THE ANCESTOR

A Quarterly Review of County and
Family History, Heraldry

and Antiquities

EDITED BY

OSWALD BARRON F.S.A

NUMBER VII

OCTOBER 1903

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRAR

ASTOR, LEX AND
TO

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THE EDITOR OF THE ANCESTOR
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ORMSBY

THE MASSINGBERDS OF SUTTERTON, GUNBY AND

THE REV. W. O. MASSINGBERD

ENGLISH COUNTS OF THE EMPIRE. J. HORACE ROUND
THE JOURNEY OF GÉDÉON BONNIVERT TO IRELAND
MRS. OSWALD BARRON

THE FORTUNES OF A MIDLAND HOUSE.

THE FAMILIES OF THE STRANGERS: THE COSTEBADIES

CHAS. E. LART

THE DEATH OF THOMAS, THIRD EARL OF ROCKING

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ANCESTOR. VOL. VI.

Two important printer's errors are pointed out for correction.

Page 6. In the title of the portrait, for 'MATTHEWS' read 'MALTHUS.'
Page 201, line 15, for 'childless' read ‘attainted.'

ANCESTOR. VOL. VII.

The Editor having been absent from England during the publication of ANCESTOR
Vol. VII. asks the indulgence of his readers in the case of errors of proof-
reading, two of which are noted below.

Page 169. In the 9th line of the article on the Wrottesleys, for
'past' read 'part.'

Page 269, line 5, for 'is' read make.'

CONTEN ur GUSPAIKIK

THE REV. F. W. RAGG

THE BARONS' LETTER TO THE POPE

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J. HORACE ROUND, SIR H. MAXWELL-LYTE, K.C.B., W. H. ST.
JOHN HOPE and the EDITOR

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