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234 stating that 'Penny's House' comprised Nos. 10, 11, and 12, Wilderness Row, and not Nos. 26, 28, and 30, and that the former houses, or houses on their sites, became known as Nos. 26, 28, and 30, Clerkenwell Road." The present occupier of No. 28, Clerkenwell Road, Mr. J. Pratt, seems at all events to have no doubt upon the subject, for I was pleased to learn from Mr. Bird that he had anticipated my suggestion that a memorial of Thackeray might fitly be placed upon the house, by erecting in 1892 a stone tablet to commemorate the great novelist's residence there.

(11 S. vii. 470; viii. 134).—The relation of this divine to Col. John Jones the regicide is not clear. I have consulted Noble's 'History of the House of Cromwell,' and the 'Life' of the Rev. William Jones which precedes the complete edition of his writings issued in twelve volumes in 1801, the year after his death. I have also, of course, consulted the articles in 'D.N.B.' on both Col. Jones and the Rev. William Jones. The one on William Jones is evidently based on the above 'Life' preceding his 'Works.'

Morgan Jones, the father of William Jones, is stated to be a "Welsh Gentleman, a descendant of Col. Jones, who married a sister of the Usurper," and care is taken to point out that Morgan Jones was "of principles very different from those of his ancestor." The Rev. William Jones himself is said to have kept 30 Jan. always as a day of humiliation for the sins of his ancestor. It is evident that there was a close relation between the old regicide and Jones of Nayland.

Now the 'D.N.B.,' in its notice of Col. John Jones, states definitely that Catherine (it is a mistake in Williams's 'Eminent Welshmen' to say she was "Jane"), the sister of the Protector, who married Col. John Jones as her second husband, had no issue by him. What good authority there is for this definiteness it would be well to know. Noble in his 'House of Cromwell' only says that "probably" there was no issue of the marriage. There were only sixty-six years between the execution of Col. Jones (1660) and the birth of the Rev. William Jones (1726). If he was a direct descendant of Col. Jones, there would be at most only two links intervening between them. We know of one of these links in knowing of Morgan Jones, William Jones's father. Can any one say whether Col. Jones had any children? Can any one say who was Morgan Jones, the father of William Jones? Noble points out many Joneses connected more or less with Cromwell and the Commonwealth. He names two Joneses (brothers) who, after being condemned at the Assizes held in Exeter, 18 April, 1655, for conspiring against the Protector, were pardoned "on account of the family connection of the Joneses with the Cromwells." He also mentions a "Humphrey Jones of London, to whom Col. John Jones assigned the care of his letters."

—(11 S. viii. 90). Bedingfield Pogson was a younger son of John Pogson of the Island of St. Christopher, by Eliz. Mary Milward, his wife. In his will, dated 22 Oct., 1800, he describes himself as of Edwardstone, Suffolk (P.C.C. 140 Kenyon). He died 28 Nov., 1801, and his pedigree is in 'Caribbeana,' i. 9.

 (11 S. viii. 146).—I have a lot of Bucknall or Bucknell memoranda which I shall be pleased to show if he will write to me. I suggest that the father of Sir William Bucknall of Oxhey was William Bucknell, citizen and skinner, who was third son of William Bucknell of Crick, co. Northants. Sir William married Sarah Chitts.

Sir John Bucknall's first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Graham of St. Peter-le-Poor, London. They were married at Westminster Abbey, 9 Feb., 1685/6, she being aged about 20.

I suggest that Ralph Bucknall, M.P., was younger brother of Sir William Bucknall, citizen and brewer. I have records of a Ralph Bucknell, son of William Bucknell, citizen and skinner, described as "of London, Gent.," in 1692/3, and "of Maldon, co. Essex," from 1706 to 1720, in the title-deeds of the Crick estate. He may well have been the Ralph Bucknall of St. Sepulchre's who married Elizabeth Birch in 1670. I have no record of his first marriage, but his daughter Sarah was aged 21 when married, 3 Oct., 1681, to William Gulston. His second daughter, Mary, aged 20, married Thomas Powell on 30 July, 1684. These must have been children by his first marriage. His daughter Elizabeth, by the second marriage, married, when aged 18, M. Howard, 20 Sept., 1692.