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manuscripts by his puritanical son-in-law. The subject is discussed at length in 'The Religion of Shakspeare,' by the Rev. Henry Sebastian Bowden, of the Brompton Oratory, and in Cardinal Wiseman's 'William Shak- speare.' J. F. HOG AN.

INEEN DUBH (8 th S. vi. 68 ; 9 th S. xi. 509). The appeal to me at the second reference is apparently the outcome of a query inserted by me under my old literary initials so far back as the first reference. Therein I stated, concerning Ineen Dubh, what was apparently misleading to the reader of the query, being at that time from some cause or other under the impression that that personage was referred to in the Four Masters. I have, since your correspondent's query appeared, discovered no trace of her in that work beyond a mention of her as the mother of Hugh Roe O'Donnell. The only other references I can so far lay hands upon are to be found in the ' D.N.B.,' sub voce 'Hugh Roe O'Donnell,' and in Burke's 'Vicissitudes of Families,' vol. ii. p. 126, which is as follows :

" Hugh Roe O'Donnell was the son of Hugh, Prince of Tyrconnell ; his mother, 'Dark Ina' (Ineen Dhu), of the great dynastic house of the MacDonnells of the Isles, was no degenerate descendant of a race remarkable for their indomit- able energy.'

An Elizabethan Irish song, 'Roisin Dubh,' was englished both by Thomas Furlong and James Clarence Mangan, under the respective titles of 'Little Black Rose' and 'Dark Rosaleen,' both of them legitimate renderings. The song, though relating to Hugh Roe, purports rather to be an allegorical address from him to Ireland than to his famous mother, but it is worthy of record. Ineen seems to have constantly egged her husband on to a ceaseless opposition to English rule, and is generally regarded as the Irish Helen MacGregor. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

F. C. W. will find several references to this name (a woman's) in the index to O'Donovan's Four Masters. In my pedigree under the year 1494 (see also Four Masters under that date) it is given as the name of a daughter of O'Donnell, who married my ancestor Niall Mor. THE O'NEILL.

VISCOUNT HAMPDEN'S PORTRAIT (9 th S. xi. 507). A brochure issued in 1898 for the benefit of Great Hampden Church Restora- tion Fund, and entitled ' John Hampden the Patriot : Hampden House and Church,' gives a photograph of the monument referred to by MR. PICKFORD. But this gives "the

last male descendant of John Hampden (died in 1754)" as "xxini. hereditary Lord of Great Hampden," and not nineteenth, as MR. PICKFORD states. CLIO.

Bolton.

THE GROTTO AT MARGATE (2 nd S. vi. 527 ; 8 th S. iii. 7, 96 ; vi. 347, 437, 471 ; 9 th S. xii. 14). In 1900 a note on this grotto was con- tributed to the Home Counties Magazine, ii. 245, by Mr. C. H. Woodruff, FS.A., joint- secretary of the Kent Archaeological Society. Mr. Woodruff thus summarized the subject :

"The conception appears to have been clearly derived from the shell grotto at Versailles, a print of which may have fallen into the hands of the Margate artist. Apart from external evidence, examination of the grotto will leave no doubt that the work is modern. A small row of houses called Bellevue Place faces the Dane. The front entrance of one of these has been walled up, and the base- ment room forms the so-called chamber or temple of the grotto, the original ceiling being retained. From this room a tunnel has been driven upwards through the garden of the villa, and access is now obtained at the top of the garden. It will be seen that this passage is exactly contained in the garden, a most remarkable coincidence if, as the story goes, a former proprietor discovered the grotto accident- ally while digging in the garden I believe the

work dates from about 1820-30."

The opinion of a careful antiquary like Mr. Woodruff carries the fullest weight, and so far as my own observation of the work extends, I see no reason whatever to doubt the accuracy of his conclusions.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Ramsgate.

Your correspondent may be interested to learn that an illustrated article on this grotto, entitled 'England's Catacomb,' appeared in a recent number of Pearsoris Magazine. I am sorry I am unable to supply the exact date of the issue. The writer of the article is Mr. J. Malcolm Fraser, whose theory is that the work is of Roman origin, and may be roughly estimated as 2,000 years old.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Had don, Northamptonshire.

"PENRETH" (9 th S. xi. 328, 411, 471). In reply to the query of MR. ALFRED HALL, I beg to suggest that the church which gave a title to the Bishopric of Llandaff was the one anciently known as Pentireth (Pentyrch). I base my supposition on the following inqui- sition (Exchequer Q.R. Roll 39, P.R. Office), held at Llantrisant, co. Glamorgan, temp. 1260- 1280 A.D. :

" Extent of Llantrissen made by command of the Lord the King. And there is the advowsori of the church of Llantrissen, which is worth 20 marks, and it pertains to the Earl [Gilbert de Clare, Earl