Kings. Norroy. with a suitable pomp, the pall being adorned with escutcheons of the arms GEORGE III. of the office of Norroy, impaling those of Dore; over the body were laid Provincial his tabard, crown, and collar of SS. At the funeral service was performed an anthem, taken from Psalm XXIX, sung by the choristers of St. Paul's cathedral, accompanied on the organ by Miss Hudson. Though the crowd was great, the whole of the ceremony was conducted with decency and respect. Norroy was greatly attached to antiquities and natural history. His collection, which was but small, he left to his friend, George Harrison, Esq. who is now Norroy, one of whose apartments in the College is adorned with the different articles which comprised the collection. On the south side of the chancel of Christ Church, where he is buried, is an achievement of his arms: i. e. Norroy impaling Dore. The Crest of Dore is placed upon a crown of a King at Arms. The motto is, "Tutus qui Bonus." On the sides is written, "Peter Dore, Esq, Norroy King of " Arms, aged sixty-six, died anno 1781." Near this is a neat monument with the above arms and crest: below is this inscription which the deceased justly merited: Haud procul ab hoc marmore, PETRI DORE, Norroy Regis Armorum, et F.S.A. Cui In moribus Simplicitas, In verbis Fides, In colloquiis Suavitas, Quæ civi sunt ornamento, Ut ii soli, " Quibus Heralds. Windsor. Quibus haud innotuerat Non deflevisse videantur Mortuum." "Fair Virtue mark't the course of life he trod, Obiit 27 Septem. 1781. There is a half sheet mezzotinto portrait of Norroy, representing him in his tabard; underneath is his coat of arms. It is inscribed "PETER "DORE, ESQR. RICHMOND HERALD, 1770, afterwards Norrou King of Arms, died 27th Sept 1781. Townly delin'-G. N. fecit." " Νου. 8, 1781.-THOMAS LOCKE, Esq. -See Clarenceux. The present Norroy, and Registrar of the College. To whom I am obliged for the perusal of a valuable MS. History of Garters, Kings at Arms. HERALDS. WINDSOR. Geo. 11. HENRY HILL, Esq. F. A.S. Mr. Hill was gentleman usher of the Order of the Bath, and for some time Sergeant at Arms to the House of Commons. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on February 8, 1759. I have not seen his descent. He must have entered the College when very young. Probably he went to the South of France for his health, as he died at Avignon, June 37, 1774, aged forty-four. He married, in August 1763, Francis, daughter of Mr. Waade, of Yorkshire, widow and relict of William Thompson, Esq. She surviving Windsor received a certificate of his death from the Cardinal-governor of Avignon. I believe he left no issue. * I am obliged for this inscription to the Rev. Samuel Crowther, Rector of Christ Church. Quere, What relation to Norroy was Richard Dore, Esq. His Majesty's judgeadvocate, who died at Port Jackson, New South Wales, in December, 1800? Nov. 1774.-GEORGE HARRISON, Esq.-See Norroy ́ June 5, 1784.-FRANCIS TOWNSHEND, Esq. F. A. S. CHESTER. Geo. 11.-JOHN MARTIN LEAKE, Esq. This gentleman is son of the late Garter Martin Leake. Resigning this office he was, in January 1774, appointed one of the Comptrollers of the army accounts. He married, on September 14, 1761, at St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf, Miss Mary Calvert, of Lambourn in Essex. GEORGE MARTIN LEAKE, Esq. The present Chester, brother of the preceding herald. GEORGE III. Heralds. Windsor. Chester. YORK. Geo. 11.-GEORGE FLETCHER, Esq. Mr. Fletcher, his grandfather, resided in Lombard Street, in London, at the time of the great fire in 1666, in a house of his own, which was burnt down, but rebuilt by him. York was second son of John Fletcher, Gent. attorney at law in Chichester: his mother was Mary, daughter of William Knowles, of Ovring in Sussex. He was born February 13, 1713-4. He never was a Pursuivant, but obtained an Herald's tabard from the Earl of Effingham, Deputy Earl Marshal, through the interest of his brother. Having a small fortune, and being employed as an agent for several gentlemen near Chichester, he never sought any higher preferment in the College. Garter Heard, transacted all his heraldic business. Having long labored with an incurable disorder, owing to a rupture, he at length paid the debt of nature, at Chichester, November 9, 1785, and was buried in Hog-lane church in that city. He never married. This gentleman's promotion was highly improper, because he had no pretension from professional merit, whatever other qualifications he possessed. Lord Effingham undoubtedly betrayed his trust in nominating him in preference to the Pursuivants in the College. Iii York GEORGE III. Heralds. Feb. 4, 1786.-BENJAMIN PINGO, Esq. York was fifth son of Mr. Thomas Pingo, an eminent engraver of seals, and assistant engraver of the Mint, who died in December, 1776. He is mentioned by Lord Orford, as having engraved a plate of arms in Mr. Thoresby's Leeds: Lewis Pingo, Esq. the present chief, and Mr. John Pingo, the second engraver in the Mint, are two other of his sons. Their mother was Mary, daughter of Benjamin Goldwire, of Rumsey in Hants. The herald, born in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, was baptized there, July 8, 1749. A taste for heraldry led him to the College. He was one of the unfortunate persons thrown down, and trampled to death, in attempting to get into the pit at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, on the evening of Monday, February 10, 1794. His remains, attended by the members of the College, were buried in the chapel belonging to the Tower. He was highly esteemed by his heraldic brethren, to which his merit, as a good and amiable man, justly intitled him. He bequeathed his MSS. to the public library of the College at Arms: his books were sold by Leigh and Sotheby in 1794. March 15, 1794.-GEORGE NAYLER, Esq. F. A. S. Genealogist of the Order of the Bath, the present York. A gentleman of great knowledge and skill in his profession, whose obliging attention to this work, and its author, demands every expression of grateful acknowledgment. Somerset. SOMERSET. Geo. 11.-RALPH BIGLAND, Esq.-See Norroy. June, 1773.-HENRY HASTINGS, Esq. Mr. John Hastings, his father, was a silversmith near Charing-Cross, in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. He died in a very advanced age, at Knightsbridge, September 6, 1786, having long survived Mrs. Hastings, who died March 9, 1765. She was a most affectionate wife, and tender mother. He was of the very illustrious house of Hastings, tracing his pedigree from William Hastings, sixth son of Francis Hastings, second Earl of Huntingdon, K. G., by Catherine, daughter and coheir of Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, son and heir of Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K. G., brother brother to Edward IV. and Richard III., and uncle to Edward V. and Elizabeth, Queen to Henry VII. Francis Hastings, K. G., died June 20, 1560; Catherine, his Countess, September 23, 1576. He had six sons and four daughters. William was not his sixth, but his third son. Henry and George his elder brethren, were successively Earls of Huntingdon. This William in our peerages is represented as dying without issue. None of our writers mention his marriage; Collins omits him intirely. It is not improbable, that he left an illegitimate son, from whom Mr. John Hastings might spring. Somerset, born February 26, 1722-3, by the patronage of his very distant relation, Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, Master of the Horse to Frederic, Prince of Wales, became a clerk in the Admiralty Office, afterward purser of His Majesty's ship Sandwich. Leaving these, he became in October, 1757, surveyor of the stables to his Royal Highness the Prince, in the room of Mr. Barber, who died at Kingston on the 17th of that month, and was admitted into the College at Arms: yet, notwithstanding his great friend's interest, he remained long only a Pursuivant. He died of an asthma, December 21, 1777, aged only fifty-four years. His corpse remaining unaltered, he was unburied for fourteen days; at length, on January 6, it was conveyed to the family place of sepulture, in St. Margaret's church in Wesminster. He died unmarried, but left several children born out of wedlock. His will, dated December 30, 1774, with a codicil annexed, executed December 31, 1776, was proved by his father, Elizabeth Schonian, widow, his sister, and Henry Hastings, his uncle, who were appointed his executors. He bequeathed £400 to each of his dear natural children, Henry Hastings, aged nineteen, and Ann-Henrietta Hastings, aged fourteen years. To Mary Lisle, mother of these children, he gave £25. To his natural sons, John Redcross, born September 1, 1771; and to William-Henry-Granville Redcross, born July 22, 1773, the sum of £400 each, and £25 to Sarah Bynon, alias Redcross, their mother. Mr. Brooke, Somerset, supposed he gave his two youngest sons the surname of Redcross, because he had been Rouge-croix Pursuivant. For the same reason we must think he desired their mother to assume that name. cannot close this life, without noticing how very defective all the accounts are of the ennobled family of Hastings, in both the ancient and modern peerages. Many of the Hastings, Earls of Huntingdon, left younger sons, who married in all probability, but generally only their names are mentioned. It is singular, that a family of such illustrious and ancient des I. Iii2 cent GEORGE III. |