Perhaps there I may light upon some impoverished citizen fallen from a good estate who can remember some contemporary of Matthew's.

London was smaller in those days than it is now, and men lived out their lives in one spot, and had leisure to be concerned about the affairs of their neighbours.

As I have now something of a clue to Matthew's roistering days, I shall set to work to follow it up closely; and your provincial researches and my metropolitan investigations proceeding simultaneously, we may hope to advance matters considerably ere long.

For your own part, I should advise you forthwith to hunt up the Judson branch.

You will remember that Matthew's only sister was a Mrs.Judson of Ullerton.