5 MARCH 1904, Page 14

JOHN BRIG-HT'S ANCESTRY.

(To TEE EDITOR OP -TEN "SPECTATOR.") attentien has been drawn to an article in the Spectator of January 23rd, p. 118, in which it is stated thatJohn • Bright had "a thinstinin of Jevrish blood?' This story arises out of the fact that an ancestor of mine, about 1685, married-a , Martha Jacobs at Lyueham, in Wiltshire. Jacobs was pee-, sumed -to be a Jewish name, but a connection of this Jacobs family' says it is iu:ot the,ease. "There are, or were, many of

that name in the Society of Friends. My father had no belief