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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 8. IV. DEC., 1918.

8. Thomas Dilke, fl. circa 1699, dramatic writer. Any information wanted.

9. Francis Redfern, b. Uttoxeter ; historian of Uttoxeter ; author of ' Dove Valley Rhymes,' 1875. Dates of birth and death, and poetry, required.

10. Abraham Kershaw Killmister (" Tom Oak- leigh "), b. Leek ; d. 1858. Date of birth and poems wanted. Mr. M. H. Miller in ' Olde Leeke ' states that among other works he ^was author of "various poems .... contributed to The Mirror and to The Sportsman and other magazines, principally between 1830 and 1845

. . . -chiefly under the signature of ' Cymbeline.' "

I may add that I have any information to be obtained from Rupert Simms's ' Bibliotheca Staff ordiensis.'

RUSSELL, MARKLAND.

Ingersley, Links Gate, St. Annes-on-the-Sea.

OMAR KHAYYAM : FITZGERALD'S VERSION. I should be very glad of information regarding the following points in the ' Rubaiyat ' of Omar Khayyam, Fitz- Gerald's translation, 1st ed., 1859 :

Quatrain ix., 1. 2. Is not the ' Century Dictionary of Names,' p. 834, wrong in stating that Kobad I. (A.D. 488 to 498 and 501 to 531), son of Firuz, is the Kaikobad of Firdausi's ' Shahnamah,' and, presumably, also the Kaikobad mentioned in this quat- rain ? Surely the Kaikobad of the ' Shah- namah ' is Karadh of the Kayyani dynasty, who was brought by Rustum from Mount Elburz, and who was the father of Kaikawus.

I take it also that the " Kaikhosrau " mentioned in this quatrain is the son of Kaikawus, and that he is the same as " Cyrus the Mede " who conquered Syria, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Babylon, and who appears in the ' Shahnamah ' as the suc- cessor of Kaikawus, who appointed him as such.

I take it that the succession of these kings was (vide the ' Shahnamah ') Kaikobad (about B.C. 600), Kaikawus, Kaikhosrau, Luhrasp.

Quatrain xxxii., 1. 3. I take it that the poet here wishes to convey the idea that human beings will not have any separate existence after death, but will be absorbed into the Pantheistic Whole in fact, that even during their life there is no distinction between them and it.

Quatrain liv., 1. 2. What is the " flaming foal of Heaven " ?

Quatrain liv.,1. 4. Surely this should end with a comma (not a full stop), as the idea is not completed withoiit the first and second lines of quatrain Iv.

W. E. O'LEARY.

New Club, Brighton.

CAPT. JOHN WEBB : BRADSHAW FAMILY OF IRELAND. Is anything known of Capt. John Webb of Islandbridge, co. Dublin ? Family tradition says he was with Wolfe at Quebec, where he lost an eye ; that he married a Miss Faure of a Dublin Huguenot family ; and that he founded the first Masonic lodge in Canada. I have a silver Masonic medal with his name engraved on the back. His daughter Mary married Benjamin Bradshaw in Dublin in 1794. Southey's ' Life of Wesley ' (chap, xxvii. init.) mentions a Capt. Webb, who had lost an eye at Quebec, as barrack-master at Albany in 1768.

In 1851 William Roger Harden Brads- haigh, of Pilltown, co. Kilkenny, was making researches in the history of the Irish Bradshaws. His results are said to have been sent to the Chetham Library, Manchester, but nothing there is known of them. I should be glad of any information on these subjects. G. G. L.

MOSELEY. I wish to obtain information about the under-mentioned Moseleys, who were educated at Westminster School :

(1) John, admitted in October, 1782.

(2) Thomas, son of the Rev. Thomas Moseley of Stonegrave, Malton, Yorkshire, who was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, April 20, 1779. (3) Thomas, born April 12, 1806, who was admitted to the School in October, 1820. G. F. R. B.

BISHOPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Can any reader give biographical details of the three following bishops ? William Egremond, Bishop of Dromore c. 1500.

William, Bishop of Pharos c. 1411.

John, Bishop of Philippopolis c. 1453.^

J. W. F.

JOHN WILLIAM BROWN compiled a life of Leonardo da Vinci included in a volume containing a translation of a work of the latter by J. F. Rigaud, pxiblished by Fisher of London, 1835. Who was this John William Brown ? I should be grateful for any information. Please reply direct.

JOHN WILLIAM BROWN.

Ty Hedd, North Road, Aberystwyth.

HORSFALL FAMILY. I believe it is gener- ally agreed that this family is one of Northern origin. It probably sprang from a place of that name, near here. Of course, its members have spread to many other parts of the world. There have been two members of it of whom I should like to know more. In Whitaker's ' History of