daughter, Bridget, who was relict of Henry Ireton, married
Charles Fleetwood of Armingland Hall, Norfolk, and Stoke Newington,
Middlesex: she died, 1681, without any issue by Fleetwood. See
Fleetwood's pedigree in No. IX. of the _Bibl. Topog. Britannica_, pp.
28, 29. By her first husband, Henry Ireton, to whom she was married in
1646, she had one son and four daughters, of whom a full account will
be {243} found in Noble's _House of Cromwell_, vol. ii. pp. 319-329.,
in which volume will be found an account of the family of Fleetwood.]

_Daughters of the Sixth Earl of Lennox._--J. W. wishes for information as
to who married, or what became of the daughters and granddaughters of
Charles Stuart, the sixth Earl of Lennox, and brother of Darnley?

[The brother of Darnley (the husband of Mary Queen of Scots) was
Charles, fifth earl of Lennox, who left an only daughter, the
interesting and oppressed Lady Arabella Stuart, as every common Peerage
will state.]

_Wife of Joseph Nicholson._--Any information as to who was the wife of
Joseph Nicholson, who resided in London the latter part of the seventeenth
century, would much oblige one of his descendants.

He was second son of the Rev. Joseph Nicholson, rector of Plumland,
Cumberland, who was married to Mary Miser, of Crofton.

His eldest brother was Dr. Wm. Nicholson, Bishop of Carlisle, afterwards
Bishop of Derry, and died there 1727. The bishop's nephew, Rev. James
Nicholson, son of the above Joseph, came to Ireland as chaplain to his
uncle, and became rector of Ardrahan, co. Galway, and died there about
1776.

ANDREW NICHOLSON.

[If our correspondent will refer to the title-page of the Bishop's
celebrated work, _The English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries_,
as well as to his correspondence with Thoresby, the Leeds antiquary, he
will find his name spelt Nicolson, without the letter _h_. This
deserves to be noted, as there was another Dr. William Nicholson,
consecrated Bishop of Gloucester, A.D. 1660.]

_Six Abeiles._--In Mrs. Barrett Browning's beautiful poem, _Rhyme of the
Duchess May_, the following lines occur:

"Six _abeiles_ i' the kirkyard grow,
On the northside in a row."

Will you or some of your readers kindly inform me what _abeiles_ are. From
the context, they would seem to be some kind of tree, but what tree I
cannot discover.

M. A. H.

Monkstown, co. Cork, Feb. 18. 1851.