8 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



he appears to have continued to assist with more 

 amiabihty than wisdom. He hunted, belonged 

 to the Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie 

 and Lucy, the latter coveted by royalty itself. 

 ' Lord Rokeby, his neighbour, called him kinsman,' 

 writes my artless chronicler, ' and altogether life 

 was very cheery.' At Stowting his three sons, 

 John, Charles, and Thomas Frewen, and his younger 

 daughter, Anna, were all born to him ; and the 

 reader should here be told that it is through the 

 report of this second Charles (born 1801) that he 

 has been looking on at these confused passages of 

 family history. 

 Mrs. In the year 1805 the ruin of the Jenkins was 



fortune.'^ ^ begun. It was the work of a fallacious lady already 

 mentioned. Aunt Anne Frewen, a sister of Mrs. 

 John. Twice married, first to her cousin Charles 

 Frewen, clerk to the Court of Chancery, Brunswick 

 Herald, and Usher of the Black Rod, and secondly 

 to Admiral Buckner, she was denied issue in both 

 beds, and being very rich — she died worth about 

 60,000Z., mostly in land — she was in perpetual 

 quest of an heir. The mirage of this fortune hung 

 before successive members of the Jenkin family 

 until her death in 1825, when it dissolved and left 

 the latest Alnaschar face to face with bankruptcy. 

 The grandniece, Stephen's daughter, the one who 

 had not ' married imprudently,' appears to have 

 been the first ; for she was taken abroad by the 



