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NOTES AND QUERIES, [n s. vm. JULY 19, 1013. Norwich Hospital received 100l., and 5l. each was left to three parishes of Thetford, Oreat Ashfield, and Badwell Ash.

A codicil to the will expressed his desire

"to be buried in a leaden coffin to be carried by eight poor men of Thetford, each of whom to have a guinea and a pair of gloves. Each child in my Sunday school at Great Ashfield to have a testament and prayer book, and Jane Roper its mistress to have two guineas."

He left the Duke of Norfolk the picture of "our much esteemed friend lord Petre," by Romney (it was painted at Lord Petre's expense for Mingay in 1793 ['Ward and Roberts,' i. 122]), and to his wife's mother. Mrs. Corrall, he gave his wife's miniature.

The tablet over the south door of St. Mary's Church at Thetford, and near the Mingay vault, records the facts which he enjoined in his will, and adds:—

" In the exercise of the several and relative

-duties of a son, a husband, and a friend he was equalled by few, in that of a kind and considerate brother surpassed by none. He died possessing the regard and esteem of a numerous acquaint- ance, and meriting the good will and favourable testimony of a grateful family."

Another tablet near the south door, bearing the family arms and motto " Pro-

following relatives :
 * desse qiram conspici," is in memory of the

His father, James Mingay, youngest son

,of William Mingay, of Shottesham, Norfolk.

.d. 25 Jan., 1801, aged 83. His mother, Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of William Fuller of Caldecot, Huntingdonshire, and grand-daughter and sole heiress of Edward

.Parker of Derby, d. 24 May, 1783, aged 56. His sisters : Jane Harriet, d. 26 Sept., 1 774, aged 7 years ; Elizabeth Sally, d. 4 Feb., 1783, aged 30; and Isabella Char- lotte, d. 4 Nov., 1791, aged 28.

His brother, William Robert Mingay, M.D. (youngest son of the said James and Dorothy), d. 22 Nov., 1806, aged 50; and Mary, his wife (daughter of John Harvey of Fakenham), d. 21 Aug., 1796, aged 36.

Their daughters : Harriet Jane, d. 1 5 June, 1799, aged 16 years ; and Eliza Margaretta, .d. 8 Dec., 1803, aged 20.

The other children of James Mingay and his second wife, Dorothy, were : No. 1, Dorothy, b. 1749, d. single ; No. 5, Mary, I). 1759, married Mr. Syder ; No. 6, Frances, married J. Garnham of Thetford ; No. 7, Margarett, married J. Dursley ; and No. 10, Marv Anna Fuller, who married at Thetford, SO March, 1797, the Rev. Thomas Fenton.

The Rev. Alfred L. Fellowes. Vicar of Shotesham (as it is now spelt), tells me that there is no monument to any Mingay in

the chancel of All Saints' Church, but that outside the building, on the south side of the east window, there has been for fifty years a white marble tablet with an illegible inscription and a coat of arms at the foot. This is probably the Mingay tablet.

Mingay and his wife sat to Romney for their portraits (' Ward and Roberts,' i. 108- 123 ; ii. 106-7). That of Mingay represents him in "lace bands, gown and large wig;," and seated. A reproduction of it is in The Daily Report for 24 Aug., 1908, p. 8. It was offered for sale at Christie & Manson's on 17 March, 1864, lot 151, but did not change hands. It was sold there on 5 Julv, 1902, for 231?. The wife's portrait fetched at the same place, on 26 May, 1906, the large sum of 6,510^. The engravings, mezzo- tint, and stipple of his portrait are set out by Mr. F. M. O'Donoghue (' Engraved Portraits at the British Museum,' vol. iii.). Another portrait of him, by G. K. Ralph, is in the possession of Charles Edward Winckworth, surgeon, of Shefford, in Bed- fordshire, whose parents were descended from James Mingay, the father of the K.C.

I have been aided in this Memoir by Mr. J. A. Mingay, of 3. Glenmore Road, Hampstead by Mr. F. H. Millington, of St. Audrey's Mill House, Thetford, and by Mr. A. L. Humphreys. The particulars of the tablets at St. Mary's Church, Thetford, were kindly furnished by the Vicar, the Rev. Ernest W. Hardy.

W. P. COURTNEY.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE BOOKSELLERS AND PRINTERS.

(See 10 S.viii. 201; xii. 164; 11 S.vi. 207 )

THIS is the fourth and concluding portion of my notes attempting to record all the names and dates of the past booksellers and printers of the county of Huntingdon.

RAMSEY.

Stevens (Mr.), bookseller, IS 14. Bradley (John), bookseller and stationer, 1823-4,

Earliest Ramsey printer, 1830-43. Hall (Joseph), bookseller, 1830. Bone (M.), bookseller, 1835. Gilliard (F.), printer and druggist, 1837-9. Gilleade (Titus George), booksellpr, 1839-40. Mutton (William), bookseller, stationer, brewer,

and parish clerk, 1840-55.

The Palmers were printers at Ramsey soon after 1840. Isaac Palmer's name appears in Pigot's ' Directory ' as a bookseller about that date, and Hat field's ' Gazetteer ' for 1854 includes : " Palmer. Isaac, and Palmer, F. W T ., printers, of the Great Whyte."