Show I f um W r U r H tr E ENGLISH EGI genealogists are aro still very busy j jas as ns witness the following announcement I which has haA Just found Its way across the tho sea nea seato J to this desk Price ls h not net I HA HAN AN A ANCIENT CIET FAMILY FA A GENEALOGICAL STUDY SHOWING THE TIlE SAXON ORIGIN OF TIlE THE FA FAMILY D By Arthur Robert IC K C C. LL B. B A Master of oC the the Bench ench of tho the Middle Temple Publishers Publisher's Notes I This volume of ot genealogical research originally undertaken by private circulation was waa found to reflect so much of current English social history surrounding the thc family fam fani- ill ily chronicled In Its Us pages as ns to suggest that a L wider public might find Interest In the tho result Longmans Green Se Co 3 39 Paternoster Pater noster Row How London Fourth Avenue and Thirtieth Street New York Tork Bombay Calcutta Calcutta Cal Cal- and Madras EXTRACT FROM AUTHORS AUTHOR'S PREFACE ACE I was much attracted by some somo pedigree work worle by tho the Into lato Alfred William re relating relating relating re- re I lating to tho the family which resulted In tho the oar 1816 In the production b by him ofa of ot ofa a n tree which ho llo had hac printed What hat meant beyond tho descent from an ances ancestor r who was mayor of oC Winchester at ata ata a remote period I had hail at first very little I conception On further consideration It occurred to me that man many palpable Inaccuracies r clel knight be rectified that strict proofs i t should be obtained and that the tho Hampshire I should b bs capable of ot being being- connected connect connect- f ed cd with tho the Delk Berkshire ta family IlY who derived their name namo from tho the village of ot I commonly com corn r called Inkpen In Berkshire With this In view I began research I soon oon found that t there were many sources o of Information I which had not been bean tapped by tho originator of or the work woric and that various historical societies so societies so- so cl Ues had since 1846 18 published books I throwing much new now light on tho the subject After Atter reading Dr J. J Horace Rounds Round's works J my amy Interest In tho the subject led mo me to hope hove that I might hl even OVen go o further and endeavor I Ito to thaw chow that the tho family t. was of ot Saxon orf origin ln I So It grew upon me but there was n. n further I awakening awakening-a a desire to make snake myself better bettor acquainted with tho the general social his hla ory I of oC the successive periods I discovered that tho the pedigree provided material for tor an nn attempt at any rate to prove an ancient I family of oC Saxon origin and md It occurred to mo me t that b by combining contemporary history 1 t might write writ a a. book not merely of ot special In Interest Interest interest In- In terest to tho the family but also Instructive so that as we proceed wo we might contemplate at I different pori periods of ot English history the position position po po- po- po of ot our forefathers how forefathers how they were ere house clothed and anil fed ted what their dally daily occupation what their amusements what u t j H In O CL CIVil war and disorder and what became of ot the i younger members of ot the thc family at a time time I when the tho profits from land were practically I tho the solo sole source ot or wealth and from which I J the they thoy were debarred b by the law of ot t turo ture and when the door of oC commercial enterprise enter enter- prise was open only to a very limited num num- I her ber These considerations combined with I I heredity the transmission of ot physical or mental peculiarities and arid qualities from parent j to offspring should hould tend to male make genealogy J Intensely Interesting and lead tho render reader to I aspire to the highest Ideals In this connection connection tion It must be remembered that the sub- sub o mind constantly amenable to by suggestion or environment Is the sum of or J ancestral Instincts Science has never yet I discovered any process b by which faculties i have havo been acquired either In or r I e phylogeny o except by Inheritance f f Before treating of oC purely family history I I propose therefore to give a short precis j I relating to pedigree research tho the law and j t t custom of tho times and tho the social conditions conditions' I of ot England compiled from various well well- known sources TABLE OF CONTENTS I Chapter I. I I Introductory 1 1 Pedigree Research 2 Early So Social lal History In I England t I 1 I Saxon England 11 II Monasticism III Hi WI Winchester n eh es ter 3 Coun County ty Orga Organization n izat i on f 1 t. National Defense and Tenure of ot Land 5 P. P C. C Origin of oC tho the House of or Lords and tho the House of or Commons 7 T T. Growth and Progress of or English Liberty 8 8 Expansion Ex Ex- of Commerce Chapter II I Hamlet of or commonly called caned Ink Ink- pen Chapter IlL III Family history I Appendix I Part I. I Berkshire 1 Will of or the Wulf- Wulf I gar A A. D. D 2 References s In I Book Dook to c. c 1086 3 References f In the Pipe Rolls and tho the Red fled Book of at the Exchequer C o. o 1176 with Pedigree of ot of ot Newport 4 Grant of the Church of oC c. c 1189 1153 5 5 22 Records Records Records' relating to the Family of c. c 1200 1300 49 23 Records s relating to the FamIly Fam Farn- J ily of o. o 1300 1309 t Part II Hampshire 1 Deed Decd of ot Foundation Foun- Foun Fount t dation of ot th th Chapel of or orthe the Holy Trinity Winchester A A. A D D. 1318 2 Documents In the po possession of oC Winchester college c c. c 1290 I 1440 3 Inquisitions post mortem e c. c 1360 1350 t I 1511 0 Wills 4 of or the Fourteenth Sixteenth j and Seventeenth Centuries 5 Subsidies 1 t 6 Parish Registers of ot tho the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries with Particulars ro- ro t biting to Members of two surviving sur branches of or tho the family In the Nineteenth Century t Index Genealogical l Trees Tree I i |