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 nearly thirty years; the latter was succeeded by his son, Major Gervaise Tottenham Waldo Sibthorp, who died in 1861, aged forty-six. A brother of Colonel Charles came into the possession of the Waldo mansion at Mitcham, the Rev. Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp.

&#42;&#8270;* Although I have stated, on good authority, that it was in memory of the second Peter Waldo, of Mitcham, that Colonel Sibthorp assumed the name of Waldo, yet he must have intended respectful reference to his true ancestor in the female line, Isaac Waldo of London (the same whom the Historical Register, in 1730, styled Mr. Isaac Waldo, of Streatham). The armorial bearings of this good citizen, as well as the arms of his father-in-law, are engraved upon two ledger stones in the chancel of the church of Allhallows. Isaac Waldo married Sarah Chase, daughter of Mr. Richard Chase, citizen and grocer of London, by Sarah, his wife; and (as already stated) Isaac’s daughter, Sarah Waldo, was married to Professor Sibthorp in 1740. Her own baptism had been registered in her parents’ parish church of Allhallows thus:— “1711, March 6, Sarah, da. of Isaac and Sarah Waldo;” and the baptism of her eldest child may be seen in the same register: “1741, July 23, Sarah, daughter of Humphrey and Sarah Sibthorp, of the city of Lincoln.” Isaac Waldo seems to have had ten children, of whom Mrs. Sibthorp was the only survivor; certainly, eight children predeceased him, viz., two Daniels, Ann, Peter, two Elizabeths, Edward, and Isaac. Most of these died in childhood, but young Isaac died in his seventeenth year in 1731. The second Daniel was buried in Allhallows Church on 1st May 1740, having died in his twenty-fourth year; on him there is this affecting epitaph:—

There is a chalice in the church, on which is this inscription:—





this section with some appropriate and glowing words written by the Rev. Dr. Sirr :— “The noble family of Clancarty, unmindful of a long and illustrious pedigree, appear careful only to preserve the memory of one ancestor — a faithful servant of God, who established himself in Great Britain, and proved himself regardless of his ancient rank and heritage, so that he might retain the religion of the Bible, and escape at once the allurements and persecutions of papal idolatry. Frederic de la Tranche, or Trenche, Seigneur of La Tranche in Poitou, from which seigneurie the family derived its name, was a French Protestant nobleman, who, finding he must renounce either his conscience or his station, voluntarily expatriated himself, left his home, his kindred and his estates, in the troubles which arose about religion in his native land, took refuge in enlightened England, and established himself, A.D. 1574, in the county of Northumberland. . . . . . In about two centuries the posterity of the faithful exile who renounced all for Christ, having persevered in