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in-law, who taught school, and John Oldmixon, a boy of about nine years old, bred in the Blake family. Up to this moment the name of the schoolmaster (which possibly may have been Norman) has baffled the most energetic and capable attempts at discovery, both in England and Charleston, U.S. Can your readers help me?

Admiral Blake's biography, as to his family and private history, and indeed as to his whole career, deserves a fuller and nobler monument than has yet been raised to it. J. K. FITZ-NORMAN.

Wellington Cottage, Ottery St. Mary, Devon.

VERSE TRANSLATIONS OF MOLIERE. Are there any translations of Moliere in verse 1 ? In "Morley's Universal Library" is not the version in verse? Have you ever heard of a translation by Colomb ? L. J. H.

CLOCK BY W. FRANKLIN. The dial is of heavy brass, with brass castings screwed in corners and top. The top casting repre- sents two cupids supporting a shield sur- mounted by a crown. The name of William Franklin, London, is on it. I want to know when William Franklin was in business in London, so as to ascertain the age of the clock. W. J. RICHARDS.

1544, W. 8th Street, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

[William Franklin was a member of the Clock- makers' Company, 1712 ; a second William Franklin was admitted 1731 ; a third (a watch shagreen case- maker, Shoe Lane, 1790) was in the livery of the company 1810.]

WOOLMEN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

Can any of your readers inform me the best sources of information as to the woolmen and wool trade, especially of the fifteenth and six- teenth centuries, and in regard to the counties of Northants, Gloucester, Berks, and Wilts ? REGINALD MERIVALE.

MRS. ARKWRIGHT'S SETTING OF 'THE PIRATE'S FAREWELL.' In a foot-note to chap. iii. vol. ii. of Scott's 'The Pirate 'it is stated that the verses in the text beginning " Farewell ! Farewell ! the voice you hear,' 1 have been beautifully set to original music by Mrs. Arkwright, of Derbyshire. Can any one tell me where this music is to be obtained ? ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A.

Stromness, Orkney.

[Mrs. Arkwright was a Derbyshire woman, and

to extr * cfc te l u the Derly Mercury of 25 March,

903, printed 9 th S. xi. 366, stated that many of her

compositions appear in a shilling volume called

( Mrs. Hemans's Songs, with Music by her Sister,'

the odd thing being that several of the sons are not by Mrs. Hemans, nor was Mrs. Arkwright her sister. It is thus possible that 'The Pirate's -barewell may be included in the volume.]

C. MA. H. V. A Dutch artist, the painter of an interior, dated 1647, signed with the above initials. Can any of your readers tell me who he was ] W. ROBERTS.

BIRTH AT SEA IN 1805. The wife of a. British naval officer gave birth to a daughter on the high seas in 1805, on board a vessel the name of which is not now known. The- mother and infant, on their arrival at London, soon after the event, were taken to the " Saracen's Head," Holborn, which I presume is the hotel of that name in Snow HilL Where would the birth have been registered A search in the Public Record Office has been without success. J. CHRISTIE.

[The popular idea that persons born at sea become parishioners of Stepney is without legal foundation. See 3 rd S. x. 345, 379 ; 4 th S. vi. 547 ; 8 th S. xi. 433.]

ENGLISH BURIAL-GROUND AT LISBON. Is there any accessible account of the eighteenth- century monuments and inscriptions in the EnglisFi burial-ground at Lisbon 1 The British Museum Catalogues show nothing of the sort among either the printed books or the MSS. R. MARSHAM-TOWNSHEND.

STATUE DISCOVERED AT CHARING CROSS. Is anything known as to the existence of the statue described in the following paragraph in the St. James's Evening Post for 19 July, 1729 1 ?

"The workmen on making the new sewer at Charing Cross found a statue in fine marble ; the labourer by digging broke off the arm. The work- manship of this statue is surprisingly beautiful, and has amused some of the virtuosi, and was generally said to be St. Sebastian tied to a tree, who was shot to death by arrows. The dying passions expressed by distorted muscles and agonizing pangs are beautifully fine, and it is looked upon as a very great curiosity."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

EPHIS AND HIS LION. I wish to know- where, in Greek or Latin literature, the story of " Ephis and his lion," to which Charles Reade refers in chap. Ixxiv. of * The Cloister and the Hearth,' can be found. The story of " Aridrocles and his lion," mentioned in the context, is, of course, well known, and is to be found, with the name of "Androclus" rather than " Androcles," in book v. ch. xiv. of the 'Noctes Atticre' of Aulus Gellius.

R. W.

JORDANGATE.. Some account of the name Jordangate, in connexion with the town of Macclesfield, co. Chester, would greatly oblige. JUBAL STAFFORD.

7, Grange Avenue, Heaton Chapel, by Stockport.

MCDONALD OF MURROCH. McDonald, Earl of Kin tyre, had a brother who married an