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 9* s. iv. Nov. 25, -99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 445 Do me but right, and you must all confess That I was not ignoble of descent. The note to these lines is as follows :— " Her father was Sir Richard Widville, Knight, afterwards Earl of Rivers ; her mother was Jacque- line, Duchess Dowager of Bedford, who was daughter of Peter de Luxemburg, Earl of St. Paul, and widow of John, Duke of Bedford, brother to King Henry V." In Hume's ' History of England' the name of the father is Sir Richard Woodeville. When Edward IV. married the daughter, he made the father Earl of Rivers. E. Yardley. Queen Elizabeth Widville traces from Simon de Montfort through his son Guy, whose brother Almerike, according to Milles, or Richard, according to Sandford, was the ancestor of the Wellesbournes in England. In a manuscript collection of extracts from old deeds relating to Devon, compiled by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, 1705, and Sir Wm, Pole, of earlier date, penes me, I find :— " Wellisborne fil. com. Sim. Mountfort, prim' til. D'na; Alianorse, fili.-w Regis Joh' Anglite, cone, terr. in Kingshull in p'ochia de Hugenden." "Sim. fil. Wellisborne Mountfort uni* filioru' comitis Simonis nupj de Welisborne Mountfort temp. Edri fil. Regis Edri." " Dns. Ric. de Wellisborn, mil. nup' de villa de Welisborne in com. Warwic, dat. apud Wellisborn i"° Edr. fil. Edr." "Sim. fil. W. [iU supra] dat. apud Kingshull in p'ochia de Hugenden, 5 Edr. 3"." Seals of Mountfort are given in trick. Wellesbourne Mountfort is in Warwick ; Kingshill is in Hitchinden. ancient name Hughenden, Bucks. In the church are tombs bearing the arms of the great Simon and of the Mountforts of Warwick. The same arras appeared in the windows of Wreck Hall, the family seat of the Wellesbournes, who claimed descent from a younger son of Alianor Plan- tagenet. H. H. Drake. Instrumental Choir (7th S. xii. 347, 416, 469 ; 8th S. i. 195, 336, 498 ; ii. 15; 9th S. ii. 513 ; iii. 178 ; iv. 12, 74).—The following para- graph, copied from the Yorkshire Post into the Daily Mail of 9 October, adds a valuable item of news to this interesting correspond- ence :— " To attend a church where the music is supplied by a barrel organ must be very like stepping into a bygone century, but it is an experience which the parishioners of Trottiscliff — a Kentish village within twenty-five miles of London—can every week enjoy. Its adherence to old customs may be pardoned, for a church was standing at the time of the Domesday Book, and the existing chancel is more than 800 years old. Its pulpit is the one that stood in Westminster Abbey until 1824. The musical capabilities of a barrel organ are limited, but the parishioners of Trottiscliff have a choice of sixty, there being six barrels, each supplying ten tunes—most of them very old-fashioned. John T. Page. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. " To Godfrey " (6th S. vii. 476).—Mr. Terry has cited the phrase, " Don't Godfrey me," from a play dated 1685, the reference being to the murder of Sir Edmund B. Godfrey. Lord Macaulay, on the other hand, refers the verb " to Godfrey" to the tragic death of Michael Godfrey, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, in July, 1695 :— "While they were talking, a cannon ball from the ramparts laid Godfrey dead at the King's feet. It was not found, however, that the fear of being Godfreyed—such was during some time the cant phrase—sufficed to prevent idlegazers from coming to the trenches."—' History of England,' chap. xxi. The corresponding section of the ' H.E.D.' has not reached us here, and is perhaps incomplete; but the word is no doubt receiving due attention. Richard H. Thornton. Portland, Oregon. Ladbroke : Pery : Twigo (9th S. iv. 328).— William Twigg, afterwards Archdeacon of Limerick, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1674, and is described as son of Charles Twigg, gentleman, of Carrickfergus, at which town ne was born. There was a letter in the possession of Archdeacon Twigg's descen- dants written in October, 1660, by Bishop Jeremy Taylor, and addressed to Captain Charles Twigg, governor of his Majesty's garrison at Carrickfergus." This letter thanks Capt. Twigg for having hospitably entertained him, and states that he will report Capt. Twigg's zeal for the king. T. S. T. According to Burke's ' Extinct Peerages ' (1883) Col. Edmund Pery, of Stacpoole Court, qo. Clare, married Susannah, only daughter and heiress of Stephen Saxton. G. F. R. B. " Tiger "=a Boy Groom (9th S. i. 326,493; ii. 78; iv. 276).—For others' guidance, I may note that the book cited so modestly at ii. 78 by Mr. Robinson is written by that gentleman himself. The passage as to the introduction of the " tiger " is on p. 230. I do not find the reference to the arms and livery of the Barrymores. Will Mr. Robinson be so good as to say where it is to be found ? Hook's 'Jack Brag' was published in 1837. What period does it describe 1 Q. V. Madame Ristori (9th S. iv. 167, 295, 337).— From some time before till shortly after Christmas, 1873, I was renting a room at