Stoke Newington-Rogers's Ancestors-Dr. Price-Mrs. Rogers-
Her Letters-Her Character.
IN the middle of the eighteenth century the suburban
village of Stoke Newington contained a group of friendly
households, which embraced many persons afterwards
known in the larger world. The pretty village green,
then a piece of open grass with a few ancient elms and
quaint Elizabethan houses round it, was a centre of
political and religious Liberalism. A meeting-house of
the English Presbyterian dissent had been built there
in 1708, and there the Rev. Charles Morton, the silenced
rector of Blissland, in Cornwall-Defoe's teacher-had
kept his school. In the early part of the eighteenth
century, Samuel Harris, an East India merchant, who
had married a daughter of Queen Mary's physician,
Dr. Coxe, lived in one of the houses on the Green; and
in 1731 their only daughter, Mary Harris-a cousin of
William Coxe, the author of the History of the House
of Austria '-married Daniel Radford, a warehouseman