he thought to be genuine records, is surely to be excused for his too-ready faith. The assumed name of "Ingoldsby" is stated by his son to be found in a branch of the family genealogy, but inquiry fails to trace the name in that connection, and it may be said at once that the Kentish Ingoldsbys are entirely figments of Barham's lively imagination. Yorkshire knows a family of that name, of whom Barham probably had never heard anything save their name. He was a man of property, and modestly proud of the descent he claimed, and though by no means rich, his place was among-- The _élite_ of the old county families round, Such as Honeywood, Oxenden, Knatchbull and Norton, Matthew Robinson, too, with his beard, from Monk's Horton, The Faggs, and Finch-Hattons, Tokes, Derings, and Deedses, And Fairfax (who then called the castle of Leeds his). He was, in fact, "armigerous", as heralds would say, and the arms of his family were--not those lioncels of the Shurlands impaled with the saltire of the Ingoldsbys, of which we may read in the Legends--but as pictured here. It may be noted that another Barham family--the Barhams of Teston, near Maidstone--bore the three bears for arms, without the distinguishing fesse; and that they are shown thus on an old brass plate in Ashford church, which Ingoldsby must often have seen during his early curacy there. [Illustration: THE BARHAM COAT-OF-ARMS.] When, however, he talks of the escutcheons displayed in the great hall of Tappington, charged with the armorial bearings of the family and its connections, he does more than to picturesquely embroider facts. He invents them, and the "old coat" "in which a _chevron between three eagles' cuisses sable_ is blazoned quarterly with the _engrailed saltire_ of the Ingoldsbys"--which Mr. Simpkinson found to be that of "Sir Ingoldsby Bray, _temp._ Richard I."--is one not known to the Heralds' College.