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 children are Mrs Carrick Buchanan of Drumpellier, and Honourable Mrs William Talbot. From the next brother, Thomas Paul Lefroy. Esq., Q.C., who married in 1835 Hon. Elizabeth Jane Sarah Anne Massy, daughter of Lord Massy, descends Thomas Langlois Lefroy, the presumptive heir-male of the Lefroys. Rev. Jeffry Lefroy married in 1844 Helena, cousin of Lord Ashtown, and daughter of Rev. Frederic Stewart French.

Matthew De la Pryme was a refugee from Ypres about 1568, and settled in the Level of Hatfield Chace. From him descended Abraham de la Pryme, a cotemporary of Sir Isaac Newton; he left a valuable manuscript journal, entitled “Ephemeris.” His lineal descendant was Christopher Pryme, Esq., of Cottingham (Yorkshire), who married Alice, daughter of George Dinsdale, Esq., of Nappa Hall, and had a son George Pryme, of Wistow, in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge University from 1828 to 1863, and M.P. for the burgh of Cambridge from 1832 to 1841. Professor Pryme was a man of learning and great natural powers, a successful barrister, a competent professor, and a clever though rather unprolific author. He was born in 1781, was B.A. of Cambridge in 1806, having been sixth wrangler; he was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1806, and at the time of his death at the age of 87 (on 2d December 1868), he was the senior member. He married in 1813 Jane Townley, daughter of Thomas Thackeray, Esq., and had a son Charles De la Pryme, Esq., of the Inner Temple, M.A. of Cambridge. The following verses appeared in print about twenty years ago:—

I saw her first in beauty’s pride. As from my gaze she turned aside; I marked her brightly beaming eye. As in the dance she glided by; I heard her voice’s genial sound That shed a joy on all around. Nor thought, till then, there was on earth A heart so full of love and mirth.

Again I saw her beauteous face, But gone was all its cheerful grace; And there was sorrow in her eye. And more than sadness in her sigh. She smiled less sweetly than before, For a sister’s sombre veil she wore; And in a convent’s dreary cell Had bid the world and hope farewell.

And once again I met her gaze. There was no smile of former days; No sombre convent-veil was there To mock the maniac’s vacant stare. And on that priest I heard her call. Who lured her from her father’s hall. And that bright happy English home. Before her thoughts had strayed to Rome.

The Baron de Heez was a victim of the Duke of Alva’s atrocities in the Netherlands, and suffered death by the hands of the public executioner. His youngest son, Theodore Janssen de Heez, became a refugee in France, and founded a Huguenot family. In the reign of Charles II. his grandson, Theodore Janssen, was one of the Huguenots who took refuge in England. He was naturalised on 2d July 16S4 (see List IX.), and was knighted by King William III. Sir Theodore Janssen having successfully taken part in the commercial arrangements of the Utrecht Treaty, was (on 11th March 1714) created a Baronet by Queen Anne, on the special request of the Elector of Hanover. He was both a prosperous and public-spirited man, and having invested money in South Sea stock, he was made a Director of the Company — an honour which cost him dear. His reverses, however, did not shorten his life. It was on the