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William Salt Library to hunt up the Shorts, and after a terrible long hunt we found that a family of the name of Short lived at Ashley, also a Cradock lived there in the Commonwealth. Thomas Short of Ashley had a son Edward, who married Miss Cradock, dau. Of———Cradock of Hungersheath. [Hungersheath is a bit of waste land adjacent to Ashley. I think the name has died out of present day maps.] They had a son Edward Short of Mayford in 1663. This I think proves the connection between the Shorts of Meaford and the Cradocks. We must have bought Mayford from this Edward Short soon after 1663. There are Short monuments at Lichfield. Yours Sincerely, E. M. Parker Jervis. Evidently there is yet much to learn about the father of our Medford, but it would appear from the third (Jervis) letter that the difficulties referred to by Historian Hughes are, in a measure, cleared up. What may yet be learned we leave to future issues of the Register, and present the following:— Cop