Out of the six people
of whom his nearest family consisted, three were in his own house,
and two others (the horse-leeches, Stephen and Thomas) he appears
to have continued to assist with more amiability than wisdom. He
hunted, belonged to the Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie and
Lucy, the latter coveted by royalty itself. 'Lord Rokeby, his
neighbour, called him kinsman,' writes my artless chronicler, 'and
altogether life was very cheery.' At Stowting his three sons,
John, Charles, and Thomas Frewen, and his younger daughter, Anna,
were all born to him; and the reader should here be told that it is
through the report of this second Charles (born 1801) that he has
been looking on at these confused passages of family history.
In the year 1805 the ruin of the Jenkins was begun. It was the
work of a fallacious lady already mentioned, Aunt Anne Frewen, a
sister of Mrs. John. Twice married, first to her cousin Charles
Frewen, clerk to the Court of Chancery, Brunswick Herald, and Usher
of the Black Rod, and secondly to Admiral Buckner, she was denied
issue in both beds, and being very rich - she died worth about
60,000L.
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