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" of great beauty," who d. unmarried) a
son and a dau. :
Henry William Dennie, Ensign 28th (N. Glos.) Regt., 1841, Captain 1854, Brevet Major 1860, wounded in the Crimea, d. un- married in the Isle of Wight, where he lived after he retired.
Henriette Lavinie Dennie, m. Col. Septimus Moore Hawkins, 97th Regt., and had issue.
Please reply direct.
(Rev.) H. L. L. DENNY.
Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, S.W.
THIEBS'S ' TRAITE DES SUPERSTITIONS.' I should be glad of information as to how many editions have been published of J. B. Thiers's 'Traite des Superstitions qui regardent tous les sacremens, selon 1'lScriture Sainte, les Dec-rets des Conciles, et les senti- mens des Saints Peres.' Which is the
best edition ? S. O. MOFFET.
Kendal.
DISEASES FROM PLANTS. Can any one name plants which are supposed to cause complaints ? We have primula eczema, hay fever, daffodil fingers, and privet cough. What others are known ? RAVEN.
BROADBENT PORTRAITS. Information re- specting portraits of any members of Broad- bent families 1650-1800 would be greatly appreciated. LEO C.
CAPT. BENJAMIN JOSEPH. In a foot- note by Sir Sidney Lee to his edition of the 'Autobiography' of Lord Herbert of Cher- bury (Routledge), he writes :
"In Dec., 1616, Capt. Benjamin Joseph sailed in the Globe as commander of the East India Company's fleet. In the following March Capt. Joseph, a man of extraordinary note and respect, was killed."
I believe a member of the Jewish persuasion sailed with Columbus, and I have read somewhere the suggestion that Marco Polo was of that nation. Was Capt. Benjamin Joseph of Jewish origin ?
M. L. R. BRESLAR.
COLTMAN FAMILY. William Coltman of Fleckney, co. Leicester, and the Tower Ward, City of London, left two daughters Mary, wife of Tobias Chandler, and Hanna, who became a Mrs. Herris ; but no sons. His will was proved in the P.C.C. in 1643. In it he mentions his uncle Robert Coltman and Robert's son William ; and his brothers John Coltman, with a son John, and Abraham Coltman. The widow married William Wiberd.
I shall be much obliged for any assistance
in endeavouring to trace the descendants of
the above-mentioned Coltmans.
S. S. McDowALL.
Freugh, Herne Hill, S.E.
THE HALLETTS OF CANONS.
(US. iv. 281, 435.)
MR. ROBERTS' s interesting notes on the Hallett family and especially the name Lettice aroused in me some faint memory. On reference to my ' Reades of Blackwood Hill and Dr. Johnson's Ancestry ' the reason for this became apparent (pp. 169- 170) ; for there I had recorded that " James Hallett, Esq., of Essex," married Mary, daughter of Sir Ambrose Crowley, the great ironmaster, and sister of Lettice Crowley, who married Sir John Hinde Cotton.
From Moraiit's ' Essex,' vol. ii. (1767), p. 424, I learn that the manor and estate of Merks, in Great Dunmow, "about 600Z. per ann.," was sold by Robert Milborn, Esq., to
" Sir James Hallet, Knt. He died 31 Jan., 1733/4, and lies buried at Little Dunmow, with Mary his wife. James Hallet, Esq., his son and heir, married Mary, daughter of Sir Ambrose Crawley, Knt., and their son and heir, James Hallet, Esq., is present Lord of Merks.
" He hath also the maner, or reputed maner, of Mynchons, in this parish."
A little further on (p. 428) Morant states of Little Dunmow that, some time after 1700, it was purchased by
" Sir James Hallet, Knt., who dyed 31 Janu., 1702/3 [sic]. His son, James Hallet, Esq., married Mary, daughter of Sir Ambrose Crawley, Knt., by whom he had 8 children. He dyed 16 Nov., 1723, aged 38, and his widow had this estate in jointure. Their eldest son, James Hallet, Esq., is the present possessor."
' Musgrave's Obituary ' (Harleian Society) shows that Sir James Hallet, Kt., of Cheap- side, goldsmith, died 31 January, 1734 ; that Ambrose Hallet, grandson of Sir James, died 27 July, 1732, aged 20; and that Crawley Hallet of Dunmow, probably brother to Ambrose, died in 1767.
MR. ROBERTS tells us (ante, p. 282) that his first " William Hallett married the daughter of James Hallett probably a relative of Dunmow, Essex," and that she died in 1810, aged 95. We are there left to infer that she was the mother of the second William
