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Turberville's admission is not recorded, I cannot say whether Adkyns signed it as deputy for Warden White or for Warden Boxall, or during the interval between White's resignation on October 1, 1554 (Register G, folio 1666), and Boxall's insti- tution on October 29 (Register in ' Liber Albus '). If the entry gives Turberville's ge correctly, he was born on April 1, 1541.

3. The Election- roll of 1554, which might have thrown light upon the question, is missing. The rolls of 1508 and 1558 still -exist, but I have found no intervening roll in our muniment-rooms. The next extant roll known to me is of 1589.

4. It is recorded, however, in Register O that Turberville, who is there described as "" de whytchurche," took the Scholar's oath, iin company with sixteen other boys, on Aug. 16, 1556. By rubric v. of the College Statutes every Scholar had to take this oath " statim postquam sextumdecimum etafcis sue annum attigerit." Kirby's state- ment in ' Annals,' p. 77, that the Scholars took it upon " completing their fourteenth year," was a slip which he corrected at p. 465, n. 1, by saying that the oath was required of a boy " as soon as he had com- pleted his fifteenth year " (i.e., as soon as he was fifteen years old). In Turberville's time the " statim postquam " of the rubric -was not construed with pedantic precision, And it was deemed sufficient to administer the oath to a batch of boys once a year. 'The fact that he was in the batch sworn on Aug. 16, 1556,}supportsthe view, countenanced by the Register of Scholars, that he was from in 1541.

5. On the other hand, there is the Election- roll of 1558, to which I have already alluded. It is Hated Aug. 28, 1558, and contains, as -was usual with such rolls, not only a list ol the candidates selected for Winchester, but .-also a list of the Scholars chosen for filling vacancies at New College, Oxford. This latter list contains twenty-five names, and Turberville's is the tenth. He is here described as " Georgius Turbervyle de whitechurch xvj. Annorum primo die Aprilia preterit o." If this description is accurate he must have been born, not in 1541, but in 1542.

6. While the Election-roll of 1558 seems to differ from the Register of Scholars as to the year of Turberville's birth, these two records agree about his birthday. He was born, like many another clever man, on " All Fools' Day."

7. It may be added here that, according
 * o our ' Liber Successionis et Dignitatis', a

manuscript book compiled from New College

ecords, Turberville became Fellow of that

iollege on Oct. 7, 1561. But that was, no

loubt, after he had been a probationary

Scholar there for the requisite period of two

-ears. He is described in the book as

' de villa white-church, com. Dorset.," and

t is stated that, being " socius in Artibus

non graduatus," he vacated his Fellowship

in 1562, " conferens se ad studium Juris

Regni." H. C.

Winchester College.

HENCHMAN, HINCHMAN, on HITCHMAN V 3 S. iii. 150 ; 12 S. ii. 270, 338). The Hench- nan family in the male line is not extinct in Britain. At present, three members are resident in England, and one in Ireland. [n South Africa the family is represented >y the Rev. Canon Henchman, and his great- nephew the Rev. Humphrey Llewellyn Henchman. In Australia there are four Henchmans. One is in the Straits Settle- ments, and another is interned in Germany. In all there are twelve adult male members of this family (the pedigree lies before me as I write) who can show, without a missing link, their descent from Crosborough (temp. Henry VII.) through the eldest branch of Bishop Henchman's family.

If families bearing the names of Henxman, Hinxman, Hensman, and Hitchman, have the tradition of then- descent from Cros- borough, they do well to preserve it ; but it is only reasonable to believe that these families branched during the two genera- tions following Crosborough. Thomas Henchman, of the third generation (the father of Bishop Henchman), spelt his name Henchman, and thus it has unvaryingly been spelt by the descendants of the Bishop. It would appear also from the ' Family History,' p. 15, that the spelling adopted by Thomas Henchman was not exceptional in his generation, there being amongst the MSS. of the State Paper Office a letter relating the circumstances attending the surrender of Deventer by Sir William Stanley to the Spaniards, from " Capt. Henry* Henchman to Walsingham, 22nd March, 1587 (State Paper Office MS.)," in which Henchman stated in most emphatic terms his loyalty to his sovereign.

In the absence of my son who is at present on active service in German East Africa I am sending you these few facts in reference to his family.

(Mrs.) LOUISA K. HENCHMAN.

The Vicarage, Sterkstroom, Cape Colony.