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Smith of Lintou aforesaid (will dated 8 July,1601, and proved in the Consistory Court ofCanterbury on 26 Sept., 1610), -who was oneof the brothers of Simon Smith of BoughtonMonchelsea (vrill dated 13 Jan., 1587/8, andproved in the Archdeaconry Court of Canter-bury on 15 Feb., 1587/8) and one of the five6ons of Simon Smith of Buckland aforesaid(will dated 15 Feb., 1561/2, and proved inthe P.C.C. on 22 Apr., 1567).

L. GRAHAM: H. HOBTON^SMITH,F.8.A. SCOT.

(To be concluded).

JOHN ELLISTON AND JOHNSPARROW,

THE ENGLISH TRANSLATORS OKJACOB BEHNEN.

TTHE pedigree of the family of Elliston of*• Gestingthorpe, Essex, printed in theHerald and Genealogist, v. 424, states thatthe mother of John Elliston, the translator,was " probably one of the Sparrow family."The object of "this note is (1) to adduce evi-

Elizabeth, 3rd daughter

i was a son of John Raymond and Anne Spar-row, and William Raymond, junior, was agrandson of Oliver Raymond (Berry's 'EssexPedigrees,* Harl. Soc., 1879, 696). It is sug-gested that the Ellistons can only have beenkinsmen of John Sparrow, the translator,and also of the Raymonds, if they were des-cended from -a marriage between John Ellis-ton, the father of the translator, and a daugh-ter of Capt. John Sparrow, since the pedi-

i grees of Elli6ton and Raymond show noI other marriages with any member of thej Sparrow family.! (d) The Christian name of the mother of! John Elliston, the translator, was Elizabethj (as appears from the entry in the Gesting-! thorpe Parish Register: " 1632. Elizabeth

the wife of John Elliston, was buried thefoure and twentieth day of April"); andCapt. John Sparrow had a daughter of thatname (see (a) above).

(e) The Gestingthorpe parish register, asit now exists, contains no marriage entriesprior to 1626, which may account for theabsence of the " best evidence " of the mar-riage of John Ell 16ton and Elizabeth Spar-row. It may be worth mentioning that JohnBrailsford and Mary Sparrow (see (a) above)

of Captain John Sparrow, of Gestingthorpe j were licensed to be married at Gestingthorpe(the paternal grandfather of John Sparrow, x T 1Aon " » * - - « — T ; »" —the translator) and (2) to supplement theaccount of John Sparrow, the translator,

' D N B 'given in the ' D.N.B.'1. The vwther of John Elliston, the

translator.(o) Capt. John Sparrow, of Gestingthorpe,

who died 11 Sept., 1626, had five children(Monumental Inscription, printed in Chan-cellor's ' Sepulchral Monuments of Essex,'372) namely (i) Colonel John Sparrow (thefather of John Sparrow, the translator);(ii) Anne (the •wife of John Raymond, ofBejchamp Walter); (iii) Johanna; (iv)Elizabeth; (v) Mary (the wife of JohnBrailsford). "He left no will (Letters ofAdministration P.G.C. 16 Sept., 1626).

(b) John Sparrow, the translator, in hispreface to the Mysterium, Magnum. (1654) re-fers to John Elliston, the translator, as" my dear© kinsman."

(c) The will (Com. of London, Essex andHerts, 1674) of Peter Elliston, brother ofJohn Elliston, the translator, mentions "mykinsman Oliver Raymond"; and the will(P.C.C. 1691) of John Elliston, son of PeterElliston, mentions "my kinsman WilliamRaymond junior." Now, Oliver Raymond

3 June, 1620 (' Marriage Licence Allega-tions,' Harl. Soc, 1887, 87).

2. John Sparrow, the translator.(a) Married Hester, daughter of Joseph

Norgate, of Norwich, and had issue: John,Robert, Joseph, Drew, Hester and Elizabeth(see Visitation of Essex, 1664, ed. J. J.Howard).

(6) Was buried at Gestingthorpe 8 Dec.,1670 (Parish Register).

(c) Left a will which was proved in theP.C.C. 22 Mar., 1670/1 (40 Duke).

R. R. A. WALKEB.

T ICHENS ON OLD TOMBSTONES.—The*-* one desire of the churchyard scribe is toget rid of these as soon as possible, but thebotanist has found a use for them, and Mr.Raymond H. Torrey attempts to discover theapproximate age of lichen thalli by the dateson the stones. He describes his ideas inTorreya, xxxiv. (1934) 96, and states thatin the old cemetery at Gilead, where EnochCrosby, the American spy—" Harvey Birch "—of Fenimore Cooper's novel, is buried, anold red sandstone headstone placed in 1795was so richly covered with crustose and foliose