Richmond.
_Dr. John Ash_ (Vol. v., p. 12.).--I am able to afford your
correspondent F. RUSSELL but little information respecting Dr. John Ash;
but that is authentic, being taken from an entry in his own handwriting
in the Admission Book of Trinity College. It is to the following effect:
"Ego Joannes Ash, Fil Josephi Ash, gen. (generosi) de Coventria in
Com. Warwick: natus ibidem annos circiter 16 admissus sum com.
infer. ordinis (commersalis inferioris ordinis) sub tutamine
magistri Geering 4'o Die Martii, 1739-40."
There is no other John Ash admitted between 1737 and 1764; therefore it
may be presumed this is the same person.