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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 8. vm. AUG. 16, 1913. —Can any Dublin correspondent supply me with information regarding the ancestry of Robert Jefferson of Dublin, surgeon, who was probably the same who married Elizabeth Sampson of St. Mark's parish in 1739? Or can any one give me the parentage of this lady and the names of her children?

Was this the Robert Jefferson who married (secondly ?) Lydia Sylow in 1749? Was she the daughter of a Derrick Syloe and Mary Chapman, married in 1725 in Dublin?

THE MAGI IN THE GOZZOLI FRESCO (Riccardi Palace, Florence) are said to be portraits of the Patriarch Joseph of Con- stantinople, of John Palseologus, and of Lorenzo dei Medici. How were the first two connected with Lorenzo or with Florence ?

J. D.

[The portraits of the Greek Emperor and Patriarch are in commemoration of their visit to Florence at the time of the Council (1439), when the last attempt at reunion between East and West was made, v. Gibbon's * Decline and Fall,' chap. Ixvi.]

S. PENNINGTON. In 1761 a book was published, " and sold by W. Bristow, next the Great Toy-Shop, St. Paul's Churchyard," entitled ' An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters, in a Letter to Miss Pennington.' The book of 96 pages con- cludes with the words :

" Depend upon it therefore, my Dear, most certainly, that I am not the Author of any Epistle which bears not the Manual Sign of " Your affectionate Mother,

" S. Pennington."

The copy before me is signed in ink, special provision having been made for this by the printer. Who was this Mrs. Pennington, and what Was the history of her case ? Were the further letters promised on p. 9 ever published ? A. C. C.

BANGOR : CONWAY : LLEYN : ST. ASAPH. I am anxious to find the date of a list of names (A.C. LIV. 37, 38, which seems by the handwriting to belong to the later years of Edward II.) mentioning Blethyn ap Eygnon decanus Assauiensis,'

Ken[ewret] Abbas de Conewey

Ithel ap Ken[ewret] Arched [iaconus(?)] de Ban- gore,

Howel soun frere Deen de Thleen, and shall be much indebted to any of your readers who can help me.

ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

GENERAL SIR EYRE COOTE. There are copies of the Journals and Letters of Sir Eyre Coote of the following dates in the India Office Library, viz. :

Journals

1756, October 17-1757, July 5, 178 folios.

1757, July-1757, August, 152 folios. 1759, April-1761, July, 1,344 folios.

Letters

Col. Coote and Col. Clive, 380 folios. Lally to Coote, 336 folios.

It is desired to trace the originals of these papers, and also any other original letters or journals of this officer, or docu- ments connected with or relating to him. J. J. HAMMOND.

Mitre House. Salisbury.

HARVEST CUSTOM : ALSACE AND LOR- RAINE. Can any reader explain to me why, after harvest, small forked sticks, wound about with a wisp of straw, are placed in the fields of Alsace and Eastern Germany ? LYDIA S. M. ROBINSON.

Paoli, Pennsylvania.

[We would suggest a reference to Dr. Frazer's ' Golden Bough.']

CROMARTY. Has the Aberdeenshire name Cromar any connexion with Cromarty ? Does Cromarty mean " crooked bay " ? ROBERT NEALE.

BRITISH TROOPSHIP WRECKED ON REUNION ISLAND.

(US. viii. 48.)

THE wreck about which L. L. K. inquires is clearly that of the Warren Hastings, a Royal Indian Marine two-masted schooner troopship which left the Cape with some 1,200 souls on board on 6 Jan., 1897, bound for Mauritius, but struck the rocks off Reunion in a thick fog and pelting down- pour of rain at 2.15 A.M. on the morning of 14 January. There was no ball, however, going on at the time, nor were there any Highlanders on board. There were 10 officers, 1 officer's wife, 517 Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, 5 soldiers' wives, and 2 children, of the 60th Rifles, under the command of Capt. Pren- dergast; 9 officers, 3 officers' wives, 500 warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, and sundry women and children, of the York and Lancaster Regiment; and a small detachment of a Middlesex regiment, the whole under the command of Col.