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 the father of a numerous family ; and still more improbable that a son younger still would three years later be old enough for Parliamentary honours. In that case Sir Henry Hussey would die s.p., his heir pro- bably being not a son John, but his next brother of that name, who would thus be the actual father of the Slinfold line.

Katherine Apsley, the sister-in-law named in the will of Dame Bridget, was wife of Michael Apsley, second son of William Apsley of Thackham, Sussex. In the Visita- tion Apsley pedigree she is called " daughter of - - Hussey of Poynes, Sussex" the only indication, and that very obscure, o: the parentage of Sir Henry and his brothers

The will of John Hussey, brother of Sir Henry, in which he is described as of Cuck field, Sussex, is dated 25 June, 1571, and was proved in London in September, 1572 Names his wife Margaret ; brother George sons John, Henry, and Edmund ; daughter Ann (under age) ; nephew Michael Appesley and brother-in-law Wyman Warde. Desires to be buried in Cuckfield Church.

His wife Margaret was daughter of Ed- ward Apsley, and sister of Michael Apsley, who married Katherine, sister to Sir Henry Hussey. There was thus a twofold marriage connexion between the families. I have not been able to follow the descendants of John Hussey of Cuckfield : so far as appears, they do not seem to agree with the descend- ants of John, the alleged son of Sir Henry Hussey, as given by Dallaway.

The will of Anthony Hussey of London is dated 12 Jan., 1557, and was proved 31 Oct., 1560. In it he bears the curious description of " Governor of the English nation " (by which, there is little doubt, is intended Governor of the company of English merchants at Antwerp) and agent in Flanders. He appoints his " well- approved friends" Master Thomas Lodge, Alderman of London, and Benjamin Gunson, Esq., executors "for a quyet to be had between my wife and my children." " To his well-beloved wife Katherine Hussey his Mansion House in the West End of Pater- -noster Row." Bequest to his son Laurence Hussey : reversion of house in Paternoster Row to the children of his daughter Ursula, jyife of Benjamin Gunson. " Plate, &c., which the Marques of Barrow [?] gave me," to 'my son Gunson and my daughter his " To John Insente [?] 20Z. in money and the jointe patente of myne office in Powles, willing hym to binde upp in due form the register of the late Archbushop Cranmer, together with all books, &c, for

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the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury." "My adventure in Russia" to be divided into three parts for wife and son. To his brother ( ? wife's brother) Godman's children ' one soveraigne of thre angels apeece." His advowson in Salisbury to Anthome Hobbie, " whom Sir Andrew Judd, Knight, knoweth. Bequests of a ring "to my good friend Sir John Tregonwell, Knight ": to the Dean of Canterbury and York " that gilt pot with the Rose which Master Alderman Chester gave me " ; and a diamond "to my special good ladie Dame Blanche fforman, widow.'

There is little doubt that this Anthony Hussey is the cousin Anthony of London named in the wills of Sir Henry Hussey and his widow Dame Bridget. He was M.P. forHorsham in 1553, and for Shoreham in 1558, and is frequently mentioned in the State Papers of the period. Dallaway wrongly calls him the second son of Sir Henry.

The two brief Hussey pedigrees in the Harleian Society's ' Visitation of London ' (i. 407) are of no assistance in un- ravelling the earlier generations, inasmuch as both lines derive from younger sons who are not named by Dallaway.

W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

[See 10 S. xi. 428, and post, p. 13.]

FRANCESCO CASANOVA THE PAINTER.

IN the ' Memoires de Jacques Casanova ' his brother Fran9ois, " celebre peintre de batailles," is mentioned frequently (I take the Paris edition, Garnier Freres, for my references).

Vol. i. p. 22, it is recorded that he was born in 1727, and was established at Vienna in or about 1783. He passed four years at Dresden. He left there in 1752, and went to Paris, after copying at Dresden all the beautiful battle pictures of the " galerie electorale." Jacques, having met his brother Francois in Paris, offered to use his influence with his great acquaintances in order that Fra^ois might be received into the Academie. This offer Frangois refused, confessing that a former rejection by the Acad&nie had been quite right, but adding that " to-day," counting on the appreciation of talent by the French, he looked for a better reception (iii. 373).

He was received by the Academie de Peinture by acclamation, after exhibiting at the Louvre a battle-piece which the Aca- demie bought for 500 louis (or, p. 373, 12,000 rancs). M. de Sanci, treasurer of the administration of the revenues of the clergy, regarding himself as under an obligation to