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sapientibus magistris congessit De patientia tribu- lationumlib. i. 'Primus magister dixit, si aliquod.' In MS. collegii corporis Christi Oxon. 220 ita

A lytill tretyse that telleth how there were syx mastres assembled togeder. And yche on asked other, what thynges they might best speke of, that might best please God and wer most profytable to the people; and all were accorded to speak of trybulation.' Princ. * The furst mayster said that yeff any thing hadde ben better.' In eodem libro huic tractatui proximus est liber, cui titulus ' The All. profits of tribulation.' Hie tractatus de sex magistris et de XII. utilitatibus afflictionum im- pressus est Londini MDXXX. 4to. Scalam coali attingendi (sive 'Scala claustralium,' MS. Norwic epis. More, 126, lib. 1. ' Dum die quadam corpo- ral 1, manuum.' Inter MSS. Worsl. intitulatur, 'A ladder of iv. rowgys by the whych ladder men mowen well clymbre to hevyn.' Princ. 'As I was occupyed on a day in bodily.' * De sumptione euchanstiae,' lib. 1. 'Quando Dominum nostrum sub pams.' Inter MSS. Worsl. habetur hie libellus MS. pagmam unam tantum complens. Princ.

I urst when ye resceve our Lord.' ' Vitam Hugonis Lincoln., lib.1. 'S.Hugo genetricis solatio.' MS. Bale penes D. Will. Glynn. Hujus Adami ' Specu- lum spiritualium,' lib. vii. MS. olim in bibl. monast. Syon. Claruisse fertur anno Domini McfccxL. Bal. v. 419. Pits. 441."

Such is the account of Adam the Carthu- sian in Tanner's 'Bibliotheca Britannico- Hibernico ' (Lond., 1748, p. 7).

Tanner is not infallible, and the biography of St. Hugh of Lincoln is attributed to Adam of Eynsham, and the 'Scala Cceli' to Guigo Carthusianus. (See Dr. H. K. Luard in 'Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. i. p. 77.) No other claimant appearing for the tract on tribulation, we may, for the present at all events, assign it to Adarnus Carthusianus. The tract as printed by Wynkyn de Worde is plainly a version of the Latin, and a portion of the original text is left untranslated. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

DE. EDMOND HALLEY. (See 9 th S. x. 361 : xi. 85, 205, 366, 463, 496 ; xii. 125.) MR. WAINE- WRIGHT'S communication (9 th S. xi. 496), for which I am obliged, gives me the first in- timation of the fact that Dr. Halley's younger surviving daughter, Mrs. C. Price, was aged seventy-seven years at the time of her death,

) November, 1765. Thus, too, one perceives that she and her elder sister Margaret were nearly of the same age, both having been born circa 1688. It is quite probable that Dr. Halley had other children, born between the years 1682 and 1688, who died in infancy. Whether his only surviving son Edmund, Jun., was born before or after 1688 is not clear, although it appears likely that he was younger than either of his above-men- tioned sisters; for in ' Biog. Brit.,' iv. 2517, it is said of him that he "lived to man's

estate and afterwards." As he died 1740/1, this statement would easily permit of his birth subsequently to 1700.

I have also to thank MR. CLAYTON for his reply (9 th S. x. 97) to my query (ibid. 27) as to origin of name of two streets (or roads) in or near London, called ** Halley. ;; MR. CLAY- TON inclines to the opinion that they were named after Dr. Halley, a considerable por- tion of whose life was spent in that vicinity. Another correspondent suggests that those streets received their names from a con- tractor so named, or possibly from the Rev. Robert Halley, the Nonconformist divine, who towards the close of his life resided for some years in the neighbourhood mentioned.

After his marriage, 1682, Dr. Halley took up his residence at Islington ('Biog. Brit.,' iv. 2500), subsequently removing to a house in Golden Lion Court, Aldersgate Street (ibid. 2508).

One Katherine Halley was baptized at St. Mary's, Islington, in January, 1683. (For this I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Henry Bilby, 8, Tyndale Place, Islington.)

In a letter from Dr. Halley to Dr. Charlett, Oxford, dated London, 23 June, 1705, the former uses these words :

' I return you many thanks for your repeated favours, as well in ivhat relates to my house, wherein I must esteem you my greatest benefactor, as for your kind endeavours to give reputation and value to my small performance about comets, which no ways deserves a place in your catalogue, or to bear the badge of the Theatre." Cp. ' Letters written by Eminent Persons,' &c., i. 139, 140. London, 1813.

The italics are mine. To what services of Dr. Charlett do those words refer 1 The con- elusion and possibly an additional paragraph of the said letter are not printed. Will a correspondent at Oxford be so good as to throw light upon this matter 1

The MS. Life of Halley, said to be pre- served in the library of the Observatory at Oxford, may contain some new biographical data.

Who were the grandparents of Halley Benson Millikin (born circa 1750?), son of James Millikin and Jane Entwisle, who were married in St. Paul's Cathedral, 26 October, 1749? EUGENE FAIRFIELD McPiKE.

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44 TATAR" OR " TARTAR." Mr. Edwin Pears, in his recently published book 'The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople,' in- forms his readers, on the authority of Dr. Koe'lle, that " Tatar " is an incorrect spelling iearnt from the Chinese, who cannot pro- nounce r. This theory would do credit to