Trinity College,
                                                    Hartford, Connecticut,
                                                    July 5, 1924.

Dear Mr. Hill,

I enclose rough pencil copies of pedigrees from Browning’s “Americans
of Royal Descent”.  It seems to be the desired Isham royal and Magna Charta
descent, though the Magna Charta Baron traced to is de Quincey rather than
de Vere.

I have not been able to trace the de Vere Magna Charta descent so far.  I
suppose it is all down in Browning’s Magna Charta book, but I have not been
able to find a copy of that in Hartford.  I can see it if you want more Barons
for your record when I go to New York or Philadelphia.  I imagine you have
several; when one finds one, he is apt to find more-it is like royal lines.  If
you have any, you are likely to have many.

Mr. Browning would know about them, and if you tell him of this pedigree
from his Royal Descent book, or indeed give him your line back to the Isham
immigrant, he is likely to credit you on the records of the Society with the
others, simply giving references to the pedigrees in the Magna Charta book.

Trusting that this will give you what you want before you write to Mr.
Browning, and assuring you I shall be glad to pursue the subject further if
you wish when I go to New York or Philadelphia, I am

                                               Very sincerely yours
                                    (signed)            Arthur Adams

Note: As one might expect, Mr. Browning’s work is not impeccable.  Numerous
mistakes have been found in his books.  I have myself found two mistaken
lines.  Part of this pedigree, not the Isham part, is found in Water’s
 ”Chester of Chicheley”, Vol.1, pp. 48-50.  On the whole, it seems well
documented.


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