COMMUNICATION

Boston, Mass., August 2, 1906.

THE EDITOR OF THE BI-MONTHLY:

The interesting item, in your issue of April, 1906, on the quartering of the' Dartmouth with the Washington arms seems to need a brief additional explanation, for which the following compilation, with your approval, may serve:

The first and fourth quarters of the shield, shown on the book-plate, exhibit the coat of the Earl of Dartmouth, the father of the possessor, and the head of the family. The second quarter exhibits the coat of the Washingtons of Sulgrave, in the county of Northampton, of which was the Earl's grandmother. The third quarter exhibits the coat of the Archebolds, of the county of Stafford, of which was the Earl's mother. This last is described: On a field, argent, a lion rampant, sable, between three fleurs-delis, or.

Sir Heneage Legge, Baron of the Exchequer, 1749, to whom the bookplate pertained, was the second son of the first Earl of Dartmouth, in the county of Devonshire, created 1711, and his wife, Anne Finch, a daughter of Heneage Finch, first Earl of Aylesford, in the county of Kent, created 1714; thence came the name, Heneage, maintained in that family for seven generations.

He was grandson of George Legge, admiral of the fleet, 1687, and his wife, Barbara Archebold, a daughter of Sir Henry Archebold, of Lichfield, knighted 1670.

He was a great grandson of William Legge, and his wife, Elizabeth Washington, a daughter of Sir William Washington, of Packington, Leicestershire, knighted 1622, and his wife, Anne Villiers, a half sister to the first Duke of Buckingham, created 1623. Sir William was an uncle to John Washington, b. 1633-4, emigrant to Virginia, the great grandfather of General George Washington, first President of the United States.