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Heath Clipsom, son of William Clipsom, of Kettering ; and Thomas Kestin, of Great Bowden, co. Leicester, farmer. He also makes a bequest to the Kev. Mr. Plumb minister of the Castle Gate Meeting in Not- tingham, and to the debt on the house recently erected for him in Castle Gate by some of the Protestant Dissenters. He evidently had no issue.

3. William Heath, of Nottingham. I have learnt no more of him except that he was a hosier, not a bookseller, and was Sheriff of Nottingham in 1774.

4. Hannah Heath. She was married 25 October, 1763, by licence, at St. Nicholas's, Nottingham, to John Stanley, of St. Mary's, Nottingham.

George Heath, of Butcher Row, Newgate Street, by his second wife Mary (Humball ?) had issue :

(1) Joseph Heath, born 9 July, baptized 8 August, 1754, at Christ Church, Newgate Street. He was alive about 1820, unmarried.

(2) William Heath, born 18 December, 1755, baptized 8 January, 1756, at Christ Church ; buried there 24 September, 1758.

(3) James Heath, the engraver. He was born 19 April, 1757, and baptized 13 May, 1757, at Christ Church, Newgate Street. He was bound apprentice 1 October, 1771, at Stationers' Hall, to Joseph Collyer (1748-1827) the younger, of Plough Court, Fetter Lane, engraver, to whom his father, described as George Heath, of Butcher Row, Newgate Street, bookbinder, paid a premium of 2l. James Heath was admitted a freeman of the Stationers' Company 6 July, 1779. I have not discovered where he was buried.

(4) Hannah Heath, born 8 November, bap- tized 21 November, 1758, at Christ Church. She was dead in 1774.

(5) Sarah Heath, born 12 October, baptized 8 November, 1759, at Christ Church, and married there 15 September, 1779, to John Botheroyd (not Boutflower), of All Hallows, Barking, bachelor. His will, as of Tower Street, City of London, carpenter, dated 3 December, 1782, was proved in P.C.C. 25 May, 1813, by Sarah Botheroyd, the relict and execu- trix, who remarried Anthony Lord, and was living in 1819 at Robinson's Row, Kingsland.

(6) Robert Heath, born 21 November, bap- tized 19 December, 1761, at Christ Church ; buried there 12 July, 1765.

(7) William Heath, born 7 April, baptized 3 May, 1763, at Christ Church. He was dead in 1774.

(8) George Heath, born 2 January, baptized 29 January, 1766, at Christ Church. He was admitted into Christ's Hospital 9 February,

1774, on the presentation of Dr. William Pit- cairn, and discharged 3 January, 1780, by William Hensman, his father-in-law (i.e., step- father). He was apprenticed 7 April, 1780, for seven years to Joseph Taylor, or St. Mar- tin's-in-the-Fields, carpenter, as son of George Heath, late citizen and stationer of London, deceased. He became a builder, living in Bishopsgate Street. He died 31 May, 1821, and was buried at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. He married 21 September, 1790, Mary, daughter of George Fielding, of Enfield. She died 20 October, 1843, aged eighty-two, leav- ing issue.

(9) Ann Heath, born 13 June, baptized 16 June, 1768, at Christ Church. She was dead in 1774.

George Heath, the father, was not buried at Christ Church.

The will of Joseph Heath, of Nottingham, provides evidence that his father's family probably came from the borders of Northants and Leicestershire, from the Kettering and Market Harborough district. If any genea- logist in that area could give some particulars of the Clipsom family, further light might be thrown on the early history of the Heaths.

I may mention that the portrait of James Heath formerly in the possession of Mr. Parr has been acquired recently by Mr. Cuth- bert Eden Heath, of Portman Square, a son of Sir Leopold. ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundellsands.

"CABINET" IN A CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE (9 th S. xii. 7). There is nothing new in Court recognition of Cabinet rank. At Levees and Drawing-Rooms throughout recent reigns a special position has been occupied by Cabinet Ministers, who have not only invariably had the entree and passed the Throne after the Corps Diplomatique, but have been directed to remain in the Throne Room while the general company passes. Ex-Cabinet Minis- ters retain the privilege of the entree and the right to drive through the Horse Guards, to which had formerly to be added, until it was thrown open to the public, the right to drive down Constitution Hill. The special position of ex-Cabinet Ministers, as well as of Cabinet Ministers, was recognized at the Coronation by their being given seats together in the choir, instead of among the Privy Coun- cillors. Members of the Administration who are not of the Cabinet have not the privilege of the entree at Court, and it will be seen that the recognition of Cabinet rank at Court is, and long has been, full, and that there is nothing new in the account of a recent Court communicated by POLITICIAN. C. I. C.