I may add that it seems to me almost, if not quite, an anachronism to suppose that Hatif was the author, or that Jones got it from his writings. Hatif died, according to Dr. Ethé, in 1784, and according to Rieu, in 1786. In either case there was hardly time for Jones to see Hatif's poems, for his translation was made, apparently, in 1784, and it is not likely that Hatif's diwan was collected till after his death: the Bodleian copy is dated some years after. Moreover, Jones's Oriental MSS. were presented by his widow to the Royal Society, and have lately been transferred to the India Office. Hatif's poems are not among them, nor have I found any reference to Hatif (nor, indeed, to the " On Parent Knees" quatrain) in the bulky anthology, No. 55, of the Denison-Ross Catalogue of the Jones MSS. Of course, the occurrence in Galland's book of the whole point of the quatrain quite puts out of court any claim to Hatif's being the author-at least, as far as regards originality.

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The fact that one of the quatrains given by Jouannin is by Pindar Rāzī gives rise to the thought that the other may also be by him. And the didactic nature of both quatrains may incline us to this view. But it is only a guess. Unfortunately, the diwān of Pindar Rāzī (his full name was Kamālu-ddin) seems to be lost. The author of the 'Atishkada' had not seen it, and there is no copy in the English libraries. That Pindar Răzi suffered the common lot of an early poet in having his verses ascribed to a later writer seems apparent from No. 23 of the quatrains in Whinfield's edition of Omar Khayyām. This quatrain, beginning Quoth fish to duck," is given in the 'Atishkada' (Calcutta lith. of 1249 н, p. 285) as by Pindar, who was nearly a century earlier than Omar. Daulat Shah says that Pindar Rāzi wrote both in Arabic and Persian. So if he was the author of the Persian quatrain, he might also have written the Arabic one. There is a very copious anthology of Persian poetry in the Bodleian, the 'Makhzanu-Î-Gharāīb' ('The Magazine of Rarities'); but, though it has a short notice of Pindar Rāzi, the only specimen of his verses that it gives is the rather trivial quatrain about the fish and the duck, which has been attributed to Omar Khayyam. I could not find the Jones quatrain in the anthology known as the 'Daghistānī,' and it is certainly not in the Gulistan' or Bostan' of Saadi.

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STEWART: FREEMAN: DAY: PYKE. (See 11 S. iv. 164, 428, 489.) THE STEWARTS,' published by the Stewart Society, Edinburgh, into which I was admitted a year or two ago, contains (vol. it., No. 4, pp. 279-80) an as yet unanswered query of mine, as follows:

"Sibilla Stewart, Edinburgh (obit 1698). The writer would be very grateful for any clues to the ancestry or descendants (direct or collateral) of Sibilla Stewart, who was interred in Greyfriars Burying-ground, Edinburgh, east end kirk,' 11 August, 1698 (cf. Register..... Scottish Record Society, 1902, p. 624). Did she have a daughter or a niece Sybilla Stewart, born circa 1698, who migrated to London or Greenwich? "

A couple of generations later we get the will of a namesake in Dublin :—

I, Sibella Stuart, widow of James Stuart, late of Lazer's Hill, Dublin, Gent., deceased, do make this my last will. Therefore, as to all such houses, goods, and furniture left to me by

my said husband, I bequeath the same to my friend Mary McDaniel, of Dame St., Dublin,

widow, and I appoint her to be exccutrix of this my will. Signed this 30th Aug., 1760. Sibella Witnesses : Stuart. Patt McKinery, James Neill. Proved 18 Sept., 1760."

An incidental item which may or may not be relevant to my quest has been found by Mr. R. J. Beevor in the Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society (1906), vol. ix. p. 4, where appear some extracts from a letter written in 1690 by Elizabeth Wroth at Dublin to her friend Mrs. Warly of Witham, in Essex. The letter mentions the birth of her aunt's daughter Jane Sibella, of whom Sir John Cowper was godfather. This child, Jane Sibella Wroth, baptized at Loughton, Essex, 10 Nov., 1690, was a daughter of John and Dorothy Wroth, as Mr. J. G. Bradford of Loughton has kindly ascertained for me. She married one William Hills, and apparently removed to Lee, the church of St. Margaret, Lee, is the entry near Greenwich, for in the printed register of of her burial there :

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"1722, Jan. 3. Mrs. Jane Sibella, wife of Mr. Hills, of St. Andrew's, Holbourn.”

According to the Visitation of Hertfordshire, 1634,' published by the Harleian Society, London, 1886 (xxii. 106), one Richard Wroth married Kymborough, daughter of Halley of Middlesex. This marriage is mentioned in a pedigree of Hawley of Leybourne Grange, Kent, given in' The Baronetage of England,' by the Rev. William Betham, vol. iv. pp. 297-300. London, 1804, and dating from one John Hawley, who had son William living 17 Henry VII. (1502), who had son John of Auler in Somersetshire, Esq.

To digress a little further: the William Turner who married Sibylla Peake, 2 April. 1727, both being of St. Saviour's Southwark (see 11 S. iii. 127. 368, 388), “died," according to private advices to me from Dorking, Surrey,

"1st April, 1739; his wife married eighteen months later a John Herder, by whom she had six children, four boys and two girls. A descendant of hers, Mrs. Turner, lives in Brockham Green....Sibylla survived her second husband by nineteen years, and died at the age of eightynine, and was buried at Betchworth, in Surrey."

We have not yet determined the ancestry of Mrs. Sybilla Freeman (? born Stewart), widow, of Greenwich, who as such, aged forty years, married Edmond Halley, jun., surgeon R.N., 4 May, 1738 (see 11 S. iv. 164). Nor have we yet found the Christian name or will of Freeman, her previous husband. Circumstantial evidence seems to indicate that her first marriage occurred not far from Greenwich.

Among earlier entries of marriage licences at the Faculty Office, as printed, are these :1710, Sept. 26. Day, Richard, and Watkins, Mary."-P. 255.

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1704, Dec. 22. Sarah."-P. 210.

Attfield, Henry, and Day,

Was this Henry Attfield any relation to the Ambrose Atfeild, D.D., mentioned in the will of Michael Pyke of Cranley, Surrey, formerly of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, proved 1680-81 ? (See 10 S. viii. 44.)

Mr. Beevor has recovered from P.C.C. register Edmunde, folio 177, this unusual entry :

Memorandum dated Jan. 26, 1741. Stephen Freeman, late of Morden College, in the county of Kent, bachelor; sister Nutt, widow of Walter Nutt; Grace Nutt, junior, Thomas Harrison and Bartholomew Nutt make oath June 23, 1746, that this memorandum is in handwriting of Stephen Freeman";

and also the following :

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Elizabeth Freeman of Lewisham, widow; sister-in-law Elizabeth Bradley, wife of Joseph Bradley, parish clerk of Stepney....sister-inlaw Mary Freeman; niece Anne Smallwood. Dated 27 Sept., 1719; proved 22 Nov., 1749."P.C.C.

Some of the disconnected notes above may seem to have very little, if any, relationship to each other, but all form evidence, positive or negative, bearing upon my crux, which was first presented in these columns at 9 S. xi. 205; xii. 468, and which

RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS ON CROSSES IN THE ISLE OF MAN.-The Isle of Man has many inscriptions in runes, the peculiar characters developed, it is said, three or four centuries before the Christian era, by the Goths, who came in contact with the Greek colonists from the Black Sea, trading for amber. These characters underwent great changes in the course of centuries, and are classed, according to their period, as Gothic, Anglian, and Scandinavian. In the Isle of Man a solitary example of the Anglian runes was found a few years ago at Maughold. Only eight characters remained a twelfth part of the inscription if, as seems likely, it was continued round the circle of the cross. The characters are legible, and read—

BLAGC-MAN.

In the Isle of Man are also inscriptions in the later Scandinavian runes of the tenth to the thirteenth century. A few are in Ogham characters (two have been found at Bemaken Friary, Arbory, and two at the burial-ground of an early church at Ballaqueeney, Rushen). It is said that in language and character they resemble Irish Ogham inscriptions of about the fifth century. In addition to the above, in the Isle of Man are to be found Latin inscriptions, in debased Roman or early British characters, of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries. Dublin.

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WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

"BY A FLUKE." This expression is most often used in the sense of "by accident" or hazard, but it would be of interest to know whether its origin is not something quite the reverse, that is, meaning "by careful calculation and design.”

Charnock, the naval writer, quotes the discourse of one Gibson, in 1669, on the military management of the Navy, and alludes to the action between the Coventry friggott," under the French flag, and the Colchester " friggott," under Capt. Morgan, who

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might easily have taken the French shipp had he fought her a shipp's length distance, but Morgan boarded the Coventry forthwith, and