Sir EDMUND, a younger son of an ancient Scotch family settled in Lincolnshire. He was sometime a student of Lincoln-college, Oxford; and removed from thence to the Inner Temple, where he applied himself diligently to the study of the law, and became a barrister. In the ninth of Queen Elizabeth he was both Lent and Summer reader, and in the 16th double reader. He was appointed her majesty's sergeant-at-law in the 19th year of her reign; and some time after, one of the justices of the assize. In 1582 he was made lord chief justice of the common pleas, and in the year following was knighted. He held his office to the end of his life, died in the year 1605, and was buried at Eyworth in Bedfordshire. He was an able, but unamiable lawyer; a scourge to the Puritans; and a strenuous supporter of the established church. His works are, 1. Reports of many principal causes argued and adjudged in the time of Queen Elizabeth, in the common bench. Lond. 1644, fol. 2. Resolutions and judgments on the cases and matter, agitated in all the courts of Westminster, in the latter end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Published by John Goldborough, Esq.; Lond. 1653, 4to. Besides these, there is a manuscript copy of his readings still in being.

Adam, a native of Scotland, was brother to the reverend James Anderson, D.D., editor of the Diplomata Scotiae and Royal Genealogies, many years since minister of the Scots Presbyterian church in Adam Anderson was for 40 years a clerk in the South Sea Houle; and at length arrived at his acmé there, being appointed chief clerk of the Stock and New Annuities, which office he retained till his death. He was appointed one of the trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America; and was also one of the court of assistants of the Scots corporation in London. The time of the publication of his "Historical and Chronological Deduction of Trade and Commerce," a work replete with useful information, was about the year 1762. He was twice married; by the first wife he had issue a daughter, married to one Mr Hardy, an apothecary in the Strand, who are both dead without issue; he afterwards became the third husband of the widow of Mr Coulter, formerly a wholesale linen draper in Cornhill, by whom he had no issue. She was, like him, tall and graceful; and her face has been thought to have some resemblance to that of the ever-living countess of Desmond, given in Mr Pennant's first Tour in Scotland. Mr Anderson died at his house in Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, January 10, 1775. He had a good library of books, which were sold by his widow, who survived him several years, and died in 1781.