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both Bohun & the attractive device
of the Swan as the lure to the
nobles gentles & commons who
clung to the old.

Various memories came
up of rummagings in Vicary
Gibbs' Complete Peerage as
to the forebears of Mary Sutton
or Dudley, Countess of Home, whose
two daughters carried that blood to
the descendants of James 4th Earl
of Moray & John, Duke of Lauderdale,
& caused me to hunt up Dudley
Tibetot, Cherleton of Powis
Dein court & Lovel etc in V.G. and G.E.C.
(as V.G. stops at "Lincolnshire")
& find links with some of the
families alluded to in your book