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12 s. ix. JULY 16, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 49 constructed at Corkbeg with the old stones and on the site of a fortification built there in the reign of King John. It is significant that despite frequent mention in subsequent years of "Halebolin" and King John's (or Corkbeg) Forts, and although in 1659 when invasion was a bogy, a list of garrisons "which are thought fit to be constantly kept" specified the garrison of these two forts, no mention is made of Cork Harbour defences at other points. It thus seems fair to assume that before 1660 Prince Rupert's Fort did not exist, that it was not built under the Admiral's direction, but was named after him. How soon after is still uncertain. Smith's 'History of Cork,' Book in., p. 107, relates that in 1667 the Earl of Orrery, having intelligence that the French were preparing an attack on Kinsale,

encamped all the militia and standing army of Monster, brought some of the largest guns out of his Majesty's ships of war, planted batteries along the shore

Perhaps such batteries showed the need of and led to the erection of Prince Rupert's Fort?

Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' assist to find a plan of this fort, or otherwise determine the date of its erection?

ENGLISH VERSIONS OF LATIN CHARTERS IN PICKERING. In Pickering's edition of the 4 Statutes at Large,' &c., the first charters given are printed both in Latin and in English ; they are followed by some in Norman-French, of which an English version is also given. In some cases cor- rections are given where the version is not quite correct. There is no preface or intro- duction giving any information as to the sources of the English versions as is afforded by notes at the heads of Latin or Norman versions. May I ask, then, what are the .sources and the authority for the various English versions of the statutes printed by Pickering ? W. S. B. H. THE HON. FRANCES INGRAM-SHEPHERD, second daughter of Charles Ingram, 10th Lord Irvine, married, 1781, Lord William Gordon, second son of Cosmo, 3rd Duke of Gordon. She was the mother of the child who sat for Sir Joshua Reynolds' s ' Angels' Heads ' in the National Gallery. Information of date of birth and death asked for. E. E. LEGGATT. 62, Cheapside. DICKSON or EDINBURGH. I am compiling a genealogical tree of the family of Dickson of Edinburgh and collateral branches, and should be grateful to any of your corre- spondents who might be able to give me genealogical information regarding the ancestry of : . . . Dickson (Christian name unknown). He was a fur merchant in, or connected with, St. Petersburg, and died at Edinburgh in or about 1798, aged 94. He married (name of wife unknown) and had two sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Samuel Dickson, born 1749, was a builder and con- tractor, and built a very considerable part of the new town of Edinburgh. He mar- ! ried at Edinburgh in College Kirk parish April 19, 1772, Agnes, youngest daughter of Thomas Baillie, by his wife Helen Gordon. (Thomas Baillie was a millwright at Water of Leith. He had ten sons and two daugh- ters Thomas, a colonel, who died in India, 1799 ; John, a merchant in Edinburgh, married Margaret Sutherland (dau. of Alexander Sutherland, farmer), July 29, 1764; William, born Nov. 20, 1744; Andrew, born Feb. 6, 1756, Agnes and others). Samuel Dickson died July 2, 1793, aged 44 years, having had issue : 1. James, writer, Edinburgh, served heir to his father, 1794. 2. Thomas, born 1775, died young. 3. Samuel, born March 29, 1777, Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh. 4. Helen, born June 20, 1779. 5. Mary, born Aug. 4, 1781. 6. Thomas, bom May 16, 1783. 7. Henry Gordon, bom 1786, W T .S. in 1817, married Aug. 1, 1817, Elizabeth, second daughter of William Gillespie, mer- chant in Edinburgh, and had a numerous i issue. Mr. Henry Gordon Dickson was a partner in the firm of Ker and Dickson, W.S., and resided at 27, Drummond Place, Edin- I burgh. He died there Sept. 30, 1860. 8. Janet, born April 20, 1788. 9. Robert, born Jan. 21, 1790. 10. George, born Jan. 12, 1792. 11. Agnes, born Dec. 15, 1793, died un- married at Ayr, 1874. I have particulars of the descendants of 3 and 7 above, but I should like particulars of the issue of the other sons and daughters who married. Professor James Dickson of Edinburgh was either a son or grandson of one of the above. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.