According to Mrs Orr, Browning "neither claimed nor disclaimed the more remote genealogical past which had presented itself as a certainty to some older members of his family."] [Footnote 5: Quoted by Mr Sharp in his "Life of Browning," p.

21, _n_., from Mrs Fraser Cockran.] [Footnote 6: "Autobiography of a Journalist," i.

277.] [Footnote 7: For my quotations and much of the above information I am indebted to Mr F.Herbert Stead, Warden of the Robert Browning Settlement, Walworth.

In Robert Browning Hall are preserved the baptismal registers of Robert (June 14th, 1812), and Sarah Anna Browning, with other documents from which I have quoted.] [Footnote 8: _Letters of R.B.and E.B.B_., i.

528, 529; and (for Ossian), ii.