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8 months the records of Cornwall, Hampshire, Kent, and other sea-coast Counties, for traces or indications of the emigrant's family. Cornwall, especially, had been most diligently searched, as Mr. Coffin, in his "History of Newbury" had stated that Aquila Chase was from that County. Although Mr. Coffin had, upon inquiry, stated to Mr. Somerby, as he had also done to the writer, that this statement rested merely upon tradition, it led at the outset to the most thorough investigation of that County's registers.

Turning at last to the interior, and recurring to the above pedigree, Mr. Somerby visited Chesham to examine its parish register, which from the time of 1538 he found complete to the present day, with the exception of baptisms in the reign of Queen Mary. From the larger pedigree made by him from this register we give the following extract, which shows the births of two brothers, Aquila and Thomas Chase, towards the end of the sixteenth century.


 * Thomas$1$ Chase, of Hundrich, in the Parish of Chesham.
 * John$2$ Chase, of Hundrich, bap. Nov. 30, 1540.
 * Richard Chase$2$, of Chesham, bap. Aug. 3, 1542.
 * Agnes,$2$ bap. Jan. 9, 1551.
 * William,$2$ born in reign of Queen Mary.
 * Christian,$2$""""


 * Richard$2$ Chase of Chesham m. Joan Bishop, April 16, 1564. Their children were
 * Robert,$3$ bap. Sept. 2, 1565.
 * Henry,$3$"Aug. 10, 1567.
 * Lydia,$3$"Oct. 4, 1573.