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of exposure, being too weak to rise or call.'
I have no record of the date of her birth, and
both Burke's 'Peerage,' 1897, and Burke's
- Landed Gentry,' ed. 1846, p. 648, are silent
on the point.
I would venture to point out that the reference to Manning and Bray's 'History of Surrey' given by Mr. Steinman in the 'Althorp Memoirs,' as mentioned by COL. PRIDEAUX, relates to a period of the history of the Jennings or Jenyns family not touched on by the inquiry of MR. W. J. KAYE. I regret that I have had no opportunity of inspecting the pedigree at the College of Arms referred to by Mr. Steinman, from which doubtless COL. PRIDEAUX obtained the date of Frances Jennings's birth.
As an example of how genealogists differ, I would draw attention to the statement of Mr. Steinman ('Althorp Memoirs,' p. 58) that Sarah's aunt who married Francis Hill, and was mother of Abigail, Lady Masham, was Elizabeth Jennings ; whilst Mrs. Colville ('Duchess Sarah,' p. 360) refers to Mrs. Hill as another sister, not Elizabeth, of Sarah's father Richard Jennings.
Again, Burke (1897, p. 977) makes no men- tion of the birth of Sarah's youngest son Charles, born 19 August, 1690, at St. Albans, which is recorded by Mrs. Colville (* Duchess Sarah,' p. 88).
When genealogists disagree it is very difficult to ascertain which vstatement is most correct. For myself, as Mrs. Colville is a descendant of Sarah's, and so more likely than other writers to have been in a position to obtain accurate details of the family of her ancestress, I am disposed to place greater reliance upon her statements than upon the records of other authorities.
FRANCIS H. HELTON.
9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.
_ QUOTATIONS, ENGLISH AND SPANISH (10 th S. ii. 308). The Spanish couplet inquired about is folk-poetry, and cannot be assigned to any particular author. It is from the collection of F. Rodriguez Marin, 'Cantos Populares Espailoles,' Seville, 1882. There is a trans- lation of it by Mr. J. W. Crombie, printed in his charming little book * Poets and People of Foreign Lands,' 1890, which is better, I think, than that quoted by MR. MITCHINER :
Deep in my soul two kisses rest, Forgot they ne'er shall be :
The last my mother's lips impressed, The first I stole from thee !
JAMES PL ATT, Jun.
Is there not a slip in the first line of the Spanish verse ? " Dod " should be Dos.
The translation of the third and fourth
lines is a little faulty, I think, and should
read
The last which I had from my mother, And the first which 1 had from thee.
The two kisses could not be within his sou) if he gave them : he received them.
E. A. FRY.
EXCAVATIONS AT RICHBOROUGH (10 th S. ii. 289). -Canon Routledge, one of the trustees of the Richborough excavations, would per- haps be able to afford the desired information- MR. CANN HUGHES is probably aware that there is much information with regard to th& Richborough excavations (notably a paper by Mr. George Dowker, F.G.S., on 'Excava- tions at Richborough in 1887 ') in Archceo- logia Cantiana. See vols. vii., viii., x., xviii.,
&C. J. HOLDEN MAC'MlCHAEL.
There is a short description and history of Richborough, compiled by VV. D., chiefly from the works of the late C. Roach Smith, F.S.A., and G. Dowker, F.G.S., and from papers published in the Archceologia Can- tiana. It contains a diagram, &c., and is printed at Keble's Gazette office, Margate, at the price of threepence.
H. W. UNDERDOWN.
[The REV. A. HUSSEY also refers to the late Mr. Dowker's articles. ]
PARISH CLERK (10 th S. ii. 128, 215). The- old clerk of Clapham, Bedford, Mr. Thomas Maddams, always used to read his own ver- sion of Ps. xxxix. 12, "Like as it were a moth fretting in a garment." Apparently his idea was of a moth annoyed at oeing in a garment, from which he could not escape.
Oxo.
A guild of parish clerks was founded so far back as 17 Henry III. (1233), under the title] of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas, and known as such until 1611, when it was re- incorporated or more fully chartered . Some further details may be seen by referring to 1 st S. viii. 341, 452 ; 2 nd S. i. 295 ; and also in
work entitled 'The Endowed Charities of London,' 1829, royal 8vo, pp. 289-90.
The following, culled from the Livei*poot Daili/ Post of 20 October, may be worth recording :
" A parish clerk (who prided himself upon being well read) occupied his seat below the old ' three- decker' pulpit, and whenever a quotation or an extract from the classics was introduced into the sermon he, in an undertone, muttered its source much to the annoyance of the preacher and amusement of the congregation. Despite all pro* tests in private, the thing continued, until one day. the vicar's patience being exhausted, he leaned
