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furtlier removed by a little work entitled "An Inquiry 

 concerning the death of Amy Eobsart," by 8. J. 

 Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A. Mr. Pettigrew says : 

 " Anthony Forster was the fourth son of Illchard 

 Forster, of Evelith, in Shropshire, by Mary, daughter 

 of Sir Thomas Gresley, of an ancient family. The 

 Anthony Forster of Sir Walter Scott's novel is sup- 

 posed to have been born about 1510 ; and a relative, 

 Thomas, was the prior of an ecclesiastical establish- 

 ment at Wombridge, the warden of Tong, and the 

 vicar of Idsall, as appears by his altar- tomb in 

 Shifnal Church. lie is conjectured to have attended 

 to the early education of Anthony, whose after- 

 connection with Berks is accounted for by the fact 

 that he married somewhere between 1530 and 1540 

 a Berkshire lady, Ann, daughter of Peginald 

 Williams, eldest son of Sir John Williams. lie 

 purchased Cumnor Place, in Berks, of William 

 Owen, son of Dr. G. Owen, physician to Henry VIII. 

 He was not, therefore, as Sir Walter Scott alleges, a 

 tenant of the Earl of Leicester, to whom, however, 

 he left Cumnor Place by will at his death in 1572." 

 It is gratifying to find that Mr. Pettigrew, in his 

 "Inquiry," shows how groundless was Uia (charge 

 built up by Sir Walter Scott against the Earl of 



