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bits while I with the veneer of
a certain local knowledge scored
in other places no doubt, but
neither will have got the full good
out of your impressive knowledge
of the scene & the period &
the spirit of the age.

Your Lord is a far more
convincing skeleton that the
ordinary story of it seated at
a table. Starving folks go through
a good deal before they go out.

I notice you give more
emphasis to the importance of
the Bohun strain & inheritance
which of course brought the

blood of Thomas of Woodstock
with the prestige of 'Constable'.

Curiously enough there had
lingered for many years in my
head inaccurately a jingle
about "the princely, the superb
House of Stafford" somewhere
in Lodge's Portraits. I ran
the quotation to earth last Saturday.
It comes in the sketch of Geo.
Villiers, Duke of B. "First
Duke of Buckingham, that is
to say the first to whom the
title was granted since it
had been torn by attainder
from the blood of Plantagenet
in the Superb House of Stafford."

I'm sure your researches
amply justify you in stressing