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 INTRODUCTION. Vll names. There are in all 181 Iiish namee, and 16 Anglo-Norman of ihe time of the Conquest. The English names amount to 251, the Welsh to seven, the Huguenots to six. The remaining names, about 100, are those of a few foreigners, and those which I have left as undetermined. This shows simply the relative position of the names on the Eoll The number of Lowland Scotch I find represented by the 565 names amounts to 5682, or about 55*80 per cent, of the entire BolL Of Scotch of foreign origin there is a per-centage of 1-48. portion of 23'68 per cent of the Roll. The number of Irish names (181) represents only 824 of a native population, or about 8*09 per cent Here the results, from an examination of the Electoral Boll, seem to vary from those obtained from other sources. To represent the proportion of the native Irish in the county we should have to add 3 per cent., or even a little more, to this per-centage of 8*09. For I find that the native population, as a rule, are much poorer than their neighbours, so that a far less proportion of them have the qualifications of county voters, that is, holdings valued at £12 per annum. ''By private enquiry in the districts in which the native popula- tion is large I find this to be the case, and that many of their names do not figure on the Boll at alL I think, however, that the per- centage over the entire county is not over 12 per cent The English represented by the 251 names amount to 783. Those of long settle- ment in the county — t. e, who came centuries before the Plantation — number 40 in addition. The Welsh names represent 28. All these taken together make 851, or show a per-centage of 8*35 of the entire Boll. Foreigners, Huguenots, and Germans are represented by 21 people on the list. The undetermined names represent 243 on the list, or about 2*38 per cent of the BoU. The native population is descended in the main from well-known Irish tribes who dwelt in this part of the country before the wars of Essex (Queen Elizabeth's time)." The words and phrases in the accompanying Glossary will be found in the main to be of Scottish origin, and many of them have
 * The Scottish Colts represented by the 234 names exhibit a pro-