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 10'-“ s. lv. Nov. is, 1905.1 NOTES AND QUER1ES_ 405 on the Elbe, arriv’d at the gates of Stralsund the 11th at mght,_insomuch that His Majty made in a fourtmght’s time upwards of 200 German miles, and was in his own Dominions before any certain notice could be had of his being gone from Pitest ; At his arrivall here his legs were swel|’d to that degree that the Chirurgions were oblig’d to cutt open his boots, besides the wound on his left foot had open’d of it self, and he had receiv’d so many contutions by the falling of his post-horses, that he was in some danger of being attackd with a fever: Nevertheless His Majty has conquerd all this, and his wound is now allmost clos’d up again.” -Stowe MS. 227, fo. _The next landmark in J eiIeryes’s career is his marriage in London (mar. licence dated 14 October, 1717) to Elizabeth, widow of Edward Herbert Esq., and eldest daughter of Col. Philip Herbert. This lady died in November, 1718, and was buried in West- minster _Abbey._ Her husband was pre- sumably in Russia when his wife died, as the ‘ Historical Register,’ under date of 9 October, 1718, says: “His Majesty appointed James Jeffreys, Esq., to be his Resident at the Court of_the Czar of Muscovy.” In 1722 J efferyes inherited the Blarney Castle estate on _his father’s _death ; but, except for short visits home, his official duties kept him at Petersburg. In 1727 George I. con- firmed Jefferyes in his post at the Russian Court. There is no certainty as to the date of James Jefi`eryes’s second marriage, which must have taken place about 1730. It appears from his will in the Prerogative Court, Dublin, that he had, in 1734, two daughters (presumably twins) bg’ his first wife; and a son by his secon marriage to Miss Ann St. John (Z). The will is as follows:- “ In the name of God, Amen. I James Jefferyes of Blarney in the County of Cork do make this my last Will and testament in manner and form following Imprimis to my two daughters now in Dantzig Ann Louise and Elizabeth Jefferyes I give and bequeath two thousand seven hundred and two Rounds three shillings capital stock in the Bank of `ngland and two thousandcpounds capital stock in the English East India ompany to be equally divided between them Item I devise unto my most dearly beloved wife to my son James St John Jefferyes and to whatever my said wife Ann Jefferyes is now big with if born alive all the rest of my substance to be disposed of and divided in such manner as has been settled by my marriage settlement ...... I do constitute and appoint my said wife Ann my sole executrix and have no doubt of her taking all care of my children even of her half daughters whom I most earnestly recommend to her. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this llth day of June 1734.” From a memorandum attached to the above will, it appears that James J eiferyes died abroad in June or July 1739. Ann Jefferyes, the relict, proved her husband’s will 16 Au ust, 1740. James St. John J efferyes succeeded to the Blarney estate. In his will, proved at Dublin in 1780, he is described as of “ Blarney Castle, co. Cork, Esq.” CHARLES DALTON. 32, YVest Cromwell Road, S.V. G1RRoN’s ‘ DECLINE AND FALL' IN AMERICA. -The late Charles R. Hildeburn once told me that the first edition of Gibbon was sold in New York during the American Revolution, because that city was in the hands of the English. But in Philadelphia, the rebel capital, copies were not to be had. The first edition of vol. i. (February. 1776) was sold out in a few days, and it is ighly improbable that a single copy reached our shores. The second edition (corrected, according to The London C'/zromlcle) a peared on 1J une, and this too was soon sold. The British Museum has a third edition of vol. i., dated 1777. Last summer I examined the card cata- logues of the best libraries in Boston, Provi- dence, Cambridge, and New York, but found no early editions of Gibbon. In the Ridgway Library of Philadelphia we have vols. iii.-vi. in their first edition (1788), but vols. I.:-lll. are dated 1782-87 (third edition). “Z8.Sl1l!]gl',0D’S copy (6 vols. 8vo, 1783) was sold in 1904_ to a rivate urchaser. It had belonged toB1shop Hurst (&fesleyan). There is no such edition in the British Museum Catalogue, but my informant is Wilberforce Eames, Lenox Librarian, New York. _ In 9°“ S. xii. 129 there is a question about the price of the first edition. No answer has et been made. I lately, through mg' English booksellers, Messrs. Hills & Co., o Sunder- land, advertised in Great Britain for a copy of vol. i.. first edition. Not a single one was forthcoming, but a dealer at Portsmouth produced a copy of the second edition (1776), price 7s. 6cl. ALBERT J. EDMUNDS. Historical Society of Penna. “CHARACTER IS FATE.”- Some time ago the question was asked and answered_ in ‘ N. & Q.’ as to the authorship of this saying. But here is an authority older than any that was then cited. In the sixty-eighth fragjment of Heraclitus, in Mullach’s ‘ Fragmenta hilo- sophorum Graf-:corum,’ we have 0os av_6pw1rq> 5aip.wv-which is exactly “character is des- tiny,” F. T. SEYMOUR. lIATTHEW ARNOLD'S SONNET ‘EAST :AND WEsT.’-Years ago I came across a variant on Matthew Arnold’s sonnet ‘ East and West, giving a new interpretation to the lines, somewhat different from what the poet