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[7'o' the Editor of Tux SPECTATOR.] Six,—The passage in As I Remember may be reconciled with
possibility, though not with probability, in the following manner : 1790/1884; A—The old lady alive in 1884.
1740/1840. B—Her dear husband.
1700/1770. C-HHis first wife.
1640/1720. D—C's first husband.
1. D may have been born in 1640, and was thus of an age to know Cromwell before he died in 1658. • 2. D married C in 1715, when he was 75, and she 15. 8. C born in 1700, married for the second time B in 1760, when she was 60, and he 25.
4. B, born in 1740, married A in 1810, when he was 70 and she 16.
5. A survived to 1884, when she was 90.
Obviously item 3 is the most unusual, but it does not depart widely from the Ashmead-Bartlett, Baroness Burdett Coutts
precedent.—I am, Sir, &e., A. II. G. Devonshire Club, St. James's Street, S.W. 1.
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