Gilbert, the eldest, was Lord Mayor of London, Member of Parliament, one of the founders and the first Governor of the Bank of England, knighted by Queen Anne, and created a Baronet in 1732 by George XL His grandson of the same name was raised to the Peerage in 1856, as Baron Aveland, of Aveland, in the County of Lincoln, and his great grandson is the present Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Samuel, the third sou, who made a large fortune at Dantzic, was the ancestor of the Heathcotes, Baronets, of Hursley Park, in the County of Hampshire ; his son William having been created a Baronet in 1733, and his great grandson was the late

' The commission appointing him to this office is in the writer's possession. It is an enormous parchment ilocument dated, 1715.

'Tliis fact was told tlie writer by liis Father, the Rt. Rev. William H. De Lancey, who was (ohl it and shown the place hy his father, John Peter De Lancey, of ilamaroncck, a grandson of Colonel Heathcote. All stones were destroyed when the Firet Trinity was burned, Sept. 15, 1776.

» Xfw York Gaietle, No. 564,of 23 Aug., 1736.

Right Honorable Sir William Heathcote, Bart., of the Privy Council, late Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford, the pupil and warm friend of the poet Keble, whom he preferred to the Rectorship of Hursley, which will ever be as famous as that of George Herbert at Bemerton, and father of Sir William Heathcote, the sixth and present Baronet.