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 ii8.VLJrLYi3.i9i2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

GREAT GLEMHAM, co. SUFFOLK. With reference to the sale, recently announced, of the above-named estate, belonging to the Marchioness of Graham, I should be glad to know whether the house on that pro- perty, if of ancient date, is the one which was formerly the home of the Glemham family (now extinct), and, among others, of Sir Henry Glemham (tempore Charles I.) who married Anne, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Dorset, and was the father of the distinguished Cavalier general Sir Richard Glemham. Any information about these Glemhams and their property would be very welcome. LAC.

AUTHOR WANTED. Can any reader infojm me of the authorship of the following : " Heu quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisso " ? R. C.

[King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations ' states? under No. 891, that this is Shenstone's epitaph on the tomb of his cousin Maria Dollman at the Leasowes.]

PORSOX AND THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

Person's famous epigram,

The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five score, But ninety-five more ; All, save only Hermann, And Hermann's a German,

seems to be taken from ' Anth. Pal.,' xi. 235 : Kou ro8e Aj^xodoKoir Xiot KCIKOI wj( 6 fJ.v, os S'ov. TTcii'Tts, TrAryv LTpOKAeouS' KOLI IIpo/cAerjs 8* Xt'os.

But this Greek epigram I have seen quoted with a>Ki'Aio'co for A^oSo/cov, with Aepioi for Xiot, and with Aepios for 8e Xios.

What is the correct form ? What is known of Demodocus and Phocylides ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[Demodocus of Leros appropriated and adopted the epigram of Phocylides. Phocylides of Miletus B.C. 560 wrote epic poems, elegies, and also yvufMi, i.e., didactic epigrams. Eighteen frag- ments of his work remain to us, included in the Greek Anthology. Of Demodocus four epigrams remain ; of these a second, directed against the C'ilicians, is, like the one quoted above, an adapta- tion from Phocylides vide Jacobs's edition of Brunck's ' Analecta,' vol. i. 54, vi. 196 ; vol. ii. 56 viii. 176.]

PILFOLD OF EFFINGHAM. Can any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' kindly inform me where a copy of the Pilfold pedigree may be inspected ? My maternal grandmother, Lady Laurie, was Miss Julia Pilfold, the daughter of Capt. Alexander Pilfold. 67th Hampshire Regiment, and the granddaughter of Capt, Pilfold, R.X., who commanded

H.M.S. Ajax at the Battle of the Nile. She was first cousin to Percy Bysshe Shelley the poet, whose mother. Lady Shelley, was the daughter of Charles Pilfold of Effingham, in Surrey.

It is understood that the Pilfolds are related to Richard Penderil, who hid with his Majesty King Charles II. in an oak tree at Boscobel. F. W. R. GARXETT. Wellington Club, S.W.

COPPER MINE IN DEVONSHIRE. Will some one tell me why a copper mine (now aban- doned) in the parish of Buckland Mona- chorum, near Tavistock, is called " Virtuous Lady Mine" ? Answers can be sent to me direct. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield Park, Reading.

DELAFIELD ARMS. What Delafield bore the arms Sable, cross patee or ? J. Ed- mondson,in his 'Complete Body of Heraldry,' ascribes them to Delafield of Lancashire ; and Burke, in his ' General Armory,' follows him in this, and adds a crest an ox's foot couped sa. The spelling of the name as Delafield indicates that the family who used these arms existed as late at least as the seventeenth century, and perhaps also in the eighteenth century ; yet a fairly exhaustive study of printed and original records at the British Museum, the Record Office, and the College of Arms fails to bring to light any person or family of the name Delafield living in Lancashire. To be sure, there were the De Ellesfields of Lancashire, and some- times the spelling of their name was corrupted to Dellesfield and even Dellefielde ; but they always used the arms so characteristic of their family, either vaire or barry wavy, and generally argent and sable. Papworth's ' Alphabetical Dictionary ' repeats from Edmondson and Burke.

There were arms borne by an unknown person of the name " de la Felde " which appear in several of the Harleian MSS. ; they are Sable, a cross patonce or. Burke ascribes the crest an ox ? s foot couped sa. to both this ancient De la Felde and to the mysterious Delafield of Lancashire. In this he perhaps follows Alexander Deuchar. But this is another mystery. Where did this crest come from ? On what authority do both Deuchar and Burke base their statements ? The search made for me of the Harleian MSS. does not reveal it. Any information anent these matters will be interesting and greatly appreciated.

JOHN Ross DELAFIELD. New York City.