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A grant of arms was made in 1789 at the Heralds' College to Helena as the daughter and heiress of Lister Selman and wife of John Lefevre, and these are shown in pretence on John Lefevre's arms, so no doubt Mrs. Lefevre was the chief heir.

OLD FORD.

HERALDIC QUERY : SILVER CTJP. A silver cup has come into my possession, and on it are the following coats of arms :

Quarterly, 1 and 4, two flags in saltire ; 2 and 3, a swan. Crest : a swan's head be- tween two rods, each terminating in fleurs- de-lis. The helmet, with a closed vizor, and lambrequins are distinctly German in design. Above are the letters B and E and the date 1604. This is on the outside of the lid.

On the inside is a shield : dexter, Or, a fox (or wolf) saliant ; sinister, Gules, a bend argent.

There is no motto. The hinge is formed by two crowned mermaids.

Can any one recognize these arms, and say to which families they belonged ?

WILLIAM BULL.

Hammersmith.

AUTHOR WANTED. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me who wrote the following lines ?

A wise old owl lived in an oak ; The more he saw, the less he spoke ; The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird ?

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

MUNDY : ALSTONFIELD. In a newspaper cutting dated Aug. 25, 1875, headed ' Alstonfield : Reopening of the Chancel of Alstonfield Church,' it is mentioned that

" the Harpurs had property in Alstonfield for many generations, and a solitary piece of mediaeval glass has been found bearing the name of Mundy' another ancient family connected with the parish."

I am anxious to learn what became of this piece of glass, and of any connexion between Alstonfield and the Mundy family.

P. D. M.

" ST. BUNYAN'S DAY." The other day an old cottager in a village of the Scottish midland counties said to me in the course of conversation : " The saying about St. Bun- yan's Day still holds true." St. Swithin as a rule is named correctly in the district. Does this interesting misapplication of Bunyan's name exist anywhere else ?

W. B.

GRAVE OP MARGARET GODOLPHIN. Can any reader tell me how to find the grave of Margaret Godolphin (Maid of Honour at the Court of Charles II.) in Cornwall? Required name of the church ; whether monuments exist in the church ; whether the vault itself can be identified. IKONA.

"TADSMAN." Buried in 1688 Ralph Crompton, ''Tadsman." What was a " Tadsman " ? ARCHIBALD SPARK E.

FIELD - NAMES. Will any reader of ' N. & Q.' give the origin of the following field - names ? Tuffins, Flexon, Lomer, Flothers, Slaids, Olikersides, Ursley or Usley, Lammercoats. A. E. OUGHTRED.

Castle Eden.

CROMWELL'S BARONETS AND KNIGHTS. I should be glad to know if there is any book published upon the baronets and knights created by Oliver Cromwell, which titles, I am told, were disallowed at the Restoration. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

MATTHEW WHITE, M.P. Can any one give any particulars of Matthew White, M.P. for Hythe 1802-6, 1812-18 ; defeated there 1806, 1807, 1818 ; said to be in the East India trade ? W. R. W.

ftepius.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122.)

I, FOR one, welcome very gladly the appear- ance in ' N. & Q.' of this Army List, especially on account of the very great amount of biographical information such lists of names naturally possess, when supplemented by exact dates of appointment. There is another copy, I believe, in the Library of the Royal United Service Institution, White- hall ; and I remember seeing a third copy advertised for sale in a London bookseller's catalogue some nine years ago, but wa s unfortunately too late to secure it. I hope that the mantle of the late Mr. Charles Dalton (' English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1660-1727,' in 8 vols.) will descend upon MAJOR LESLIE, and that he will enrich the pages of ' N. & Q.' with still more of these valuable lists of officers. The Commission Registers now in MS. in the Record Office, if printed, would