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 ias. viii. MAY 2i, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 413 CHERRY ORCHARDS OF KENT (12 S. viii. CULVER HOLE, GOWER (12 S. viii. 370). 211, 275, 352). The history of the estab- This was visited by the Cambrian Archaeo- lishment of the Tenham orchard is related logical Association last August, and an en- in a scarce pamphlet, The Husbandman's graving and many interesting particulars Fruitful Orchard,' 1609 (? by N. F.). See are given at p. 339 of the Journal of that Amherst's ' History of Gardening in England,' society. I can lend this to your correspon- 1895, pp. 98-99. J. ARDAGH. dent if he so wishes. There are also an engraving and some particulars in an ' HONEST " EPITAPHS (9 S. x. 306 ; 11 S. article entitled 'A Summer Among the vi. 261, 308, 377 ; vii. 517). My friend Dovecotes ' in The English Illustrated Mr. J. T. Page was greatly interested in Magazine, vol. x., p. 51. these memorials. Since his death I have JOSEPH C. BRIDGE. noted the following : 1648. Tom Coates, All Saints, Wing, Bucks., , ff account of this structure in 1706. Jean Stay, Greyabbey, Co. Down. Bradley s Glamorgan and Gower, London, 1757. Sir Robert Echlin, Lusk Ch., Dublin. 1908, with a sketch drawn from the sea 1780. Edward Collings, Holne Chyd. showing its general appearance. It seems g-.jf 12 ' Edwarcl IIall > Castledermot Chyd., to be a cleft between the cliffs and for about U l 83^-Herman Meyer, Dutch Church, Austin 70ft ' filled in wi * h w ^ ls of niassive mortared Friars. masonry, pierced with windows, one arched 1861. John Cherry, Tinnaclash, Car low. and two circular. The rooms are large, J. ARDAGH. an( i each of the five floors is reached by a 1 stone staircase. " Zoo " (12 S. viii. 368). Certainly in a Nothing seems to be known locally of the diary kept by a western county profes- .origin of the structure, and the hopelessness sional man, otherwise full of abbreviations, of access by water and the difficulties by an entry of the date June 29, 1834 (a lanci destroy the theory that the place Sunday), records a visit to the " Zoological was used as a smuggler's haunt. Gardens," the title being written at full ARCHIBALD SPARKE. length. K. S. OLD NOVELS AND SONG-BOOKS (12 S. viii. CHURCHES OF ST. MICHAEL (12 S. viii. 190, 36 ?i'~" 1 *? ave beei * able to trace the 231,298,336). There are but three churches authors f two of the anonymous books with this dedication in Bedfordshire, namely, ^ven, and there is a copy of each of these Farndish, Millbrook, and Shefford. Farndish ^ the British Museum. They are :- church, a small building chiefly of the ' F ^ h f l f Fanny; or, The Young Lady s TTI i TTI T i. j First Entrance into Life: being the memoirs ot Early English period, is situated on rising a little men dicant and her benefactors.' By the ground close to the borders of Northants author of ' The Old English Baron.' London, and about two miles from Irchester. 1819. That at Millbrook occupies a position on This is by Clara Reeve (1729-1807). See the high ridge above the village at the edge ' D.N.B.' of the greensand hills, upwards of 400 feet ' Nan Darrell ; or, The Gipsy Mother.' By the above sea-level. It is near Ampthill, author of The Heiress,' *c, 3 vols. London, amongst the plantations and game pre- 1839 - serves of the Woburn estate, and commands This is by Ellen] Pickering (d. 1843). See a very picturesque and extensive view ' D.N.B.' ARCHIBALD SPARKE. across the plain of Bedford. In contrast with Millbrook, Shefford is have a copy of '.Fatherless Fanny,' situated in a valley, close to the little river published by J. S. Pratt, dated 1847, Flitt, a tributary of the Great Ouse, from ' which I should be pleased to dispose which stream the villages of Flitton and of - It does not give the author. It is a Flitwick, in this county, derive their names, small book. L. It is also quite near the cross-roads between ! Bedford and Hitchin and Baldock and Mudie's catalogue of 1917 gives, amongst Woburn, which was part of the old coach its list of works of fiction. ' Isola,' by Alice road from Cambridge to Oxford. Mangold Diehl, in one volume. L. H. CHAMBERS. CECIL CLARKE. Bedford. Junior .MlH'iuvum Club.