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 236 D&voH Notes and Queries. younger son John. But John died in 1750, leaving a son who d.s.p. in 1 791. We go back, therefore, to the first Sir Coplestone Bampfield, father of Colonel Hugh B. Hugh Bampfield's wife was a widow before Sir Coplestone died in 1691. So there is room for the visit referred to by the Spelman note. She may have been a widow before her second son was bom in that same year. The period in which a visit was possible is limited to the later months of 1690 and the year 1691. The actual date of the visit in question must have been 1691. The references made above to Burke's account of the lineage of Lord Poltimore draw attention to two errors therein made concerning Hugh Bampfield's marriage. The passage runs thus : — ''Hugh, who married Mary, daughter of Hugh Clifford, Esq. (ancestor of the Lords Clifford of Chudleigh.)" We have already quoted the inscription in Kings Teign- ton church which makes her the daughter of James Clifford. That her father could not have been ancestor of the Lords Clifford pf Chudleigh is sufficiently shown by the fact that the first Lord Clifford died before him in 1673. They were second cousins, if we may trust the Clifford lineage as given in Burke. Perhaps more recent editions of Burke have corrected these two mistakes. 191. An Unidentified Coat in Tiverton Church (H., p. 196, par. 155.) — Regarding the above it may interest your readers to know that in Lyson's Buckinghamshire^ under Aylesbury there is this statement : — " The parish church is a large and handsome Gothic structure, but contains little that is remarkable. There is a monument in memory of Sir Henry Lee's lady who died in 1584, and an effigies in white marble, dug up some years ago in the ruins in the church of the Grey Friars, and supposed by Browne Willis to be that of Sir Robert Lee, who died in 1460. The arms on the surcoat are ** a fesse between three leopards* faces'* Later the celebrated John Wilkes, Alderman of London, sold his interest in the church property to Sir William Lee. Leckhampstead and Dinton Churches have records of the Lees who were related to the Greenways, vide Lipscomb. £. M. Grbbnway.