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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAR. u, 191*.

AN EARLY-VICTORIAN BOOK OF ESSAYS. I wonder whether any of your readers hap- pens to be in possession of, or could tell me in what library I might consult, a copy of the following work, published in or about 1837- 1839 or in the early forties :

" The Koyal Victoria, an Album of Essays, Romance, Poetry, Anecdote, &c., Embellished with Twenty-six Chalk Drawings. London : Published by Orlando Hodgson, 111, Fleet Street [no date]. The first volume."

I was unable to find a copy in the British Museum Library. If a copy is kindly lent to me, it would be taken care of and promptly returned. PENRY LEWIS.

Quisisana, Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset.

ENGLISH SHRINES. Where were the fol- lowing shrines, to which pilgrims resorted in pre-Reformation days in England ? The " Rood of Reste," " St. Stelikis," the "Rood of Hastyng " (? Hastings), "Our Lady of Nese," " St. Robert of Newenton " all probably Kentish shrines. Where also were " St. Mary de Stokes " and " St. Mary de Manlond " ? Any information concerning these centres of devotion will be welcomed. H. COLLETT.

4, Ravenscourt Gardens, W.

AUTHOR WANTED. Where is the follow- ing to be found ?

" Les femmes sont sujettes a une frocit6 e'pid&nique. II n'yaique la premiere qui soit criminelle les autres sont malades. O femmes, vous etes des enfants bien extraordinaires ! "

I believe it is in some eighteenth-century writer. G. B. M.

" MEG'S DIVERSIONS." A German friend asked me if I could tell him who was the Meg from whom this phrase originated. I had to confess my ignorance, but suggested that it might be Meg Merrilies. Will some reader of ' N. & Q.' resolve our doubts ?

J. R.

" COUSINS AND HALF-COUSINS." I shall be much obliged if any one can tell me whether there is any local meaning, and if so what, attached to the expression "cousins and half - cousins " in the West Riding of Yorkshire. A testatrix who lived all her life in the Doncaster district of the West Riding, and who died in 1903, left her residuary estate to her " cousins and half - cousins." She knew that her father and mother had no half-brothers or half-sisters.

The trustee of the will deposes that the term " half -cousins " possesses a local mean- ing in the West Riding and elsewhere in

Yorkshire, and is used to denote the children of a first cousin that is to say, first cousins* once removed.

I shall be much obliged if any one who can speak to the local significance of the words will communicate with me direct. H. R. B. TWEED, B.A.

Devereux Buildings, Temple, W.C.

AN EARLY MAP OF IRELAND. Will some reader skilled in cartography kindly help me to identify the date of a map of Ireland,. 18 in. by 13| in., printed apparently in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and bearing the following description : " The Kingdom of Ireland. By Robt. Morden.

Sold by Abel Swale Awnfham and

John Churchill " ? A horizontal crease runs- across the centre of the map, and it would appear that the work once formed part of a large atlas, for an attached paper strip, probably for binding purposes, runs along the crease. JAS. M. Dow.

141, Falkner Street, Liverpool.

GRAHAM (GARTUR FAMILY). Can any reader kindly favour me with information as to whether George Graham, said to have been a writer in E dinburgh, 1787, was married ? If so, did he leave issue ? He had business rela- tions, among others, with Ja. Sommers and Geo. Jeffray, writers ; Katherine and Agnes Somerville, daughters of Mr. W. Somerville, advocate ; Messrs. Tod & Stoddart, mer- chants, Leith ; Mr. John Dundas, W.S., factor for Alexander, Baron of Preston ; Lord Ankerville's agent, and others. Please reply direct. F. W. GRAHAM.

2l", The Avenue, Southampton.

ORROK OF ORROK. I should be very grateful to any of your readers who would supply me with information about an ancient family of Fife named Orrok of Orrok. The original ancestor signed the Ragman Roll. Sir Robert Sibbald, the antiquary, married a member of the family, but so far as I can ascertain gave no pedigree or account of it. There is a pedigree in the ' Genealogical Account of the Family of Beatson,' but it is by no means correct. About 1750 Robert Orrok of Orrok sold the lands in Fife. At the end of the century the family reappear in Aberdeenshire, where they bought a property which they named Orrok " in memoriam." The male line of the family has become extinct, but there are innumerable descendants through the female line. I have heard of at least two- family trees as having existed, but both seem to have disappeared. Wemyss Orrok