RUSSELL

RUSSELL. The Duke of Bedford claims from the lords of Eosel, an ancient fief in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg in Normandy, who were a younger branch of the barons of Briquebec. Hugh de Rosel, a benefactor of the abbey of Caen, " accompanied the Conqueror to England, and was rewarded with possessions in co. Dorset, tlie principal of wIdIcIi were Kingston, afterwards called Kingston-Eussell and Berwick, the latter of which is still in possession of the family.'' Parry's Hist, of Woburn, p. GG.

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