-3rd ed. Enlarged and revised. Lond., 1861, 8°., pp. xxxiv and 961, 35/-.

Addenda to the third edition of Oke's Magisterial Formulist, containing forms in respect of the new matters in the Criminal Law consolidation Acts and other statutes of the session, 1861. By G. C. Oke, Assistant Clerk to the Lord Mayor of London. Lond., Butterworths, 1862, 8o., pp. iv and 965-1007, 2/6.

The Magisterial Formulist, etc. By. G. C. Oke. 4th ed. Lond., Butterworths, 1868, 8°., pp. xxiv and 1033, 38/-.

The Laws of Turnpike Roads, comprising the whole of the general acts now in force, the acts as to union of trusts for facilitating arrangement with their creditors, as to the interference

by railways with roads, their non-repair and enforcing contributions from parishes, etc., etc., practically arranged. With cases, copious notes, and the necessary forms and an elaborate index. By G. C. Oke. Lond., Butterworths, 1854, 12°., pp. 500, 12/-.-2nd ed. With cases and statutes to Nov., 1861. Lond., 1861, 12°., pp. 1 and 700, 18/-.

The Friendly Societies' Manual, comprising the New Consolidation Act, 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 63, and other statutes affecting old and new societies as well as industrial societies, methodically arranged, with an exemplification of the official system of book-keeping, rules, tables of contributions, cases, forms, etc., etc., etc. By G. C. Oke. Lond., Butterworth, 1855, 12o., pp. xvii and 221, 6/-.

A handy book of the game and fishery laws, containing all the acts in force as to game, rabbits, deer, private and salmon-fisheries, dogs, birds, etc., and the new licenses to kill game, deer, etc., systematically arranged with useful forms, notes, decisions, etc., etc. By G. C. Oke. Lond., Butterworth, 1861, 12°., pp. xiv and

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OKE, GEORGE COLWELL. (Con.).

211, 7/-.-2nd ed. Lond., 1863, 12o., pp. xxiv and 374, 10/6.

The new criminal acts of 1861, with the offences, punishment and procedure, whether punishable summarily or on indictment, alphabetically and tabularly arranged. By G. C. Oke. Lond., 1861, 8°., 6/-.

OKE, REV. WILLIAM. (Con.).

The Loss of Five Wesleyan Missionaries in the Maria Mail Boat, off the island of Antigua, in the West Indies, 28 Feb., 1826. By Mrs. Jones. Lond., 1827, 24°., pp. 36, 4d.

NOTE.-The Rev. W. Oke and the Rev. T. Truscott were amongst those who were lost. OLDWANTON, OLYVER. pseud., i.e.

Magisterial Procedure, reasons for its revision, simplification and uniformity. By G. C. Oke. A lyttle treatise called the Image of Idleness, Read in the department of Jurisprudence at the conteynynge certyne matters moved between Annual Meeting of the National Association for Walter Wedlocke and Bawdin Bacheler. Trásthe promotion of social science at the Guildhall, lated out of the Troyane or Cornyshe tounge [London,] June, 1862. Lond., printed by Emily into Englyshe, by Olyver Oldwanton, and dediFaithfull. Victoria Press, 1862, 8°., pp. 16, 1/-. cated to the Lady Lust. [Colophon.] Imprinted London Police and Magistracy, a practical by Wyllyam Seres, dwellynge in Powles Church summary of the magisterial powers of the metro-Yard, at the signe of the Hedgehogge. n.d., 8°., politan police commissioners and the police, 52 leaves. Bod. Lib. county and city magistrates, within their severaĺ jurisdictions. By G. C. Oke. Lond., Butterworth, 1863, post 8°., pp. 20, 1/-.

The Magisterial Laws of London. By G. C. Oke. 1863, 12o.

NOTE.-Announced in 1863, to be published by subscription at 10/6, but never published.

Friendly Societies' Accounts, a practical exemplification of the "Instructions in bookkeeping for Friendly Societies" issued by the Registrar with directions for checking, etc. By G. C. Oke. Lond., C. and E. Layton, 150, Fleet Street, 1864, 12°., pp. 49.

Justices' Clerks' Accounts, being a simple system of recording and checking magisterial business and income from fees, and the receipt and application of penalties, etc., practically examined. By G. C. Oke. Lond., printed by C. Roworth and Sons, 38, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 1863, 8°., pp. 16, 2/-.

OKE, SILAS (son of Philip Oke, who d. St. Tudy, 1826). b. St. Tudy, Apl., 1801. Now resident at Illogan.

On an exhausting air pump for mines especially such as have but one shaft. Rep. Miners' Assoc. of C. and D., 1869, pp. 41-43.

OKE, REV. WILLIAM (son of Walter and Jenny Oke). Wesleyan Minister in the West Indies. b. St. Tudy, 13 Dec., 1796. bapt. 4 Jan., 1797. Drowned off the island of Antigua, 28 Feb., 1826. cf. Wesleyan Methodist Mag., xlix, 349– 52, 486-94, 646-47, 760, (1826); 1, 649-65, (1827); Rev. J. W. Thomas' Reminiscences of Methodism in Exeter, p. 41.

The Christian Minister's final appeal to his beloved people. A sermon preached in St. Tudy Chapel, by W. Oke, a Methodist Missionary. Launceston, 1822, 12°., pp. 23.

OLD CELT. pseud., i.e., Bottrell, Will.

OLIVER, CHARLOTTE (2nd dau. of Dr. Will. Oliver, who d. 1764, and wife, 14 Apl., 1752, of Sir John Pringle, Bart., President of the Royal Soc., who d. 18 Jan., 1782). cf. Six discourses delivered by Sir J. Pringle, Bart., (1783), p. xxii; Gent. Mag., liii, pt. ii, 602, (1783).

OLIVER, REV. GEORGE, D.D., Canon of the Diocese of Plymouth. b. Newington Butts, London, 9 Feb., 1781. d. St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter, 23 Mch., 1861. bur. Chapel of the Priory, 2 Apl. cf. Gent. Mag., x, 575-77, (1861); N. and Q., 2 S., ix, 514, (1860).

Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Devon, etc. [By the Rev. J. P. Jones, q.v., and George Oliver,] 1828, 120.--Another ed. Lond., Nichols, 1844, 3 vols., 8°., 20/-.-New ed. Exeter, W. Pollard, 1862, 2 vols., 8o., 21/-.

Collections towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English, and Irish Members of the Society of Jesus. By the Rev. Dr. Oliver, St. 61, New Bond Street, 1845, 8o., pp. 282. Nicholas' Priory, Exeter. Lond., Charles Dolman,

NOTE.-An interleaved copy of this work, with numerous corrections and additional notes by Mr. Tierney, and notes and transcripts by W. B. Turnbull, Esq., is now penes the Bishop of Southwark.

Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis, being a collection of records and instruments illustrating the ancient conventual, collegiate and eleemosynary foundations in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, with historical notices and a supplement comprising a list of the dedications of churches in the diocese, an amended edition of the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, and an abstract of the Chantry Rolls. By G. Oliver, D.D. 2 plates of illuminated letters and 3 plates of seals.

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Exeter, P. A. Hannaford; Lond., Longman 1846, fol. Title, dedication, preface, analytical table of contents, corrigenda, list of subscribers, pp. i-xxiv, monasticon and supplement, pp. 1-493, 80/-.

Additional Supplement to the Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis, with a map of the diocese, deaneries and sites of religious houses. By G. Oliver, D.D. Exeter, A. Holden; Lond., Nattali and Bond, 1854, fol. Title, contents and list of subscribers, 2 leaves, Additional Supplement, pp. 1–38, 12/6.

NOTE. The whole work bound together was pubished at 105/-.

Collections illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts and Gloucester. In two parts, historical and biographical. With notices of the Dominican, Benedictine and Franciscan Orders in England. By the Very Rev. George Oliver, D.D., Canon of the Diocese of Plymouth. Lond., Charles Dolman, 1857, 8°., pp. vii and 576, 12/-.

NOTE. Some of the MSS. of this work are in the Camb. Univ. Lib., Mm., vi, 40, others are at Stonyhurst College.

Lives of the Bishops of Exeter and a history of the cathedral, with an illustrative appendix. By Rev. G. Oliver. Exeter, Will Roberts, 1861, 8°., pp. xvi and 503, 16/-.

Merrye Englande [A Cornish Story.] Catholic Mag., ii, 353-68, etc., (1838), iii, 183-91, etc., (1839).

NOTE. The story is relative to the Tregians and other families and is compiled from MSS. sources.

List of Priors and Extracts from the Calendar of Tywardreath Priory, Cornwall. Collect. Topog. et Geneal., iii, 106-111.

Arundelliana. ib., iii, 389–95.

Will of Dame Jane Chamond. ib., iv, 172–74. Will of Thomas Arundell, of Talferne. ib., iv, 174-76.

Will of John Arundell, of Talferne. ib., iv, 176-77.

Document relating to Lands in Cornwall. Archæol. Journ., vi, 393, (1849).

OLIVER, REV. JOHN.

A Present for Teeming Women; or scripture directions for women with child, how to prepare for the houre of travel. Written first for the private use of a gentlewoman of quality in the West, and now published for the common good. By John Oliver, less than the least of all saints.

OLIVER, REV. JOHN. (Con.).

Lond., printed by Sarah Griffin for Mary Rothwell, at the Fountain and Bear, in Cheapside, 1663, 8°.

NOTE.-Title, dedication to Mrs. Bridget Seymour of Hanford-house, in the county of Dorset, to the Reader, a prayer before child-birth, contents, and to Reader, 15 leaves, A Present, pp. 1-144. This work is erroneously attributed to the Rev. Will. Oliver, of Launceston, (who d. 1681), in S. Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial. OLIVER, JOHN CARDELL (son of Robert Sidney Oliver). b. Newquay, 21 Aug., 1844.

Guide to Newquay and neighbourhood including Perran and Bedruthen Steps. Map. By J. C. Oliver.] Truro, W. Lake, Boscawen St., 1872, 80., pp. 33.

The Cornish Pilchard Fishery. By J. C. Oliver.] Truro, W. Lake, Boscawen St., 1872, 8°., pp. 8, 2d.

OLIVER, THOMAS.

Deed of Confirmation from Thomas Oliver, of Morwell, Cornwall, to John Yvan, and Agnes, his wife, of a tenement in Milbrook, 1536. MS. on Sale at T. Thorpe's, 1836.

OLIVER, REV. WILLIAM, M.A. Chaplain Fellow of Ex. Coll. by order of Parliamentary Visitors, 1650-54, Minister at Launceston; Ejected by Act of Uniformity, 1662; Master of Grammar School, Launceston. b. Cornwall, 27 Dec., 1627. d. 6 July, 1681. cf. S. Palmer's Nonconformist's Memorial, (1775), i, 280, where he is called John Oliver, and the work given under that name is attributed to him.

OLIVER, WILLIAM, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., of the family of Trevarnoe, in Sithney. Came to England in Will. III army, 1688; Licentiate of College of Physicians of London, 30 Sept., 1692; Physician to the Red Squadron, 16931702; Physician to Hospital for Sick and Wounded Seamen at Chatham, 1709-14; Physician to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, 1714-16. d. Greenwich, 4 Apl., 1716. bur. Abbey Church, Bath, where is Monu. cf. Will. Munk's Roll of Physicians, (1861), i, 452; John Britton's Hist. of Bath Abbey Church, (1825), p. 91.

A practical essay on fevers containing remarks on the hot and cool methods of their cure wherein the first is rejected and the last recommended. To which is annex'd a dissertation on the Bath Waters. By W. Oliver, M.D. Lond., printed for T. Goodwin, at the Queen's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet St., 1704, 12°. Title and contents, 2 leaves, preface, pp. i-xxxii, a practical essay, pp. 1-201, a dissertation, pp.

202-88.

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