164 THE ANCESTOR been able to discover the exact relationship between them. Edward had a brother Roger, of Barn Elms, Surrey, who by his will dated September 14, 1592, left his residuary estate to ' John Bayldon, Josua, Elisha, and Sara, the children of Edward Bayldon, his brother, dwellinge in the Ould Jurye in London.'^ John and Elisha died young ; administration to their share of their uncle's legacy was granted to Edward Baildon and Ursula his wife, their parents, during the minority of Joshua and Sarah, their brother and sister, January 19, 1593-4.^ On October 17, 1600, Joshua was entered at Merchant Taylors' School, his father being apparently then alive. Nothing further is known of Edward Baildon or his family until 1 65 1, when Joshua published a book with the following quaint title : —
- The Rarities of the World ; containing Rules and Observa-
tions touching the Beginning of Kingdoms and Common- Wealths, the Division of the Ages, and the memorable things that happened in them : why men lived longer in those days than in these present times. Also The opinion of the great Emperours, and Egyptians^ touching the life of Man ; and the strange things that have befallen Kings and Princes. With excellent discourses of Creatures bred in the Sea, to the like- nesse of Man ; and others on Earth. Very Pleasant and Profit- able, First written in Spanish by Don Petrus Messie, afterward translated into French, and now into English, By J. B. Gent. London, Printed by B. A. 1651.*^ The dedication is — ' To my honoured friend an kinsman,* Paul Holdenby, Esquire. 'Sir, ' When you arrived at Dover from your travels, near upon twenty years since, it was my happiness to meet you there, where I received a token of your love, out of the store you brought with you, a book, Petrus Messia, translated into French, which hath lien by me ever since, till now, not at all perused ; for which I blame my own negligence. But being once entred into it, I found great delight in the varieties of the histories, and withall, that there might be much profit gathered therein, ^ P. C. C, Harrington, fo. 69. ^ London Commissary Court. ^ * London, Printed by Bernard Alsop, dwelling near the upper Pump in Grub street, 1650/ Colophon. ^ I cannot explain this relationship.
