which he leaves legacies to his "sisters, Anne Clark and Abigail Taylor;" and it is thus rendered almost certain, that the persons named in these two entries were also the children of William Jenkyn of Sudbury, and consequently grandchil dren of Richard Rogers of Wethersfield.

This leaves only the first of these entries to be disposed of. I have before suggested that it might refer to Mary, the daughter of Nathaniel Rogers, who married William Heley; but it may, on the contrary, be intended to indicate Elizabeth Jenkyn, the wife of Thomas Cawton. It is certain that she survived her husband, and that there were preachers, about that time, of the name of Harsnet. From the position of this entry on the page, it might refer to either; but as the other five of the group all relate, unquestionably, to the Jenkyn Family, I think the presumption is strong, that the Widow Cawton subsequently married Rev. Mr. Harsnet, and that Candler so intended to intimate.

You have now a clear and accurate version of the Rogers pedigree, as it appears in the Candler Manuscript. It may be interesting to possess an account of the ancestry of Margaret Crane, the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of New England; and with that, and the other occasional entries already quoted, you have every thing that Candler says in reference to this family. The Crane descent (fol. 233) is summarily as follows (I quote literatim):

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1. "Robert Craine, of Clifton, Esq., Bridget, daughter of S Thomas Jernin, of Rushbrake, Knt., [and] Sister of S Ambrose." 2. "Henry Crane, Esq."

3. "Henry Craine, Esq., Jernegham: she had been wife to Sr Wymond Cariey, Knt."

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4. S Robert Craine of Chilton, Knt. and Baronet, Susan, daughter of St Giles Alington, Knt."

5. "Robert Crane of Coxhall in Essex Mary, daughter of Samuell Sparhawke, of Dedham in Essex."

6. "Margaret, married to Nathaniel Rogers, Rector of Assington; whence he went into New England."

It is, perhaps, proper that I should add, that, on a cursory examination of the rest of Mr. Hunter's article, I do not notice so many or such serious discrepancies in reference to the other families he mentions; but it is certainly extraordinary that he should have concentrated such a series of blunders into his brief synopsis of this single pedigree, and still more extraordinary that the errors should not have been detected until this late day.

It is also right to state, that the Rogers pedigree, as given by Candler, is certainly defective and incomplete, and only to be relied upon so far as it extends. In this communication, I have confined myself to a discussion of his manuscript; but hope, at some no distant day, to be able to furnish you with the complete and satisfactory results of the thorough and minute researches into the genealogy and history of this particular family, in which I have been for a long time engaged. Besides the mass of information I have already collected, I am becoming, since the publication of my Memoir of the Martyr, the depositary of the records and traditions preserved in numerous families in England, either bearing his name, or claiming descent from him; and design, eventually, to produce another volume, of a purely genealogical and anecdotal character, which, I have reason to believe, will prove acceptable on both sides of the Atlantic.

LONDON, Feb. 15, 1862.

Dr. LOTHROP communicated a Memoir of our late associate, Nathaniel I. Bowditch, which he had prepared in compliance with a vote of the Society.

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