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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. APRIL 22, me.

JOHNSTONE OF LOCKERBIE (12 S. i. 248).

I am afraid the pedigree of this house previous to being merged in that of Douglas of Kelhead (1772) cannot now be recovered. It is stated in the report on the Buccleuch papers by the Historical MSS. Commission (vol. i. part i. p. 67) that the seal of Mungo .Johnstone of Lockerbie remains attached to a " letter of Slains " about 1569. There is no record of the date when the chief of this powerful Border clan infeft a cadet of his family in the lands of Lockerbie ; but mention of successive lairds occurs in con- nexion with several episodes in the murky annals of the sixteenth century.

For instance, in 1534 Lady Dacre reported to her husband, English Warden of the Marches, that William Johnstone of Lockerbie and John Bell of Cowsett Hill had lain in wait at Lockarfoot for " Howe Arm estrange, Red Dande's son," chased him through Blackshaw, and killed him in Caer laverock mire.

" Andro Johnestoun in Locirbe," probably th'e son and heir of the aforesaid William, is "mentioned as responsible for seven men, besides his servants and tenants on the twenty pound land of Turmour and Man- torig, in a bond of assurance entered into by the chiefs of Johnstone, Maxwell, and Douglas of Drumlanrig, some time between the years 1581 and 1587. In the same document Mungo Johnstone in Lockerbie is returned as responsible for eight men ; and in or about 1592 " young Mongo of Lokar- bie " was murdered and his house burnt by " swine of the Couch wmes, vtherwayes callit -Jhonstons."

It is by these and similar incidents of feud and crime that the history of many -cadet families on the Border may be traced. I would refer MBS. FORTESCUE to the late Sir William Fraser's ' Annandale Family Book of the Johnstones ' for further informa- tion about the Johnstones of Lockerbie.

Monreith. HERBERT MAXWELL.

THOMAS MINERS (12 S. i. 227). It is difficult to see how the Thomas Miners who was living in Rome in 1577, and who -claimed to be a nephew of Cardinal Pole, can have been in such relationship. Accord- ing to the ' Visitations of Sussex,' p. 89, Sir Richard de la Pole, who married Margaret, Countess of Salisbury (the eventual heiress, after her brother Warwick's death, of George, Duke of Clarence), had issue : (1) Henry, Lord Montacute ; (2) Reginald, Cardinal ; (3) Geoffrey, Sir ; (4) Ursula, vife of Henry, Lord Stafford ; (5) Arthur.

Lord Stafford had eight sons and six daughters, but although one of the former was called Thomas, there is no reason to suppose that he at any time went under an assumed name. It is true that he was a good deal on the Continent, living at various times in Venice, Warsaw, and Paris. He was, however, beheaded, quartered, and boiled in 1557 for his seizure of Scarborough Castle, so could not have been the man who was living in Rome twenty years later. Two of Lord Stafford's sons, Myles and George, were outlawed after Northumber- land's rebellion in 1572, but both died in France. E. STAFFORD.

10 Moreton Place, S.W.

HERALDRY (12 S. i. 269). The arms inquired for are ascribed by Burke and Papworth to the family of Kent of Thatcham, Berks, and of other counties. They were disallowed to Thomas Kent of Avington, Berks, by E. Ashmole, Windsor Herald, at the Visitation of 1666. The arms quartered with Kent are apparently those of Fisher, described by Papworth as Azure, a dolphin embowed naiant or.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridge.

AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. i. 247). 2. Ov p.vOos a A. Aa Aoyos. Clement of Alexandria. J. P. STILWELL.

MRS. QUON OR QUANE : MAJOR ROACH

(12 S. i. 272). The reference to her parentage hardly does justice to the memory of her distinguished father. I have gathered to- gether the following notes from the Madras Government Records, Wheeler's * Madras in the Olden Time,' and Mrs. F. E. Penny's ' History of Fort St. George,' in order to supply the omission. John Roach was in the military service of the Hon. East India Company. In 1708/9 he succeeded Capt. Seaton in the command of the Fort St. George garrison and of the Company's troops on the Coromandel coast. In 1711 there were local disputes as to boundaries with the country powers, and the Rajah of Gingee was practically blockading Fort St. David with a small army. Capt. Roach had only about 250 Europeans and Portuguese half- bloods at his disposal ; but he engaged the enemy, and by the skilful disposition of the force at his command he obtained a de- cisive victory. It was the first trial of strength between European troops and the soldiers of the country powers, whose fighting qualities were an unknown quantity. Again in 1717 the Nabob of the Carnatic was