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remarked, that there may he “several omissions, such as we know to be the 
case in the genealogies of Matthew” ; and as we know is frequently done in 
our Peerages, which record the pedigrees of our nobility, who can trace as far 
hack as the Norman Conquest. Or on the supposition that . every ^generation 
is actually specified in Scripture, it would not be difficult to show that in 
two different lines, tracing from a common ancestor, the same period may 
embrace two generations in the one instance, and double that number m the 
other. I will mention a case with which I am well acquainted in proof of 
this : — i 
, Edward 111. 
Duke of Clarence. Duke of York. Duke of Gloucester. 
Philippa = Earl of March. 
Earl of March. 
A„L = Earl of Cambridge. Anne ==W. Bourchier, Earl of Ewe. 3 
Richard, Duke of York. W. Bourchier, Lord Fitzwarine. 4 
Anne=Sir Thomas St. Leger. F. Bourchier, Lord Fitzwarine. 5 
Anne=Lord de Ros. J- Bourchier, Earl of Bath, X. 6 
J” _ i TT / 
Eleanor de Ros=f John Bourchier, Earl of Bath, II. 
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Now it will he seen that of these two lines, proceeding from the »ame 
stock and coming together again in the ninth gen-ation there are eght 
generations in one line, while there are only six in the other , i.e., the th 
generation in the one was contemporaneous with the fifth of the other jwhm 
light have occurred at a similar ratio in the succeeding generations and 
would have proved still more clearly the impossibility of drawing any a „ 
ment from the number of generations recorded in a smgle genealogy- 
I have only further to point out the historical error which Mr. Titcomb 
has fallen into by asserting— _ 
“ That under the successor of Harnesses, Anienophis III ■, a . new wort s ip 
might expect,” &c. . 
That the worship of the sun’s disc began in the reign of Anienophis I . is 
certairdy True, and we know that it lasted for a period of something unto a 
century! as it was put an end to by Seti I., the father of the Pharaoh who is 
commonly known as “ Ramesses the Great.” X had drawn an “g" 
from this! to which I still adhere, that the introduction of the worship of the 
sun’s disc was probably caused by the inability of the EOTW^^h- 
stand the power of Jehovah, as manifested by t e an s o ^ 
at the time of the Exode, when the predecessor of Amenophis III. was on 
