Friendly faces of three nationalities . mpanied James II into exileat the Court of St. Germains. The family have ever entertained a passion Unfortuned in other matters, they 1 A House of Letters, by Ernest Betham (great-nephewof Matilda), Jarrold & Sons, 1903-4, gives many interest-ing memorials of the family. 2 The Bethams or De Bethams are an ancient West-morland family (see Burns History of Westmorland fornotice of the De Bethams of Betham), and in the littlechurch of Bethom, near Kendal, are the recumbent figuresin stone of Sir Thomas de Betham and his wife, still intolerabl
Friendly faces of three nationalities . mpanied James II into exileat the Court of St. Germains. The family have ever entertained a passion Unfortuned in other matters, they 1 A House of Letters, by Ernest Betham (great-nephewof Matilda), Jarrold & Sons, 1903-4, gives many interest-ing memorials of the family. 2 The Bethams or De Bethams are an ancient West-morland family (see Burns History of Westmorland fornotice of the De Bethams of Betham), and in the littlechurch of Bethom, near Kendal, are the recumbent figuresin stone of Sir Thomas de Betham and his wife, still intolerable preservation, though dating from the reign ofRichard III. For several hundred years the Bethamswere baptized and buried in Morland Church, some dis-tance to the north of Betham; and although the manor ofBetham has long since passed into other hands, till latelysmall estates remained in the family dating from that earlyperiod. The present writer is a daughter of the littleBarbara mentioned in these pages, who afterwards married 16. Matilda Betham have never lacked heraldic treasure. One mightsuppose from this cleaving to genealogy that, asin Biblical days, a bar sinister was drawn acrossevery ungenealogical man, woman and child inthe kingdom. We read (Ezra ii. 62)— Thesesought their register among those that werereckoned by genealogy, but they were not found;therein were they, as polluted, put from the priest-hood. 1 Edward Edwards, of Westerfield Hall, near Ipswich,where she was born. 1 As these lines are prepared for the press I see thatthe German Government has just prohibited Englishspeech in Samoa, the island coolly handed over toGermany by the late Lord Salisbury. On a small scalethis annexation was as deeply felt by the English com-munity as Bismarcks seizure of Alsace-Lorraine by itsFrench inhabitants. One of the earliest settlers inStevensons island-home, 1855, was a nephew of SirWilliam Betham, who no less passionately clung to hisnationality than the French annexe
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