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 us.vii.mak.29,1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 245 In 1690 Francis Tyssen, great-grandfather, gave, by will, all his lands in London to his son Francis. This entry puzzles me, and I have not now the original deed to refer to. In 1710 Francis Tyssen devises to his son John all his estates in the City of London. In 1716 John Tyssen mortgaged a large amount of property to William Cooke. In 1723 the houses in Fenchurch Street were mortgaged to Thomas Pearse ; another deed passed on the same to John Ward, Esq., of Hackney. In 1725 Marmaduke Allington and John Ward made a deed with Dudley North of Glenham. In 1730 Dudley North, son of the last- named, appointed Henry Wood of the Inner Temple a trustee. In 1726 commission of bankruptcy against John Tyssen ; he died soon after, and John Ward also went bankrupt. In 1734 it was found that Tyssen was bankrupt since 1722, and mention is made of the Woolverstone estate as well as the London property. In 1771 the Ward family agreed to take 5,000/. to satisfy their claim on the Tyssen estate, and in 1772 the Wards' assignees gave over their claims to Ralph Ward as legal representative, and the Tyssen estate was to be sold for the benefit of the creditors. In 1774 the premises in Fenchurch Street were leased and released by Beauvoir and Tyssen to Davison & Newman, who were, I believe, tea-merchants, and had some dealings or connexion with the West Indies. In 1807, deed by Parntler to Bone. The property passed by the marriage of Abram Newman's daughter Jane to the Thoyts family, and the last deed I have seen relating to the property was dated 1852— a conveyance by Thoyts to Barber. Whether the following were part of the above-mentioned property or other houses adjacent is not evident, but the parcel of deeds are docketed as the title to two houses in Fenchurch Street. The pearliest document of this packet belongs to 1734, when Elizabeth Wither of Manewden (Manydown ?), co. Southampton, widow; Judith Gounter of Walthamstow; Frances Nicolls of Bedford Row, spinster; and Walter Ray of the City of London, grocer, grant a twenty-one years' lease at the rent of 601. 1739: Frances Nicholls by will devised to her niece, Dame Katherine Maynard, widow, her moiety of property. This was proved in 1743, and Sir Charles Farnaby shared, but he died before Frances Nicholl, so that the property passed to Katherine, Countess of Dartmouth, and her son the Earl of Guilford. One house was in the parish of All Hallows. Steyning, situate in Fenchurch Street, near the corner of Mincing Lane, now or lately in the tenure of Thomas Rawlinson at a yearly rent of 601. Another house was next but one to the first, and was rented by Thomas Rawlinson at 211. Is. 1748: Mrs. Anne Smith and others— covenants with Thomas Rawlinson. 1758 : the Earl of Dartmouth and Messrs. Alexander Rawlinson—another deed. 1762 : the trustees of the Earl a/id Countess of Dartmouth sell the premises to Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Knt. and Alderman, and Monkhouse Davison, citizen and grocer, and Abram Newman, citizen and grocer, for 1.200J.; bounded on the west by a tenement occupied by — Varney, widow, on the south by the hall occupied by the Fraternity of Clothworkers, about 18 foot of assize (47 ft. deep, about 54 ft T). 1764: an agreement of tenancy and survivorship between Rawlinson, Davison & Newman. Davison & Newman purchased one house from Sir Walter Rawlinson in 1783. These houses evidently passed with the rest of the property to William Thoyts, by right of his wife. Gradually the property was sold off. The old name of Davison & Newman still remains, but none of the family survive, except in the descendants of Jane and Ann, the two coheiress daughters of Abram Newman. In an interesting pamphlet issued a few years back the history of the old grocery firm was carried down to the present century from the point where this paper leaves off. Emma Elizabeth Cope (great-granddaughter of Jane Newman). Finchamstead Place, Berks. Shakespeare's Paix-Bearers.—At 6 S. x. 464 reference is'made to The Philadelphia Times of 25 Oct., 1884, in which it is stated that Edward Heldon was one of the pall- bearers at Shakespeare's funeral, and was buried in a graveyard at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; also that he was born in Bedford- shire, England. Some lines were quoted which are said to have appeared in The Fredericksburg Gazette in 1784. They began thus :—„ For in the churchyard at Fredericksburg Juliet seemed to love.