The Fishers’ Baronetcy lapsed, as my ancestor after Sir Clement Fisher’s death wouldn’t pay £500 in the nature of fees, I believe. I don’t think he had the money--so my uncle told me. This uncle, by name John Fisher, was over 60 years a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and told me the story of an ancestor who built a wing of Balliol at Oxford, and they--the College Authorities--asked him whether they might place some inscription in his honour on the building! He replied: “Fisher--non amplius,” (but someone else told me it was:-- “Verbum non amplius Fisher!”) My uncle explained that his ancestor only meant just to put his name, and that’s all. But the College Authorities put it all on: “_Fisher!_ Not another blessed word is wanted.” One of my ancestors changed his motto and took these words (I have them on a watch!):-- “Ubi voluntas--ibi piscatur.” (We fish where we like). A Poacher, I suppose! or was there a “double entendre”? I’m told in the old days you could change your motto and your crest as often as you liked, but not your coat of arms! A succession of ancestors went and dwelt at Bodmin, in Cornwall--all clergymen down to my grandfather, who was Rector of Wavendon, in Bucks, where is a tablet to his brother, who was killed close to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, and who ordered his watch to be sent to my uncle’s relatives with the dent of the bullet that killed him, and that watch I now have. My uncle was telling this story at a _table d’hôte_ at Brussels a great many years afterwards, and said he had been unable to identify the spot, when an old white-haired gentleman at the table said he had helped to bury him, and next day he took him to the place. I remember a Dean glancing at me in a Sermon on the Apostles, when he said the first four were all Fishers! On the death of Sir Robert Fisher of Packington in 1739, a number of family portraits were transferred apparently to the Rev. John Fisher of Bodmin, born January 27th, 1708. The three principal portraits are a previous Sir Robert Fisher, his son Sir Clement Fisher, who died 1683, and Jane Lane, his wife. Another portrait is a second Sir Clement Fisher, son of the above and of Jane Lane. This Sir Clement Fisher died 1709, and was succeeded by his only brother, Sir Robert Fisher, who died A.D. 1739, one year before his niece, Mary Fisher, wife of Lord Aylesford. All these portraits were transmitted in direct inheritance to Sir John Fisher. The four generations of Reverend John Fishers of Bodmin, commencing with John Fisher born 1708, were none of them in a position to incur the heavy expenses involved for their assumption of the Baronetcy. They were descended from a brother of the Sir Robert Fisher who lived before the year A.D. 1600.