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The Lineage of Lichfield 
 
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 Lineage of Lichfield 
 
 An Essay in Eugenics 
 
 By 
 James Branch Cabell 
 
 atavis edite re gibus, 
 o el presidium et dulce decus meum 
 
 NEW YORK 
 ROBERT M. McBRIDE fef COMPANY 
 
 1922 
 
Copyright, 1922, 
 
 by 
 JAMES BRANCH CABELL 
 
The Lineage of Lichfield 
 
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The Epistle Dedicatory 
 
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 To Lewis Galantiere 
 
 OU have herewith the book which yoii 
 once desired me to make, in just the 
 utterly unreadable form which you sug 
 gested. Indeed, I can now see that in no less 
 devastating manner could I well dispose of the 
 questions you then asked, a bit sceptically, as 
 to "the connecting theme" of my books in gross. 
 For the quite obvious connection is the fact 
 that they constitute a largish family tree, which 
 I herewith present for your confusion. It is a 
 genealogy although for reasons that are here 
 inafter, I trust, made plain, the compiler elects 
 to call it a Biography of which the evolution 
 was begun as far back as 1901, when I wrote the 
 first of the stories afterward bound up together 
 as The Line of Love. And the general "method" 
 followed in that volume of depicting a decisive 
 passage in the lives of two persons, then a sim 
 ilar untying of knots in the life of a child of that 
 couple, and yet afterward in one of the grand 
 children s life-history has been extended, but 
 never altered, in my succeeding volumes. The 
 most plain connection of my various books is, 
 thus, precisely the same connection that exists 
 between the several stories in my first written 
 book, The Line of Love. And all traces pretty 
 
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 clearly now from Dom Manuel, and the 
 descendants whom he and Alianora left in Eng 
 land, and the other descendants whom he and 
 Niafer left in Poictesme, and from the eleven 
 images that he and Freydis informed with fire 
 from Audela, and set to live as men among man 
 kind. 
 
 But in a deeper sense, I like to think, the 
 coherency of these books is not merely genea- 
 logic. ... Beyond Life now stands as a sort of 
 preface to embody the vital and aesthetic theo 
 ries thereafter builded on, as well as generally 
 to indicate the forces to which my protagonist 
 later reacts. Forthwith you have Manuel, and 
 have Jurgen, posed as the ancestors and life- 
 sources of all my leading characters. Forth 
 with, too, you have my protagonist. For it is 
 the life of Manuel, and the life of Jurgen, as this 
 life is perpetuated in the descendants of each, 
 that I continue to tell about. The vital principle 
 of each of these extreme types is presently 
 blended with the other, in the person and in the 
 progeny of Melite de Puysange; and the com 
 pound need one say? is very variously af 
 fected and guided and foiled by the milieu in 
 which it thereafter happens to find itself. But, 
 actually, with Manuel s life, and in somewhat 
 less degree with Jurgen s life, as each life is 
 transmitted through a score-and-odd of genera 
 tions down to the present continuance of this 
 life in Lichfield, and with, in most cases, I 
 
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 hasten to assure you, each of its renewals pref 
 aced by an edifyingly proper matrimonial pro 
 logue, actually, with this protagonist are my 
 books concerned always. . . . 
 
 Manuel, let me say here, I planned to be the 
 type which finds its sole, if incomplete, expres 
 sion in action: I have, in consequence, been at 
 some trouble to refrain from ascribing to Dom 
 Manuel any thoughts whatever. And Jurgen 
 was designed to illustrate Dom Manuel s utmost 
 contrary, in that Jurgen derives his real, his 
 deepest, his one unfailing pleasure, from the 
 exercise of his if the fact may here be rather 
 bluntly outspoken without offending my friend 
 and benefactor, Mr. John S. Sumner, in the 
 exercise, I repeat, of his intelligence. To Jur 
 gen, the progenitor of all the poets and all the 
 inadequate, unpractical persons in my books, 
 the most interesting thing in the world in fact, 
 the one wholly worth-while thing, is to watch 
 his own brain working, especially when this fine 
 curious toy is set to outmatch the workings of 
 some other brain. . . . Between these two 
 extremes range the inherited traits of their 
 descendants, who display, not unnaturally, an 
 occasional marked family resemblance. And 
 the "connecting theme" of the books, viewed in 
 this light, would seem to be the lean and dusty 
 axiom that human beings and human living are 
 pretty much the same in most times and sta 
 tions, and come by varying roads, as did Jurgen 
 
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 the pawnbroker and Manuel the high Count, to 
 pretty much the same end. 
 
 Yet, underlying all, of course, is the pro- 
 founder "connecting theme" that Horvendile is 
 the erratic demiurge who composes and controls 
 the entire business extempore, without any 
 prompter except his own aesthetic whims: but 
 that is really a matter almost too complex here 
 to explain. Rather does discretion urge me to 
 refer you to Saevius Nicanor s fine chapter on 
 this very interesting theory. For it all comes 
 back to theory, and to the cooling reflection 
 that it is the nature of every explanatory theory 
 to be evolved after the phenomena it accounts 
 for, even, I suspect, when it is one s own 
 theory about one s own books. 
 
 In any event, it was your suggestion, some 
 while ago, that I compile and put in order such 
 a selection from Colonel Rudolph Musgrave s 
 books and from his various genealogical notes 
 and articles (now occultly enriching the back 
 files of the Lichfield Historical Association s 
 Quarterly Magazine) as would make plain the 
 family connection between my chronicles of 
 Lichfield and the stories of Poictesme. Here 
 then is that selection. Hereinafter is that rela 
 tionship set forth, very simply and baldly, with 
 no effort toward any of the auctorial graces save 
 the lean virtue of clarity. Just to be clear is 
 
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 my one aim: and so I need not tell you that I 
 hereinafter avoid all pedantry and shun the 
 antiquary s vice of larding his clipped j argon with 
 as many tatters of strange tongues and pa 
 triarchal spelling as he can possibly lug in any 
 where that plain English would serve him better. 
 Now on the face of it, as I have confessed, the 
 thing is a pedigree which indicates the descent of 
 various persons, about whom I have written the 
 stories and books named marginally, from Dom 
 Manuel of Poictesme. In reality, I think, this 
 volume is an outline or, say, a map of some 
 nine centuries of Dom Manuel s life, the life of 
 which my other books are the Biography. For, 
 be it repeated, the life that informed tall Manuel 
 the Redeemer did not become extinct when the 
 old champion rode westward with Grandfather 
 Death: the body and the appearance of Dom 
 Manuel was gone, but his life remained per 
 petuated in divers children in, to be accurate, 
 a respectable total of sixteen persons, who 
 afterward transmitted this life to their progeny, 
 as did they in turn to their own offspring. So 
 this life flowed on through time and through 
 such happenings in France and England and 
 America as, one by one, my books have re 
 corded, with every generation dividing and 
 subdividing the troubled and attritioned flowing 
 into more numerous streamlets. And Manuel s 
 life came thus to Lichfield, by and by, and is 
 not yet extinct in my contemporary Townsends 
 
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 and Kennastons and Musgraves, of all whom I 
 hereinafter trace out for you the descent from 
 Manuel. 
 
 It is about this life that I have written else 
 where, in many places, in various chapters of a 
 Biography which is largish now, but stays in 
 complete, and will not ever be completed. For 
 this human life, as I write about it, appears to 
 me a stream that, in journeying toward an un 
 predictable river, itself the tributary of an 
 unplumbed ocean, is fretted equally (still to 
 preserve the fluvial analogue) by the winds of 
 time and by many pebbles of chance. So are 
 there various ripples raised upon the stream as 
 it goes ultimately seaward: and, noting 
 these, we say this ripple is Manuel, that 
 Ormskirk, and the other Charteris; noting also 
 that while we name it the small stir is gone. 
 But the stream remains unabated, nor is the 
 sureness of its moving lessened, any more than 
 is the obscurity of its goal. 
 
 3 
 
 Or let us shift the figure. Let us rather liken 
 this continuously reincarnated life of Manuel 
 to an itinerant comedian that with each genera 
 tion assumes the garb of a new body, and upon 
 a new stage enacts a variant of yesterday s 
 drama. For I do not find the comedy ever to 
 be much altered in its essentials. The first act 
 is the imagining of the place where contentment 
 
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 exists and may be come to; and the second act 
 reveals the striving toward, and the third act the 
 falling short of, that shining goal, or else (the 
 difference here being negligible) the attaining of 
 it to discover that happiness, after all, abides a 
 thought farther down the bogged, rocky, 
 clogged, befogged heartbreaking road, if any 
 where. That is the comedy which, to my find 
 ing, the life I write about has enacted over and 
 over again on every stage between Poictesme 
 and Lichfield. 
 
 I call it a comedy. Really there is thin sus 
 tenance for the tragic muse in the fact that with 
 each performance the costume of the protag 
 onist is spoiled, and the human body temporar 
 ily informed with Manuel s life is thrown per 
 force to the dust-heap. There is not even 
 apparent, to reflection, any economic loss: for 
 the wardrobe of this mundivagant posturer is 
 self-replenishing, in that as each costume is used 
 it thriftily begets new apparel for the comedian 
 to ruin in tomorrow s rendering of the old play. 
 The parent s flesh is flung by like an outworn 
 coat: but the comedian, reclad with the child s 
 body, tricked out with strong fresh sinews and 
 re-rouged with youth, is lustily refurbishing, 
 with a garnish of local allusions and of the latest 
 social and religious and political slang, all yes 
 terday s archaic dialogue and inveterate "sit 
 uations. * 
 
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 4 
 
 Now in the light of this comoedic metaphor 
 the metaphor which upon the whole I prefer, 
 the researches of Colonel Musgrave can deal 
 with no large portion of the vagabond s ward 
 robe. For the colonel has of course concerned 
 himself with only that relatively brief part of 
 the tour wherein life has worn human bodies. 
 Previously, they whisper, the scenery was 
 arboreal, and our comedian wore fur and a tail; 
 as before that his costume was reptilian, and 
 yet earlier was piscine. So do the scientists 
 trace backward his career to life s first appear 
 ance upon the stage, when the vis comic a which 
 later was to animate the thews of Manuel had 
 for its modest apparel only a small single bubble 
 embedded in primeval slime. 
 
 Always, one perceives, our comedian has 
 dressed his role with increasing elaborateness, 
 progressing from a mere pinhead of sentiency to 
 all the intricate fripperies of the human body, 
 with its wealth of modern improvements in the 
 form of forward-looking bifocal eyes and pre 
 hensile fingers and multiloquent lips. And so 
 magnificently has he, through many centuries of 
 endeavor, reorganized his stage-setting in the 
 sundry nooks of Earth enriched with his main 
 centres of civilization and his stupendous ful 
 minating wars that it is not past the reach of 
 poetic imagining to suppose the telescopes of 
 Earth s nearest neighbor may quite possibly 
 
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 have detected some one of these fermenting 
 pustules. 
 
 That proud contingency as yet stays guess 
 work, but less remotely this comedian has made 
 sure of his art s last need. Upon Earth s epi 
 dermis he has created an audience more certain 
 and immediate than those it may be interested 
 Martians, by very patiently training some cells 
 in the human brain once in a while to think. 
 And since every form of aesthetic effort is spurred 
 by any prospect of applause from any source 
 however trivial, one must surmise that the per 
 formance is given with renewed gusto now the 
 comedian s antics may be marvelled over by 
 this gray beading so unobtrusively inwrought 
 into his latest costume. 
 
 Yet there is a drawback to this evolving of 
 man s brain as a dramatic critic. It is that the 
 one honest verdict to be wrung from the small 
 wet sponge, which lines, they say, the skulls of 
 patriotic orators and of our popular clergy too, 
 must always be a lament that, even in the 
 primordial ooze, the drama was (and, for that 
 matter, bids fair to remain, in the last cold 
 electric-lit futurity) a bit depressingly confined 
 to this theme of striving toward a goal that, 
 gained or lost, proves not to be the true goal, 
 after all. And then da capo! . . . Yes, it really 
 is depressing, because there is in this unending 
 captaincy of a forlorn hope, in this futile and 
 obstinate romanticism of life s vaudeville, just 
 
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 the element to which our most applauded 
 "realists" most strenuously object, as being 
 untrue to life; and in the withering light of our 
 best aesthetic theories, the performance seems 
 wanly rococo and unreal. 
 
 5 
 
 Still, I spoke overrashly of futurity, before 
 which, really, my imaginings baulk. For to 
 morrow the age-old comedian will be doing and 
 wearing none knows what, although in reason 
 the restless artist that we call life cannot long 
 stay content with human bodies for his apparel 
 and medium. Already, in considerate eyes, life 
 tends to some more handsome expression, by 
 means of the harnessed chemistries and explo 
 sions, and collaborating flywheels and .vapors, 
 and wire-dancing thunderbolts, that in all our 
 cities dwarf the human beings who serve as the 
 release levers. Already, a many philosophers 
 recognize, we are so generally fed and clothed 
 and sheltered and carried everywhither by 
 machinery that we can lay no grave claim to be 
 thought more than its parasites. And already 
 the era appears well in sight when every need of 
 civilization and every business of life will be dis 
 charged by the pressure of electric buttons, and 
 when, in America at least, the one essential 
 part of man will be his forefinger. 
 
 But at prophecy, I repeat, I baulk. I am 
 duly tempted to weigh the likelihood that with 
 
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 disuse the other members of the inhabitants of 
 these states will disappear, and that our national 
 nicety will then make an end of all by suppress 
 ing this surviving forefinger as a probably 
 phallic symbol. But into these high considera 
 tions there is happily no need to enter. It may 
 seem to hidebound logic quite certain that 
 human beings are just one season s fashion in 
 life s clothes, and that next season something 
 entirely different will be worn. With such 
 sartorial forecasts I have here no quarrel, and if 
 I do not tell you the real truth of the matter it 
 is merely because I do not know it. I merely 
 know that, even though the life of our planet 
 may by and by discard mankind just as it has 
 discarded the dodo and the dinosaur, at present 
 men and women are life s latest clothing: and I 
 take it to be the part of urbanity to accept the 
 mode of our day. So I must tacitly confine 
 myself to this one season in Dom Manuel s 
 endlessly roving life, and in your life and 
 mine, and neither here nor in my books may I 
 presume to prattle of apotheoses. 
 
 Dumbarton Grange 
 
 August, IQ2I 
 
The Lineage of Lichfield 
 
 Being a partial list of the descendants of Dom 
 Manuel, Count of Poictesme, as compiled from 
 the books and papers of R. V. Musgrave. 
 
Figures above the line indicate the generation in descent from 
 Dom Manuel of Poictesme. Dates prior to 1752 are Old Style, 
 except that the year is estimated as beginning i January. 
 
 Abbreviations Employed: 
 
 b. = born. 
 bapt. = baptized. 
 dau. = daughter. 
 d.s.p. = decessit sine prole. 
 
 m.= married. 
 unm. = unmarried. 
 
The Lineage of Lichfield 
 
 ANUEL 1 the Redeemer, Count of FIGURES 
 Poictesme,b.23Dec.i2i3,d.29Sept. F EART 
 1 239, was, according to tradition, the 
 son of the water demon Oriander and the peasant 
 girl Dorothy of the White Arms, who is called in 
 one version of the story Vraswen. The perhaps 
 partly mythical exploits of Dom Manuel 1 form 
 the basis of the familiar mediaeval romance Les 
 Gestes de Manuel, now accessible to English 
 readers in the Selborne Series. Of the other 
 relatives of Manuel 1 nothing is known except 
 that his half-sister Matthiette was the wife of 
 Meunier, Comte de Montors, and had issue: 
 Gui, Comte de Montors; and Ayrart de Montors, DOMNEI 
 afterward Pope. 
 
 By a matrimonial alliance with Niafer, b. 
 circa 1210, m. 3 Nov. 1235, d. spring of 1277, 
 (the dau., according to some historians, of the 
 Soldan of Barbary), Dom Manuel 1 had issue: 
 Melicent 2 ; Emmerick 2 , who succeeded his father 
 as Count of Poictesme, b. June 1237, acci 
 dentally killed by his nephew Raymondin 3 de la 
 Foret 26 July 1300, m. Radegonde, then the 
 widow of King Elphanor, and left issue (for 
 whom, compare Lewistam s Popular Tales of 
 Poictesme, Appendix F); Dorothy 2 , called La JURGEN 
 Desiree, b. Dec. 1238, d. 1292, m., in 1256, 
 
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22 
 
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 Heitman Michael of Asch, and left descendants 
 
 THE CREAM (again, compare Lewistam); and Ettarre*, 
 OF THE JEST called La g^ b Oct ^^ m ^ Gu{rQn des 
 
 Rocques (who, circa 1276, succeeded his elder 
 brother Etienne as Prince de Gatinais), but of 
 her issue no record survives. 
 
 FIGURES 
 OF EARTH, 
 DOMNEI 
 
 FIGURES 
 OF EARTH 
 
 THE LINE 
 OF LOVE: 
 
 The 
 
 Wedding 
 
 Jest 
 
 Adhelmar 
 at 
 
 Puysange 
 
 Melicent 2 , b. Aug. 1236, d. Feb. 1324, m. (i) 
 Demetrios of Anatolia, who was lord of the 
 region between Quesiton and Nacumera (b. 
 1233, d. July 1274, son of the noted magician 
 Miramon Lluagor and Gisele d Arnaye), by 
 whom Melicent 2 had no issue. Melicent 2 m. 
 (2), in 1274, a French nobleman, Perion, Comte 
 de la Foret (b. 1233, d. 14 Jan. 1315), by whom 
 she had, with other issue: Adelaide* de la Foret; 
 and Raymondin 3 de la Foret, b. 1279, d. 1340, 
 m. Melusine, b. circa 1230, (dau. of that King 
 Helmas of Albania whom Dom Manuel 1 con 
 verted from folly), and left issue ten sons, for 
 whom compare Desaivres Le My the de la Mere 
 Lusine, p. 148, Niort, 1882. 
 
 Adelaide 3 de la Foret, b. 1275, d. 1332, m. 
 in 1293, Ralph, Comte de Nointel (b. 1267, d. 
 Nov. 1320), and had, with other issue: Henri 4 
 
 de Nointel, b. 1299, d. 1335, m. (a dau. 
 
 of Adhelmar de Perdigon), and had a son, Sir 
 Adhelmar 5 de Nointel (hero of the mediaeval 
 romance, Les A ventures d Adhelmar) y b. May 
 1332, d. unm. 24 Oct. 1356; and Sylvie* de 
 Nointel. 
 
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 Sylvie 4 de Nointel, b. 1305, d. Dec. 1345, 
 m. in May 1323, Florian, Vicomte de Puysange, Jest 
 b. 1269, d. 2 Feb. 1347 (the reputed son of Poio 
 tesme s legendary Jurgen a and Felise de Puy- (JURGEN) 
 sange: see La Haulte Histoire de Jurgen, in the 
 eighth chapter), and had, with other issue: 
 Reinault 5 , Vicomte de Puysange, b. 1324, d. Adhelmar at 
 1375, m. Berthe -- , and left issue; and 
 M elite 5 de Puysange. 
 
 Melite 5 de Puysange, b. 1337, d. 20 Aug. 
 1363, m. in Oct. 1360, a Norman lord, Hugues, 
 Sieur d Arques, b. 1330, d. Dec. 1387. The 
 Sieur d Arques, in the wars attendant upon the 
 transfer of the French throne to the house of 
 Valois, sided with the English, and after the 
 peace of Bretigni, signed in Sept. 1360, he 
 settled in England, near Yaxham in Norfolk. 
 The name was Anglicized as Darke. Hugues 
 d Arques and Melite 5 de Puysange had issue: 
 Sylvia 5 Darke; Adelais 6 Darke, b. July 1361, d. 
 unm. 18 March 1415; and Hugh 6 Darke, b. Aug. 
 1363, d. June 1404, m. Maude de Spencer, and 
 had a son, Roger 7 Darke, b. 1395, d. 1427, m. "Sweet ^ 
 Lucy Archer, and left descendants. 
 
 Sylvia 6 Darke, b. July 1361, d. loNov. 1419. 
 m. in 1379, Sir Robert Vernon of Winstead, b. 
 1355, d. 16 Aug. 1419, and had, with other 
 
 Biilg, it may here be said, fixes the birth date of Jurgen as 8 
 April 1235, and estimates that the pawnbroker set forth on his 
 supernal adventurings 30 April 1277. The replevined Wednesday 
 would, by this chronology, have been borrowed from the August 
 of 1256. 
 
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 "Sweet 
 Adelais" 
 
 The 
 
 Conspiracy of 
 Arnaye 
 
 In Necessity s 
 Mortar 
 
 The 
 
 Conspiracy of 
 Arnaye 
 
 issue: Sir Hugh 7 Vernon, knighted at Agincourt, 
 b. 1380, d. May 1431, m. Isabel , and left 
 descendants (for whom, compare Villiers Visi 
 tations of Norfolk, in "Vernon of Oke"); Jane 7 
 Vernon, b. 1387, m., in 1404, Henry Heleigh, 
 Earl of Brudenel, and had numerous issue; 
 Sylvia 7 Vernon, b. 1390, m., in June 1410, 
 Richard Degge, Earl of Venour; and Adelais 1 
 Vernon . 
 
 Adelais 7 Vernon, b. 1402, d. Oct. 1429, m., 
 30 Sept. 1422, Fulke, Sieur d Arnaye, b. 1395, 
 d. Feb. 1429, one of the French prisoners taken 
 at Agincourt. This couple made their home in 
 France, and had issue: Noel 8 d Arnaye; and 
 Raymond 8 , Sieur d Arnaye 1473-98, b. 1426, d. 
 Jan. 1498, m. Anne de Nerac, and left descend 
 ants. 
 
 Noel 8 d Arnaye, called Le Joli, Sieur d Arnaye 
 1429-73, b. 1425, d. 26 Dec. 1473, m., in Sept. 
 1462, Catherine de Vaucelles, b. 1439, d. in 
 autumn of 1470, and had issue only: 
 
 Matthiette 9 d Arnaye, b. 1467, d. 8 Aug. 
 1516, m., 1 8 July 1484, Raoul 9 , Vicomte de 
 Puysange, b. 1462, d. 13 Feb. 1520, a great- 
 great-grandson of Reinault 5 , Vicomte de Puy 
 sange, as above. Raoul 9 de Puysange was one 
 of the Frenchmen who fought under Philibert 
 de Shaunde in the Earl of Richmond s behalf at 
 Bosworth, and he was rewarded with an estate in 
 Devonshire, including Tiverton Manor. From 
 
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 him descend the Pierson family of Devon, the 
 head of which, Lord Tiverton, was attainted in 
 1745. Raoul 9 de Puysange and Matthiette 9 
 d Arnaye had, with other issue: 
 
 Adeliza 10 de Puysange (or de Pierson), b. 
 1500, d. 6 Oct. 1537, m., 7 Oct. 1519, Stephen 
 Allonby, ninth Marquis of Falmouth, b. 1494, 
 d. 24 Nov. 1557. He was a great-grandson (as 
 was also, on the wrong side of the blanket, Will 
 Sommers, the King s once-famous jester) of the 
 sixth Marquis of Falmouth, who wooed, without 
 winning, Adelais 7 Vernon: all these Allonbys, 
 of course, being descendants of that first Mar 
 quis who in the thirteenth century was a notable (The Story of 
 
 r i i 9 -AT r theSesttna) 
 
 leader of the barons party against Alianora of 
 
 Provence. Stephen Allonby and Adeliza 10 de 
 Puysange had issue: Thomas 11 Allonby, bapt. 
 3 Jan. 1521, d. unm. 1554; Adela 11 Allonby, 
 bapt. II Sept. 1523, m, in 1540, Sir Edmund 
 Floyer, after 1555, Lord Rokesle; George 11 
 Allonby, called Fitzroy, bapt. 10 March 1526, 
 d. unm. 1 8 Feb. 1556; and Stephen 11 Allonby. 
 
 Stephen 11 Allonby, bapt. 7 June 1530, d. 3 
 Feb. 1596, who became Marquis of Falmouth 
 after his father s death in 1557, m., in June 
 1559, Katherine Beaufort, b. March 1533, d. n 
 Apr. 1576, and had, with numerous other issue: 
 Gerald 12 Allonby, bapt. 24 March 1560, d. 20 
 Aug. 1625, the eleventh Marquis of Falmouth, 
 m. his cousin Ursula 12 Bulmer (for kinship, 
 
26 THE LINEAGE OF LI CH FIELD 
 
 see appended Bulmer Excursus) and left issue 6 ; 
 and Cynthia 12 Allonby. 
 
 Porcelain Cynthia 12 Allonby, bapt. 13 Apr. 1576, d. 3 
 
 Oct. 1629, m. Captain Edward Musgrave, b. 8 
 Feb. 1570, d. 1 6 March 1647. This couple were 
 among the earliest settlers of the Colony of 
 Virginia. Their oldest son, their only offspring 
 in England, died an infant, but after their immi 
 gration to the Colony they had issue: The- 
 odorick 13 Musgrave, and Stephen 13 Musgrave, 
 and a dau., Katherine 13 Musgrave, who m. 
 Lieutenant Gervase Woods. For a detailed 
 account of the descendants of these children, 
 compare R. V. Musgrave s The Mus graves of 
 Matocton. 
 
 BULMER EXCURSUS 
 
 RANCIS Orts of Stornoway had two 
 daughters: Cicely Orts, m., circa 1525, 
 Sir Gerald Beaufort of Tintagel, and had 
 Katherine Beaufort, m. Stephen 11 Allonby, and 
 had Gerald 12 Allonby; and Aveline Orts, m., 
 in 1529, Henry Heleigh, Earl of Brudenel (a 
 
 6 Among the sons was Sir William Allonby, the poet and 
 diplomat, who in 1626 published the first book of a proposed met 
 rical version (apparently never completed) of the Roman dt 
 Lusignan. 
 
 The head of a once distinguished family now believed to be 
 extinct in the male line. The last bearer of the surname was a 
 debauched clergyman, Simon Orts, who died unmarried in the 
 March of 1750. He was survived by a younger brother, Frank 
 Orts, who had, however, on becoming an actor, taken the name 
 of Francis Vanringham. The career of the last-named worthy 
 may be found detailed in Thorsby s Roscius Anglicanus. 
 
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 descendant of Jane 7 Vernon, as above), and had 
 Ursula Heleigh, m. John 11 Bulmer, Earl of 
 Pevensey > and had Ursula 12 Bulmer, who, as 
 above, m. Gerald 12 Allonby. 
 
 Ursula 12 Bulmer was the second dau. of John 11 
 Bulmer, Earl of Pevensey, b. 1532, d. 30 Nov. 
 
 iqyt:. This nobleman was a descendant, in the 
 
 ? , r r i r (The Story of 
 
 ninth generation, of Roger 3 Bulmer, the first the Tenson, 
 
 Earl of Pevensey, b. 1363, the natural son of ^ Rat-Tr^p) 
 Edward 2 Longshanks and Hawise Bulmer, as 
 will be later shown. Gerald 12 Alloriby s brother- 
 
 in-law, the tenth Earl, was George 12 Bulmer, , 
 
 , T-1- Porcelain 
 
 b. 7 Nov. 1567, d. i June 1593, Queen Eliza- Cups 
 
 beth s favorite, who, in Nov. 1589, m. Mary 
 Heleigh, b. 1570, d. 28 Apr. 1592, and had 
 issue only: John 13 Bulmer, the eleventh Earl, b. 
 27 Apr. 1592, d. 1644, who left numerous 
 descendants. 
 
 Among them, in the fifth generation, was the GALLANTRY 
 soldier-statesman John 17 Bulmer, b. 15 Apr. ^J^*^ s . 
 1705, d. 4 Dec. 1779, better known to history as sage, In the 
 the Duke of Ormskirk. His grace of Ormskirk 
 m., in May 1750 (as is duly stated, of course, in The Scape- 
 Lowe s Life) Claire Gabrielle Antoinette 17 dau. 
 of the fourth Due de Puysange, who was (as is 
 not made clear by Lowe) descended from the 
 younger brother of Raoul 9 de Puysange. The 
 dukedom in this famous French family dates 
 back no further than 1638. 
 
 I make this excursus because the Bulmer 
 family also has its representatives today in Lich- 
 
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 Love at 
 Martinmas, 
 The Casual, 
 Honeymoon, 
 The Rhyme to 
 Porringer, 
 Actors All 
 
 THE CORDS 
 OF VANITY 
 
 THE EAGLE S 
 SHADOW 
 THE CREAM 
 OF THE JEST 
 
 THE CORDS 
 OF VANITY 
 FROM THE 
 HIDDEN WAY 
 
 field. Lord Gaston 18 Bulmer, b. 29 Nov. 1758, 
 d. 31 Oct. 1809, second son of the aforemen 
 tioned Duke of Ormskirk, m. Lady Marian 18 
 Audaine, b. 28 March 1760, d. 26 Aug. 1803 
 (dau. of Francis, Lord Garendon, author of the 
 once widely known memoirs, and his wife, Doro 
 thy 17 Allonby, who was a descendant of Gerald 12 
 Allonby: compare Sparks Landed Gentry, in 
 article "Allonby of Shaw"), came to America 
 circa 1779-80, surrendered at Yorktown, and 
 subsequently made his home in Lichfield. His 
 only dau., Clara 19 Bulmer, m. Jonathan Har- 
 rowby (compare articles "Harrowby of Monte 
 video" in Lichfield Hist. Mag., Vol. VI): and his 
 great-grandson, Felix 21 Bulmer, b. 16 July 1828 
 d. 13 Nov. 1875, the inventor of Bulmer s Bak 
 ing Powder, m. Ellen Etheridge, leaving issue: 
 George" Bulmer, b. 6 Sept. 1853; Marian 22 
 Bulmer; and Claire 22 Bulmer. Of these daugh 
 ters, Marian 22 Bulmer, b. 3 June 1850, d. 23 
 Feb. 1883, m., in opposition to her father s 
 wishes, Samuel Kennaston, and had issue: Felix 
 Bulmer 23 Kennaston (author of Men Who Loved 
 Alison, The Tinctured Veil, The King s Quest, 
 etc.), b. 9 Dec. 1870, m. Kathleen Saumarez 
 (nee Eppes, of the old Virginia family), but had 
 no issue. Claire 22 Bulmer, b. 6 Nov. 1855, d. 5 
 Aug. 1900, m. Theodore Townsend, b. n Sept. 
 1848, d. 17 Nov. 1884, and had issue: Robert 
 Etheridge 23 Townsend, b. 23 Sept. 1877, another 
 noted figure in the world of letters, author of 
 
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 The Apostates, Afield, The Cords of Vanity, 
 From the Hidden Way, etc. 
 
 : 2 
 
 3f|t\ ANUELl the Redeemer, Count of gggg 8 OP 
 
 Poictesme,b. I2i3,d. 1239, by his alli- 
 f^ f ance, 30 Apr. 1235, with Queen Frey- 
 
 dis (who lived as a mortal woman from 30 Apr. 
 1235 to 30 Apr. 1238), became the progenitor of 
 certain figures of earth, which were animated, by 
 the Tuyla process, with sparks of the magic fire 
 of Audela. Of these vivified figures the first 
 and chief was: 
 
 Sesphra, a god of the Philistines (completing 
 with Ageus and Vel-Tyno the Trinity of the 
 Shephelah), b. 30 Apr. 1235. For the myths 
 and ceremonies connected with this divinity, 
 .the reader may profitably consult Garnier s 
 Recherches sur le Culte de Sesphra or Douwer s 
 Urgeschichte der Philistaer. 
 
 To the ten smaller figures which Dom Man 
 uel 1 modeled of the image-makers (compare Les 
 Gestes de Manuel, in the seventeenth and twen 
 ty-seventh chapters), and which he left unquick- 
 ened when he deserted Freydis, life was subse 
 quently loaned by her, in a manner somewhat THE CERTAIN 
 
 TTfyTTP - 
 
 too complicated to be explained in the limited 
 space here available. Whereafter these figures, 
 
 d ln Ackermann s Volksagen, IV, 196, the curious may find an 
 hypothesis which, although it, unluckily, cannot be given in a 
 volume intended for general circulation, would seem in connection 
 with the above rather strikingly significant, to account for the 
 everywhere prevalent legends of Changelings. 
 
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 as the old chap-book has it, were "eche at a 
 certayne Houre . . . sett ... to Hue among 
 Mans Kind, d with all which of such a State 
 aperteyneth: to grete Hurtes and Harmes, by 
 Cause that these x Ymages were unlyke to Be 
 ings naturallie conceyued, in so much that they 
 hadde inside them Sparkes and smalle Flamings 
 of the Fyer of Audela." 
 
 These figures, according to Codman (Hand- 
 book of Literary Pioneers, pp. 210-12), were: 
 
 Cavaliers ^* R a i m baut de Vaquieras (or de Vaqueiras), 
 
 poet and crusader, b. circa 1150, d. 8 May 1225, 
 m., in May 1210, Biatritz de Montferrat," then 
 the widow of Conrat, Prince of Orange, and 
 previously the widow of the Lord of Del Carat. 
 It is noticeable that in this, the first figure 
 quickened by Freydis unaided, the magic was 
 misdirected through inexperience, and the life of 
 Raimbaut (for which, compare Raynouard s 
 Choix des poesies originates des Troubadours, 
 Vol. Ill, p. 258, and Vol. V, p. 417, Paris, 
 1816-20) was precipitated into the past. Raim 
 baut de Vaquieras had no issue. 
 
 II. Alessandro de Medici/ aesthete, Duke of 
 
 The circumstances of this marriage have been recorded else 
 where. The story of this couple s original entry into amorous 
 relations, however, is perhaps best left to the discreet obscurity of 
 the Provencal, which depicts the lady as equally unembarrassed 
 by shyness and the fact that her first husband was then living: 
 "Ma dona Biatritz li dis que be fos el vengut; e que s esforses de 
 ben far e de ben dire e de valer, e qu ela lo volia retener per cavayer 
 e per servidor. Don Raimbaut s esforset d enansar son pretz tan 
 quan poc." 
 
 The name and arms borne by him are somewhat incredibly 
 
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 Citta di Penna, Duke of Florence, &c., b. circa 
 1512, d. 5 Jan. 1537, m. Margaret of Austria, 
 but had by her no issue. He left three illegiti 
 mate children: Giulio, who entered the church, 
 and became grand prior of the order of S. Ste- 
 fano; Porcia, who took the veil, and founded 
 the convent of S. Clement at Florence; and 
 Juliet, who m. Francesco Cantelmo, but left no 
 issue: the line thus becoming extinct. Compare 
 Tenh. Mem. Gem. liv. XXII, p. 62: and see also 
 Checino s Storia del Granducato di Toscana sotto 
 il governo d Alessandro de Medici. 
 
 III. William Shakespeare, poet and master Judith s 
 of the pastiche, author of Richard the Third, re 
 The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Troilus and 
 Cressida, The Winter s Tale, &c., bapt. 26 Apr. 
 1564, d. 23 Apr. 1616, m., in Nov. 1582, Ann 
 Hathaway. There is a tradition (compare The 
 Mus graves of Matocton, p. 33) that this play 
 wright was enamored of Cynthia 12 Allonby (as, 
 certainly, was Christopher Marlowe)/ and that (Porcelain 
 she was the Dark Lady commemorated in 
 
 explained by Verini (de Illust. Urbis, lib. Ill): "Est qui Bebryaca 
 Medices testetur ab urbe venisse; ^et Toscam sobolem delesse 
 superbam asserat: hinc Medicis meruit cognomen habere quod 
 Medicus Tosci fuerit, sic ore venenum dixerunt patrio: factiquc 
 insignia portet senis in globulis flaventem sanguine peltam." 
 
 Indeed there can be little doubt that the letter comparing her 
 to Helen, in the quaint French which Colonel Musgrave modern 
 izes, was the rough draft of the famous passage in Dr. Faustus: 
 "Viola done la figure qui langa mille navires et fit tomber les tours 
 d llion. . . . Oh! tu es plus belle que la nuit vetue de la beaute 
 de milliers d etoiles. Tu es plus brillante que Jupiter en feu, 
 quand il apparut a I infortune Semele. Tu es plus belle que le 
 monarque du ciel, dans les bras azures de la capricieuse Arethusel" 
 
Concerning 
 Corinna 
 
 Olivia s 
 Pottage 
 
 32 THE LINEAGE OF LI CH FIELD 
 
 Shakespeare s Sonnets. William Shakespeare 
 had issue: Susanna Shakespeare, b. May 1583, 
 d. II July 1649, m. John Hall, and had issue 
 only a dau., Elizabeth Hall, b. Feb. 1608, d. 
 Feb. 1670, m. (i) Thomas Nash, and (2) Sir 
 John Bernard, but had by neither husband any 
 issue; Hamnet Shakespeare, only son, b. Jan. 
 1585, d. Aug. 1596; and Judith Shakespeare, b. 
 Jan. 1585, d. 9 Feb. 1662, m. Thomas Quiney, 
 but left no descendants surviving her. 
 
 IV. Robert Herrick, clergyman and Rosicru- 
 cian, author of Hesperides, Noble Numbers, &c., 
 bapt. 24 Aug. 1591, d. unm. Oct. 1674. For a 
 curious account of his end, compare Borsdale s 
 Pathologic a Dczmonica, in the fourth chapter.* 
 
 V. William Wycherley, dramatist and man 
 of fashion, author of The Plain Dealer, The 
 Country Wife, &c., b. circa 1640, d. Dec. 1715, 
 m., in 1680, Olivia, Lady Drogheda, nee 
 Chichele, and (2), in Dec. 1715, Ann Jackson, 
 but left no issue by either marriage. There 
 
 *Borsdale s comment thereon, as preserved elsewhere, seems 
 sufficiently quaint to be recorded: "Surely such Astrologers are 
 Erra Pater s Disciples, and the D>ivel s Professors, swaddling hell- 
 nurtured Wisdom in spurious ^enigmatical doubtful Tearmes, like 
 the Oracle at Delphos. What a high Dotage and shameless 
 Impudence is in these men, who aspire to knowe more than shining 
 Saints and Angels! Can they read other Men s fates by those 
 glorious Characters the Starres, being ignorant of their owne? 
 Qui sibi nescius cui prcescius? If all were served as this uppstarte 
 Herrick, with his Devill in a Christal, his horrid Flie in a Box, we 
 should have none that would relye so confidently on the falshood 
 of their Ephemerides, and in some manner shake off all divine 
 providence, dreaming to make themselves equal with GOD, 
 between whom and Man the greatest difference is taken away, if 
 Man should foreknow more than his own ignorant unworth." 
 
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 seems to be nowhere any satisfactory Life ot 
 Wycherley, but Major Pack s gossip is valuable. 
 
 VI. Alexander Pope, a cripple, author of A Brown 
 The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, &c., b. 22 
 
 May 1688, d. unm. 30 May 1744. Compare his 
 Life by Deetz, Leipsig, 1876. 
 
 VII. Horace Calverley, Lord Ufford, virtu- Pro Honoria 
 oso and diarist, author of Sixpenny Satires, The 
 
 Vassal of Spalatro, &c., b. 22 Apr. 1725, d. 
 unm. 28 Jan. 1762. His Works have not re 
 cently been reprinted, but all editions that I 
 have seen contain Wharton s judicious biog 
 raphy; and Pater s inedited essay, if it can be 
 come by, is critically valuable. 
 
 VIII. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist The 
 and mountebank, author of The School for Scan- ogle 
 dal, the arraignment of Warren Hastings, a vast 
 number of I. O. U s, &c., b. Sept. 1751, d. July 
 1816, m. (i), in 1773, Elizabeth Linley, and (2) 
 
 in 1795, Esther Jane Ogle, by whom he had no 
 issue. For the descendants of the first mar 
 riage, too numerous to be catalogued here, the 
 reader is referred to Perkins Life of Mrs. Nor 
 ton, and Burke s Peerage and Baronetage, 
 articles "Dufferin" and "Somerset." 
 
 IX. Hilary Rudolph of Saxe-Kesselberg, A Princess of 
 
 ,. , r , h> Grub Street 
 
 critic and essayist, editor and annotator of the 
 
 texts of Sophocles, Saevius Nicanor, Praxagoras, 
 &c., b. 2 Aug. 1780, d. 27 Jan. 1848, who, in 
 1803, took the name of Paul Vanderhoffen, m., 
 in Sept. 1805, Mildred 19 Claridge. 
 
34 
 
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 GALLANTRY: 
 
 The 
 
 Scapegoats 
 
 In the Second 
 April, Heart of 
 Gold, The 
 Scapegoats, 
 The Ducal 
 Audience, 
 Love s 
 Alumni 
 
 A Princess of 
 Grub Street 
 
 Paul Vanderhoffen traced his descent from the 
 old Princes de Gatinais, elsewhere mentioned, 
 in the following line: Antoine, Prince de Gatin 
 ais, Marquis de Soyecourt, &c., b. I May 
 1670, d. 18 Sept. 1750, m. (2nd) in Oct. 1708, 
 the Princess Clotilda Agatha of Noumaria, and 
 had issue only: Louis de Soyecourt, b. 26 Nov. 
 1709, guillotined 9 Jan. 1793, Prince de Gatinais 
 after Sept. 1750, Grand-Duke of Noumaria 
 175055, who m., in Nov. 1750, Victoria von 
 Uhm, and had issue: Anthony Augustus, Grand- 
 Duke of Noumaria 1755-87; Prince Ludwig, 
 whose old-world verses yet lurk in anthologies, 
 and were remarkably commended by a greater 
 brother in Apollo;* and Agatha. Princess 
 Agatha of Noumaria, b. 2 Dec. 1755, d. 8 Apr. 
 1785, m. Rudolph Wilhelm Sebastien Friedrich, 
 Crown Prince of Saxe-Kesselberg, b. 25 Aug. 
 1753, d. 8 Apr. 1785, and had issue: Hilary 
 Rudolph, known later as Paul Vanderhoffen. 
 
 Paul Vanderhoffen m., as has been said, 
 Mildred 19 Claridge (a child of Lord John 
 Claridge, the Egyptologist, and his wife Lady 
 Helen 18 Bulmer, dau. of the first Duke of Orms- 
 kirk), and they had, with other issue: Mildred 
 Stella 10 Vanderhoffen, b. 4 Nov. 1807, d. 22 
 July 1855, m. (2nd wife) Theodorick Quentin 
 Musgrave, governor and judge, b. 17 Jan. 1780, 
 
 *Heine s words will bear repetition: "Die harmonischen Verse 
 umschlingen dein Herz wie eine zartliche Geliebte; das Wort 
 umarmt dich, wahrend der Gedanke dich kiisst." 
 
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 d. 13 Oct. 1850, and had, with other issue: 
 Lieutenant Colonel William Sebastian 21 Mus- 
 grave, C. S. A., b. 8 May 1829, d. 3 July 1863, THE RIVET IN 
 m. Martha Allardyce. Among the children of 
 this last marriage was Colonel Rudolph 22 Mus- NECK 
 grave, the noted genealogist, from whose schol 
 arly compilation, The Musgraves of Matocton, 
 this data is derived. 
 
 X. John Charteris, novelist, author of In The Lady of All 
 Old Lichfreld, Ashtarottis Lackey, &c., b. 22 BEYOND LIFE, 
 Nov. 1857, d. 15 Sept. 1903, m., 22 Nov. 1893, gf^oros 
 Anne Willoughby, but left no surviving legiti- THE RIVET IN 
 mate issue. The only child of this couple was a 
 son, Holland Charteris, b. i Feb. 1895, d. 19 NECK 
 Jan. 1899. 
 
 3 
 
 ANUEL 1 the Redeemer, Count of ^^ 8 F 
 Poictesme, b. 1213, d. 1239, by his 
 alliance, in Sept. 1238, with Alianora 
 of Provence, b. circa 1220, d. 24 June 1291, then 
 the wife of King Henry the Third of England, 
 supplied an heir for England, in the person of: CHIVALRY: 
 
 Edward 2 Longshanks. Compare Les Gestes de e / to ?y f 
 
 , , , r 11 i theSestma 
 
 Manuel, in the thirty-fourth chapter: the au 
 thorities 7 for all this portion of the pedigree, 
 
 M. Paris, M. of West., Walt. Hem. Chron., Paulus Emilius, 
 De Ant. Leg. Lib. (Cam. Soc.), Rymer s Fcedera, Piers Langtoft, 
 Leland s Collectanea, Polydore Vergil, Guthrie folio Hist., Caley s 
 Feeder a, Dom Morice Chron. de Bretagne, MS. Chron. of Nantes, 
 Titus Livius of Friuli, Guillaume de Gruel, Wm. of Wore., Chron. 
 T. Wikes, Annals of Margan, Wav. Annals, Annals of Burton, 
 Nich. Trivet, Chron. Melrose, T. Walshingham Hist, of Kings, 
 W. Thorn Chron. , H. Knighton, G. le Baker of Swinbroke, &c. 
 
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 The Story of 
 the Tenson 
 
 (FIGURES^ OF 
 EARTH) 
 
 The Story of 
 the Rat-Trap 
 
 The Story of 
 the Choices 
 
 The Story of 
 the Housewife 
 
 however, have been enumerated by Verville in 
 both editions of his Notice sur la vie de Nicolas 
 de Caen y in the sixth chapter, and need not here 
 be cited. 
 
 Edward 2 Longshanks, b. 16 June 1239, King 
 of England after 1272, d. 7 July 1307, had by 
 Hawise Bulmer, b. 1242, d. 28 Oct. 1270, a 
 natural son, Roger 8 Bulmer, first Earl of Peven- 
 sey, b. July 1263, d. circa 1320, who left issue, 
 and descendants as aforetime recorded. Ed 
 ward 2 Longshanks in. (i), in Aug. 1254, Ellinor 
 of Castile, b. 1244, d. 29 Nov. 1290 (dau. of 
 that St. Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon, 
 whom Dom Manuel 1 converted from wicked 
 ness), and had, with other issue: Edward 3 of 
 Caernarvon. Edward 2 Longshanks m. (2), 8 
 Sept. 1297, Meregrett of France, b. 1281, d. 14 
 Feb. 1317, and had, with other issue: Edmund*, 
 Earl of Kent, b. 1302, who in turn had issue: 
 Joan 4 of Kent, m. (i) Sir Thomas Holland, and 
 (2), as hereinafter, Edward 5 the Black Prince. 
 
 Edward 3 of Caernarvon, b. 25 Apr. 1284, 
 King of England after 1307, murdered by his 
 wife s orders 22 Sept. 1327, m., 23 Jan. 1308, 
 Ysabeau of France, b. 1295, d. 22 Aug. 1358, 
 and had: 
 
 Edward 4 of Windsor, b. 13 Nov. 1312, King 
 of England after 1327, d. 21 June 1377, m., 24 
 Jan. 1328, Philippa of Hainault, b. 1312, d. 14 
 Aug. 1369, and had, with other issue: Edward* 
 the Black Prince; Lionel 5 of Clarence, b. 29 Nov. 
 
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 1338; John 6 of Gaunt; Edmund 5 of York, b. 
 
 1 344; and Thomas 5 of Gloucester, b . 1 3 54. The Stor y f 
 
 r>i ii i T>I i r T the Satraps 
 
 Edward 5 the Black rnnce, b. 15 June 1330, 
 
 d. 8 June 1376, m. (i), in Sept. 1360, Alixe 
 
 Riczi (dau. of Gilbert, Vicomte de Montbrison), 
 
 b. 1342, d. Aug. 1361, and had issue: Edward* 
 
 Plantagenet, known as Edward Maudelain, b. 
 
 Aug. 1361, d. unm. Feb. 1400. Edward* 
 
 the Black Prince m. (2), 10 Oct. 1361, his 
 
 cousin, Joan 4 of Kent, as above, and by her had the Heritage 
 
 issue: 
 
 Richard 6 of Bordeaux, b. 13 Apr. 1366, d. 26 the Scabbard 
 Feb. 1441, King of England after 1377, who, 
 following his dethronement in 1400, took the 
 name of Richard Holland. He m. (i), 14 Jan. 
 1382, Anne of Bohemia, b. 1367, d. 7 June 
 
 1394, by whom he had no issue; m. (2), i Nov. 
 
 1395, Isabel of Valois, b. 9 Nov. 1387, d. 13 
 Sept. 1410, by whom he had no issue; m. (3) 
 30 June 1403, Branwen of Wales, b. 1385, d. 
 Jan. 1423, by whom he had four children. 
 Compare, for the descendants of his second son, 
 "The Hollands of Lichfield," in Lichfield Hist. 
 Mag., Vols. Ill, IV. 
 
 John 5 of Gaunt, as above, b. 24 June 1340, 
 d. 3 Feb. 1399, m. (i) Blanche of Lancaster, by 
 whom he had issue: 
 
 Henry 6 of Derby, known also as Bolingbroke, 
 
 and after 1400 as King Henry the Fourth of The Story of 
 
 ngland, b. 1366, d. 20 March 1413, m. (i), theScabbard 
 
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 The Story of 
 the Navarrese 
 
 The Story of 
 the Fox-Brush 
 
 in 1381, Mary Bohun, and (2), by procuration 
 3 Apr. 1402, in person 7 Feb. 1403, Jehane of 
 Navarre, b. 1372, d. 9 July 1437, then the 
 widow of Duke Jehan of Brittany. Queen 
 Jehane subsequently m., as her third husband, 
 Antoine Riczi, Vicomte de Montbrison. By his 
 second marriage Henry 6 of Derby had no chil 
 dren; by his first marriage he had issue: 
 
 Henry 7 of Monmouth, b. 19 Aug. 1387, King 
 of England after 1413, d. 31 Aug. 1422, m., 3 
 June 1420, Katharine of Valois, b. 27 Oct. 1401, 
 d. 3 Jan. 1437. After his death she m. (2) 
 Owain Tudor. Henry 7 of Monmouth had issue 
 only: 
 
 Henry 8 of Windsor, b. 6 Dec. 1421, King of 
 England after 1422, dethroned in 1465, d. 21 
 May 1471. His downfall, through his wife s 
 relations with the Duke of Suffolk, and the ex 
 tinction of this line of Manuel s descendants, 
 are narrated in Le Cocu Rouge, that very curious 
 romance erroneously, I think, ascribed by Hin- 
 sauf to Nicolas de Caen, and never as yet, I 
 believe, put into English. 
 
Exit 
 
 I make an end of writing, now that 
 my vogue is over, now that the blazing 
 and sulphureous splendors which went 
 everywhere before me are thinning like blown 
 smoke. . . . The signs are many that there 
 has been a slump in Cabell stock. The literary 
 supplement that only recently had a "Cabell 
 number" now has a review of Figures of Earthy 
 written by Maurice Hewlett, who has himself 
 made a specialty of the mediaeval romance, 
 and who says he never heard of the word 
 "geas," and who contemptuously dismisses 
 Cabell s work as a pretentious and often 
 meaningless jargon "parading a science it 
 does not possess" elaborately concocted to 
 impose upon the credulous reading public. 
 And still another Englishman, the scholarly 
 Solomon Eagle, has expressed a similar opinion. 
 Now if only the agreeable Mr. Hugh Walpole 
 will turn a similar flip-flop, the Cabell balloon 
 may completely collapse. 
 
 Thus far the New York Globe, with rather 
 unaccountable omission of any applause for Mr. 
 Richard Le Gallienne s shocked fulminations 
 against Cabell, unaccountable, I say, because 
 the erstwhile fumbler with the Golden Girl s 
 underwear went about his assassinatory labors 
 with far more dexterity than did either of the 
 
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40 THE LINEAGE OF LI CH FIELD 
 
 other British battlers for nineteenth-century 
 traditions. Indeed Mr. Hewlett did but arise 
 with words more keen than the scissors with 
 which he nowadays writes novels "based upon" 
 Icelandic sagas to proclaim that, since he per 
 sonally had never heard of a variety of matters 
 to be found in any encyclopaedia*, for anyone 
 else to have knowledge of these things was 
 wantonness and coxcombery and mere frivolity; 
 whereas Mr. Squire evinced his somewhat less 
 readily explicable wrath with inarticulate bel- 
 lowings and beatings upon the editorial desk, 
 and with objurgations against Jurgen for failing 
 to satisfy his curiosity. I do not know what he 
 was curious about, and it would be, perhaps, 
 imprudent to inquire; but upon one point, at 
 least, it was clear that the critical ingenu of the 
 London Mercury was in whole-hearted accord 
 with the two hardier survivors of no inconsider 
 able talents. All were agreed that either the 
 lungs of the right-minded or else the Cabell 
 balloon must be burst. 
 
 Well, I shall be, in some ways, rather sorry to 
 see this Cabell pass to oblivion. For I foresee 
 that he will pass quickly now. He was nour- 
 
 fcWith real astonishment one gathers, for example, that Mr. 
 Hewlett is not sufficiently acquainted with the familiar story of 
 Melusine to know that the Albania over which King Helmas 
 reigned was in Scotland; that he is not aware St. Ferdinand was 
 King of Castile and Leon; that his knowledge of Gaelic legend 
 does not extend to the very common word "geas," or to the 
 famous fairy song "Pighin, pighin, da phighin, pighin go ieith 
 agus Ieith phighin;" and that he is even ignorant of the cries which 
 the Talmudic stories about Solomon ascribed to the various birds. 
 
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 ished, he was bred and fattened and sustained, 
 entirely upon newspaper paragraphs; and our 
 literary editors retain a naive faith in anything, 
 except, of course, the pound sterling, which 
 emanates from England. You may notice the 
 decisive turn of the above "And yet another 
 Englishman," as if that quite settled the affair. 
 But that is hardly all. Most of the reviewers, I 
 fancy, are sufficiently like me to have grown a 
 little tired of so much tall talk about Cabell, and 
 to think it high time the monotony was varied. 
 So this Cabell, too, must pass, with all the other 
 novelists who have had their brief hour of being 
 "talked about"; and this Cabell, too, must 
 presently be at one with Marie Corelli and 
 Maurice Hewlett and Elinor Glyn and Richard 
 Le Gallienne and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
 
 I repeat that, in some \vays, I am sorry to 
 see the passing of this Cabell. I found it inter 
 esting to read about this Cabell s romantic 
 irony, his cosmic japes, his bestial obscenities, 
 his well-nigh perfect prose, his soaring imagina 
 tion, his corroding pessimism, and all the rest 
 of the critical chorus. It loaned each Wednes 
 day (when the clippings from my bureau come 
 in on the first mail) quite an exciting morning, 
 and it sustained me well toward lunch time with 
 prideful thoughts that I was more or less iden 
 tified with such a remarkable person. 
 
42 I HE LINEAGE OF LI CH FIELD 
 
 To the other side, I shall, upon the whole, 
 rejoice at the passing of this Cabell. One very 
 positive benefit will be the saving in the matter 
 of my bills for the aforementioned press-clip 
 pings; and the devotion to some better purpose 
 of the time which I of late have squandered on 
 the process of inserting these clippings (almost 
 uniformly idiotic) in my scrap-books. I shall 
 be left unmolested by the bother of autograph 
 ing my novels and wrapping them up again, and, 
 occasionally, of supplying the return postage, 
 and, not infrequently, of finding these same 
 volumes on sale next week at the second-hand 
 book dealer s, as "presentation copies." I shall 
 no longer be invited to lecture before mature 
 and earnest-minded and generally appalling 
 females, whom it is not possible to convince that 
 the fact of my having written a book or two can 
 no more qualify me to enliven their foregather- 
 ings with a lecture than with a violin solo. The 
 younger of the sex will no longer evince via 
 voluminous epistles their willingness to marry 
 me, or even to dispense with the ceremony; and 
 I shall be spared the trouble of concealing these 
 letters from my wife, who emphasizes her disap 
 proval of such notions by an offensive eagerness 
 to pack my things for the suggested trips. And 
 I shall even return, in time, to the old orderly 
 enjoyable reading of newspapers and magazines 
 without any first feverish skimming through the 
 pages to see what this issue contains about me. 
 
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 Yes, certainly, oblivion has its merits, to 
 which I now direct a brightening eye. Now, no 
 longer will the publishers agreement, not to 
 woo away the writers brought out by some other 
 house, be honorably preserved by each deputing 
 his pet author to transmit nefarious suggestions 
 through personal visits to me; and now, chief of 
 all, will magazine editors desist from disturbing 
 my entranced concoction of a book with offers 
 of incredible and iniquitous prices for "some 
 thing in the short story line." Yes, but iniqui 
 tous is a too mild description of these allures 
 when, as may happen, you have a wife uncursed 
 by dumbness or a child to whom in common- 
 sense you owe it to earn as much money as can 
 be come by reputably. For you can think of 
 no possible excuse, none plausible at least to 
 domestic inspection, not to put by the book, and 
 let it wait, while you "dash off" a few thousand 
 words, in full consciousness that if you turn out 
 balderdash your employer will be as touches 
 you quite satisfied, and as concerns his readers 
 approval of the speculation vastly reassured. 
 And the artist really must though there is no 
 explaining it work either just at what he 
 chooses or else toward exhaustion as an artist. 
 
 In fine, the passing of this boom will permit 
 me once more to do, unmeddled-with, what I 
 prefer to do. That is, for some of us, a privilege 
 not at any price to be purchased exorbitantly. 
 
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 So I stand ready to join forces with Messrs. 
 Hewlett and Squire and Le Gallienne. I yield 
 to the right-minded. I abandon the above- 
 mentioned privileges of fame: and I dismiss him, 
 this overmuch be-paragraphed Cabell, into 
 the limbo of out-of-dateness wherein abide, with 
 always rarer and more spectral revisitations of 
 the public eye, the wraiths of Marie Corelli and 
 Maurice Hewlett and Elinor Glyn and Richard 
 Le Gallienne and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
 
 And in departing I would smile friendlily 
 toward those who understand the nature of this 
 withdrawal; but to others I would say, as courte 
 ously as may be, that well, that, at the re 
 quest of friends, a considerable portion of my 
 original manuscript has here been deleted. For 
 so long as the author and publishers of Jurgen 
 remain disfigurements to the criminal classes, 
 a certain reticence is required of me in ad 
 dressing the general public. 
 
 I may say at least, though, that the general 
 public has now very tolerable authority for 
 abandoning all talk about this Cabell s being a 
 literary artist. This present bit of writing, to 
 begin with, may be regarded as exculpatory evi 
 dence. Moreover, Hewlett and Le Gallienne 
 were no great while ago quite respectable names, 
 which even in their owners auctorial de 
 crepitude may still pass muster among, any- 
 
THE LINEAGE OF LI CH FIELD 45 
 
 how, the general public; whereas Mr. Squire 
 enjoys, everywhere that anybody has read as 
 much as is humanly possible in the London 
 Mercury, a deservedly high repute for many 
 very handsome expressions of the mediocre in 
 terms of the academic. Such are the not un- 
 formidable trio that have emulated Goliath, 
 and come forth beautifully clad in brass to bat 
 tle for the faith of Philistia. And I, for one, can 
 feel no hesitancy in endorsing these gentlemen s 
 protests that, by every standard illustrated in 
 their recent writings, I have no claim whatever 
 to be considered a literary artist; and I, for one, 
 derive from their admonitory utterances a warn 
 ing perhaps more salutary than intended. 
 
 For the moral which I personally educe is 
 that, in this world, wherein no fervor endures 
 for a long while, and every clock-tick brings the 
 infested tepid globe a little nearer to the moon s 
 white nakedness and quiet, the wise will play 
 while playing is permitted. The playthings 
 will be words, because a man finds nowhere any 
 lovelier toys. The wise will have their small, 
 high-hearted hour of playing, with onlookers to 
 applaud. 
 
 Then vigor abates, and therewith dwindles 
 their adroitness at this gaming. The skill that 
 was once their glory has become their derision; 
 to Richard-Yea-and-Nay succeeds a Main- 
 waring, and gray Narcissus bleats angry pieties. 
 At this season will the gamester who is truly 
 
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 wise thus I console myself give over his play 
 ing, sedately, without any corybantic buttings 
 of a bald head or any gnashing of old teeth to 
 affray his juniors who may, as yet, thrive at this 
 game. His hour is over, but the end of their 
 hour too approaches, not to be stayed. He will 
 make this savory thought serve as a drug to 
 envy, and as a liniment to his bruised vanity, 
 and as a muffler to the thin-voiced spite of all 
 outworn old women that inhabit Oblivion s 
 seraglio. Wherein abide but you already 
 know my refrain. 
 
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