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Nottingham, who died 8 June, 1786, agec sixty-one, having married 14 November, 1746 (where?), Mary Hartray, and had bj her six children, four of whom married am left issue ; (3) Hannah Heath, who marriec Stanley ; and (4) Joseph Heath, who married a Miss Cooper.

George Heath, before named, marriec secondly a Miss Humball, and by her hac issue (1) James Heath, the eminent engraver (2) Joseph Heath, who was living about 1820 unmarried ; (3) George Heath, who marriec Mary Fielding, and had three children George, William, and Mary ; and (4) Sarah Heath, who married a solicitor named Bout- flower.

James Heath, the engraver, was born 19 April, 1757. and died 15 November, 1834, in Coram Street, London. An account of him will be found in the 'D.N.B.' He married about 1777 Elizabeth, daughter of the llev. Dr. Thomas, a Welsh clergyman, and by her had one son, George Thomas Heath, serjeant-at-law, born 27 June, 1779. Soon after this date Mrs. Heath left her husband and went back to Wales to live with her relatives. James Heath, whose life was stained by domestic infidelity, left a large illegitimate family by a Mrs. Phillipson.

Serjeant Heath had four sons and two daughters. Of Douglas Denon Heath (1811-97), the second son, an account is given in the Supplement to the 'D.N.B.' He was an M.A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb., and Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman in 1832. The third son, the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath (1816-88), M.A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb., and Fifth Wrangler in 1838, also figures in the 'D.N.B.,' but his parentage is not stated there The eldest son, the Rev. John Moore Heath (1808-82), was also an M.A. of Trin. Coll., Camb., and a Wrangler. The youngest son, Sir Leopold George Heath, K.C.B., a dis- tinguished British admiral, is still alive at the age of eighty-four.

I shall be very glad of any information bearing on the earlier portion of this Heath pedigree, which is principally derived from notes on the family communicated by Serjeant Heath to his son-in-law William Godfrey Whatman. As no dates or localities are given, there is but little to aid us in identifying the individuals mentioned, especially as Heath is a common name almost everywhere. It is supposed they came of a yeoman family in Staffordshire tradition says from Horton, near Leek. The Heaths have always been numerous at Horton, but the registers contain no record of this family.

It is not known where James Heath was born, and his baptism would probably prove the key to the earlier pedigree.

Sir Leopold Heath does not know where James Heath was buried, and of his wife Elizabeth Thomas no more accurate par- ticulars can be traced. Serjeant Heath nad a cousin, a Mr. Heath, who had a large warehouse in London. Probably he would be one of the two sons of George Heath and Mary Fielding.

It is a curious thing that the descendants of William Heath and Mary Hartray have intermarried several times with the illegiti- mate descendants of James Heath and Mrs. Phillipson.

The 'D.N.B.' states that "a portrait of Heath, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is in the collection of Mr. Samuel Parr at Nottingham." I am told that this is quite a mistake. The portrait is by an artist named Kearsley, but was engraved by Samuel William Reynolds. Mr. Parr, who ha,s been dead some years, married a great-gfanddaughter of William Heath and Mary Hartray.

ALEYN LYELL READE

Park Corner, Blundellsands.

"NoT THEY WHO DOOMED." " Not they who doomed... .befallen... .unnumbered men to the innumerable grave." The above in- complete quotation comes from a living British author or poet. There are two or three words missing in it, and I shall be glad if any reader will supply these, and give me the name of the author and the work from which it is taken. CHOPIN.

DREAM-LORE. At what age does a young hild begin to dream ? I was lately looking at an infant' which was just three weeks old when its mother remarked: "I have heard bell that in their first month babies dream all that is to happen to them in their lives." 'But do very little babies dream?" I asked. ' O, yes," was the reply; "my baby here smiles in its dreams, or moves its hands and makes a fretting noise." The mother, I may add, is a native of Nottinghamshire, long resident in Lincolnshire. T.R.E.N.T.

COL. THOMAS HUSSEY, 1708 P.C.C. Any iroof of identity of the above with a Thomas 3ussey, of London, kinsman of a Rev. Anthony Warton (1650-1715), will oblige. The colonel was a son of Mary Stephenson, widow mother of Peter and Sarah Hussey, also Mary Burton. A. C. H.

"PENNY BINK." A short row of houses lere just pulled down was known as 'Penny Bink Houses," and is so described