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Woodlefe Family.—Can any reader of “N. & 
Q.” give me information about this family? A 
slab, with the inscription, “Hic jacet corpus 
Diane Woodlefe, que 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. 
Song on Tobacco.— Where is to be found the 
song, of which one verse is given in Itob 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 Philz). 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 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, ap- 
pear in Mr. Lane's excellent translation of The 
Arabian Nights ? Parricius. 
Minor Queries with Answers, 
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 
eadet 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 or PARKHEAD. 
[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 
Mr. Francis Grey Bennett, Solicitor, of Glossop, to be 
Coroner for the Hundred of High Peak, vice Mr. Thomas 
Mander, resigned,” 
iam not acquainted with Mr. Greaves, or the 
