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Smith of Lintou aforesaid (will dated 8 July, i was a son of John Raymond and Anne Spar1601, and proved in the Consistory Court of row, and William Raymond, junior, was a Canterbury on 26 Sept., 1610), -who was one grandson of Oliver Raymond (Berry's 'Essex of the brothers of Simon Smith of Boughton Pedigrees,* Harl. Soc., 1879, 696). It is sugMonchelsea (vrill dated 13 Jan., 1587/8, and gested that the Ellistons can only have been proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Canter- kinsmen of John Sparrow, the translator, bury on 15 Feb., 1587/8) and one of the five and also of the Raymonds, if they were des6ons of Simon Smith of Buckland aforesaid cended from -a marriage between John Ellis(will dated 15 Feb., 1561/2, and proved in ton, the father of the translator, and a daughter of Capt. John Sparrow, since the pedithe P.C.C. on 22 Apr., 1567). i grees of Elli6ton and Raymond show no L. GRAHAM: H. HOBTON^SMITH, I other marriages with any member of the F.8.A. SCOT. j Sparrow family. (To be concluded). ! (d) The Christian name of the mother of ! John Elliston, the translator, was Elizabeth j (as appears from the entry in the GestingJOHN ELLISTON AND JOHN ! thorpe Parish Register: " 1632. Elizabeth the wife of John Elliston, was buried the SPARROW, foure and twentieth day of April"); and THE ENGLISH TRANSLATORS OK Capt. John Sparrow had a daughter of that JACOB BEHNEN. name (see (a) above). (e) The Gestingthorpe parish register, as TTHE pedigree of the family of Elliston of * Gestingthorpe, Essex, printed in the it now exists, contains no marriage entries Herald and Genealogist, v. 424, states that prior to 1626, which may account for the the mother of John Elliston, the translator, absence of the " best evidence " of the marwas " probably one of the Sparrow family." riage of John Ell 16ton and Elizabeth SparThe object of "this note is (1) to adduce evi- row. It may be worth mentioning that John Elizabeth, 3rd daughter Brailsford and Mary Sparrow (see (a) above) of Captain John Sparrow, of Gestingthorpe j were licensed to be married at Gestingthorpe ; 3 T June, 1Aon 1620 "(' Marriage Allega(the paternal grandfather of John Sparrow, x * - - TLicence " the translator) and (2) to supplement the tions,' Harl. Soc, 1887, 87). account of John Sparrow, the translator, 2. John Sparrow, the translator. given in the ' D D.N.B.' NB' (a) Married Hester, daughter of Joseph 1. The vwther of John Elliston, the Norgate, of Norwich, and had issue: John, translator. Robert, Joseph, Drew, Hester and Elizabeth (o) Capt. John Sparrow, of Gestingthorpe, (see Visitation of Essex, 1664, ed. J. J. who died 11 Sept., 1626, had five children Howard). (Monumental Inscription, printed in Chan(6) Was buried at Gestingthorpe 8 Dec., cellor's ' Sepulchral Monuments of Essex,' 1670 (Parish Register). 372) namely (i) Colonel John Sparrow (the (c) Left a will which was proved in the father of John Sparrow, the translator); P.C.C. 22 Mar., 1670/1 (40 Duke). (ii) Anne (the wife of John Raymond, of R. R. A. WALKEB. Bejchamp Walter); (iii) Johanna; (iv) Elizabeth; (v) Mary (the wife of John Brailsford). "He left no will (Letters of T ICHENS ON OLD TOMBSTONES.The Administration P.G.C. 16 Sept., 1626). *-* one desire of the churchyard scribe is to (b) John Sparrow, the translator, in his get rid of these as soon as possible, but the preface to the Mysterium, Magnum. (1654) re- botanist has found a use for them, and Mr. fers to John Elliston, the translator, as Raymond H. Torrey attempts to discover the approximate age of lichen thalli by the dates " my dear kinsman." (c) The will (Com. of London, Essex and on the stones. He describes his ideas in Herts, 1674) of Peter Elliston, brother of Torreya, xxxiv. (1934) 96, and states that John Elliston, the translator, mentions "my in the old cemetery at Gilead, where Enoch kinsman Oliver Raymond"; and the will Crosby, the American spy" Harvey Birch " (P.C.C. 1691) of John Elliston, son of Peter of Fenimore Cooper's novel, is buried, an Elliston, mentions "my kinsman William old red sandstone headstone placed in 1795 Raymond junior." Now, Oliver Raymond was so richly covered with crustose and foliose