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PRESIDENT JOHN RICHARDSON HERBERT or NEVIS (12 S. vii. 129, 175, 232). If your correspondent will look more carefully into the tentative pedigree in ' Caribbeana,' v. 227, he will see that Thomas was entered in the census of 1677, and was therefore probably the first settler.

I also stated that it was uncertain whether Dorothy Lytton married Thomas, son of Edward, or Thomas son of Thomas, but after reading the fuller details of the litigation, I agree with your correspondent that Edward should be struck out.

These early colonial pedigrees are usually difficult to prove, and the probable destruc- tion of the records by the French during their attack in 1706 has deprived us of all sources of local information.

In the census of 1707 Anne and Thomas are separately entered, and as they each possessed the same number of slaves, viz., four male and six female, I assume that a division had been made between mother and son, Thomas the father being then dead. I have seen no proof that Joseph who died in 1767, aged over 70, was identical with Joseph, one of the younger sons of Thomas the first. In the census of 1707 of St. Kitts (only two miles irom Nevis) was entered Joseph Herbert, junior, aged 25. The Attorney C4eneral was Archibald, not Robert Hutcheson.

' A few days ago a correspondent, whose mother had lived in Mrs. Andrew Hamilton's house in Nevis, sent me a rubbing o' a coat of arms, on a piece ci his plate, of which he knew nothing, and it was the single coat of Herbert, in the early Chippendale style, circa 1750-60, and as J. R. Herbert was married in Mayfair in 1752, he may have been the original possessor. Most of the old Nevis families came from Bristol, whose merchants supplied the plantations.

V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill.

EDWARDS, SAMUEL BEDFORD (12 S. vii. 208). Samuel Bedford Edwards, Esq., of Arlesey Bury, co. Bedford, J.P., High Sheriff, 1825 : born Jan. 27, 1799 : married May 12, 1823, Sophia, eldest daughter of John Hubbard, Esq., of Stratford, Essex, and sister of John Jellibrand Hubbard, Esq., of London and Addington Manor, Bucks, M.P.. Samuel Bedford Edwards d. Jan. 8, 1857. (From Burke 's 'History of the Landed Gentry.') L. H. CHAMBERS.

Bedford.

JUDGE PAYNE (12 S. vii. 232.) Joseph Payne was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in June, 1825, and he died suddenly on Mar. 29, 1870, aged 73. He was deputy- assistant judge of the Middlesex Sessions.. There is a full account of him in The Law Times of Apr. 2, and Apr. 9, 1870, and in The Law Journal of Apr. 1, 1870. All the newspapers of the day also had an account of his death. See The Times of Mar. 30, 1870. Ho practised for many years at the Central Criminal Court and Middlesex Sessions, and he was one of the editors of the well-known Law Reports known as ' Car- rington and Pajnie's Reports.' When he retired from practice he devoted his life to promote and support Ragged Schools, and temperance reform. Ho used to speak constantly at public meetings, and ho was successful in holding his audience. Ho also used to address children in a very effective way, and highly amused them. He wr,- fond of ^writing and quoting poetry. He was a friend of Lord Shaftesbury who attended his funeral with a number of the leading social and temperance reformers ot the day. Judge Payne was a thoroughly honourable, genial, charitable and religious man, and did great good in his time. I knew him intimately and am glad to have the opportunity of pay- ing this tribute to his memory. There is no- account of him in the 'D.N.B.'

He wTote KO much that I cannot say where the lines quoted by G. H. J. can be found. HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

In Thome's ' Handbook to the Environs of London ' (John Murray, 1876, p. 353), the author says speaking of the West Hill, Highgate :

" The long low cottage opposite the principal entrance to Holly Lodge was for many yenrs, and until his death, June 1870, the residence of Judge Payne, the ardent friend and popular advocate of ragged schools and other philanthropic objects. The adjacent mansion was the seat of Sir \V-_H.. Bodkin, Assistant Judge of Middlesex (d. 1874),. whose deputy Joseph Payne was."

I have it from an old friend, who remem- bers hearing Judge Payne addressing publio meetings, that the Judge used 'frequently, if not always, to introduce such lines as. those quoted by G. H. J., and it is believed that they were published in a collective form.

Before me lies a portrait of the old Judge, shrewd and kindly and attired in the fashion of the old school. He was coushx