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 i8o Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. grandson of Richard Heme (Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London in 1618). He was born in 1629, and in 1646 apprenticed at Barber-Surgeons' Hall to Sir John Frederick, one of the merchant-princes of London at that time. Heme was admitted to the freedom on 7th May, 1655, and, like the typical industrious apprentice, he married his master's daughter, Judith Frederick, by whom he had (among others) a daughter Judith, who married William, second Earl of Jersey, and thereby was one of the ancestors of the present Earl. Sir Nathaniel Heme was a most successful merchant and amassed a great fortune. In 1674 he was Sheriff of London (being knighted at Windsor on the gth August) and Master of the Barber-Surgeons' Com- pany. On the nth April, 1676, he was elected Alderman of the Ward of Billingsgate. He was sometime M.P. for Dartmouth, and a Governor of the East India Company. He died i6th August, 1679, being then 50 years of age, and was buried at St. Olave Jewry, where there is a monu- ment to his memory, with his arms impaling Frederick, and this inscription : — ^^^ Here Iveth in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection the body of Sir Nathaniel Heme Knight late Sherife And at his death Alderman of this P'amous Citty and Governour of the Honourable East India Company, Son to Nicholas and Grandson to Richard Heme sometimes Alderman allso of this Citty A person of great Prudence and Indefatigable Industry in the Management of all Publick Affairs, of Exemplary Piety, Spotless Integrity and Diffusive Charity having with his owne hand dispensed very considerable summes to many Charitable uses Particularly to the reliefe of poore Seamen and educating of their children. He tooke to wife Judith Eldest Daughter of Sir John Frederick Knight Alderman and sometimes Lord Mayor of London, his now sorrowful Widdow by whome he had divers Children and left three hopeful Sons surviving viz*- Frederick, Nathaniel, and Thomas, to whose and to this Cittyes and Nations great loss as allso to ye griefe of all them that knew him. He departed this life y^ 16th August 1679 ^tat 50. ^^^^ ^A~< f-n) Oscar Berry. 148. Derivation of the name Heavitree (IX., p. 127, par. 108, p. 153, par. 125). — Miss Clarke has opened up a fascinating subject — the derivation of place-names — one which I have studied until I have reached the stage where I know that I don't know. However, I would like to call her attention to the fact that not very far from Heavitree was Heved Wille or Head Well, the latter being a literal