duly be known to our family as Grandmamma--does not ap-
pear to have had any dowry. Grandfather John had to live
modestly to the end of his days.

They had four children. The first, whom our family will
speak of as Aunt Eliza, or Aunt Betsy, came in 1765. She
lived--the Newmans were a long-lived clan--to be eighty-
seven, and was a great plague to her dearly loved nephew
J. H. N., who loved her dearly and whose religious notions
must at times have been something of a small plague to her.
The second child was John II, born in 1767. The third and
fourth children, Mary, born 1770, and Thomas, born 1774,
died when they were little: their small remains--Mary aged
two, and Tom not quite four--now lie, Mary's in Saint
George's, Hanover Square, and Tom's in St. Leonard's, Shore-
ditch.

Grocer Newman moved restlessly around London. Four
years after we had first found him in Leadenhall Street we
find him moved to fashionable Mayfair. ⁵ Not that he is liv-
ing fashionably. He is living modestly on fashion. His
house is in Brick Street, Piccadilly, ⁶ then called Portugal Row
or Brick Lane; and even this modest house--it only cost £6
a year, little enough at the time--he may well have shared
with his brother Roff, or Rolph, ten years his junior, who had
also come up from Cambridgeshire to find employment. ⁷
Indeed a third brother, William, turned up too, for he was
John II's godfather; and so did his sister, Elizabeth, who was
godmother to the Mary who died so young.

Within five years John Newman had left Mayfair and gone
back to the city. When his little boy, Tom, was buried there
in Shoreditch, the funeral left from an inelegant address in
Daggett's Court. Daggett's Court was outside the city's
boundaries altogether, and must be counted a come-down
even from Brick Lane. Those crowded courts were not
sought after by well-off citizens.

As John II was now about eleven years old, and his sister

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