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 176 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. FEB. 20, 1921. I should have written "Huntingdonshire" as being the county in which Robert Bell of the Temple (and formerly of Lyon's Inn) was settled. He lived at Leighton in that comity, and inquiries in all the usual sources of information have failed to discover whether he had any issue, or, indeed, whether he was married. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. " SUCH AS MAKE NO MusiCK" (12 S.viii,131). It may be noted with interest that the above phrase, in conjunction with the one immediately proceeding it in the original ("lean subjects"), is practically a para- phrase from Shakespeare's much quoted description of Cassius in ' Julius Caesar ' : Let me have about me men that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'nights : Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; Would he were fatter ! but I fear him not : Yet it" my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid !So soon as that spare Cassius. he loves no plays, As thou dost, Anthony ; he hears no music : Act. I., scene ii., line 192, &c. BEATRICE BOYCE. THE GREEN MAN, ASHBOURNE (12 S. viii. 29, 77, 113, 157). It may be of interest to mention that The Ashbourne News of the llth inst. has a long, illustrated description of the annual game of football as played in the streets of the town on Shrove Tuesday. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. THE HONOURABLE MR. (12 S. viii. 110). I append for what it is worth the explana- tion that I have heard given in Ceylon of the introduction of the "Mr." into the title assigned to certain officials in the Crown and other Colonies. When the late King Edward VII. made his visit, as Prince of Wales, to Ceylon in 1875, he was struck with the number o supposed sons of peers who were presented to him. He kept asking what noble family each respectively represented, and on being informed that the honorific merely in dicated that they were members of the Executive or Legislative Council, gave instructions that in future their official designations were to include the title of "Mr." so as to distinguish them from the sons of peers in whose titles it is not included. But I am inclined to think that this story has been invented to account for a change which has certainly been distinctly made in all official documents e.nd publications, but of which the origin, having never been dis- closed, is not known to the general public. I am confirmed in this view by the f act- that originally, up to the thirties or forties- of last century, the full designation of every official who bore the title of Honourable was "The Honourable Esquire" (see the Gazettes and Almanacs of the period). PENRY LEWIS. A WAKE GAME (12 S. viL 406 - viii. 05). A* a child in Dublin, I well remember playing ' Jenny Jones ' in Merrion Square. My recollection is that we played in a ring, with one child in the centre,, but I think we all sang together. We 've come to see Jenny Jones, Jenny Jones,. Jenny Jones, We've come to see Jenny Jon^s, how is she to-day Oh, Jenny Jones is dying, is dying, is dying. Jenny Jones is dying, so what shall we wear Oh, red is for the soldiers, the soldiers, the soldiers^ Kbd is for the soldiers, so that will not c?o ! Oh ! blue is for the sailors, &c. ih ! black is for the devil. &c. Oh ; white is for the angel*, the angels, the angels,, White is for the angels, so that will just do !: C. B. E. CAPT. COOK : MEMORIALS f!2 S, viii. 132).. - London can, I think, boast of only two, viz., the bronze statue by Brock rected near the Admiralty Arch in 1914 ; and a tablet commemorative of residence affixed by the London County Council in 1907 to Mile End Road. " There i* a bronze statue by Mr. John Tweed which the late Lord Beresford unveiled at Whitfey in 1912,. a gift to the town by the Hon. Gervase Beckett, M.P. There" is a tablet in St. Andrew's Church, Cambridge, with a long- inscription to the memory of the navigator and several other members of >iis family. There is a monument to his memory at Great Ayton in Yorkshire, where he was- partly educated, erected in 1827 and re- stored in 1895. Another monument stands on one of the small islands in Lord Temple's gardens at Stowe : and in the garden at Mereville, erected by La Borde is ' tombeau de Cook," with bas reliefs of savages, broken columns, and funerary urns. There was a monument to Capt. Cook for many years at Manby Hall, midway between Brigg and Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire), but I believe it is now little more than a ruin, Cook stayed there just prior to embarking; on his last voyage. Probably the finest and'-