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sixteenth lord are described as in Lodge, but since the publishing of G. E. C.'s * Peerage,' Burke has altered his en try, and now describes the sequence of these marriages and the issue in agreement with G. E C.

It is recorded in 'The Annals of the Four- Masters' that in 1563 Margaret, daughter of James Fitzgerald, "and wife of MacMaurice, died ; and she [i.e her death] was a cause of lamentation " ; and in his MS. pedigree of the Earls of Desmond (1834), Sir William Betham, Ulster King-of-Arms, states that Margaret, daughter of James, fourteenth Earl of Des- mond, and " wife of Thomas L. of Lixnaw in Kerry, ob. 1563." Again, in * The Annals of the Four Masters' is the following :

"1582. Catharine, the daughter of Teige, son of Dpnnell, son of Cormac Ladhrach MacCarthy, and wife of MacMaurice [anglice Fitzmaurice] of Kerry, died. She passed her last days upon the lake of Lean Linfhiaclaigh, moving from one island to another through fear of the plunderers ; and she was interred in the monastery of Airbheallach [Muckross Abbey]."

Here, then, is mention of the dates of the deaths of both Margaret and Catharine, the wives of Thomas Fitzmaurice, and Margaret is said to have predeceased Catharine by nineteen years.

Of Patrick, seventeenth Lord of Kerry, Lodge records that he was "whilst very young sent into England in the nature of a hostage to Q. Mary," and educated at the English Court till upwards of twenty years of age. If Patrick was born in 1551, he would have been two years old when Mary ascended the throne, and seven years old at her death. Patrick died 12 Aug., 1600, and Lodge states that "he lies buried with his uncle Donald, Earl of Clancare, in that earl's tomb in the Grey Friary of Irrelaugh, in Desmond." Now the Earl of Clancare married Honora, daughter of James, fourteenth Earl of Des- mond, and consequently would have been uncle by marriage to Patrick Fitzmaurice had the latter been son of Margaret, Des- mond's other daughter, who married Thomas Fitzmaurice. Had Patrick been Thomas's son by Catharine, daughter of Teige Mac- Carthy, the Earl of Clancare would have been his great uncle. This Donald (or Donal) MacCarthy More, Earl of Clancare (the first and last earl), so created by Elizabeth in 1565, did not die till 1597, and it seems exceedingly improbable that Catharine, his brother Teige's daughter, would have been old enough to be first wife of Thomas Fitzmaurice and mother of his son Patrick in 1541. There are many references to Patrick in the State Papers, but I find no mention of the date of his birth.

Such authorities as Burke and G. E. C.

must be referred to with respect, but there- seems to be good reason for thinking that they are in error in their description of the marriages and issue of Thomas, sixteenth Lord of Kerry and Lixnaw. Sufficient evi- dence has certainly not been put forward for altering the hitherto accepted pedigree of this famil} T. Can any one supply further information on the subject 1

CHARLES HERBERT THOMPSON. 133, Harley Street, W.

FLEETWOOD OF MADRAS. (See 9 th S. ix. 430.) Mrs. Frank Penny's surmise, in her work on 'Fort St. George, Madras, 5 that Edward Fleetwood who married Mary Caryl was the son of Robert Fleetwood (died Sept. 3, 1676) is correct, as Edward, then a youth of sixteen, petitioned in November, 1684, to be allowed to go out to India, "being sent for by his mother and Father in Law [i.e., stepfather] Mr. Heathfield, now at Forb St. George." Edward and Mary Fleetwood had a large family, and my object is to elicit information, if possible, as to the ancestry of this branch. When Robert entered the Company's service in November, 1661, his " securities " were Thomas and Robert Bretton ; and at his death his " sureties " were Mr. Breton and Mr. Wm. Pearce.

From the * Registers of St. Thomas, Apostle J (Harl. Soc., Register Section, vol. vi. 15, 122), I extract the following :

Marriage. 1631, Nov. 8, Henry Fleetwood and Katherine Breton.

Burial. 1641, Apl. 29, Katherine, wife of Henry Fletewood, stranger.

Is it known whether Robert was the son of the above marriage, and if Thomas and Robert Bretton were related to him or to Henry Fleetwood's wife 1 ? Again, to what branch of the Fleetwood family did Henry belong 1

Is anything known regarding Mary Caryl's ancestry 1 R. W. B.

GOBESIUS : SHEETER. Who was Gobesius? Who was Sheeter 1 ? In the list of writers on mechanics and military engineering read by Uncle Toby ( v Tristram Shandy,' Book II. chap, iii.) occur these names ; but I am unable to identify them. Perhaps they will be f amilar to some reader of ' N. & Q. I suspect that there is some disguise or mis- print in one or both names. W. L. CROSS.

New Haven, Conn., U.S.

HAFIZ, PERSIAN POET. There are innu- merable editions of Hafiz in the original, and they differ from one another considerably. Can any one inform me which is now