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thi< hook, but some of the unningedness. of which the war makes people tolerant, has pervaded the library where I sometimes seek aid, and the volumes could not be found.

The ' D.X.B.' has about three and a half columns devoted to Arthur Conolly. It says, moreover, that Kaye's ' Lives of Indian Officers,' vol. ii., and The Calcutta Reriew, vol. xv., have authentic particulars of him. Mention is made of Wolff's ' Mission.' of his ' Travels and Adventures,' and of other sources of information. ST. S WITHIN.

There is a notice of him in ' D.X.B.,' with a reference to Kaye's ' Lives of Indian Officers ' and other authorities. It was Col. (not Dr.) Charles Stoddart who, along with Conolly, was put to death at Bokhara in June, 1842. In an article on Stoddart in ' D.X.B.' I pointed out that Sir John Kaye's account was in some respects inaccurate. I have a lithographed copy of the Koran which belonged to Stoddart.

STEPHEN WHEELER.

Oriental Club, Hanover Square, W.

[MR. A. R. B.VYLKY and A. F. S. thanked for

replies.]

CROMWELL: ST. JOHN (12 S. ii. 171, 217). Elizabeth St. John was first cousin to Oliver Cromwell, the Protector. According to William Betham's ' Genealogical Tables,' 1795, Table 716, Henry Cromwell, brother of Sir Oliver and Robert, had a daughter (only child) Elizabeth, who married Oliver St. John, Lord Justice of the Common Pleas. The St. Johns had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Sir John Bernard, Bart. Their children were Sir Robert Bernard, who married Anne, daughter of Col. Robert Weld on ; and Joanna, who married Richard Bentley, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

For Lord Justice St. John and Dr. Bentley &ee biographical dictionaries, e.g., Cates's. The Bernard baronetcy became extinct in 1789. The representatives of the family in the Table are the children of Robert Sparrow, who married Man', great granddaughter of Sir John Bernard, 2nd Bart. The Table gives only one descendant of the Bent leys, viz., a daughter, Joanna, who married Denison Cumberland, Esq. [? the Rev.].

There were, however, according to Wotton's ' English Baronetage,' a son Richard and another daughter Eliz., married to Humphry Ridge of Portsmouth. The Bernard baronetcy was " of Huntingdon."

Sir John reprr.-c-ntrd Huntingdon borough in the Parliament- of 1054 and 1658/JL At the same time Henry Cromwell was one of the members for Huntingdon county. This according to the Blue-book of Members of Parliament. According to Waylen's ' House of Cromwell,' p. 16, this Henry was a son of Henry, eldest son of Sir Oliver. As to the Parliament of 1656, the Blue-book gives under Huntingdon " no Returns found." However, in k A Perfect List of the Xames of the Several Persons returned to serve in this Parliament 1656,' privately reprinted by Edward Hailstone, 1880, Henry Cromwell and John Barnard (sic) appear as members for Huntingdon county and borough respectively.

According to Waylen this Henry resumed the original family name of Williams after the death of his father, and sat in several Parliaments, giving his vote in 1660 for the restoration of Charles II.

As to the Parliament of 1660, under Huntingdon the entry is again " Xo Return^ found," but in the 1661 Parliament Henr, Williams appears as member for Huntingdon county, elected April 27, 1661. A few lines below is the entry : " Robert Appreece, esq. vice Henry \\illiams, esq., deceased, date of return, Xov. 22, 1673."

As to Sir John Bernard, although according to the Blue-book and the reprint which I have quoted lie was member for Huntingdon borough, on his monument in Brampton Church, as given in Thomas Wotton's.. ' English Baronetage,' 1741, vol. iii. part ii p. 365, he is described as " A Comitatii Huntingdoniensi in Parliamentum lectus." Wotton gays that Sir John had one son (Sir Robert) and eight daughters, of whom five died young and unmarried. Mary, the fourth daughter, married Thomas Brown of Arlsey, Bedfordshire; Joanna, the fifth r married Dr. Richard Bentley ; one daughter is not accounted for.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE ACTOR-MARTYR (12 S. ii. 189). St. Genesius continues to have his fame as an actor -martyr held in esteem by many members of the theatrical calling in London, the Genesius Club of Freemasons, composed very largely of actors, being held weekly at Hammersmith for instruction in Masonry. P. M., Xo. 1928.

RICHARD DUKE (12 S. ii. 171). The notes at 2 S. ii. 4 and 3 S. xii. 21, 69, may be of use. Duke is stated to have been born June 13, 1658. ROLAND AUSTIN.