ABSTRACT
On Thursday Mothers' Meeting and in the evening arrived Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien and Mr. Isham Longden 1 to meet Mr. Doubleday 2 the Editor of the great Victoria County History and Mr. Barron, the genealogical expert who is undertaking the pedigree volume. 3 The Knightley pedigree has been selected ‘as one of the oldest and most interesting in the Kingdom’, to set the standard of work, and it is quite wonderful how much additional information he has collected. I was very pleased to find my collections of 30 years came in useful. He is very revolutionary in some of his heraldic views and very cocksure about everything, but he evidently aims at ‘the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’, and we may think ourselves fortunate only to have the original Rainald lopped off, whom they claim to have proved to have left no children. However, there are compensations. The Spencers lose 15 generations and the Feilding claim to be Princes of the House of Habsburg is absolutely disproved. There will be searchings of heart when that book comes out.
