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 196 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. SEPT. 2.1905. these councils could not have had the object in view which is usually supposed, since in the early centuries Easter and the Passover did, in fact, frequently coincide. According to the writer, this happened nine times in the fourth century, nine times in the fifth century, eight times in the sixth, once only in the seventh, and twice in the eighth. From the end of the eighth century to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar they never coincided. The two feasts, however, occurred on the same day in 1609, 1805, 1825, and 1903 (not " last year"). From these facts it is argued that the councils were merely concerned with the diversity of prac- tice among Christians, and did not trouble about the Jews and their Passover at all ; but later, "when, in point of fact, the co- incidences DO longer occurred," a false inten- tion was attributed to the councils, and their decrees were interpolated or apocryphal ones manufactured to support it. F. W. READ. POLISH ROYAL GENEALOGY (10th S. iii. 429). According to William Betham's ' Genea- logical Tables,' London, 1795, Table 368, John Sobieski's children were— a. James Lewis, Knight of the Golden Fleece, who married Hedwig Elizabeth, daughter of Philip William, Elector Palatine. b. Theresia Cunegunda, who married Maxi- milian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. c. Alexander Benedict, died 1714. d. Constantino Uladislaus, Knight of the Holy Ghost, who married a Countess of Wesely, in Poland, name unknown. James Lewis's children were— 1. Mary Clementina, who married James Francis Edward, Pretender to the Crown of Great Britain. 2. Mary Leopoldina, who died 1695. 3. Mary Casimira, who died 1723. 4. Mary Charlotte, who married Godfrey Mauritius, Prince of Bouillon, and later Frederic his brother. 5. John, who died 1700. 6. Mary Magdalen, who died 1704. There were, according to Table 462, the following children of the marriage of Theresia Cunegunda (b) with Maximilian :— 1. Charles Albert, Emperor, who married Mary Amelia, daughter of the Emperor Joseph. 2. Mary Anne Carolina, a nun. 3. Philip Mauritius, Bishop of Paterborn. 4. Clemens Augustus, Bishop of Osnaburg and Munster, Duke of Bavaria, <fec. 5. William, who died 1703. 6. John Aloysius, who died 1705. 7. John Theodorus, Bishop of Ratisbon. 8. Maximilian Emanuel, who died 1709. 9. Ferdinand Maria, who married Leo- poldina Eleonora, daughter of Philip William of Newburg. Charles Albert (1) had nine children. The eldest son Charles Maximilian Joseph married Maria Anne Sophia, daughter of Frederic Augustus, Duke of Saxony and King of Poland. Their son Charles Theodore, Duke of Newburg. Elector Palatine, married Mary Elizabeth Augusta, daughter of Joseph Charles, Count Palatine of Soulzbach. Maria Antonietta, daughter of Charles Albert, married Frederic Christian Leopold, Elector of Saxony. (There was another daughter, Maria Antonietta Walpurgis.) Maria Josepha, another daughter, married Prince of Bade. Josepha Maria, another daughter, married Joseph Benedict, Emperor of Germany. Betham (Table 368) gives only two daughters of Stanislaus Leszczy nski, who married Cathe- rine, daughter of Henry Opalinski, Castillan of Posen, viz.:— 1. Anne. 2. Mary, who married Lewis XV., King of France. ROBEET PIERPOINT. SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY (10th S. Hi. 409, 456 ; iv. 91).—Adolphus Frederick was the son of Christian Augustus, Duke of Holstein Gottorp, whose wife, Albertine, Margravine of Baden, was granddaughter of Christina Madeleine, sister of King Charles X. of Sweden, who was the son of the Princess CatherineVasa,daughter of KingCharlesIX., and granddaughter of Gustavus Vasa. It was on the strength of this descent that Adolphus Frederick was elected heir of Sweden by the Estates of the Kingdom in 1743, and succeeded in 1751. In my former reply I did not have in view the representation of the " original house of Vasa," but of that of Holstein Gottorp, which last assumed the name of Vasa. This house, as I said, is represented by Queen Carola of Saxony. On her death the Grand Duke of Baden, who is a son of the Princess Sophia of Vasa, daughter of the exiled King Gustavus IV., will succeed to the representation. As his son, the Hereditary Grand Duke, has no children, it is not improbable that the re- presentation will ultimately vest in the son- in-law of the Duke of Connaught, Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, eldest son of the Crown Prince and the Princess Victoria of Baden. The two houses of Bernadotto and Vasa will then merge into one. I am not sure if the Czar is the heir-general of Gustavus Vasa. He is descended in the