refervations-it would be very strange that the fame orators who have not attempted to contradict our motives for not adhering in the month of June, fhould be fo inconfiftent and unjust as to confider and impute it as a crime in the month of November.

According to our adverfaries (for we have got many, and even among the Judges.) this refufal of our non adhefion is purely arbitrary, an infatiable thirst for power blindfolds us, we are endangering the tranquillity of the kingdom without any true or real interelt; thus our opponents reafon. It is then incumbent on us to do away thofe objections, fo often repeated in the amicable report of Monfieur Voydel, fupported by all the divinity of Monf. de Mirabeau. We are impatient to lay open this intereft, truly noble, as it is founded on duty, this national intereft, this religious intereft, that this day commands our resistance and oppofition, if the mur. murs that interrupt me, difcover your minds, where is your impartiality as Judges:

(To be continued.)

To the Editor of the Irish Magazine.

SIR,

Should the following claffification of names, obtain a place in your Magazine, the difpofition of them as they regard this country will, I truft, be found to be hiftorically correct; the fubject too, not improbably, may afford entertainment to many of your curious readers. Nothing being farther from Nomenclator's object and inclination, either by allufion or otherwise, (indeed he loves and respects Ireland and Irishmen too fincerely to prefume fo far) than to give offence to any individual, or fept, or family-it is hoped the whimsical arrangement of this article will be taken in general good part. Almost all proper names have had a whimsical original; to exhibit Apy of

fions, nevertheless, they nearly equalled, for the most part, the four preceding houses.

Mac Carthy, of Defmond,
Mac Morough, of Leinster,
O'Flaherty, of West Conaught,
O'Donel, of Tyrconnel,
O'Carroll, of Oirgeal,
O'Heochy, of Ulster, (alias Don-
fleavy,)

O'Rourke. of Breifny,
O'Connor, of Kerry,

Sd Class.

Milefian Dynasts, or Sovereign Chiefs of the Royal Blood of Ireland, great vaffals of the empire:

Mac-y-Brien, of Arra,
O'Kennedy, of Ormond,
O'Conor, of Offally,
Macmahon, of Monaghan,
O'Neill, of the Fews,
O'Neill of Claneboys,
O'Reilly, of Cavan,
Macgwire, of Fermanagh,
Fitzpatrick of Offory,
O'Phelan, of Decies,

O'Moore, of Leix,

O'Byrne, of Wicklow,

O'Toole, of Imayle,
O'Ferrall, of Annaly,

Mac Dermott, of Moyluirg,
O'Carroll, of Ely,

Macnamara, of Clancolean,
Mac Geoghegan, of Moycafhell,
O'Dogherty, of Inifowen,
O'Kelly, of Hymaine,
O'Sullevan-more,

Mac Coghlan, of Delvin,
O'Dempley, of Clanmalier,
O'Donoghue-more,

4th Class

Includes the wide-fpreading host of Milefian Nobles, once very powerful in followers and great poffeffions, of whom many are defcended from what at prefent we term collateral branches, (a diltinction not generally admitted by the ancient Irish Septs) of fome of the fore

and Flinn:

O'Crowley, O'Dowley, O'Donoghue
Glynn.

O'Donelly, Conolly, Caffidy, Ward,
O'Sullevan-Beare, The Dynaft of
Ard;

O'Meagher, O'Bolger, O'Grogan, Mac Gilly Cuddy, Macbrenan, O'Hea, O'Dae.

O'Dolan, O'Nolan, O'Gorman,
O'Beirne,

C'Mahony-Fionn, Mac Swiney,
Aherne ;

O'Fallan, O'Callan, Mac Manus,
O'Dwyre;

O'Donevan-More, The Chief Mac
Intire.

O'Callaghan Brallaghan, Sheridan,
Dead,
O'Lonergan, Dorragan, Howragan,
Æd.

O'Laverty,

O'Laverty, Rafferty, Neylan O'.

Keeffe ;

O'Flanagan, Lanagan, Cullin, O'. O'Heaff.

Cornyn, O'Dornyn, O'GalagherBoy :

Mulryan, O'Kyan, Mullowney O': Loy.

O'Scanlan, O'Hanlon, Mac Donogh, O'Kean;

O'Cafey, O'Treafy, Mac Awley,
O'Heyn.

O'Lally, O'Malley, O'Kelly,,
O'Coyle,

O'Cahan, O'Gahan, O'Duhig,
O'Doyle,

Magennis of Iveagh, and Boylagh
O' Boile

O'Molloy, O'Dowd, O'Bric and
O'Coney,

Mac Kenna of Trough, O'Malone, O'Money.

Mac Mahon, of Clare, Mac Cartan, O'Gara,

O'Hagan, O'Degan. O'Donegan

One drop of their blood is worth ounces of gold.

2d Cast-Strongbonians.-1st Class. Great Palatines, or Anglo Norman Barons, of the first rank of nobility in Europe, in whofe train there followed many inferior Lords and Knights.Cambrenfis ftiles Earl Strongbow, Fitz Stephen, Hervey of Montmorency, and Fitzgerald, the Four Pillars of Norman Ireland.

De Clare Of this houfe, Richard, who like his father and grandfather, bore the furname Strongbow, was earl of Chepstow and Pembroke, and earl marthal of England, and in the right of of his wife, Eva lac Morough, Prince of Leinfter, defcended from the Dukes of Leinster.

Fitzstephen.-Robert Fitzstephen, duke of Cork, the firft of the AngloNorman barons that obtained a footing 'with an hoftile armed force in Ireland, was fon to Lord Stephen de Marisco, a nobleman of the French houfe of Montmorency, morency, conftable of Cardigan in Wales He left no male iffue.

Montmorency. Hervey de Montmorency, lord of Marisco in E1y, marfhal to king Henry 11. conftable 'of Ireland, nephew to trongbow and to Fitzstephen, from whofe brother Simon, by Geoffrey his fon, viceroy of Ireland, A. D. 1215, the family of Morres of Lateragh, Knockagh, and Ballycathy or Rathline, in ipperary.

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and viscount Mountmorres and lord

Frankfort are descended.

Fitzgerald.-Maurice Fitzgerald, fon to Gerald, conftable of Windsor, uterine brother of Fitzstephen, from whom the duke of Leinfter, the great earls of Kildare and Definond, the knights of Kerry, Fitzgibbon, and of the Gling, Fitzgerald of Carigoran, Caftleihin, and Decies, and from William his brother, the marquis of Lanfdown, earl of Kerry, and houfe of Fitzmaurice are defcended.

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De Lacy. Of this family were the old earls of Meath and Uliter, in reland, and earls of Lincoln, and Constables of Chefter, in England; and latterly counts of the Roman and Ruffian empires; defcended from Ilbert lord of Lacy in Normandy, who followed William the Conqueror into England.

De Courcy-Sir John de Courcy, defcended from the Lords of Courcy, in Normandy, was earl of Uliter be fore de Lacy, and one of the greatest warriors of the age; the prefent lord of this name is premier baron of Ireland. Fitzhenry-(Meyler,) accompanied earl Strongbow; he was fon to Henry, one of the baftard fons of king Henry 1. of England, and nephew to Fitzstephen: he died iffue lefs. From Robert, his brother, a family of this name is fuppofed to be defcended.

Le Boteiller.--The illuftrious houfe of Ormonde and Offory, and diflin guished family of Butler, defcends from lord Theobald Fitzwalter, grand butler of Ireland, who came at this period to Ireland.

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De Burgh. This puiffant houfe has produced as many great men as any other in Great Britain and Ireland. The earl of Clanricard, und vifcount Mayo, are the principal reprefentatives at prefent; the families of Glink, Derrymacloghny, &c. branch from them. De Cogan-A family now, I believe, extinct, but which at the time we are treating, was of high refpectability in Wales and Ireland. Miles de Cogan, Lord of Cogan, was nephew to Fitzste phen, and with him joint lord of Cork. De Prendergast. Likewife one of Strongbow's great barons, lord of Pien. dergall, in Wales, and of Enniscorthy, in Ireland; he led a body of his own followers to the aid of Macmorough, and one of his defcendants was created vifcount Clonmel for life.

De Londres.-Baron of Naas, a gowerful chief. Ex.

De Bermingham.-Baron of Offal ly, before Fitzgerald, The earl of

De Haftings

De Pinnkett

De Rofhter

De Cufack
De Nugent
De Condon
De Cantwell
De Feipo
De Mayrewarde
De Nangle or

D'Angulo
Le Cheevres
De La Hide
De La Maré
De La Haye
De Neville
De Floritall
De Mandeville
De Tobyn'
De Purcell

D' Fimende
De Grace
De Riddlesford
De Barrett