Tritton: the Place and the Family. By J. Herbert Tritton.
(Arthur L. Humphreys. 21s. net.)—" I must carefully guard myself," writes our author, "from being open to the charge of attempting to trace any genealogical succession" from the remote times to which he carries back his researches. He gives us particulars about the place-name, which belongs, he thinks, to East Kent. The genealogical and biographical matter refers to comparatively recent times. For the name a more than reputable antiquity can be claimed. The first four Archbishops of Canterbury were Roman monks ; the fifth was Trithona, "incorrectly called Frithena," whose name in religion was " Deusdedit." Dugdale speaks of him as the "first English Prelate." When we come to Norman times we find "Tritton " as it is now spelt. As we proceed it becomes more common, and in the seventeenth century what may be called the information about the family is more definite. This volume, while specially appealing to all who bear the name, is not without interest to the general reader.
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