best painting of the altar piece in St. Clement's Church, which was awarded to Roger Mortimer, an artist of some repute. The subject was "St. Paul preaching to the Britons." Moss's Guide, p. 114, contains the following: "December the 6th, 1721. -Received of Mr. Collier 30 guineas for painting the ceiling of St. Clement's Church of Hasting. R. Mortimer." (This artist appears to have been chosen for two commissions at this Church.)
3rd January, 1765 Mrs. Collier to Mr. John Cranston (Birth of Mr. Edward Milward the younger.) " . . . . Mrs. Milward was brought to bed New Year's Day, of a son, and both very well, Mr. Edward Milward, Jun. three guineas to the ringers, and soe quite overcome with joy, that he begins to calculate what he'll be worth" (The allusion in the last paragraph must, I think, be to the birth of Mr. Milward's son Edward, who appears from the registers of St. Clement's, Hastings, to have been baptised on the 3rd January, 1765, and this seems to fix the date of this letter as 1765. . . . Edward Milward the younger Married on 13th February, 18 17, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. William Whitear, Rector of all Saints, Hastings.
