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conclusive, or that Mrs. Thomson's statement with regard to the date of Sarah's birth is disproved. W. F. PBIDEAUX.

The following extracts from the Register of the Burials at St. Alban's Abbey illustrate the tabular pedigree given ante, p. 372. They are all the entries that occur of the name of Jeninges, Jennings, &c., between 1628 and 1678.

1654, June 1. Richard, s. Richard Jeninges, Esq. and Frances.

1655, April 6. Susana, d. Richard Jeninges, Esq.

1655, Aug. 6. Richard, s. Mr. Richard Jeninges.

1656, Dec. 30. Mrs. Susan Jeninges.

1668, May 8. Richard Jeninges, Esq., and Burges of the Parliament for St. Albans. 1674, Sept. 27. John Jeninges, Esq. 1677, July 15. Ralph Jenyns, Esq.

The five baptisms (1653 to 1660) as given in MR. RELTON'S pedigree are all that occur of the name between 1640 and 1689. The ipsissima verba of the last and the most interesting one are as under :

Baptism, 1660, "Sarah da. of Richard Jeninges, Esq., by Frances his wife was borne the fift [sic] daye of June & baptized the 17 th of the same."

It is therefore quite clear that the state- ment that Sarah was born on Restoration Day (29 May, 1660) is only a pleasing fiction. The "John and Ralph Jennings " alive Feb., 1673/4 (see p. 257 ut supra), are presumably the persons buried as above. G. E. C.

I can remember to have seen, many years .ago, a fine portrait in oils of Duchess Sarah at Rythyn Castle in Denbighshire, in which the artist had done full justice to her imperious appearance; but whether it is there now I cannot say.

In one of the chantries on the south side of King's College Chapel, in Cambridge, is the large marble tomb, and inscribed upon it a long epitaph in Latin, of her son the Marquess of Blandford, who was being educated there, and, as I have always heard, died of small- pox when within the walls of the college. But my information on this point is certainly erroneous if 'Burke's Peerage' for 1879 is correct, for therein I find among the children of John, Duke of Marlborough, who died in 1744, John, who died in infancy of the -smallpox, 20 February, 1702/3.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Wood bridge.

For " 1678 " in 1. 18 of my communication on p. 372, col. 2, please read 1679.

FRANCIS H. RELTON. 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

_ BELL-RINGING ON 13 AUGUST, 1814 (10 th S. 11. 369). Among my collection of special

forms of prayer or thanksgiving, I have the following : one ** to be used on Thursday,

the seventh day of July, 1814 for putting

an end to the long, extended, and bloody Warfare in which we were engaged against France and her Allies." Another was issued the next year "for the glorious victory

obtained over the French at Waterloo

to be used 2 July, 1815, or on the Sunday after the ministers shall have received the same." It is possible that the " minister " of the small Warwickshire parish used the form in 1814 as soon as he could after receiving it ; but five weeks seems a long delay. Another was issued to be used on 18 January, 1816, "for God's great Goodness in putting an end to the war in which we were engaged against France." ERNEST B. SAVAGE.

St. Thomas', Douglas.

PARISH DOCUMENTS : THEIR PRESERVATION (10 th S. ii. 267, 330). MR. W. JAGGARD will be glad to know that one rector, at least, has for some time been engaged in making a copy of, and an index to, the registers of his parish ; and as by this experimenter the employment has been found interesting, his testimony may encourage others to imita- tion. Some peculiar names of women have been referred to in the account given in ' N. & Q.' of the notes on ' Barnstaple Parish Registers, 1 edited by my good friend Mr. Thomas Wainwright, whose generosity in helping me in this kind of work at different times 1 should like to be allowed hereby to acknowledge. When examining the registers of the parish of Goodleigh Prior between 1538 and 1649 one is not surprised to meet with Audrey, the name of a country wench in ' As You Like It ' ; nor would it surprise one to come across Jaquenetta, with which we have been made familiar as the name of a country wench in ' Love's Labour 's Lost ' ; but to find Jackett entered as a woman's Christian name brings one to a stand. Other unfamiliar names for women are Matthey or Matheys, Richord or Richaud, Solomew, and Philpytt. Among curious variations in spelling we have Gartred, Gartherd, and Carthered, which are, I suppose, modes of spelling the name borne by Hamlet's mother.

F. JARRATT.

I do not think any good would accrue from taking the records and registers away from the parishes to which they belong, and placing them in the custody of the District or County Councils. I believe these docu- ments are far more likely to be required for reference by those immediately interested in them than by outsiders. I should therefore