Storeys of Old.

he might Lecture. Besides, Mr. Wells is not in danger of suppression by Laud, but by want of cash! Where Mr. Wells lectured no mortal knows, or will ever know. Why not at St. Ives on the market days? Or he might be a "Running Lecturer," not tied to one locality, that is as likely a guess as any.

Whether the call of this Wells Lectureship and Oliver's Letters got due return from Mr. Story we cannot now say, but judge that the Lectureships, as Laud's star was rapidly on the ascendant, and Mr. Story and the Feoffees had already lost £1,800 by the work, and had a fine in the Star Chamber still hanging over their heads, did, in fact, come to the ground, and trouble no Archbishop or Market Cattle Dealer with God's Gospel any more. Mr. Wells, like the others, vanishes from history, or nearly so. In the chaos of the King's Pamphlets one seems to discern dimly that he sailed for New England, and that he returned in better times. Dimly once, in 1641 or 1642, you catch a momentary glimpse of a Mr. Wells in such predicament, and hope it was this Wells-preaching for a friend, in the afternoon, in a church in London.¶

The Huntingdonshire and Cambridge Stories, or Storeys, evidently went from the north and entered into the haberdashery and clothing trades in London, then settled in the counties named.