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principal families inhabiting Leinster and Munster at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion ; he mentions O'Macasa as inhabit- ing Corca Oiche, a district in the ancient Thomond (the present counties of Clare and Limerick). The exact situation of Corca Oiche has not been ascertained. Dr. McDermott includes O'Mackesey of Limerick in a list of the principal families in Ireland from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries (see 'Topographical and Historical Map of Ancient Ireland '). Two anglicized forms (Macassey and Maxey) are given by O'Hart in his work on Irish pedigrees. The sur- names M'Asey, Mackessy, Macasey, M'Assie, and M 'Casey, given by R. E. Matheson in Christian Names in Ireland,' are evidently modern forms of O'Macasa.
 * Varieties and Synonyms of Surnames and

I have not been able to find any record of this sept inhabiting the county of Wexford. At the present day the anglicized forms of the name are said to be more frequently met with in co. Tipperary than elsewhere.

ALBERT GOUGH.

Antrim Road, Belfast.

PORTRAITS IN DULWICH GALLERY (9 th S. yiii. 83). Your correspondent will find the information required in * A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Muniments of Alleyn's Col- lege of God's Gift at Dulwich,' by Mr. Geo. F. Warner, 1881. The collection was bequeathed by will to the College about December, 1686 or 1687, by William Cartwright, actor and bookseller. The two Mrs. Cartwrights were wives of William Cartwright, the actor. They are thus described in a catalogue apparently in William Cartwright's own handwriting :

" (78) My first wife's picture like a shepherdess, on 3 quarters cloth ; in a gilt frame. 31."

"(116) My last wife's picture, with a black veil on her head ; in a gilt frame, 3 quarters cloth. 3J."

Many interesting particulars relating to the Cartwrights are given in the above- mentioned work, which has, I may add, a very complete index. CHAS. H. CROUCH.

Nightingale Lane, Wanstead.

There is a collection of books, &c., in Dulwich College formerly belonging to Wil- liam Cartwright, one of Killigrew's company of Drury Lane Theatre. Cartwright was bred a bookseller in Great Turnstile, Holborn and then turned player. By his will, dated 1686, he bequeathed his books, pictures (several of which are no longer to be found) and furniture to Dulwich College, where his own portrait still remains. A ' Catalogue of the Cartwright Collection/ by John C L

Sparkes, has been issued. This I do not possess, but it is not improbable that the portraits of the two Mrs. Cartwrights are those of the mother and wife of the donor.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

TRANSFER OF LAND BY "CHURCH GIFT" (9 th S. viii. 81). One would like to hear more of this interesting matter. The custom re- ferred to has evidently come down from a remote age. On the Sunday before Candle- mas, 1318, the execution of a deed relating to land was witnessed in Felkirk Church, near Barnsley, by all the parishioners (Yorks. Arch. Journal, xii. 257). There is much evidence that conveyances of land and other docu- ments were anciently executed in church, and the forms of attestation usually give not only the names of a number of witnesses, but tell us that the document was executed in the presence of many others (" cum multis aliis "). It is difficult to see who these " many others " were if not the persons assembled in church. Perhaps Sir Richard Howard, or some Dorsetshire antiquary, could tell us more about " church gifts" in that county.

S. O. ADDY.

' NOMENCLATOR NAVALis ' (8 th S. iii. 429). This dictionary of English naval terms in the British Museum, if identical (as suggested by K. P. D. E.) with the MSS. mentioned at p. 45 of the Second Report of the Historical MSS. Commission, would be of great import- ance, not only to the 'E.D.D.,' but also to the 'N.E.D.' A. J. Hoi-wood's report on Lord Calthorpe's papers says :

" Vols. clxix. and clxxvii. Nomenclator Navalis, or an exact collection and exposition of all terms of art, &c., 1633. Copious descriptions arranged alphabetically. The contents of both volumes are the same ; the first has 130 pages folio." Perhaps Prof. Laugh ton may be able to say whether the Museum MS. is identical in date and otherwise with those in Grosvenor Square, and what relation (if any) these books have with Capt. John Smith's nautical handbooks of a rather later period.

ROBT. J. WHITWELL. Oxford.

ST. EDMUND (9 th S. viii. 103). It may be noted that St. Edmund's Feast is observed (in England) on 20 November, and must not be confused with that of Edmund Rich, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, who is commemorated on 16 November. The collects for both feasts (English Supplement to Roman Breviary and Missal) are from the Sarum Service

B oks /, GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.