Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853. Various

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      "As good as a Play."—I note this very ordinary phrase as having royal origin or, at least, authority. It was a remark of King Charles II., when he revived a practice of his predecessors, and attended the sittings of the House of Lords.

      The particular occasion was the debate, then interesting to him, on Lord Roos' Divorce Bill.

W. T. M.

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      LOVETT OF ASTWELL

      It is stated in all the pedigrees of this family which I have seen, that Thomas Lovett, Esq., of Astwell in Northamptonshire, who died in 1542, married for his first wife Elizabeth, daughter (Burke calls her "heir," Extinct Baronetage, p. 110.) of John Boteler, Esq., of Woodhall Watton, in Hertfordshire. The pedigree of the Botelers in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire

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      In one of the Scottish ballads the same idea is more prettily expressed "leaned until a brier."