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Separate sheet song : The celebrated comic song sung by Mr. Munden

at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in the

character of an old woman of eighty. Price Is. Longman & Broderip. 3 pp. folio ; n.d.

G. Hogarth assigns these four Sadler's Wells pieces to 1777. This is probably correct. He assigns to the following year

1777. *The Mad Doctor.

Sadler's Wells. Dibdin, however (' Musical Tour '), associates it with three of the pieces above mentioned. I think it not improbable that it may be another title for * She is Mad for a Husband.'

1777 (or earlier). *The Surprise, a musical piece " set by Mr. Dibdin," Sadler's Wells.

An advertisement of 1780 says "not per- formed these three years."

E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton. ( To be continued. )

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

I AM interested in Harlowen (otherwise Huerlin or Herlwin) de Burgo, who married William the Conqueror's mother, Arlotta (otherwise Arlette, Harlotta, or Herleva), and in his ancestry and children, but find it diffi- cult to obtain information. Can any reader assist me 1

1. Muriel. In Malet's translation of Wace's 'Roman de Rou' (pp. 34, 35) occurs the fol lowing verse :

He summoned too Ivon al Chapel,

Spouse of the Lady Muriel ;

Whom the Duke's mother whilome bore

To Herluin, but men ignore

If e'er of Ivon and that Dame

(I never heard it) offspring came. In a foot-note Malet says this Ivon seems to be Eudo de Capello, son of Thurstain Haldue by Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074 (' Mem. Ant. Norm.,' viii. 430). He was dapifer to William L, and head of the house of Haie-du- Puits in the Con ten tin. He married a Muriel. Eudo's estates went to his nephew (Wiffin's
 * History of Russia ').

2. Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, "son of Herlwin, the knight who married Arlette, William's mother" (Wace's 'Roman de Rou,' Malet's translation, p. 119n.). In the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,' under the year 1087 :

"He [William] spared not his own brother Odo. This Odo was a very powerful bishop in Normandy ; his see was that of Bayeux, and he was foremost to serve the king. He had an earldom in England [he was created Earl of Kent 1067, vide Haydn's ' Pictionary of Dates '], and when William was in

Normandy he was the first man in the country, and him did he cast into prison."

The 'Chronicle ' describes the rebellion headed by Odo, incidentally comparing him to Judas Iscariot.

3. Robert, Earl of Morton or Mortayn in France and of Cornwall in England, married Maud, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, first Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury, and had issue William, Earl of Morton. I have no works of reference by me at the time of writing except Collins's 'Peerage,' fourth edition, from vol. ii. pp. 141 and 242 of which I get these references to the Earls of Morton, and shall be glad if some reader will indicate where a full pedigree of them (with authori- ties quoted) can be found.

4. Maud, who, according to Brookes's 'Cata- logue of Kings,' 1622, pp. 179 and 227, married Lambert, Earl of Lentz, was mother of Judith, who married Waltheof. In Banks's 'Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' vol. ii. p. 388, she is described as "Judith, the daughter of William the Conqueror's sister by the mother's side." In the Genealogical Magazine for June, 1900, p. 53, I described this Judith as the daughter of Adelaide (who was full sister to William the Conqueror and wife of Enguerrand, Count of Ppnthieu), but the last two references contradict this. On what authority did Brookes base his state- ment that Harlowen had a daughter Maud ?

5. A half-sister (vide Collins's 'Peerage') who married an Odo descended from the Earls of Champagne, and had issue a son Stephen, created Earl of Albemarle. Collins (fourth edition, vol. iv. p. 130) writes : " Stephen, the son of Odo, descended from the Earls of Champagne, whom William the Conqueror made Earl of Albemarle, as being the son of his half-sister by his mother's side." On what authority is this statement made 1 ? The wife of Odo de Champagne was, I under- stood, Adelaide, daughter of the Adelaide who was full sister to the Conqueror.

The ancestry of Harlowen de Burgo as stated in Betham's 'Tables' (No. 708) is con- fusing. He is there described as the son of John, Earl of Comyn and Baron of Tonsburgh in Normandy, son of Baldwin II., son of Baldwin, son of Croise (otherwise Godfrey), Defender of the Christians in the Holy War, son of Rowland, son of Charles, Duke of Engleheim, son of Charlemagne. It does not state that these Baldwins were the Earls of Flanders, but I know of no other Baldwins at that date. If they were, why does Betham's table (567) of the Earls of Flanders make mention only of Arnold I. as the issue of Baldwin II. s marriage with the