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Morgan of Lincoln's Inn ; the latter is not described as a relation by Lewis in his will. Did Lewis leave any natural children ? and was his mother Margaret a daughter or granddaughter of Sir Thomas Stepney, Kt. ? Sir Thomas Stepney, Kt., was third son of Alban Stepney of Prendergast, co. Pem- broke (will pr. P.C.C. 1611), and younger brother of Sir John Stepney, first baronet (will pr. P.C.C. 1626) ; he matric. St. John's Coll., Oxon, 1602, aged 14 ; knighted 1618 ; married twice, and had, with other issue, two sons, George and Bernard. Is anything further known of him and his issue addi- tional to the notice of his grandson George Stepney, poet, which appears in the 'D.N.B.'? G. R. B.

' PRO AND CON : A JOURNAL FOR LITE- RARY INVESTIGATION.' This appeared in monthly numbers, price 3d., edited by Walter Hamilton, F.R.G.S., twelve numbers running from 14 Dec., 1872, to 15 Nov., 1873. I should be glad to know whether the latter date saw the end of the publication ; or if, and for how much longer, it was con- tinued. The twelfth number gave no inti- mation pf its discontinuance, but is the last included in duplicate copies of Pro and Con at the British Museum Library.

W. B. H.

JOHN McGowAN. PUBLISHER. I wish to learn between what dates John McGowan, publisher, resided in Great Windmill Street. Can some reader of * N. & Q.' give me the information ? E. COWLEY.

R. GREY. One Robert Grey is men- tioned in ' S.P. Dom., Add., Eliz.,' xi. 45 ("Recusants which are abroad and bound to certain places "), which contains amongst other names that of " Thomas Somerset, gent.," as a prisoner in the Fleet. This Thomas Somerset was committed to the Fleet, 27 June, 1562 (Dasent, ' Acts of the Privy Council,' vii. 108). So this list must be later, but not much later, than 27 June, 1562.

The entry about Robert Grey is as follows :

"Robert Grey, priest, who hath been much sup- ported at Sir Thomas Fitzharbart's, and now it is said wandereth in like sort ; a man meet to be looked unto."

At the death of Dr. Brassey, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, the vacant place had been promised by Queen Mary to Richard Grey, Rector of Withyham, Sussex (Austen Leigh, ' King's College,' p. 56). One Graye, B.D., was still Rector of Withy- ham in 1569, and was thought to be a

Catholic ("Viet, Hist.," 'Sussex,' ii. 25). A Dr. Gray, an old Marian priest, was at Battle, Sussex, in 1596 (Strype, 'Ann.,' iv. 402). Robert Gray, chaplain to Lord Montague, was in prison, and probably tortured, in 1593 and 1594 (' S.P. Dom., Eliz.,' cclxii. 125 ; cclxv. 138 ; Dasent,. ' Acts,' &c., xxiv. 475, 487).

Is not "Richard" a mistake on the part of Mr. Austen Leigh ? Further particulars about the Rector of Withyham would be welcome. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

PIRATES. Can anybody tell me anything concerning a pirate named Wood Rogers, who devastated the coasts of South America,, the Spanish Main, and Portugal ? He is said to have amassed a great fortune. Prob- ably he \vas not w r hat we call nowadays a- " pirate," but something of the nature of Drake, &c. Is there a history of the pirates ? R. USSHER.

[Much information about Capt. Woodes Rogers will be found at 10 S. viii. 470 ; ix. 456. Esqueme- ling's * History of the Buscaneers ' has been reissued by Messrs. ISonnenschein.]

MELLY : STOKES. George Melly of Liver- pool. Can any one give date of death ?

William Stokes, famous lecturer on Me- mory at the Royal Polytechnic Institution and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Date and year of death wanted.

T. HAYLER.

NORBORNE is mentioned in the Visitation of London, 1633. There is now apparently no such place in existence. Can any one tell me whereabouts in London it was, and whether it was a parish, or what, and any other details ? S. S.

SHUCKFORTH. What was the Christian name of the Shuckforth whose memoir appears on p. 142 of Richards's ' History of Lynn ' ? Who were his parents ? Was he related to the Rev. Samuel Shuckford, author of ' Sacred and Profane History,' &c. ? Is the name extinct in England ?

S. B. SHACKFORD. 53. State Street, Boston, Mass.

MATTHEW PARKER'S ORDINATION. In the Catalogue of the Archiepiscopal MSS. in Lambeth Palace Library ( ' Registers of the Archbishops of Canterbury,' p. 207) there is a note in connexion with Archbishop Parker's Register that " in the first of these volumes, fol. 9b et seq., is recorded the very curious Ordo Ceremoniarum in Consecratione (Tin Matthei Parker" Has this Ordo been printed in full anywhere ? LEO C.