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several references to him at other dates, viz. : vol. i. 21 Jan.. 1659/60 ; vol. v. 18 June, 1666. 14 Aug.. 1666 ; vol. vi. 20 Feb., 1666/7 ; vol. vii. 26' March. 1668, 29 March and 26 April ; vol. viii. 7 May, 1668. There is no mention in Evelyn's ' Diary.'

S. L. PETTY.

LMK. WM. DOUGLAS and MR. A. R. BAYLEY also thanked for replies.]

ROCKET TKOOP, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY : MEDAL FOR VALOUR AT LEIP- sic (11 S. vi. 230). I think it extremely unlikely that any troop of British artillery took part in the battle of Leipsic. Pro- bably it was a Swedish troop, of the con- tingent of the allied forces. Anyhow, I can find no mention in The London Gazette of the period of the royal sanction having been accorded to Lieut. Strangways to accept and wear a Swedish medal, and should regard the statement in the catalogue as unreliable. WILLOTJGHBY MAYCOCK.

Duncan's ' History of the Royal Artillery ' speaks in flattering terms of Fox Strang- ways's conduct at Leipsic, where on the death of his captain he commanded the rocket detachments. Though he was then but a subaltern, he received the personal. thanks of the allied sovereigns ere he left the battle-field, and the Emperor of Russia, taking from his breast the Order of St. Anne, placed it upon that of the young officer whose services had been so eminent on that day. At a most critical time of the battle the Crown Prince of Sweden rode up to him and implored him to advance his brigade, as nothing else would save the day.

T. W. B.

DEL AFIELD ARMS (11 S. vi. 29, 117). The reference to the article by Mr. Barron in The Ancestor is interesting, though of little value, for the statements contained in it are in large part founded on insufficient data among them the assertion that the arms of Delafield are derived from those of Lascelles. A cursory examination of the rolls of arms in the British Museum shows in Harl. MS. 1459, fol. 490, the arms Sable, a cross patonce or, for "De la feld," and also for Massy, Harland, and Lassells of Allerthorpe ; Harl. MS. 1407, fol. 8, shows the same arms for " de la filde," Lasels, Braham, and Massey ; and Tiberius Manuscript D: 10, fol. 796, shows the same arms for " Delafeld, and Massy of Holand, Lassells of Allerthorp." Can MR. VADE- WALPOLE or any one else say what Dela- field is referred to in these manuscripts

as the bearer of these arms ? The bearer may have been Robert de la Felde of Middlesex, Clerk, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and Controller of the Engrosser in the time of Edward III. (Cal. of Close Rolls), It is more likely, however, that they were the arms of Richard de la Felde (sometimes spelt Delafeld, and finally Dalafeld), Es- cheator of Essex and Herts, and a large and powerful landowner in Kent temp. Henry VI. (Fine Rolls and Cal. Pat. Rolls and Close Rolls). Where this Richard came from is uncertain,' though the spelling of his name at this comparatively late date indicates that he came either directly from Ireland or was a member of the branch of the same family settled at Waddesdon, Bucks. The arms, however, are not those of the Anglo-Irish family, which seems always to have borne Or, a lion rampant gules, sometimes differenced to indicate the various branches.

But all this does not even tend to answer the query first made. Who was the " Dela- field : ' who bore Sable, a cross patee or; crest, an ox : s foot couped sable ; and is said to have . lived in Lancashire ? and what person of the name was it who used the crest a cross patee gules between two wings ? JOHN Ross DELAFIELD.

New York.

BURIAL-PLACE OF MARY DE BOHUN (US. vi. 211). The mother of Henry V. died, and was buried with great pomp, at the end of June, 1394, at Leicester.

A. R. BAYLEY.

REFERENCE WANTED : 5. " BIDE THY TIME " (11 S. vi. 189). The following appears in a Leicestershire publication of 1907, and refers to the late Countess of Loudoun, who died in 1874, granddaughter of the first, and sister of the last, Marquis of Hastings :

" The Countess left a curious instruction in her will to the effect that after her death her right hand should be exit off and buried on an eminence in Donington Park, overlooking the valley of the Trent, above which a cross was to be erected, with the Loudoun motto, ' I byde my tyme,' inscribed upon it. This instruction differs in itself and in its issue from that found amongst the papers of the first Marquis of Hastings, whose right hand was to be cut off, kept, and buried with his widow, and not by itself, and whose wish in the matter was actually carried out, whilst that of the Countess of Loudoun was disregarded."

Local opinion, however, has long been at isue upon the correctness of the concluding words. A book of 1832. in a strongly