THOMAS KILLEGREW. Van Hove; 8vo.

THOMAS KILLEGREW, without his name; sitting, leaning on a table; a quartered cap and gown; lined with a great many female heads. W. Hollar sc. scarce.

There is another French print from the above, by A. Bosse.

Thomas Killegrew was page of honour to Charles I. and gentleman of the bed-chamber to Charles II. who, in 1651, appointed him his resident at Venice. He was a man of wit and humour, and frequently entertained the king with his drollery. As Charles was wholly engrossed by his pleasures, and was frequently in his mistress's apartment when he should have been at the council-board,* Killegrew used the following expedient to admonish him of his extreme negligence in regard to the affairs of the kingdom. He dressed himself in a pilgrim's habit, went into the king's chambers, and told him that he hated himself and the world, that he was resolved immediately to leave it, and was then entering upon a pilgrimage to hell. The king asked him what he proposed to do there. He said "to speak to the devil to send Oliver Cromwell to take care of the English government, as he had observed, with regret, that his successor was always employed in other business." See Class IX. See also the Interregnum, Class V.

SIR THOMAS NOTT, knt. one of the gentlemenushers in ordinary of the honourable privy-chamber to his present majesty King Charles II. R. White ad vivum del. et sc. 1678; laced band.

SIR THOMAS NOTT, knt. &c. W. Richardson,

Sir Thomas Nott, who was well known, and much esteemed for his learning and genteel accomplishments, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, soon after its incorporation by Charles II.

When love was all an easy monarch's care;
Seldom at council, never in a war.-Pore.

SIR EDWARD GAGE, bart. from the original at Hengrave. R. Cooper sc. 4to. in Gage's "History and Antiquities of Hengrave, in Suffolk."

Sir Edward Gage, on whom his mother settled the manor of Hengrave, was created a baronet by King Charles the Second, on the 15th of July, 1662; a mark of the royal favour, said to have been conferred at the dying request of colonel Sir Henry Gage; whose meritorious services in the royal cause had been very eminent. This baronet was five times married. By Mary, daughter of Sir William Hervey, who died on the 13th of July, 1654, he had issue, Sir William Gage, his heir, and two daughters; Penelope, wife of Edward Sulyard, of Haughley-park, in Suffolk; and Mary, wife of William Bond, of St. Edmund's Bury; brother of Sir Thomas Bond, baronet. Sir Edward's second wife was Frances, daughter of Walter, second Lord Aston. This lady died in child-birth of a son, Francis Gage, who inherited from his mother Packington-hall, in Staffordshire, and left by Elizabeth, his wife, only child of John Devereux, of the island of Mont-serrat, one son, Devereux Gage, who died without issue. By Anne Watkins, his third wife, Sir Edward Gage had issue, Edward, who died young. The fourth marriage was with Lady Elizabeth Fielding, daughter of George Fielding, earl of Desmond, K. B. a younger son of William, first earl of Denbigh, by Susan, sister of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham. There was issue of this marriage, four sons; George, James, John, and Henry, and two daughters; Catherine, who died abroad, and Basilia, a maid of honour to Mary d'Este, queen to James the Second. Sir Edward married fifthly, Bridget Fielding, also of the Denbigh family, widow of Slaughter. She died

without issue in the year 1702, and Sir Edward Gage having attained his 90th year, died in 1707, and was interred at Hengrave.

TOBIAS RUSTAT, esq. Sixteen Latin verses ;

"Quantum est quod Coelo ac Terris Rustate dedisti?" &c. emblem of charity, with her children; h. sh. mezz. extremely scarce.

TOBIAS RUSTAT. Sir P. Lely. Gardiner; 1796; 4to.

palace of Hampton-court, and This gentleman, sensible how

He

Tobias Rustat was keeper of the yeoman of the robes to Charles II. much youth of a liberal turn of mind must suffer for want of a competent subsistence at the university, what a check poverty is to a rising genius, and what an ill effect the want of common advantages of society has upon a man's future behaviour and conduct in life, bestowed a considerable part of his fortune upon young students at Oxford and Cambridge. He gave 1000l. to purchase 50%. a year; the income of which was chiefly to be applied to the augmentation. of thirteen poor fellowships at St. John's College, in Oxford. founded eight scholarships at Jesus College, in Cambridge, for the orphans of poor clergymen. He was a considerable benefactor to Bridewell, in London, and contributed liberally towards the building of St. Paul's church. The brazen statue of Charles II. in the middle of the great court at Chelsea hospital, and the equestrian statue of him at Windsor, were erected at his expense. This very charitable person, who while he lived was a blessing to the poor and to the public, died, to the great regret of all that knew his worth, in 1693.t

MR. CHIFFINCH; from an original picture in the collection of Lord Verulam, at Gorhambury. Clamp sc.

4to.

See particulars in "Terræ Filius," No. 49.

↑ Here follows his epitaph, taken from p. 145 of "Collectanea Cantabrigiensia," by Francis Blomefield.

"Tobias Rustat, yeoman of the robes to King Charles II. whom he served, with all duty of faithfulness, in his adversity as well as prosperity. The greatest part of the estate he gathered by God's blessing, the king's favour, and his industry, he disposed (of) in his lifetime, in works of charity. He found, the more he bestowed upon the churches, hospitals, universities, and colleges, and upon poor widows of orthodox ministers, the more he had at the year's end: neither was he unmindful of his kindred and relations, in making them provisions out of what remained. He died a bachelor, the 15th day of March, in the year, &c. 1693, aged 87 years."

In a letter of Tobias Rustat, esq. (communicated by Joseph Gulston, esq.) his great nephew, now living, are these words: "It appears, that from no very plentiful fortune, he gave in all 10,735l. in benefactions, long before his death; most of them near thirty years."

William Chiffinch, or Cheffing, was one of the pages of the bedchamber to Charles the Second, and keeper of the king's cabinet closet. Wood, in enumerating the king's supper companions, says, "they met either in the lodgings of Louise, dutchess of Portsmouth, or in those of Cheffing, near the back stairs, or in the apartment of Eleanor Gwynn, or that of Baptist May: but he losing his credit, Cheffing had the greatest trust among them." So great was the confidence reposed in him, that he was the receiver of the secret pensions paid by the court of France to the king of England. He was also the person who was intrusted to introduce Hudlestone, a popish priest, to Charles the Second on his death-bed, for the purpose of giving him extreme unction.

Sir Edward Walker, garter principal king at arms, gave a grant of arms and crest gratis to William Chiffinch. It appears that he had an elder brother named Thomas, who, in 1664, received a similar favour from Sir Edward Walker, by the name of Thomas Chiffinch, esq. one of the pages of his majesty's bed-chamber, keeper of his private closet, and comptroller of the excise. He and Elias Ashmole were made joint comptrollers of excise, 13th of Charles II.

THOMAS WINDHAM,* esq. Sir Ralph Cole, bart. p. R. Tomson exc. h. sh. mezz.

In the last edition of Guillim's "Heraldry," published 1724, fol. is a coat of arms of a gentleman of both his names. Under the achievement is the following account:

"This coat is also born by Thomas Windham, of Tale, in Devonshire, esq. one of the grooms of his now majesty's bed-chamber, third son of Sir Edmund Windham, of Cathanger, in Somersetshire, knight, marshal of his majesty's most honourable household, and lineally descended of the ancient family of Windham, of Crownthorp, in Norfolk." The same account was certainly printed in a former edition of Guillim; but it is not sufficiently clear whether Charles II. or some other prince be meant by "his now majesty." I conclude the former.

EMERY HILL, esq. T. Trotter del. et sculp. Founder of the alms-houses and free-school, in Rochester-row, Tothill-fields, Westminster.

In St. Margaret's, Westminster, is a monument, sacred to the memory of that great example of piety and true Christianity, Mr. Emery Hill, a person accomplished with all Christian graces and virtues, and most eminent for his charity. Ob. 1677, Et. 68. See a list of his charities in Maitland, &c.

JOHN SNELL; in the "Oxford Almanack," 1742.

John Snell, born at Comonall, in Carrick, in the sheriffedom of Ayre, in Scotland, received his education in the university of Glasgow, and was afterward clerk under Sir Orlando Bridgman, and cryer of the court of Exchequer and Common Pleas, during the time Sir Orlando was lord chief-baron and chief-justice, and afterward seal-bearer, when he was lord-keeper. Being much esteemed for his great diligence and acuteness, he was employed by James, duke of Monmouth, and Anthony, earl of Shaftesbury. He died 1679, Et. 50; and left a considerable estate in Warwickshire, to the university of Oxford, for the maintenance of scholars from the university of Glasgow.

JOHN CAREW; a small head in the frontispiece to the "Lives, Speeches, and private Passages of those Persons lately executed;" London, 1661.

JOHN CAREW; a head in an oval seal, and autograph; 8vo.

Mr. Carew was descended from an ancient and honourable family, long seated in Cornwall, and was second son of Sir Richard Carew, of Anthony, in that county, created a baronet by Charles I. in 1641. This gentleman was extremely unfortunate in his twoeldest sons, though they suffered death in different causes; the eldest, Sir Alexander, was one of the knights of the shire for Cornwall, in 1640; and for a time appeared (as he certainly was by prin