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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
"I have a just and great esteem and to whom I owe
"particular acknowledgments for many signall favours
"received from him.
"At St. Johns Gi. Sarum."
"20th Decr.
"17ii.
John Warner, junr., seems to have been sent to Harrow,
since a copy of Danet's Dictionary of Antiquities, 1700, at Ids-
worth, has scribbled in it, "E libris Johannis Warner ex dono
"Revd. Viri Thomae Brian Praeceptor ejus in Rudimentis Linguae
"Latinae. Sept. 10th 1711," "Sum e libris J. Warneri
"scholae Harroensis," and "E. libris Roberti Warner ex dono
"Jo. Warner Junior. August ye 14."
In his will, dated 1721, John Warner, senior, speaks of Robert
as his eldest son, and on his book-plate Richard blazons the
crescent as the "difference" for a second son. The father
must have died either in 1721 or 1722, since in the latter year
his widow purchased'' Harts," the houseat Woodford in which her
son Richard passed the remainder of his life. Though merely
styled Goldsmith by Burnet and not known to Mr. F. G. H.
Price2 as having kept running cashes, John Warner is called
Banker on his son Richard's tomb at Woodford, and Nichols
mentions3 an "old Mr. Thomas Snow, the first Banker of the
''name in the Strand (who succeeded, I think, an old gentle-
"man of the name of Warner in the House)." He purchased
property in Clerkenwell, which he devised with all his real estate
to his son Robert.
The history of this property is perhaps worth giving in
detail. In 1696 Robert Harvey sold his estate in Clerkenwell,
containing two ancient conduits, for £1,650 to John Henley and
Walter Baynes. John Henley disposed of his moiety to John
Warner, and Walter Baynes having turned one of the conduits
into a cold bath, his moiety was purchased in 1736 by Robert
Warner for £1,900. Robert Warner "leaving an only child
''named Kitty, then married to Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, Esq.,
"this gentleman, by the courtesy of England, became tenant
"of the entirety of the premises on the birth of his eldest son,
"Thomas Clarke Jervoise esq., who died in December 1809
2 F. G. Hilton Price, Handbook of London Bankers, 1876.
3 Literary Ancedotes, ix., p. 642.