The Sun.
London, England, 1809-06-28 00:00:00

Iry REPORT.

ICOURT OF 101•36'S..tiENCH, TUissAY, liftit ;7.
TOWNSHEN6 PildiAlCH X.t61.."
This, Mr. Atitiartay-GcNeast. stated, _MS an
aftioo by the Windsor Herald against Mr. Neale, a
Gentleman constderable fortune in Nottingham-
' shire, to recover 2761:. for his heraldic labours.---,..
Mr. Neale, he said; being about to build- a- new.
• house, and wishing, to brodment his hall of arms
, with all the achievenienti of hi ancestors, thought'
proper to employ the tietild's College to trace' his
pedigree. Accordingly WibilSOr Herald and'Aue
Mantle set about that wish, and the blood a the'
Neales was traced .back as far as the-reign of Chdiles
the Second, but there it was unfortunately 1047
The Neales, however, intermarried with IV; -
duches and Barrys, and their collateral aliiineaßbs-
: ed Mr.-Neale's wish (or ancestry; for alter a lonnd
laborious research, it was discovered that .he leas
connected with Foulk, King of Jerusaleni; illilttt
the Coneueror,• Cadwallader, Prince of Wales-, be-
sides the Milesian Kings of Ireland, and Seithial
other potentates' of Eurdpe. He was so pleased
with this, that he intended to have the armdtial
bearings of this illustrious race draticestry painted in
glass, to adorn the new hall. The glass-min wag
accordingly set to work, and as it was going forward, ,
he walked about 'the morn, and his Welsh,
Bairon, Norman, Jerusalem, and Danish blood beat
music in his pulses, as he 'contemplated hit royal'
and noble alliances. It chanced, however, that Blue
Mantle wantecha, little money for all this rich blood
he had given tOihe Plaintiff, but the moment Mr.
Neale understood the amount of the bill already itt;-
curred was 216).. be refused to go further, or even
to pay the labour already incurred: Thii, however,
he lutist be obliged to do, and if he chose to delight
in heraldry, he must pay the Herald. A man might
take a liking to a tool's cap; but the tailor who
made it %.% as' not a fool, and must be paid for his
work—so it was With Mr. Neale, if he could trace
his descent through all his linealS and ollaterals,—'
the Herald must be paid ; and he slibtird'prove they
had tric'ed him through 256 descents at HO shillings
each, and an extra shilling for every criyi.vbed head
61 his relations, which was as Cheap as dill; besides
this there were 4.26 armorial bearings sketched at
five ihlllings each; and an emblazontnent of several
in 'vellum; for all WhiFit labours, which occupied
near IWO years, the attrunnt was only s little more
than 2701.
Mr. Aredikgav-GENthAlt, then,prodnati all those
heraldic works, by which it 'appeared that the De-
fendant had been duly descended from the royal
ancetstry attributed to him.
Mr. GARROW, for the lidenda'nt, treated the
whole as a ridiculous import:Alen of heraldry, and
said his client wished only to have his fair pedigree,
end' not one foisted upon hill; which Must make
him ridiculous to all the w&fd. Under the direc-
tion of the Court, which held, that if the Plaintiff
had been employed, he was entii4ed to fair remune-
ration, the Jury 'found a verdict- for the Plaintiff,
deducing only part of the charges of a journey to
Nottinghamshire, when the Plaintiff went to hived
title tiettis: