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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. SEPT. 28, 1901.

An instance of the use of the expression will be found in one of the songs in ' Inkle and Yarico,' a comic opera written by the younger George Colman and composed by Dr. Arnold, which (according to the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.') was first produced on 4 August, 1787. Here are two verses of the song which was sung by Edwin in the character of Trudge :

A Clerk I was in London gay,

Jemmy Jemmy Linkum feedle ; And went in Boots to see the play,

Merry merry fiddlum tweedle. I march'd the Lobby, twirl'd my stick, Diddle daddle diddle daddle deedle ; The Girls all cried, "He's quite the kick !" Jemmy Jemmy Linkum feedle.

Hey ! for America I sail,

Yankee doodle deedle ; The sailor boys cried, " Smoke his tail ! "

Jemmy Linkum feedle. On English Belles I turn'd my back,

Diddle daddle deedle ; And got a foreign fair, quite black,

Oh twaddle twaddle tweedle.

The phrase may have obtained circulation from the song, for the opera was very popular. G. E. P. A.

FAMILY LIKENESS (9 th S. viii. 62, 169). Allow me to mention, as a proof of the con- tinuance of family likeness, the fine collection of the portraits of the heads of the house of Russell at Woburn Abbey, Beds, where it may be traced. The series commences with the first Earl of Bedford, in the reign of Henrv VIII., extending to the present time, and the portraits have been painted by the most celebrated artists in England. Perhaps there is no house which can show a finer and more unbroken series than Woburn Abbey. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Some years ago I was taken by a friend to see an old man who used to know my great-grand- father well, but had known my grandfather only very slightly when a young man, and my father not at all. No hint was given him as to who I was, but he said at once that there was no need to tell him what family I belonged to. I have also a distant connexion bearing the same surname, whose portrait has been taken for one of myself. There has been no connexion between the two branches of the family for at least seven generations, and in all probability the connexion is much further back. E. MEIN.

The following extract from an article in the Daily Mail of 31 August, on the Duke of Bedford, may prove of interest :

" They are all wonderfully alike, these Russells square-faced, with high foreheads, noses inclined

to turn up, blue eyes that look straight at you, and narrow chins. Many of them, including the Duke wear thick moustaches. He and Lord Ampthill are cousins ; they might be brothers for their re- semblance, though the former is shorter and looks more intelligent."

W. QUEZON YEO.

Richmond, Surrey.

"LE ROY LE VEULT" (9 th S. vii. 264). The note given by N. S. S. does not make clear the two forms of the King's consent to Bills. When the Bill is for the supply of money the consent is in the words given by N. IS. S., viz., "Le Roy rernercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veult." The other consent, which is much more frequent, viz., that given to a Bill not providing money- such as, say, a Bill to alter the franchise or a railway Bill is simply " Le Roy le veult." If the King were to refuse his consent the words would be " Le Roy s'avisera."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CROSIER AND PASTORAL STAFF (9 th S. vii. 387, 495 ; viii. 50, 90, 151, 215). In the * Life of Father John Morris, S.J.,' I find he wrote in 1880 :

"I think that the legend of St. Clare carrying the Blessed Sacrament herself has arisen from the pictures. The painters have painted her with It in her own hand, just as they paint archbishops carrying their archiepiscopal crosses in their hands, which in real life (excepting St. Thomas at Northampton) they never touch." The allusion to St. Thomas A'Becket refers to his carrying his cross, contrary to all use and precedent, when he went to meet King Henry at Northampton. This act on his part caused considerable amazement, and the king was much annoyed.

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

OSPRINGE DOMUS DEI, KENT (9 th S. viiL 185). MR. HUSSEY will find in Tanner's ' Notitia Monastica,' under Kent, xliv., some account of Ospring, with a long list of refer- ences to original records and other autho- rities. He might consult also Caley and Bandinel's 'Dugdale,' vol. vi. part ii., 'Addi- tional Hospitals',' p. 764 ; Hasted's ' History of Kent,' vol. ii. p. 801.

OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus, N.B.

RUSSELLS OF AYLESBURY (9 th S. viii. 165). In Lipscomb's ' Hist, and Antiq. of the County of Buckingham' - (London, 1847) there is a highly interesting history and pedigree of the Russells of Chequers Court (Elles borough), in the A.ylesbury Hundred. The first name in the pedigree is that of Tho.