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The second paragraph of the text rattles through generations in a completely mind-boggling way. To take one example, James Heywood Johnstone rapidly morphs into an aforementioned James Raymond Johnstone, who when he is aforementioned is not further identified. But we are told he was MP for Horsham. Being MP for Horsham before 1832 usually meant there had been a cash transaction. Depending on the date, you might have had to negotiate this with the mother-in-law of one of the sons of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, or the Duke of Norfolk, or both. Professor Rothschild's book isn't as enlightening as it might be, but it has a marvellous cover, a Raeburn portrait which shows this was a real family, in which, - shock, horror - there were also living, breathing women. Of course they couldn't be baronets, but... Could the source from which these two paragraphs have been adapted be clarified?Delahays (talk) 00:35, 18 January 2014 (UTC)