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house at Litchurch, one of the company
dared " to take a basin of hot broth
was
to Mathew as the corpse hung in chains.
The challenge was accepted, and the broth
corpse ; upon which man and broth tumbled
from the ladder, the man so dazed with
fright that he failed to see one of the ale
house company at the foot of the gibbet
post. THOS. RATCLIFFE.
EDWARD JARRETT was admitted to West- minster School in September, 1734, aged 12. Particulars of his parentage and career are desired. G. F. R. B.
DR. JOHNSON or WARWICK. According to Wood's ' Life and Times ' (vol. ii. p. 507, Oxf. Hist. Soc. Pub. xxi.), he is said to have gone to Westminster School with Richard Peers, who was elected to Ch. Ch., Oxon, 1664. I should be glad to obtain any information about this Dr. Johnson.
G. F. R. B.
CHARLES Jo YE was admitted to West- minster School in July, 1728, aged 8. Any information concerning his parentage and career would be welcome. G. F. R. B.
THORESBY PEDIGREE. Is it possible to obtain (and if so, where ?) a copy of ' Notes on Ralph Thoresby's Pedigree,' by Mr. A. S. Ellis, referred to in a foot-note on p. 50, vol. ii. of Dr. Round's ' Peerage and Pedi- gree,' published by James Nisbet & Co. ?
FORTESCUE THURSBY.
Bath Club, Dover Street, W.
CHARLES BRIDQMAN, GARDENER : HIS PORTRAIT. S. Felton (' On the Portraits oi English Authors on Gardening,' 2nd ed. 1830, p. 136) speaks of a portrait of Charles Bridgman (the gardener who " composed ' Stowe Gardens and the Serpentine), which he saw more than 50 years earlier, and which he thinks was an etching. He adds :
" I neither recollect its painter nor engrave [it was before the days of Seymour Haden anc precise terminologyl ; and it is so scarce tha neither Mr. Smith, of Lisle Street, nor Mr. Evans of Great Queen Street, the intelligent collector and illustrators of Granger, have been able tc obtain it. Perhaps it will be discovered that i was a private plate, done at the expense of hi generous and noble employer, Lord Cobham."
Is this plate known to any living collector or was it perhaps an etching from th< portrait of Bridgman in Hogarth's ' Rake Progress,' or from the latter'r, group o
artists in the Ashmolean Museum, or the
Club of Artists by Hamilton in the National
r'ortrait Gallery ? It seems very doubtful
vhether the two latter identifications can
)oth be right. A. FORBES SIEVEKING.
12, Seymour Street, Portman Square, W.
ANDERSON : SIMPSON : DICKSON : BAIL- LIE : GORDON. I seek genealogical details of the ancestry of
1. John Anderson, who married 23 July, 1824, Hellen Simpson (born 24 Sept., 1795 ; died at Bantaskine 1863) at Edinburgh. The Andersons lived from time immemorial in Haddingtonshire. Anderson's father was a shepherd. The latter married, as his second wife, the daughter of the illegitimate son of George Seton, fifth and last Earl of Winton.
2. James Simpson, father of the above Hellen by his second wife Isabella Dickson. James Simpson claimed descent from the Simpson who was Dean or Provost of the Collegiate Church of Dunbar about 1560, and who joined the Reformers and married a nun from North Berwick Abbey. James Simp- son died 1819.*
3. Samuel Dickson (brother or cousin of the above Isabella Dickson), born 1749, died 1793, builder and contractor, who built most of the new town of Edinburgh. Samuel Dickson married Agnes Bail lie at or near Edinburgh.
4. Thomas Baillie, father of the above
Agnes by his wife Gordon. Thomas
Baillie was, I believe, connected with the family of Baillie of Lamington.
Please reply direct.
JAMES S. ANDERSON. Cuddington, Bucks.
JENNER, OF WIDHILL, WILTS. Under the article in the ' D.N.B.' on Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, the following occurs :
" Not the least pleasing thing recorded of him is that he paid 2,000 of the debts of Mr. John Jenuer of Widhill in Wiltshire, who had helped him to his fellowship, and thus given him the first lift." Dr. Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, died 1713. In Cricklade Church there is a memorial to Robert Jenner, goldsmith and citizen, at one time representing that town in Parlia- ment (1628-29 and 1640-48), who died 1651. That portion of the Chuich is termed
- I understand James Simpson was a son, or
grandson, of Rev. Matthew Simpson, minister of Pencaitland, by his wife Alison, dau. of Adam Drummond of Megginch. Alison Drummond was married to Matthew Simpson in March, 1709, and died 1736. Matthew Simpson died 1756, aged 83 years.
