Now that excellent authority, L’Art de Verifier les Dates, gives the date of 988 for the conquest of the Chersonese by Vladimir and his marriage with the emperor’s sister, and that of 978 for the birth of Iaroslaf, who must, therefore, be a son of one of the many concubines mentioned in that work as preceding his wife Anne.

Can the rare honour of descent from the Eastern emperors be substantiated by the correspondents who appear to take interest in the pedigree of this house?

I may add, that L’Art de Verifier les Dates, though seldom incorrect, seems to err when it asserts Enguerherde, wife of the above-named Iaroslaf, to be {40} the daughter of Olaus, or Olaf, “King of Norway, and not of Sweden,” as the Heims Kringla of Snorro Sturleson gives a long account of the betrothal of Ingigerd or Enguerherde, daughter of Olaf Ericson, King of Sweden, to St. Olaf, King of Norway, and of her subsequent marriage to Iaroslaf, or Jarislief, King of Russia.

Can you say where the best pedigree of the early kings of Sweden is to be found?

E.H.Y.

Robertson of Muirtown (Vol. ii., p. 253.).—­In thanking A.R.X. for his reference to a pedigree of Robertson of Muirtown, I should be glad if he can explain to me the connection with that branch of George Robertson, of St. Anne’s, Soho, who lived in the middle of the last century, and married Elizabeth Love, of Ormsby, co.  Norfolk.  He was uncle, I believe, to Mr. Robertson Barclay (who assumed the last name), of Keavil, co.  Fife, and nearly related, though I cannot say in what degree, to William Robertson, of Richmond, whose daughter Isabella married David Dundas, created a baronet by George III., and one of whose granddaughters was married to Sir James Moncreiff, and another to Dr. Sumner, the present Archbishop of Canterbury.  This William Robertson, I believe sold the Muirtown property.  Is he one of those mentioned in the work to which A.R.X. has referred me? and was he the first cousin to Robertson the historian?  Perhaps A.R.X. can also say whether the arms properly borne by the Muirtown branch are those given to them in Burke’s Armory, viz.  Gu. three crescents interlaced or, between as many wolves’ heads erased arg. armed and langued az., all within a bordure of the third, charged with eight mullets of the first.  The late Rev. Love Robertson, Prebendary of Hereford (son of the above George Robertson), was accustomed to use:  Gu. three wolves’ heads erased arg., armed and langued az., which are the arms of the original stock of Strowan.  As I am entitled to quarter his coat, I should be glad to know the correct blazonry.

C.R.M.

Booty’s Case.—­Where can an authentic report be found of “Booty’s case,” and before what judge was it tried?  The writer would also be obliged with an account of the result of the case, and a note of the summing up, as far as it is to be ascertained.  The case is said to be well known in the navy.