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London upon the parish charge to receive the legacy of the late R. Hble. Henry Coventry, Esq., one hundred founds to the poor of Hadley, to put the said hundred pounds into the hands of Mr. Heneage Price, goldsmith, nigh Temple Bar, to ly there till it be called for by the parish." (" Monken Hadley," by F. C. Cass, M.A.) Sir Francis Child, on the death of Robert Blanchard, 1 68 1. succeeded to the business, taking his manager, John Rogers, as a partner he lived at Parson's Green, and was buried in the parish derive the following authentic information church of Fulham. " Sir Francis Child, Knight and from the inscription on his tomb of Christ's Church Hospital in London, Alderman, and President who departed this life October the 4th, 17 13, aetatis 71. He was Sheriff 1690, and Lord Mayor in the year 1699, and in the year 1702 he was chosen one of the foiir citizens to serve for the said city in the first Parliament of the reign of Queen Anne. He married Elizabeth, the only daughter and heiress of William Wheeler, goldsmith, by whom he had twelve sons and three daughters. The bodies of his sons James and William, and of his daughter Martha, wife of Anthony Collins, Esqre., are removed from the church into this vault." Of the twelve sons, we have been able to trace only Sir Robert, Sir Francis, Sir John, and Samuel, who succeeded him as goldsmiths and bankers in Fleet Street; Sir Josiah,* an East India director; another who was Governor of Bombay; Stephen, who in partnership with Mr. Tudman, was a goldsmith at the Crown in Lombard Street, now the house of Willis, Percival and Co.; and James and William, who probably died in their infancy. He had three brothers Daniel lived with him at Parson's Green, Edward living at Burghley in 1686, and John who lived at Devizes. :
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Prince Rupert, son of the Queen of Bohemia (daughter of James who died at his house in Barbican in 1682, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, left a collection of jewels valued at ;^20,ooo, which were disposed of by lottery under the management of Mr. Francis Child in the following year. An advertisement in "The London Gazette" of October, 1683, announced that "the jewels had been valued by Mr. Isaac Legouch, Mr. Christopher Rosse, and Mr. Richard Beauvoir, jewellers, and will be sold by lottery, each lot to be ^. The biggest prize will be a pearl necklace valued at ;^3,ooo, I),
and none less than i;ioo. The money to be paid to Mr. Child, who will stand obliged to all the adventurers, and that they shall receive their money back if the drawing does not take place on the ist in the February next. The drawing will take of His place presence Majesty, who will himself see that all the prizes are put in among the blanks, and that the whole will be managed with equity and f air*
Re*bcca, third daughter of Sir Josiah Child, of Wansted, was married to Charles, Marquis of Worcester, son of the Duke of Beaufort, in 1683. This lady was also grandmother of the Duke of Grafton.