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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Countess Ida and the Bradenstoke Cartulary
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:13:59 -1000


Sounds posh and tony.

OK. Who are your 16? [Let's count Cleveland once.] Hoover is allegedly
another one. Also, other well-known folks who are descendants?

Prince William of Wales is also reportedly a descendant of William
Longespee.

D. Spencer Hines
--

"Well, that's what I mean. You know, if all the people who are named
...deny it....That's all, I mean, I expect them to come looking into it and
interview you and everything, uh, but I just think that if everybody's on
record denying it you've got no problem.....I wonder if I'm going to be
blown out of the water with this. I don't see how they can...if they don't,
if they don't have pictures."

Governor Bill Clinton --- Telephonic Advice to Gennifer Flowers [1991]

ED MANN wrote in message <>...
>D. Spencer Hines wrote:
>
><edited>
>
>> . . . William Longespee . . .
>
>> Among Presidents of the United States and their wives many are reportedly
>> descended from William. James Madison, Mrs. Grant [Julia Boggs Dent
Grant],
>> George Bush and Barbara Bush just for starters --- vide Gary Boyd
Roberts'
>> "Ancestors of American Presidents" [1995]. I'll add George Washington
[many
>> descents from William] and Thomas Jefferson, to the mix.
>
>I show at least 16 U.S. Presidents - 17 if you count Grover Cleveland
>(22d & 24th) twice.
>
>--
>FWIW; AFAIK; IMHO; YMMV; yadda, yadda, yadda.
>
>Regards, Ed Mann mailto:
>

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