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became the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Charles his brother, afterwards fifth Earl of Lennox. None of the daughters reached years of maturity.

The Lady Elizabeth Stuart who married into the Rowallan family is said, in ' The Historic and Descent of the House of Rowallane,' to have been the daughter of the first Lord. Avandale (or Evandale). Evi- dently, however, this must be a mistake. The first Lord Avandale died in 1488, leaving no issue. He was succeeded in the title, after an interval of several years, by his nephew Andrew Stuart, known as the second Lord Avandale, who left a family of sons and daughters. Anderson suggests (' The Scottish Nation,' iii. 219) that the Lady Elizabeth who married a Mure of Row- allan may have been a daughter of the second Lord Avandale. "If, as is under- stood," he says,

" she was the daughter of the second, not the first, Lord Evandale, she was the sister of Andrew Stewart, third Lord Evandale, and also of Henry Stewart, created Lord Methven, the third hus- band of Margaret, queen-mother of Scotland, daughter of Henry VII. of England, and grand- mother of Mary, Queen of Scots."

Apparently the ' Historie of the House of Rowallane ' is not considered an altogether reliable authority. But in any case it is evident that Lord Darnley had no sister who attained marriageable age.

W. SCOTT.

FLEETWOOD OF MISSENDEN : THE KINGS- LEY FAMILY (11 S. v. 41). There are two small points I should like to allude to respecting the will there quoted. MR. W. D. PINK calls it an abstract it is so for his particular purpose, which I know ; but it is not a good abstract in the ordinary sense. Then there is the " Agnes [Anne ?] " ; that is my own, and not in the original. I do not want to recount what has already appeared in ' N. & Q.,' only to refer to 8 S. ii. 124 and 10 S. viii. 507. A few of those who. use that palatial apartment known as Room 9 in the Probate Department at Somerset House enliven the monotony by the circulation of little curiosities. One of these is double Christian names that is, of the earliest date. Now Anne and Agnes have been classed as one and the same name ; but in 42 Elizabeth a lawsuit decided that they were " several names." Notwithstanding this legal decision, wills afford evidence that long afterwards the identity was not established. Thus, in the long will of Sir John Astley of Maidstone,

Master of the Revels, dated 3 Jan., 1639/40, and proved 10 Feb., 1639/40 (29 Coventry), he mentions his cousin, " Anne Bridges 01 Agnes Bridges, who is niece to my wife, Dame Katherine." That was the meaning of " Agnes [Anne ?] Kingsley."

A. RHODES.

DISEASES FROM PLANTS (11 S. iv. 530 ; v. 56). There are in the United States at least two indigenous plants whose poisonous qualities affect many persons when brought into touch with the foliage. They are the poison - ivy (Rhus toxicodendron), some- times called poison-oak ; and the poison- sumac (Rhus venenata), sometimes called poison-elder, poison-dogwood, or swamp- dogwood.

While many are susceptible to the ill effects of the poison-ivy, others are not, and can handle it with impunity. Some, on the other hand, are so susceptible that actual contact with it is not always necessary to bring on the disease ; mere proximity to the vine when it is in right condition to give off its noxious properties is sufficient. JOHN T. LOOMIS.

Washington, D.C.

J. R. : LETTERS TO LORD ORRERY (US. v. 8, 57). There can be, I presume, little reasonable doubt as to Swift's defender being Patrick Delany, D.D., notwithstanding the author's signature to the preface being " J. R."

The only clue in the book itself to the authorship appears at p. 186, under Swift's inscription on the Duke of Schomberg's monument in St. Patrick's Cathedral :

" I shall only add, that the author of this Letter had the felicity to prevail upon the Dean to leave out that sentence mentioned in this note "

still stronger denunciation of the Duke's heirs for their disgraceful apathy in the matter, " with some other satiric severities.'' Delany, being then (1731) Chancellor of St. Patrick's, might very well have had a voice in such a question.

CHARLES S. KING, Bt. St. Leonards-on-Sea.

' PARIS ILLUSTR& ' : ENGLISH EDITION (11 S. iv. 148). The English edition of Paris Illustre, beginning in the year 1888, was printed in Paris. It was, I understand, a translation of the French edition, except that the " English edition " is said to have- contained " original matter." The pro- prietors of the paper were MM. Boussod