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OF THOMAS KIDDERMINSTER, GENT. 133
but heard nothing of him. Then again there was a report
that he was in Barbadoes; and the same clergyman sent
to a minister in Barbadoes to make enquiries after him, but
could hear nothing of him there. Then she heard he was
in Jamaica, (for then Oliver, the Usurper, having a design
upon the Spaniards, had sent out a fleet under the com-
mand of Pen and Venables, who missing of their chief
design, took Jamaica, by-the-bye of which place Sir John
Reynolds was made governor,) and Mr. Kidderminster
having been in the king’s army, and formerly condemned
for his loyalty, it was generally supposed he was in the
fleet, because a great part of the loyalists were sent thither.
Mrs. Kidderminster in the mean time (in August, 1054)
being brought to bed of a daughter, and exposed to get a
livelihood, was entered as a wet nurse in Sir Christopher
Guy’s family in Glocestershire, and there suckled Sir John
Guy, at which time she received a letter from a friend,
whereby she was informed that her husband, Mr. Kidder-
minster, died in Jamaica, and had left Sir John Reynolds
executor for her and her young daughter: and by the
same letter she understood that Sir John Reynolds was
come to London. So accordingly she comes to Loudon to
enquire of him; where she hears he was drowned coming
over seas for England from the coast of Dunkirk : but she
meeting in London with one that did belong to him, he
assured her that there neither was, nor had been any such
person in Jamaica; for he had enquired of Mr. Hodges,
who kept a register of all the passengers to and from Ja-
maica; and she herself had searched the register two or
three times.
From Sir Christopher Guy’s she went to Tupsley in the
Parish of Hampton Bishop, near Hereford, where she had
been informed by her husband that he had an estate; and
Mr. John King, Sir Christopher’s steward, went along with
her to the house where her husband was born, then in the
t possession
but heard nothing of him. Then again there was a report
that he was in Barbadoes; and the same clergyman sent
to a minister in Barbadoes to make enquiries after him, but
could hear nothing of him there. Then she heard he was
in Jamaica, (for then Oliver, the Usurper, having a design
upon the Spaniards, had sent out a fleet under the com-
mand of Pen and Venables, who missing of their chief
design, took Jamaica, by-the-bye of which place Sir John
Reynolds was made governor,) and Mr. Kidderminster
having been in the king’s army, and formerly condemned
for his loyalty, it was generally supposed he was in the
fleet, because a great part of the loyalists were sent thither.
Mrs. Kidderminster in the mean time (in August, 1054)
being brought to bed of a daughter, and exposed to get a
livelihood, was entered as a wet nurse in Sir Christopher
Guy’s family in Glocestershire, and there suckled Sir John
Guy, at which time she received a letter from a friend,
whereby she was informed that her husband, Mr. Kidder-
minster, died in Jamaica, and had left Sir John Reynolds
executor for her and her young daughter: and by the
same letter she understood that Sir John Reynolds was
come to London. So accordingly she comes to Loudon to
enquire of him; where she hears he was drowned coming
over seas for England from the coast of Dunkirk : but she
meeting in London with one that did belong to him, he
assured her that there neither was, nor had been any such
person in Jamaica; for he had enquired of Mr. Hodges,
who kept a register of all the passengers to and from Ja-
maica; and she herself had searched the register two or
three times.
From Sir Christopher Guy’s she went to Tupsley in the
Parish of Hampton Bishop, near Hereford, where she had
been informed by her husband that he had an estate; and
Mr. John King, Sir Christopher’s steward, went along with
her to the house where her husband was born, then in the
t possession