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 n s. m. JUNE 24, 1911.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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It is not perhaps uncharitable to suppose that if ' The Sick Stockrider ' had never been written, it is doubtful if ' A Voice from the Bush ' would ever have mada itself heard. It was probably owing to the facts put forth by Mr. Hewlett-Ross that in the edition of ' The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon' which was published in 1893 'A Voice from the Bush ' was omitted.

W. F. PBIDEAUX.

SIB JOHN ABUNDEL OF CLEBKENWELL (ll^S. iii. 367, 415). At the latter reference MB. A. R. BAYLEY gives some account of the well-known Sir John Arundell of Lan- herne, called " the great Arundell of Corn- wall." He was born in 1527, was M.P. for Cornwall 1557/8, knighted 27 November, 1566, and died 17 November, 1590. He was always a Catholic, and refused to subscribe the Act of Uniformity in Decem- ber, 1569, and April, 1570. A brother-in- law of Mr. Francis Tregfan of Golden, he entertained Blessed Cuthbert Mayne in 1576 and 1577. In the latter year in December he was under arrest in London. He was the patron of the martyrs John Cornelius, S.J., and Brian Lacey, and a maternal uncle to the martyr Thomas Bosgrave. In 1579 he was summoned to appear before the Privy Council, and was sentenced to be confined to a house which he had rented in Ely Place, Holborn. He was probably confined there for nine years, except for a brief interval in the spring of 1585, when he was removed to the Tower for having entertained priests, and for having performed his Easter duties in that year. In 1 588 he was at Wisbech. In the same year he gave up the house at Ely Place, and took a house belonging to Alderman Roe at Muswell Hill, to which he was in like manner confined. On 19 July, 1589, he was given " the libertie of six myles distance from thens." Later in the year he was directed to be imprisoned at Ely, but was apparently too ill to be moved.

He married Anne, eldest daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, and widow of Charles, 8th Baron Stourton. Dorothy, mentioned by MB. BAYLEY, was his eldest daughter, born in 1560. Both she and his fourth daughter Gertrude, born in 1571, became original members of the English Abbey of the Glorious Assumption at Brussels, 11 July, 1597.

See Vivian, ' Visitations of Cornwall,' 4 ; 1 D.N.B.,' ii. 141 ; Cath. Rec. Soc.,ii. 27, 178, 239 ; v. 72 ; Dasent, ' Acts of the Privy

Council,' xi. 265, 345 ; xvii. 410 ; xviii. 415 ; xix. 393 ; Shaw, k Knights of England,' ii. 72 ; Strype, * Whitgift,' i. 529 ; ' Cal. S.P. Dom., 1547,' 353; 'Cal. S. P. Dom. Add., 1566,' 523 ; ' Cal. S. P. Dom., 1598,' 343 ; Pollen, ' Acts of the English Martyrs,' 118, 123; ' Camden Miscellany/ ix. ^69 ; Camm, ' Lives of the English Martyrs,' ii. 219. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

SIB THOMAS MAKDOUGALL BRISBANE (11 S. iii. 407). The statement as to the descent of the Brisbanes from Robert III. of Scot land, great-grandson of Robert the Bruce, is confirmed by Burke' s ' Landed Gentry ' and Anderson's ' Scottish Nation.' There seems to be no good reason to doubt its accuracy. Robert III. of Scotland had a natural son Sir John Stewart, to whom he assigned the lands of Ardgowan, Blackhall, and Auchingoun, Renfrewshire. These lands are still held by the family of Shaw- Stewart in uninterrupted male descent from Sir John Stewart. The present head of the family is, I believe, the eighteenth in direct descent from King Robert's son. In my copy of Burke' s ' Peerage and Baronetage ' some four or five of Sir John Stewart's descendants are omitted, among them appa- rently the father of Janette Stewart, who was married in 1562 to Robert Brisbane. John Stewart of Blackhall and Ardgowan is mentioned in 1508 ; and James Stewart of Ardgowan, who may perhaps have been Janette's brother, is named in 1576.

W. SCOTT.

DEADLY NIGHTSHADE AND PIGS (11 S. iii. 427). This item of folk-lore is interest- ing, but would not the other pigs eat the collars of nightshade placed round the necks of their bewitched brethren ? For pigs can and do eat the leaves and berries with impunity.

The nightshade being one of the in- gredients of witches' potions, it is probable that the poisonous plant was held to be under their especial protection, hence its use as a curative charm.

W. B. GEBISH.

" MAD ABCHY CAMPBELL " (11 S. iii. 427).

In a genealogy of ' Barn well of South

Carolina' published in The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine of January, 1901, there is recorded the mar- riage of Phoebe Sarah Barnwell (b. 9 Sept., 1763) to Dr. Archibald Campbell of Beaufort, S.C. The latter died in 1810. They left issue, and a descendant, the gallant Capt. Paul Hamilton, of General Stephen D. Lee's