my correspondents. — I know no man in your County, but M r Chute, 
the father of your new Member. I congratulate you that Election 
bustle is over ; as i suppose during the contest, ye were as inimical 
as young Cuckows. I presume you have read Mr Jenner’s account 
of the Cuckow in the Ph. Trans. Yol. 78 , * he handsomly 
disculpates the Cuckow of the want of aropyi ). — There is a gentle- 
man in this County of the name of Gurdon of good fortune. 4 The 
family, i suppose for some centuries, has been owners of a Village 
called Letton. They have lately changed the name for Dillingham. — 
We have the greatest flight of Swallows i think i have ever seen at 
this time. I heard the flying note of the Fern-Owl on Aug. 20. 
* ‘Observations on the Natural History of the Cuckoo. By Mr. Edward 
Jenner. In a letter to John Hunter, Esq., F.lt.S. Read March 13, 1788.’ 
Phil. Trans. 1 778, pp. 219—237. Jenner, the discoverer of Vaccination, born 
1749, died 1823.— A. N. 
4 This remark doubtless has reference to the notice of Sir Adam Gurdon in 
the ‘Antiquities of Selborne ’ (Letters viii. and ix.). Mr. Gurdon of 
Letton, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1789, added to his own surname that of 
his mother, daughter and heiress of Theophilus Dillingham of Shelton, Beds., 
and died in 1 b - 2(). lie was succeeded by his son who dropped the second 
surname. According to Sir Bernard Burke (‘ Landed Gentry’) the Guidons 
of Letton are descended from Robert Gurdon (who died in 1343) the second 
and disinherited son of the above-named Sir Adam by his second wife Almeria 
or Ameria. — A.N. 
[White’s answer to this letter is missing. — T.S.] 
LETTER IV. 
[Marsham to White ] 
Stratton near Norwich. Dec. 29. 90. 
Dear Sir, 
It was not for want of inclination, but want of 
matter, that i did not offer you my hearty thanks for the favour of 
your very entertaining letter of the 12 th of October. I have very 
lately met with some intelligence that may afford you some amuse- 
ment, so wish to lay it before you. 
As i knew nothing of Mr Jennor’s character, & as some of his 
