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GEORGE IIL

Heralds

ARUNDEL.

Geo. 11. THOMAS BEWES, Esq.

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

Extraor

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

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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. Suffolk.

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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

Officers, &c. of the Bath.

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GEORGE III. at Hardwicke-house, his seat, near St. Edmund's Bury, October 9, 1785, Officers, &c. in his fifty-second year, leaving no issue by his lady, Peggy, only daughter of the Bath. of Daniel Bisson, of West Ham, in Essex, Esq., the title devolved to his Bath King at Arms. next brother, Bath King at Arms. The Cullums bear Azure, a Chevron, Ermine, between three Pelicans, Or, vulning themselves in the breasts. Crest, on a Wreath of the Colours, a Lion sejant, Or, holding between his Gambs a Pillar, Argent, cornished, Or. Motto, Sustineatur. This King at Arms was also called Gloucester, his march was Wales. He resided at the family mansion, where he died January 26, 1774, and was succeeded in his title and estate by his son, the Rev. Sir John Cullum, Bart.

JOHN PALMER CULLUM, Esq.

The present Bath King at Arms, whose deputy is Francis Townshend, Esq. F. A. S., Windsor.

BRUNSWICK

HERALD.

Brunswick
Herald,

Geo. 11.-CHARLES FREWEN, Esq.

And Gentleman Usher to the Order of the Bath.

Rod.

March 16, 1763.-HENRY HILL, Esq.

Windsor and Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod.

ISAAC HEARD, Esq.

Now Sir Isaac Heard, Garter, and Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet

Blanc Coursier, and Genealo

gist.

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He resigned this office, and died December 18, 1760.

1757.-JOHN-SUFFIELD BROWN, Esq.

He married on September 30, 1792, at Somerby, in Leicestershire, a sister of Major Cheselden of that place, descended from a brother of the good and skilful Cheselden. Immediately after his marriage, resigning this office, he retired to his seat of Leesthorp, also in the county of Leicester.

September,

GEORGE III.

of the Bath. Blanc Coursier

and Genealo

September, 1792-GEORGE NAYLER, Esq. F. A. S. York, is the present Blanc Coursier and Genealogist. In this last Officers, &c. office he exceeds every thing that could have been supposed. I have never reflected upon his splendid folios' in MS. of the genealogies of the Knights of the Bath without admiration: so full, so accurate, so finely written, and gist. so elegantly emblazoned, they will be perfect patterns for succeeding gentlemen who may follow him in this office. He has the greater merit, as the genealogical part of his department had been for some time wholly omitted. It is not the Author's friendship, which is unfeignedly great for Mr. Nayler, but the exactest truth that guides his pen.*

* In this reign we have had these other officers belonging to the Order of the Bath. REGISTRARS AND SECRETARIES, William Whitehead, Esq. the Poet Laureat. and, after his Death, William Fauquier, Esq.

MESSENGERS, Henry Foulkes, Esq. William-Rowland Tryon, Esq. John Sturges, Esq. and Thomas Beckley, Esq.

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