Jan. 27. 1855.] 



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of his great discovery, by the chapped hands of 

 milkers sometimes proving a preventative of small- 

 pox, and by those amongst them whom he en- 

 deavoured to inoculate resisting the infection. In 

 1770 he mentioned the cow-pox to John Hunter ; 

 ten years afterwards his anticipations were quick- 

 ened, and about 179G he performed the first 

 successful operation. These dates I gather from 

 Mr. Pettigrew's carefully compiled and very in- 

 teresting life of Dr. Jenner.* 



Some of your correspondents will very probably 



tell me that what I have quoted is not a solitary 



instance of the use of the word vaccination early 



in the last century. J. H. Markland. 



Bath. 



SELWYN OF FRISTON, CO. SUSSEX. 



Can any correspondent of " N". & Q." help me 

 with answers to the following questions ? 



Who were the Sheringtons of Selmeston, co. 

 Sussex, one of whom, Katherlne, daughter and 

 heiress of Simon Sherington, was married to John 

 Selwyn of Sherington, about the year 1350? 



Are there any Sheringtons still extant tracing 

 their descent from this family ? 



The grandson of this marriage is Nicolas Sel- 

 wyn, of Sherington. I cannot find the surname 

 of his wife ; her christian name is given in Berry's 

 Genealogies of the Sussex Gentry as Laura. 



I have been told that the name of Nicolas 

 Selwyn is found also Shulder. I shall be glad to 

 know whether there is any confirmation of this, 

 independent of the authority on which I have re- 

 ceived it, which authority, I should add, Is a high 

 one. 



In the collections of Peter Le Neve, Esq., 

 Norroy King of Arms, now remaining In the 

 College of Arms, there Is the following remarkable 

 discrepancy with the statement of the monument 

 of Sir Edward Selwyn still extant In Frlston 

 Church. The monument speaks of one son only 

 of Sir Edward, by name William Thomas Selwyn, 

 who survived his father only two months. Sir 

 Edward dying Dec. 9, 1704, and William Thomas 

 Feb. 9, 1704, in his twenty-first year. The young 

 man_ Is deplored as, " Qui sola spes fuit, et nunc 

 exstlncta, antlquas Selwynorum familla;. Ultlmus 

 hie Selwynorum jacet," &c. 



On the other hand, Peter Le Neve gives to Sir 

 Edward Selwyn a son, whose christian name is 

 ■unrecorded, colonel of a regiment which Is unde- 

 scribed, except as a regiment of foot, and who 

 married a daughter of a Battinson of Chlselhurst, 

 the christian name neither of the lady nor of her 

 father being given. The house Is easily identified 

 still as that of the late Sir Edward Beterson. 



* Biographical Memoirs of the most celebrated Physicians, 

 Surgeons, Sfc., vol. ii. 



Now I have no doubt that the monument is 

 here to be believed, and that the learned herald is 

 in error. But I shall feel obliged by any one of 

 your readers who will kindly fill up the deficien- 

 cies of this record, and refer Colonel Selwyn to 

 his proper father, or who will give me any other 

 clue to the satisfactory solution of the difficulty. 



Sir Edward Selwyn was M. P. for Seaford in 

 1681 and 1684, and High Sheriff of Sussex in 

 1682. Can any of your readers tell me by what 

 means I am likely to discover precisely why he 

 was knighted. His uncle, Sir Nicolas Selwyn, 

 was " one of the honourable band of pensioners of 

 King Charles." I shall be glad to learn somethinij 

 about these pensioners, and especially for what 

 services Sir Nicolas was knighted and admitted 

 into " the honourable band." 



I shall be thankful for any Information con- 

 cerning the following Sussex families, or for re- 

 ferences to documents where they are mentioned : 

 — Sherington of Selmeston, about 1350; Marshall 

 ofMaresfield, about 1380; Reresby, about 1440; 

 Bates or Batys, about 1470 ; John Adam, about 

 1500. E. J. Selwyn. 



Blackheath. 



CURIOUS INCIDENT. 



An intelligent and Imaginative, though unedu- 

 cated old friend of mine (now dead), who had 

 led a most eventful life, ran away from his parental 

 home, In Edinburgh, when about sixteen years 

 old. As is the case with all the strays and waifs 

 of the British empire, he straightway bent his 

 course to London. Of course the theatre was' not 

 long unvislted ; and one Incident In a play which 

 he then saw acted became indelibly stamped upon 

 his mind, and exerted an important Influence upon 

 him In after-life. This Is his description of It. 



A sturdy, middle-aged farmer was hard at work 

 In his field, when he was interrupted by the ap- 

 pearance of his daughter, whom he heartily loved. 

 She was a beautiful, blooming. Innocent- looking 

 girl of eighteen. Leaning upon his spade, and 

 ceasing from his toil, the farmer looked fondly 

 upon her, and passionately exclaimed, " How 

 I love thee, Sukey ; Oh, how I loves thee ! 

 Thou'rt a sweet lass, thou'rt ; how thy old father 

 loves thee ! " And then he threw his spade down, 

 and drew her to his bosom, fairly weeping with 

 joy. But suddenly, and as If stung by some wild 

 thought, he held her away from him at arms' 

 length, and gazing fixedly and even sternly upon 

 her face, cried, half inquiringly, half In soliloquy : 

 " Dost know what Virtue Is like, Sukey ? It is 

 like — ah, now, what is it like ? Let me see. It is 

 like — like " (doubtfully, and as if he saw through 

 a glass darkly), "like — Oh! I see what it's like. 

 Didst ever see, dear Sukey, didst ever see a 



