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given to 18, Prince of Monaco ; 167. Cardinal Grimaldi ; 115, Baron du Bee and two others; 33, Marquis de Vardes ; 101, Marquis de la Bosse. Of these 5 out of 1,000, 2 are Grimaldi, 2 Bee (said to be a Grimaldi), and 1 I cannot account for.

In an old French ' Armorial de France ' I possess, which contains about 900 French shields, I find only 5 bearing the Fitzwilliam arms, viz., xi., Regnier Grimaldi ; xxxiv., Marquis de Vardes, du Bee ; xiv., Du Plaisis (but with a dog) ; xvi., De Craon ; xviii., J. de Craon. Of these, xiv. is different, so there only remains Craon, which I cannot account for.

In a sheet of arms, &c., ' Methode tres facile povr appendre le Blason ' (Paris, 1662), which I possess, this [coat is given only to Du Bee and Craon.

So that out of nearly 3,000 coats of foreign arms, I find only 2 or, counting Plaisis, 3 families bearing these arms besides the Grimaldi and Bee. It appears, then, that Venasque, Cellyer, the ' Armorial,' and the ' Methode ' all give these (as I think) rare arms to Bee, so that the Fitzwilliams, Gri- maldi, and Bee all bore lozengy argent and gules ; and, except Craon and Bosse, no other family.

The identification by arms, then, seems to bring us to the analogous result, viz., that as an examination of the names leads to the conclusion that all refer to one person, so an examination of the arms leads to the conclusion that the three families are from one origin ; and, of course, if the result is correct, the two conclusions strongly support each other, and the original hypothesis : that the Fitzwilliams are descended from the Grimaldi, through the Bee.

L. M. R.

BISHOP KEN'S BIRTHPLACE. The follow- ing lines are in my possession :

"The Bishop of Baith & Wells was borne in little Barcomsteed in Harford Sheire, in the year 1635 in the begining of the dog days, more we cannot tell of his age, for when Mr. Beauchamp went to inquiar of his age a purpos, he found the souldiers had torne the Church Eegester to lite Tobacco w th in the time of the Rebellion, but he found the Bishops nurs liveing, who tould him this : it being then a scattering sicknes which was the reason of my mothers being in the country v th all her famely & lieing nr there."

" For M r Jon Beauchamp at Trinity Colled g in Oxford these."

Anthony Wood adds in his handwriting :

" This note was written by sister to Dr.

Tho. Ken B. of Bath & Wells, Feb. 1684, sent to Mr. Beaucha'p, for Mr. Barker of Trin. Coll."

Henry Barker and John Beauchamp were contemporaries at Trinity. It seems likely that the above note was written by John; Beauchamp's mother, Martha Ken, the wife of James Beacham (or Beauchamp), goldsmith, of London. She was the Bishop's eldest sister of the full blood, daughter of Thomas Ken and Martha Chalkhill; was baptized at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, 28 June,. 1628; and was certainly living in October, 1683, when Izaak Walton, the widower of her half-sister Anne Ken, signed and sealed his will. If the date 1635 is correct, it makes Dr. Thomas Ken two years older than is generally supposed (v. ' D.N.B.,' xxx. 399) ; but in the Ken pedigree given in Sir Harris Nicolas's edition of ' The- Complete Angler' (1875) the only recorded Ken baptism in 1635 is that of Elizabeth,, on 14 April, at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, The Bishop's next sister, Mary, was baptized at the same church on 17 Aug., 1638 ; so- that, if 1637, the received date, is to be considered too late, the only possible year for his birth would seem to be 1636.

A. R. BAYLEY.

JOSEPH FUSSELL, A FORGOTTEN WATER- COLOTJRIST. On 6 May, 1912, at 3.15 P.M., passed away, at the Theosophical Head- quarters, Point Loma, California, Joseph Fussell, a water-colour painter of some repute in London in early- Victorian days, As I have not seen any notice in the English press of his decease, I would crave a corner in the pages of ' N. & Q.' to rescue from oblivion the memory of an extremely talented artist of long ago. By no means- a genius, he possessed the useful gift of being able to learn thoroughly what he was taught, and, moreover, to impart his acquired skill, in a greater or lesser degree, to others. So it was that he made a small name, chiefly as a teacher ; but he also- found employment making copies in water- colour from pictures for the line engraver to f ollow. The latter branch of art, however, was but too often a " piece of jobbery," merely to "make work" for the water- colourist, the engraver very frequently preferring to copy his plate direct from the original painting.

Joseph Fussell and his elder brother, Alexander F. Fussell, were, it is said, the first artists engaged on The Illustrated London News ; but certainly John Gilbert, and possibly Crowquill, Henning, Harvey, Hine, Prior, and others, should have an equal claim to that distinction.