greatest distress at his lodging in Rathbone-Place, Oxford-Yard, January 1, GEORGE III. 1777. He was buried, by his own desire, in the cemetery of St. Giles'-in- Pursuivants. the-Fields, on the 5th following, and with little more expense than what Portcullis. would have been bestowed upon the corpse of an eleemosynary pauper, as the curate of the late Rev. Mr. Southgate told Mr. Brooke, Somerset. So fatal was imprudence to a man deservedly elected in 1775, a Royal Academician, who might have been an ornament to society, and a blessing to his family. He used to boast of his economy in one respect, that he made the same pair of shamois leather shoes serve to attend no less than eight royal funerals: those of Frederic Prince of Wales, the Princesses Elizabeth and Caroline, George II. William Duke of Cumberland, Frederic Duke of York, Princess Louisa, and the Princess Dowager of Wales. It was no wonder he did pride himself upon this, the only prudence, perhaps, he ever used. He married Mary, daughter of Robert Hogg, of Kincardine, in Scotland, who dying about three years before him, was buried at Marybone, in which parish he lived many years. This improvident man left Frances, an only child, at his death; she was then about eighteen years of age, and possessed, says Mr. Brooke, Somerset, great personal charms.

March 3, 1780.- JOHN-DODDINGTON FORTH, Gent.

Nominated to this office by Richard-Lumley Saunderson, Earl of Scarsdale, Deputy Earl Marshal, his Countess being Mr. Forth's godmother. The warrant, however, not passing until the death of Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and the appointment of Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham, to be Deputy Earl Marshal, he was obliged to apply to that nobleman, who ratified the choice Lord Scarsdale had made. He is the present Portcullis, and as the oldest Pursuivant has the precedency of the other three *.

GEORGE III.

Heralds

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dinary.

Mowbray.

HERALDS EXTRAORDINARY.

MOWBRAY.

March, 1764.- JOSEPH EDMONDSON, Esq.

Who, from an humble origin and a mean trade, rose to celebrity. He was apprentice to a barber, became afterward an herald painter, and being employed much in emblazoning arms upon carriages, he took a fancy to the science of heraldry; this led him to genealogy. His great and unwearied industry and research, gave him a superiority in both that was wonderful. To him we are indebted for the best Treatise on Heraldry. His engraved peerage is the first work of its kind that Europe has witnessed. Posterity will always respect a man, who overcoming every disadvantage of birth, fortune, and station, has left a name that will descend to a late period. When the Baronets of England and Great-Britain wished for some augmentation to their privileges, as appendages to their titles, they chose him their Secretary. They were not successful in their attempt. Mowbray resided many years in Warwick-street, Golden-square: dying there, February 17, 1786, he was buried in the cemetery of St. James', Piccadilly. His library was sold by auction in 1788, with those of E. Bettesford, A. M., Dr. Glen King, Dr. Sydenham, Colónel Calderwood, Dr. Martin, General Ogelthorp, and the second collection of the duplicates in the British Museum. Mowbray was a respectable man, he had the skill to raise himself to a station, that in the outset of life he could not have believeď possible; what is more to be prized, he had prudence to retain it; uniting the discordant avocations, science and trade. His manners partook of both, his dress still more. His two sons continue the coachpainting business. He had also a daughter.

Norfolk

NORFOLK.

1761. STEPHEN-MARTIN LEAKE, Jun. Esq.

Eldest son and heir of Garter Leake, whose manors and estates in Kent he inherited. He was one of the Deputy Registrars of the Court of Chancery. He died February 19, 1797, leaving issue by his wife, whom he married January 4, 1770: she was widow of George Wright, Esq.

GEORGE IIL

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Geo. 11. THOMAS BEWES, Esq.

This gentleman, so long an Herald Extraordinary, preceded those mentioned above, as well as the following one:

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dinary.

Arundel

SUFFOLK.

This office was taken from an earldom, enjoyed by a branch of the Howards, given by the nobleman who bore it, he being then Deputy Earl Marshal.

October, 1774.-JOHN IVES, Jun. Esq. F. R. & A. S.

The family of Ives is divided into several branches in Norfolk; they are very wealthy, having acquired great fortunes by commerce, both in Norwich and in Yarmouth. Suffolk was the only child of John Ives, Esq., a merchant at Great Yarmouth, more famed for his industry in acquiring, than judgment or generosity in using riches. John Ives, Jun. Esq., was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, June 13, 1771, and May 4, 1773, a Fellow of the Royal Society; in the following year he became an Herald Extraordinary. His abilities at this time became universally allowed by his publication of an Account of Burgh Castle, near Yarmouth, the Garianorum of the Romans in 1774, in which its scite is fixed, and its ruins described. He survived this publication but a little time, dying without issue at Yarmouth, January 9, 1776, very generally esteemed. He was the particular friend of the Antiquary, Mr. Thomas Martin, author of the History of Thetford, an amiable, but improvident man. The author of the Memoirs of his Life, Rev. Sir John Cullum, Bart., prefixed to his history, reflects upon Mr. Ives, because he had not fulfilled his engage-. ment, in setting up a memorial for him in the porch of the church of Palgrave, the burying place of him and his family. It is however undoubted, that he had such an intention, and had written this inscription, which he designed to have placed upon it,

"Near

"This place are deposited

"The

Suffolk.

GEORGE III.

Heralds Extraordinary. Suffolk.

"The Remains of

" THOMAS MARTIN,
"Who studied and preserved Antiquities.

"Died March 7, 1771, aged 74.
"To whose memory
"This marble was erected by
"JOHN IVES, F. S. A."

Mr. Martin supposed he should not have a friend to notice his place of sepulture. Mr. Ives, it has been observed, had intended to fulfil the duties of friendship; he had done more, it was at his expense that Mr.Martin's portrait by P. S. Lamborn, from a painting by T. Bardwell, was prepared as a proper frontispiece to the work, which was not published until 1779. He has also been blamed for a manuscript written by this gentleman, which has been unfortunately lost; but though he might solicit, and perhaps obtained the MS. from his relations after Mr. Martin's death, yet it might have been restored, or it might by him have been lent to some friend in confidence, and not returned: his own death soon followed, and it was not found amongst his collection of books and manuscripts sold by auction in 1777, by Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby. I mention these circumstances to take off unjust and oblique reflections upon a respectable character. Suffolk was never rich: he waited in expectation of the death of an aged father, when he might expect a most ample patrimony, but unfortunately he was deceived; death arrested him instead of his penurious parent. He left so little behind him, that his widow had too trivial an income to support her. The elder Mr. Ives was with difficulty prevailed upon to allow her £120 per annum, though he was then worth £150,000. She remarried on June 7, 1796, to the Rev. D. Davis, B. D. prebendary of Chichester. As to the old man, he seemed to have lost all discretion, for burying Mrs. Ives, his wife, March 27, 1790, when seventy years old he remarried a young woman. He survived this preposterous union only a little time, dying at his seat at Hobland-hall, near Yarmouth, March 19, 1793. His disconsolate widow, to console herself for her irreparable loss, on May 23 following, united herself to Mr. Fowler, her former husband's clerk, presenting him with the wealth Mr. Ives had bequeathed her. Thus money acquired by penuriousness was taken into a family no way related to the accumulator. Had Suffolk lived he would probably

probably have become an Herald in ordinary, and a very conspicuous one; his love of research, and the ample means he would have had, it is probable, would have gained him great celebrity.

GEORGE III.

Heralds Extraordinary.

He died at St. Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, July 28, 1771; his wife November 13, 1761. She was a daughter of General Moyle.

Dec. 14, 1771.-THOMAS GERY CULLUM, Esq. afterward Baronet. The Cullums have long been seated in Suffolk, though more remotely in Devonshire. Charles II. created Thomas Cullum, Esq. of Hawsted, in the former county, a Baronet, June 18, 1660; he was Alderman, and in 1647, Sheriff of London. Bath's father was Sir John Cullum, Bart., who by his first wife, Jane, daughter and heir of Thomas Deane, of Treefolk, in Hampshire, had only a daughter, who died an infant; by his second marriage, he had the Rev. Sir John Cullum, Bart. F. R. & A. S., rector of Hawsted, and vicar of Great Thurlow, both in Sussex, whose literary works, and his great collections for other, and larger topographical ones, are well known.. His history of Hawsted parish, of which he was lord and patron, and of Hardwicke-house, are truly excellent. Sir John dying

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