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MARGARET ANNE JEFFRAY (11 S. iv. 470). I Margaret Anne Jeffrey, daughter of Prof. , James Jeffray, M.D., of Glasgow University, and Mary Brisbane, his wife, married John Aytoun, Esq., of Inchdairnie, Fifeshire. The children born of this marriage were'

(1) Roger Sinclair, born 1823, eldest son, for several years M.P. for Kirkcaldy burghs ;

(2) James, a major in the army; and (3) a daughter named Elizabeth Anne.

W. SCOTT.

FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR AT NOTTING- HAM (US. v. 109). The 'MSS. of the Duke of Portland/ vol. iv. (Historical MSS. Com- mission), contain some account of the doings of the French Blenheim prisoners at Not- tingham. From the letters of a Lady Pye, who was a kind of female Pepys, we learn that the French prisoners lodged in Notting- ham Castle contributed much to the horse- racing plates, and that thanks largely to their Jiberality Nottingham races became a great society function, attracting all Yorkshire ladies from forty miles round about, while some visitors came even from London to attend them. H. G. ARCHER.

TRUSSED FAMILY (11 S. v. 50. 137). " In the year 1337 Sir William Tressel, of Cubblesdon, in Staffordshire, who had shortly before purchased the manor of Shottesbrooke (in Berkshire), founded a college for a warden and five priests. This college he endowed with the church of Shottesbrooke and an annual rent of 40 shillings charged on the manor .... The monuments of the founder, Sir William Tressel, and his lady, Maud, daughter of Sir William Butler, Lord of Wenime, occupy the entire north wall of the transept. The two monuments are exactly similar; they are altar-tombs .... The founder lies within the westernmost of these tombs, and in Hearne's days was to be seen 'through a defect in the wall ' wrapt up in lead,' and his wife ' in leather, at his feet.' On the floor of the north transept, at the foot of the monument of the founder and his lady, lies a brass of a lady clad in a long gown covering the feet .... This slab commemorates Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir William Tressel, the founder, and widow of Sir Pulke Pennebrygg. She died in 1401. This brass is engraved in Gough's ' Sepul. Mon.,' vol. ii. pi. v. p. 11." G. L. Gomme, " The Gentleman's Magazine Library," Part I., pp. 192-6.

The arms of the founder are given in a foot-note : " Or, a cross flory gules."

Joseph Foster, ' Some Feudal Coats of Arms,' on p. 245, says : " Sir William Trussell bore, at the battle of Boroughbridge, 1322, Argent, a cross patee florettoe gules"; and on p. 247, "Sir Waren and Sir William Trussell of Cublesdon (Xorthants) bore, at the siege of Calais,

1345-8, Argent, fretty gules, bezanty at the joints."

Dean Stanley, ' Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey,' p. 178, says :

" We dimly trace a few interments within the church. Amongst these were .... Trussel, Speaker of the House of Commons in the reigns of Edward IT. and Edward III., buried in St. Michael's Chapel " ;

and, in a foot-note :

" In connection both with the House of Com" mons in the Chapter House, and the interment of eminent commoners in the Abbey, must be mentioned that of William Trussel, Speaker of the House of Commons, in St. Michael's Chapel. Mr. F. S. Hay don has assisted me in the probable identification of this ' Mons. William Trussel,' who was Speaker in 1366, with a procurator for Parliament and an escheator south of Trent in 1327. If so, his death was on July 20, 1364."

Were there two William Trussells, father and son, holding the office of escheator one " ultra Trentam," as entered in the Close Rolls for 1331 and 1336; the other " citra Trentam," in the same series for 1327-32, and 1338 ?

In 'The Victoria County History : Hamp- shire,' vol. ii. p. 138, reference is made to " William Trussel, admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames towards the west," receiving orders from the King relating to the Abbot of Quarr in the Isle of Wight, the details being taken from a Close Roll, 13 Edward III., p. 1, m. 35.

JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D.

Ventnor, Isle of Wight.

DISEASES FROM PLANTS (11 S. iv. 530 ; v. 56, 158). Among disease-causing plants may be classed several mentioned by Mr. Banfield in his delightful book ' My Tropic Isle.' Mr. Banfield says (p. 62) :

" One of the crinum lilies owes its specific title (pestilcntis) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness. An attractive fruit with an exalted title (Dlospyros hebecapra) scalds the lips and tongue with caustic-like severity; and a whiff from a certain species of putrescent fungus produces almost instantaneous giddiness, mental anguish, and temporary paralysis."

The isle referred to lies off the coast of Queensland. C. C. B.

MATTHEW FERN. JACOBITE (11 S. v. 150). The question " whether Fern wrote any- thing more in prose or verse " than the verses given at 8 S. iv. 466 is put on the hypothesis that he did write those verses. There is, however, nothing at the above reference which gives the hypothesis.