hope that other individuals, far more competent than the writer, may be found to collect and preserve, in the spirit and with the industry of Blomefield, the archæological remains of Blomefield's own district.

EXTRACTS FROM A

MS. DIARY OF PETER LE NEVE, ESQ.

Norroy King of Arms,

ENTITLED

MEMORANDS IN HERALDRY,"

OF SUCH ENTRIES AS RELATE TO THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK.

COMMUNICATED BY

GEO. A. CARTHEW, ESQ.

MY DEAR SIRS,

Classed with "other matters usually comprised under the head of Archæology," in the Prospectus of the objects of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, are" Descent and Genealogy,"--a branch which hitherto has not occupied much of our attention. I am induced to think that the accompanying memoranda, which it is in my power to contribute, are not foreign to the subject. It may perhaps be objected, that the period of the events recorded is too recent, and that the events themselves are of too trifling importance, being little more than a chronicle of births, deaths, and marriages and truly. But when I consider that there is scarcely a family, of any pretensions to antiquity of descent, connected with this county, of which some memorial may not be found in the following extracts, I hope the records of a Norfolk Topographical Society will not be deemed an improper place of deposit for them. And to the genealogist, I trust they will be found of some interest-it may be of utility for purposes of reference.

As it is my intention to accompany these notes with a brief memoir of the industrious but eccentric Herald by

whom they were originally written, and of the family from which he derived his descent, I have now merely to introduce them to our members, by stating that the MSS. from which they are extracted, appear to have been the rough notes, or journals, in which Peter Le Neve entered the matter, afterwards posted to his MS. Pedigrees, and they contain, besides, many observations which I believe have never been transcribed. After his death, they came, with his other papers, into the hands of his executor, the Historian of Thetford, so well known as "Honest Tom Martin," who married his widow, and who appears to have had them bound. By him they were given to my grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Carthew, F.S.A., of Woodbridge Abbey in Suffolk. Some extracts of more general interest have already appeared in the pages of the venerable Sylvanus Urban. Those subjoined, it will be seen, are confined to our own locality.

* Words supplied subsequent to the dates of the original entries are inclosed in brackets [ ].

1 Upon the sale of the estates of Richard Berney, Esq. of Reedham, Sir James Edwards, Bart. became the purchaser of Reedham, and resided there when he filled the office of High Sheriff. Saham Toney was part of the Berney possessions, but not included in Sir James Edwards' purchase.

HEVENINGHAM, Lady Mary,' dyed Sunday 19 Januar. 1695,
at her house in Jermyn Street: to be buried at Ketring-
ham.-Left her estate in money to her grand-daūr Carey
Newton,3 and her grd-d1 Hevingham.1-Had the Manor
of Kettringham, Norff.—Her trustees, La Leicester, Mr
Pelham, S1 Henr. Monson.-Remainder to Abigail He-
veningham, except 500 to La Hunsdon, 500 to Hen.
Heveningham. And 70li a year estate to be bought at
Ketringham for an hospital there for 6 poor widdows
and 10 each, and 10li for repairs.-Hath given 120 to
12 poor widdows, and as much for 12 boys of the Man-
nor of Ketringham.

5 February, 1695. Munday night I saw Lady Mary
Heveningham lay in state at her house in Jermyn Street.
She was, the 5 instant, carryed out of town in state,
between 12 and 1, thro' the city towards Keteringham,
Norff. Mr Devenish saw ye procession, md with penons,
escocheons, &c., 4 banner rolls; tho' her husband was
attainted, being one of the regicides, Will. Hevening-
ham, esq. and never restored.

PRATT, S Roger's 5 lady remard to Sigismond Trafford, of
Linc., of Walthamstow-no child-had one by

Sr Roger: dead. Lives at Ryston, Norff.

2 Daughter and heir of John Carey, Baron of Hunsdon and Earl of Dover, and second wife of William Heveningham. There is a monument, with the effigies of herself and husband, in Ketteringham church. - See Blomefield, V. 94.

3 The lady whose marriage to Edward Coke, Esq. is mentioned in a subsequent extract.

4 Abigail, only daughter and heir of Sir William Heveningham, the eldest son and heir of Lady Mary. She inherited Ketteringham, which she brought in marriage to Henry Heron, Esq., who, in 1717, sold it to Mr. Atkyns.

5 Sir Roger Pratt, Knt., gave valuable assistance to Sir Christopher Wren in rebuilding London after the great fire. His lady was Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Monyns, Bart., of Kent.

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1696.

6

COKE, Edward, Esq. son,-only child,-of Robert Coke, of
Holkham, Norff., by Anne his wife, d' of Thomas Os-
borne, Duke of Leeds, was marryed Thursday, 4 May,
1696, to Cary, dr of John Newton, esq., of Hather,
Linc. (son of St John Newton, Bart) by Abigail, his
first wife, d' of Will. Heveningham, esq., of Hevening-
ham, Suff. and Keteringham in Norf., by Lady Mary,
dr and sole heiress of John Carey, Earle of Dover.
LE NEVE, James,7 Comander of a French Privateer called
the Swallow, of St Malos, taken by Capt" Rowce, co-
mander of a Privateer of Guarnsey, the Prosperous.-
Gazette, N. 3229 of October 22d, 1696.

In Mr Kingman's house, York Buildings, a picture of Sr
James Hobart, kneeling before the altar, in his coat
armor and surcoat of Hobart. Over his head, O Jesu
misericordia p crucem et passionem. Over against him
his lady, kneeling, in a surcoat of Hobart and sab. 3
martlets arg. Over her head: Nobis p peccatis des
veniam et remitionem. In the middle, bet. the 2 alters,
Hobart's arms in a compartment, with a cressent. Over
that, the arms of England and France q'terly, and an
aulic crown.
9
This picture was taken out of the East

8

window of the chancell of Loddon church in Norff.

6 The issue of this marriage was Thomas Coke, Baron Lovel and Earl of Leicester (the only Earl of that creation), and Mrs. Roberts, the grandmother of the late Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester, of Holkham.

7 This James Le Neve was perhaps one of the same family as our Herald, who had followed the fortunes of King James; but this is not shown by the accompanying Pedigree.

8 The arms of Naunton. She was daughter of Peter Naunton, of Letheringham, Esq.

9 Meaning, I presume, copied from the window. I have heard say, there were a few years since three or four copies of this picture in existence. One, supposed to have been taken from Walsham Hall in Mendham, Suffolk, a seat of a branch of the Hobart family, was hanging at the Pye Inn in that