FLEEMING'S UNCLE JOHN 27 



expected of a sailor ashore, saved a bare livelihood 

 for John and nothing for the rest. Eight months 

 later, he married Miss Jackson ; and, with her 

 money, bought in some two-thirds of Stowting. 

 In the beginning of the little family history which 

 I have been following to so great an extent, the 

 Captain mentions, with a delightful pride : * A 

 Court Baron and Court Leet are regularly held by 

 the Lady of the Manor, Mrs. Henrietta Camilla 

 Jenkin ' ; and indeed the pleasure of so describing 

 his wife was the most solid benefit of the invest- 

 ment ; for the purchase was heavily encumbered, 

 and paid them nothing till some years before their 

 death. In the meanwhile, the Jackson family also, 

 what with wild sons, an indulgent mother and the 

 impending emancipation of the slaves, was moving 

 nearer and nearer to beggary ; and thus of two 

 doomed and declining houses, the subject of this 

 memoir was born, heir to an estate and to no 

 money, yet with inherited qualities that were to 

 make him known and loved. 



