By the Bev. Canon Jackson, F.S.A. 



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a situation in the service of Mrs. Horner : and in this he so rapidly- 

 ingratiated himself with her as to become manager of her Melbury 

 and other estates. 



The following table explains the legal relation of the various 

 persons mentioned in these transactions, J ohn AyliflVs name being, 

 for obvious reasons, inadmissible :— 



Sir George AylifEe. 

 Sheriff of Wilts, 1633. 



John Ayliffe.=Fanshawe. Anne Aylif£e,=Edw. Hyde, = Frances Aylesbury. 



Col. John 

 Ayliffe. 

 Executed 

 1687, 

 after Ar- 

 gyle's re- 

 bellion. 



d. 1632, set. afterwards 

 20. B. ofClar- 



(First wife ) endon. 



George Ayliffe,= Judith Thomas =Ridout. 



(Second wife) 



Esq., last male 

 owner ofj Grit- 

 tenham, d. 

 1712, bur. at 

 Foxley. 



Strang- Strang- 

 ways,d. ways. 

 1716, 

 bur. at 

 Foxley. 



Anna- 

 Hyde. 

 (First 

 wife) 



-K. James II. 



Miss Judith 

 AylifEe, d. 

 unmar. 



Thomas =Vaughan. Thos. Horner,=Susanna 

 Strang- of Mells, Strang- 



ways, Esq. ,d. before ways,d. 



d. s. p. 1743. 1758, 



set. 68. 

 (Sister 

 and heir) 

 Stephen Fox,=Elizabeth 

 Earl of II- Strangways 

 Chester. Horner. 



(Dau. and 

 heir) 



Rt. Hon. Henry Fox, 

 afterwards Baron 

 Holland of Holland, 

 Co. Lincoln, and Fox- 

 ley. (Younger brother) 



John AyliflVs ideas now expanded much too magnificently for his 

 means. Finding himself a person of importance in the county of 

 Dorset as agent to the Strangways estates, he proceeded to build a 

 fine house at Blandford, which he filled with expensive furniture, 

 books, and pictures : forming altogether a collection so large as to 

 require, when his downfall came, a 4to catalogue and six days' sale. 

 He now also began to embark in sundry wild speculations : lost 

 money in vain attempts to establish his claim on lands belonging 

 to various persons : was cheated by money lenders, and in short 

 became deeply involved. Then commenced his course of malpractices. 



