If some earlier note-taker has not anticipated me, please to inform your correspondent from Malvern Wells that the published portion of the Annals of the Four Masters, by O’Donovan, commences with the year 1172.  The earlier portion of the Annals is in the press, and will shortly appear.  When it sees the light, your querist will, it is to be hoped, find an answer.  A query, addressed personally, to Mr. O’Donavan, Queen’s College, Galway, would, no doubt, meet with a ready reply from that learned and obliging Irish scholar and historian.

J.G.

Kilkenny.

“A HAPLESS HUNTER” will find, in the Statute of Kilkenny (edited by James Hardiman, Esq., M.R.I.A. for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1843), pp. 28, 29, note, two incidental notices of Eva, daughter of Dermot McMorrough; the first, her witnessing a grant made by Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, during his lifetime; and the second, a grant made by her to John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, in the reign of Richard I. (at least sixteen years after her husband’s death), “pro salute anime mee et domini comitis Ricardi,” &c.  Should he not have an opportunity of consulting the work, I shall have much pleasure in furnishing the entire extract, on receiving a line from him.

JOHN POWERS.

10.  Dorchester Place, Blandford Square.

Giraldus Cambrensis mentions, that MacMurrough, having, in the year 1167, procured letters patent from Henry II., repaired to England, and there induced Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke and Strighul, to engage to aid him, on condition of receiving, in return, the hand of his eldest daughter, Eva, and the heirship of his dominions.—­Girald.  Camb. p. 761.  And further, that Strongbow did not arrive in Ireland until the eve of St. Bartholomew’s day, September, 1170; he was joined at Waterford by Eva and her father, and the marriage took place a few days after, and during the sacking of that place.—­Ibid. p. 773.

“Strongbow left, by his second wife Eva, one daughter, named Isabella, an infant. * * * Richard the First gave Isabella in marriage to William de la Grace, who thus became Earl of Pembroke, and was created First Earl Marshal of England,” &c.—­Fenton’s Hist.  Pembrokeshire.

SELEUCUS.

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PLAGIARISMS, OR PARALLEL PASSAGES

I have placed this title in my note-books, more than one instance of similarity of thought, incident, or expression that I have met with during a somewhat desultory course of reading.  These instances I shall take the liberty of laying before you from time to time, leaving you and your readers to decide whether such similarity be the effect of accident or design; but I flatter myself that they may be accepted as parallel passages and illustrations, even by those who may differ from me in the opinion I have formed on the relation which my “loci inter se comparandi” bear to each other.