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A recent letter (May 28, 1886) from the venerable Rector of Tackley,
CO. Oxford, Rev. L. A. Sharpe, informs us, from records of that parish,
that this John Morton (b. 1634, d. 1702) was "late of the parish of
St. Mary's Whitechapel, in Middlesex." In the Tackley chmxh is a tablet
of records of ten members of the Morton family ; but none of them of
earlier date than this John Morton. There is also, in the same church, a
large monument to the memory of Hon. John Morton, Chief Justice of
Chester, who died July 25, 1780, aged sixty-five. The Morton tablet
gives us the following particulars relative to children of John and Elizabeth
(Whicker-Crandley) Morton: John Whicker, eldest son, died May 15,
1693, aged thirty-three—therefore born in 1660; Emmanuel, youngest
son, died November 13, 1703, aged thirty-seven—therefore born in 1666.
The tablet also tells us that Elizabeth Medlicott, the wife of John
Whicker Morton, "late of this Parish, Gentleman" (as says the Register),
was a daughter of " Edmund Medlycote " (the Register adds "Esq.");
and died November 7, 1734, aged seventy.
The general coincidence of these results of a search in English records
respecting the Morton marriage of John Diodati, with the facts already
stated as derived from William Diodate's Bible (see above), will not fail
to be noticed. But those statements are farther duplicated by what we
learn in England with regard to the children born of this Morton marriage ;
58 who are there seen to have been three in number, namely, John}'^
59,60 William'^'^ and Elizabeth}'^
John, son of John and Elizabeth (Morton) Diodati, was matriculated
at Oxford, from Balliol College, April 6, 1 709, aged sixteen (therefore born
about 1693) ;
and graduated Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, in course,
and afterwards Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine. He became
a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, June 25, 1724, and
Censor in 1726-27; and died May 23, 1727, unmarried. His Will, dated
May 19, and proved July 27, 1727, left his whole estate, both real and
personal, with the exception of a single legacy of ^^50., to his sister
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