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DEADLY NIGHTSHADE AND PIGS. Up-
wards of thirty years ago an old man who
lived in North-west Lincolnshire told me
that collars made of this plant, if fastened
around the necks of pigs which were suffering
from witchcraft, would at once make them
quite well. The name he gave the plant was
not nightshade but " shady-night."
COM. LING.
WE must request corresp9ndents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
JUDGE JEFFREYS AND THE TEMPLE
CHURCH OBGAN. In my earlier days, when
I was a student at the Temple, I somehow
became possessed of the idea that the famous
or infamous Judge Jeffreys, who was
said to have been a great lover of music,
had either presented to the Temple Church
its magnificent organ, or had in great
measure assisted in its acquisition. I was,
therefore, somewhat surprised to find no
mention of anything of the kind when looking
through the most excellent reissue of
- Master Worsley's Book of the Middle
Temple ' published by that Honourable Society, edited by Mr. A. R. Ingpen, K.C., one of the masters of the Bench, and printed at the Chiswick Press, which had been recently added to our Law Library in Antigua ; and I wondered whether I had not altogether been mistaken.
An account of the organ is given in a foot-note at p. 103 of the chapter on ' His- torical Observations ' (which is founded upon and comprises the account given in Down- ing's MS. of Master Worsley's Book, 1734, edited by Master C. H. Hopwood in 1896, but now out of print), and immediately below a drawing of the ancient inscription in stone recording the erection of the Temple Church in 1185, which stood over one of the doors till, being taken down in 1695 in order tp^repair that part of the church, it was by some accident broken in pieces. In that account occurs the following passage :
" The organ in this church is accounted one of the best instruments of the kind in the Kingdom. It was made by the late Mr. Smith, and purchased from him by the Societies, 1687, for one thousand pounds."
No mention whatever is made of Jeffreys' s name (sa far as I could see) throughout the
j Book, though as he was an Inner Templar
| this might not appear so strange ; but that
he had something to do with the selection
of the organ the following extract from
Woolrych's ' Life of Judge Jeffreys ' (1827),
p. 323, would seem to show :
" Jeffreys was considered a good judge of music, and during the rivals hip of those two famous organ -builders, Father Smith and Harris, he was one of the umpires chosen to decide on their respective merits. An organ was placed by each artist in the Temple Church ; one at the east, the other at the west end* : Blow and Purcell played for Smith, and Lully, Queen Catherine's organist, for Harris .... Jeffreys decided for Smith, and Harris's organ was withdrawn. (See Granger's ' Biographical History of England,' by Noble, vol. ii. p. 363.)"
That Jeffreys, then Chancellor, had the means to make even this handsome present to the two learned Societies we know, for he could scarcely have managed to spend all the rich perquisites he had acquired for himself out of the famous " Bloody Assize " which he had held in the West when Lord Chief Justice but two years before.
I have no opportunity here of consulting any of the General Indexes to ' N. & Q.' to see if this question has been raised before , so I shall be very glad if any of your readers can refer me to any authority that may have given rise to my presumably erroneous supposition. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
Antigua, W.I.
" MAD ARCHY CAMPBELL "The ' D.N.B. ives an account of a Col. Archibald Camp- ell, but there was in the same places, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, a Capt. Archibald Campbell, nicknamed, for many mad pranks, as above. I should appreciate any information as to his parentage, affiliations, in what regiment he served, and what became of his daughter.
I give an account of his marriage, taken from Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel's book ' Charles- ton,' p. 255, edition of 1906 :
"Capt. Campbell fell in love with Miss Paulina Phelps, belonging to a, Tory [of the British Party] family, and an heiress. At a ball he made a wager, his Arab horse to 50Z., that in three days, with her own consent, he would marry Miss Phelps.
" A day or two after the wager he invited Miss Phelps to' a drive in his gig. Then, for two long hours, he drove at breakneck speed over banks, ditches, rough roads, and pine-wood trails, talking wildly, proposed an immediate marriage, and the poor lady, terror-stricken, consented. He drove to Goose Creek Church, called up Parson
- The eastern, where the organ now stands,
is the Middle Temple side of the church ; the western is the Inner.
