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' PEGASUS ; OK, THE ASHBY GUIDE.' This is quoted in a book of 1905 as a work by Thomas Moore the poet (1789- 1852), but I fail to find it in editions of his collected works. " Tommy " Moore was resident at Kegvvorth, Leicestershire, from the spring of 1812 to the summer of

1813, and probably wrote the poem in question during that period. I should be glad of a reference to where it is printed.

W. B. H.

MRS. HENRY AUGUSTUS MARSHALL. Henry Augustus Marshall, who died Audit or- Oeneral of Ceylon at Colombo on 23 Jan., 1841, married at St. Helena, on his way out to Ceylon in 1798-9, Miss Brooke, daughter of Col. Robert Brooke, Governor of St. Helena. I should be glad to know what her Christian name was. He never returned to England. PENRY LEWIS.

Quisisana, Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. JAMES BARNETT, M.P. for Rochester in 1818. When, and whom, did he marry, and when did he die ?

2. PETER BARROW, son of Sir John Barrow, born 31 July, 1813, for many years in the British Consular Service. When did he die ?

3. ROBERT DALRYMPLE HORN was ad- mitted to Westminster School, 23 March,

1814. Particulars of his parentage and career, and the date of his death, are desired.

4. THE HON. ROBERT TREVOR, who is described as the brother of Viscount Hamp- den and Receiver-General of the Post Office, is said to have died 21 Oct., 1785 (Gent. Mag., 1785, p. 837). Where can any information concerning him be found ? G. F. R. B.

THE PARLIAMENTARY SOLDIERS AND CHARLES I. What is the authority for the often repeated statement that the Round- head soldiers puffed tobacco -smoke in the face of King Charles ?

G. L. APPERSON.

1. RICHARD SMITH, ROYAL VERDERER c. 1745. Can any one give me information concerning one Richard Smith, a Royal Verderer, who lived at Egham in Surrey, where he possessed a small estate ? Whom did he marry ? What family did he leave ? and where did he die ? His date might be about 1740-50.

2. " AUDEO QUID AUDEO." Does any one know to what family this motto belongs ?

C. STEPHEN.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS : " THOU," " THEE." May I ask whether the members of the Society of Friends are still in the habit of using " thou " and " thee " in addressing each other and non-members ; and whether the ungrammatical way of joining the third person to the second of the personal pro- noun, and replacing the nominative " thou " by " thee " e.g., " thee has " as displayed in ' John Halifax, Gentleman,' is still in use ? How can this curious medley be accounted for ? G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

CHILDREN OF CLEMENTINA WALKINGSHAW. How many children did Clementina Walkingshaw bear to the Young Pretender ? Charles Edward himself declared (Lord Braye's Stuart Papers, Hist. MSS. Com.) that he never had any child but the Duchess of Albany. On the other hand, Andrew Lang, in his Introduction to ' Redganntlet,' says Clementina certainly bore two children, the elder of whom (a boy) died early. And the ' D.N.B.' says she " perhaps " bore a son who was baptized by a non-juring clergyman, afterwards Bishop Gordon. What evidence is there as to the existence of this son, and of his early death ?

F. HEINRICH WILHELMSOHN.

FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM. Was Pierre de Fermat right when he wrote, in a letter of 18 Oct., 1640, that no integral values of x, y, and z can be found to satisfy the equa- tion x n -^-y n =z u, if n is an integer greater than 2 ? Has a prize been offered for the solution ?

Fermat, as is well known, was a tax- collector who studied mathematics as a hobby, and his letters, published after his death in 1665, contain many original con- tributions to the theory of numbers. A hundred years after Fermat's death, a German professor demonstrated the correct- ness of all but two of the Frenchman's mathematical deductions. One of the re- maining two is known as " Fermat's Last Theorem," and is given above.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

ROME : JEWISH SARCOPHAGI AND GREEK PAINTING. 1. In the Lateran Museum at Rome is a collection of Jewish sarcophagi, on which are carved a pot (or vase) and a leaf. What do these represent ?

2. Is there any account or discussion in English relating to the Greek painting in the Vatican Library called the ' Nozze Aldobrandini ' ? J. D.