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Station, Trowbridge.
Rode Rectory, Bath.
Oct. 19th 1931
Dear Sir,
Is your Northants parish Gretton, on the hill opposite Uppingham? But I do not write to trouble you to answer, only to add a footnote which may interest you. Gretton was the old sanctuary of Rockingham forest and what is now the Vicarage Garden was the Sanc close. There are still there the descendants of many broken men with good names who found refuge, Richmonds, Warrens, Waterfields. But the strongest family is that of the Tee-Boones. By village tradition these are two families and though the name is spelt the same throughout the distinction is kept up in the pronunication of it. There are the Tee-Boones, commonly called Tees, said to spring from an unblessed union between a Tee and a Boone and the Te-Boones, generally Boones, who claim descent from the De Bohuns. The tradition was wearing thin when I was there some 16 years ago but was rigidly kept up by the older people. Thank you very much for the open airness of the Blanket of the Dark.
Yours truly,
A.L. Armitage
