4 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



Chichester's brother, Charles Buckner, Vice- Admiral 

 of the White, who was twice married, first to a 

 paternal cousin of Squire John, and second to Anne, 

 only sister of the Squire's wife, and already the 

 widow of another Frewen. The reader must bear 

 Mrs. Buckner in mind ; it was by means of that 

 lady that Fleeming Jenkin began life as a poor 

 man. Meanwhile, the relationship of any Frewen 

 to any Jenkin at the end of these evolutions presents 

 a problem almost insoluble ; and we need not 

 wonder if Mrs. John, thus exercised in her imme- 

 diate circle, was in her old age * a great genealogist 

 of all Sussex families, and much consulted.' The 

 names Frewen and Jenkin may almost seem to 

 have been interchangeable at will ; and yet Fate 

 proceeds with such particularity that it was perhaps 

 on the point of name the family was ruined. 



The John Jenkins had a family of one daughter 

 and five extravagant and unpractical sons. The 

 eldest, Stephen, entered the Church and held the 

 living of Salehurst, where he offered, we may hope, 

 an extreme example of the clergy of the age. He 

 was a handsome figure of a man ; jovial and 

 jocular ; fond of his garden, which produced under 

 his care the finest fruits of the neighbourhood ; and 

 like all the family, very choice in horses. He drove 

 tandem ; like Jehu, furiously. His saddle horse, 

 Captain (for the names of horses are piously pre- 

 served in the family chronicle which I follow) was 



