. Wiltshire notes and queries. goMr. French published a volume, entitled the Index Armorial, inwhich he summed up, most sufficiently and exhaustively, theorigin and history of the French family in France and GreatBritain. The first part of the present volume is a compendiumof ancient deeds and documents, supplying the evidence for hisformer assertions so far as Scotland is concerned. The secondpart is a history of that particular branch of the French familywho enjoyed the title of The Laird of Thorndike. Altogether,the volume does credit to the indefatigability and zeal of theauthor, and is on
. Wiltshire notes and queries. goMr. French published a volume, entitled the Index Armorial, inwhich he summed up, most sufficiently and exhaustively, theorigin and history of the French family in France and GreatBritain. The first part of the present volume is a compendiumof ancient deeds and documents, supplying the evidence for hisformer assertions so far as Scotland is concerned. The secondpart is a history of that particular branch of the French familywho enjoyed the title of The Laird of Thorndike. Altogether,the volume does credit to the indefatigability and zeal of theauthor, and is one of the most scientific collections of familyhistory which we have yet come across. It has been the sayingof late years that, when we wish to genealogise, we must go toschool to the United States. At any rate, their family histories areamong the best written. Still, a writer who can send out avolume which bristles with names without making any attempt atan index, is apt, as his compatriots would say, to raise our wild-. fit I. Wmw m : ? ? mm if ets&s^ «J ~ . $ «, .,«-*JL-~
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