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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.
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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. mœstissimus Pater P.