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Woodlefe Family. Can any reader of "N. & Q." give me information about this family ? A slab, with the inscription, " Hie jacet corpus Dianas Woodlefe, quae obiit, 13 die Jan., 1604," with the arms as follows : Per pale, dexter side, a chevron between three trefoils slipt, sinister a chevron between three pheons," remains in the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny.

JAMES GRAVES. Kilkenny.

Sovg on Tobacco. Where is to be found the song, of which one verse is given in Hob Roy, chap. ix. ? The chorus is

" Think of this when you take tobacco." I believe it begins :

" Tobacco is an Indian weed."

J. B. Dublin.

Phyle. Where does the following quotation occur ? and to whom is the allusion ? " Him who sleeps at Phyle" (or Philse). J. B.

Dublin.

A Query about Elephants. The fallacy is older than Aristotle (who has partially assailed it) that the elephant has no joint in his legs'; whence, being unable to lie down, he leans against a tree to sleep, which the hunters observing, capture him by sawing nearly through the stem, and thus secure him when fallen. Sir Thomas Browne, in his Vulgar Errors, has exposed this popular de- lusion, but adds his suspicion that it would still be revived, notwithstanding his demonstration of its folly. Now, may I ask of your readers to supply me with references, first, to those au- thors who, like Shakspeare and Donne, adopted this fallacy prior to Sir Thomas Browne's exposure, and secondly, to those poets and others who have perpetuated or reproduced it since ? J. E. T.

Lane's "Arabian Nights" Why do not the two favourite tales of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp, and All Bdba and the Forty Thieves, ap- pear in Mr. Lane's excellent translation of The Arabian Nights ? PATRICIUS.

JHtnor (SiuertoS imtlj

Hamilton of Park Head. Can any of your readers supply arms, pedigree, or any particulars of the Hamiltons of Parkhead, Lanarkshire (Scot- land) ? Douglas, in his Baronetage, says they are descended from Gavin Hamilton, of Orbieston (a cadet of the ducal house of Hamilton), by a daughter of Wallace, of Cairnhill. Arthur, the founder of the Parkhead family, was fourth son of Gavin (before mentioned), and lived about 1540. The family first held lands at Parkhead,

near Bothwell ; and afterwards at Parkhead, near Strathaven (Avendale parish). They are noticed in Hamilton's History of Lanarkshire and Pater- son's History of Ayrshire. If any of your readers have access to a copy of Anderson's Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, they may find information on the subject inquired after ; at least, I think so. Also, arms of the Hamiltons of Haggs, Ferguslie, Bothwellhaugh, Dalserf, Monkland, Rosehall, and Boggs. HELEN OF PABKHEAD.

[Anderson has not given the arms of the Hamiltons of Parkhead, but has furnished the following notices of that family : I., Arthur Hamilton, the fourth son of Gavin Hamilton, the third of the house of Orbistoun, was the first of this family : he was succeeded by his son, II. James Hamilton, of Parkhead, who, after having been banished by the Regent Morton, returned with the ban- ished lords in 1585. By his wife Jean, a daughter of James Polward, of Coistoun, he had issue, III. James Ha- milton, of Parkhead, who was on an inquest, or retour of service, at Hamilton in 1630, and again in 1635. IV. Claud Hamilton, of Parkhead, who, in 1656, was elected a curator to young Robert Hamilton, of Milburn. Claud married Jean Hamilton, heiress of Parkhead, by whom he had issue, 1. James, his successor. 2. Claud, ancestor of the Hamiltons, of Sundrum and Pinmore, in Ayrshire. 3. Margaret, married to James Burns, merchant in Glas- gow. 4. Anne, married to Robert Henderson. 5. Iso- bel, married to Charles Cunninghame ; all with issue. V. James Hamilton, of Parkhead, who, during the reigns of Charles II. and James II., was greatly persecuted on ac- count of his religious opinions. In 1681 he was tried, and found guilty, for having been at the meeting of Schaw- headmuir, where the Covenanters assembled previous to the battle of Bothwell Bridge; and on May 5, 1684, being a fugitive, he was outlawed, and his estates for- feited ; but at the Revolution, on his return, they were restored. He married Jean, daughter of Andrew Morton, a Presbyterian minister, by whom he had issue, 1. An- drew, his heir. 2. Elizabeth, married to Michael Potter, minister at Kippen, and had issue. Major Andrew Ha- milton, the last Laird of Parkhead, was first a captain in the army, and served in Spain under the command of the Earl of Peterborough, and was afterwards a major in the Scottish Foot Guards. He married Margaret, a daughter of Hamilton of Bangour, by whom he had no issue, and died at London in 1728.

The arms of Hamilton of Haggs were : Gules, a sal- mon's head couped, argent, with an annulet through its nose, proper, betwixt three cinquefoils of the second. Crest: A salmon hauriant, argent, having an annulet through its nose. The arms of the other branches of this family are not given by Anderson.]

Curious Right to appoint a Coroner. In the account of the business transacted at the East Derbyshire Quarter Sessions, sent to me as a magistrate of the county, occurs the following statement :

"A letter was read from Messrs. Shipton and Hallewell, announcing the appointment by Henry Marwood Greaves, Esquire (claiming the right by virtue of the possession of an ancient Horn derived from the Foxlowe family), of Mi-. Francis Grey Bennett, Solicitor, of Glossop, to bo Coroner for the Hundred of High Peak, vice Mr. Thomas Mander, resigned."

I am not acquainted with Mr. Greaves, or the