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 i2s. viii. FEB. 19, io2i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 149 sheep to be shepherded by another shep- herd," and she created Thomas Arundell Lord Arundell of Wardour. Mr. Yeatman gives a full translation, of the patent, a Latin copy of which is at the Heralds' College, while the original is at Wardour Castle : " We, by our full Imperial authority and power, have created, made, and nominated you, the aforesaid Thomas Arundel (who before this time derive Crom ymr ancestors in England the consanguinity of Counts), and all and every of your children, heirs, and legitimate descendants of both sexes, already born, or that ever hereafter shall be, true Counts and Countesses 01 the sacred Roman. Empire : and we have granted and ennobled you with the title, honour, and dignity of the Empire, as by the tenor of these presents, we do create, make, nominate, grant, and ennoble. Willing, and firmly and expressly decreeing, by this our Imperial patent, which 'will be always in force, that you the aforesaid Thomas Arundel, with all and every oi' your children and legitimate posterity, both male and female for ever do have, possess and assume for ever, the title, stile, and dignity of Counts of the Empire : and that you be honoured, called and stiled by that title, both in writing and speaking in things spiritual and temporal, ecclesiastical and prophane." The dignity has thus descended to all the issue, by his first marriage, of the fourth Earl of Rosebery ; to all the issue of Sir Henry St. John-Mildmay, fourth Baronet, and M.P. for Winchester ; and of his brother, Mr. Paulet St. John-Mildmay, M.P. for Winchester, and their descendants. Inquiry from a member of the Mildmay family has elicited the fact that while they are fully aware that they are possessors of the dignity, they seldom, if ever, make use of it. We understand that there are very few patents of a similar kind in existence. Mr. Yeat- man's work, which covers a very extensive field, deals with every known branch of the great House of Arundell, including the family of the Duke of Norfolk. I shall be glad to hear of any other Patents of this dignity. I believe that the one cited above is almost if not entirely unique in. its very wide and comprehensive limitation. A. A. A. " LIMMIG," EARL OF CHESTER : LYMAGE, co. HANTS. In the index to Mr. H. L. Camion's ' The Great Roll of the Pipe 26 Henry III ' (1241-2), 1918, appears, under "Cestre," " Limmig, comes de." The reference is to p. 242 where we find, under the heading " De Placitis Foreste " (Cainbriclge and Huntingdon), " Limmig' comitis Cestr' debet jm. pro veteri vasto." The indexing is clearly wrong as there was no such Earl of Chester and the genitive is used. The reference must be to some place in Cambridgeshire or Huntingdonshire belonging to the late Earl (John the Scot, d. 1237) which owed a mark as a fine for waste. We find on the Charter Roll of 1302 that John de Hastings (whose ancestor ob- tained a share of the Earl of Chester and Huntingdon's honour of Huntingdon) owned- lands in Brampton and "Lymmynge," co. Hunts. This led me to make inquiries as I could find no such place in gazetteers. Mr. S. Inskip Ladd, of Huntingdon, states (1) there is a farm called Lymage Farm in West Perry, parish of Great S taught on, which is now separated by the parish of Grafham from Brampton, though not far away ; and (2) the old county maps show a wood called Limage Wood, to the north of the farm. The wood has ceased to exist. I think we may safely identify "Limmig " as Lymage. R. STEWART BROWN. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL, HYDE PARK. The following may be worth noting, from ' The Life and Letters of Lady Dorothy Xevill,' by Ralph Nevill, 1919, p. 276 : " According to a story, which may or may not have been true [Sir Henry] Cole it was who caused the Albert Memorial to be built where it is, by persuading Queen Victoria that the site was a ' revelation of Providence.' He declared that if a line were taken through the centre of the Exhibition of 1851, ard prolonged, and then another line breadthways through the Exhibition of 1862. and also prolonged, the two would cut each other at the spot where the Monument was to be placed." For Sir Henry Cole, 1808-1882, see the 'D.N.B.' W. B. H. DICKENS, MRS. BLIMBER, AND COLLEY CIBBER. Dickens was, or could have been, a great actor. His fondness for the stage is well known. I cannot help thinking that he must have read Gibber's 'Apology,' and derived from the Dedication to it a hint for Mrs. Blimber in ' Dombey and Son.' Th&t learned lady in chap. xi. exchanged com- pliments concerning her family with Mr. Dombey, and then : "'But really,' pursued Mrs. Blimber, 'I think if I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum 1), I could have died contented.' " This is sufficiently absurd; but so is Gibber's Dedication 'To a Certain Gentle- man,' which includes the following high- flown passage : " Let me therefore only talk to you as at Tusculum (for so I will call that sweet retreat