[7] Dallaway's Sussex, vol. i. p. 185--The arms of the family of Collins are there said to have been, "Azure a griffin segreant or;" but in Sir William Burrell's MS. Collections for a History of Sussex, in the British Museum, the field is described as being vert. From those manuscripts which are marked "Additional MSS." Nos. 5697 to 5699, the following notices of the Poet's family have been extracted. REGISTER OF ST. ANDREW'S, CHICHESTER. BAPTISM. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. George Collins, 8th October, 1763. BURIALS. Mrs. Elizabeth Collins [the poet's mother], 6th July, 1744. William Collins, Gent. [the Poet], 15th June, 1759. REGISTER OF ST. PETER THE GREAT, CHICHESTER. BAPTISMS. Charles, son of Roger Collins, 8th February, 1645. George, son of Mr. George Collins, 28th December, 1647. Humphrey, son of Mr. Richard Collins, 20th Dec. 1648. George, son of Mr. George Collins, 7th September, 1651. Christian, daughter of Mr. Richard Collins, 1st Sept. 1652. John, son of Mr. Richard Collins, senior, 13th Dec. 1652. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Richard Collins, sen. 16th May, 1656. Joan, daughter of Mr. Richard Collins, jun. 12th Dec. 1656. Judith, daughter of Mr. Collins, Vicar Choral, 17th April, 1667. Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. William Collins, 6th March, 1704. MARRIAGES. Mr. Charles Collins and Mrs. Elizabeth Cardiff, 14th April, 1696. BURIALS. ---- wife of Mr. William Collins, 10th December, 1650. Susan, wife of Mr. Richard Collins, 3rd December, 1657. Mr. George Collins, 10th January, 1669. Mrs. Collins of St. Olave's Parish, 19th July, 1696. There are monumental inscriptions in St. Andrew's Church, Chichester, to the Poet's father, mother, maternal uncle, Colonel Martyn, and sister, Mrs. Durnford. [8] So much of the will of Colonel Edmund Martyn as relates to the Poet and his sister has been already cited, but the testator's situation in life and the respectability of his family are best shown by other parts of that document. He describes himself as a lieutenant-colonel in his Majesty's service, lying sick in the city of Chichester. To his niece Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Napper, of Itchenor in Sussex, he bequeathed 100_l._ His copyhold estates of the manors of Selsey, and Somerly, in that county, to his nephew, Abraham Martyn, the youngest son of his late only brother, Henry Martyn, and to his servant, John Hipp, he gave his wearing apparel and ten pounds. [9] Dyce's edition of Collins, 1827, p. 39. AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND POEMS OF COLLINS. BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART.