Melford.
_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix., pp. 105. &c.).--MR. ADAMS having very
satisfactorily afforded the required information concerning Samuel Abbott,
I shall still feel very greatly obliged if any other gentleman can throw
any light upon the Archbishop's descendants, especially Sir Maurice's sons
and their issue. I have in my possession an old will of an ancestress,
sealed with the crest of Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose
daughter was second wife and mother to Sir Maurice's children, viz.,
Bartholomew, George, Edward, and Maurice. Did any of them leave a son
called James, born about 1690 or 1700?