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[2nd g. VII. jiAB. 12. '69. 



nishe, Cloneknock, Drombargy, Dashesheogh, 

 Carroureogli, Dromcanny, and other lands in the 

 CO. of Fermanagh. To hohi for ever, to the sole 

 and proper use of the master of the Free School 

 at Lisgoole for the time being. 



There is then a provision with respect to this 

 grant, from which it would appear that the free 

 school was in existence at Lisgoole before the 

 grant was made, because it says, " Whereas it 

 has been properly made known to us that the 

 aforesaid Masters of the Free Schools were not 

 on the aforesaid 8th July bodies politic and 

 corporate." 



From that expression it would appear the 

 school was in existence before the charter, and 

 that this was a charter giving an endowment to 

 a school previously in existence. 



In a report of the Commissioners of the Board 

 of Education in 1807, it is stated that the school 

 lands of Enniskillen, by a survey taken in 

 1795, contained about 3360 acres of land, of 

 which 2548 were arable and situate about six 

 miles from the town. 



The charter of 2nd Charles I. is enrolled in 

 the Rolls Office, Chancery, Dublin. 



Any farther information which Mr. Lee shall 

 require shall be willingly given by 



James Moerin. 



Carleton Terrace, Rathmines. 



Richard Symonds (2°* S, vii. 67.) — You in- 

 quired a fevr numbers ago when Richard Symonds 

 died who collected the anecdotes about Cromwell. 

 I copy for you the mention of him in the family 

 tree of my family — perhaps the most complete 

 of any of the old Norman pedigrees. His was 

 almost the youngest branch of it, and like most 

 of them, misspelt their names : — Richard was 

 the fifth son of Richard Symonds, a Cursitor in 

 Chancery, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of 

 Robert Plume, Esq., of Great Yeldham Hall, 

 and Pool, co. Essex. " Richard Symonds, alias 

 Fitz-Symon, of Magdalen Coll. Camb. and of 

 Lincoln's Inn, succeeded to the Pool, &c., born 

 in 1597 ; purchased the manor of Panffield in 

 1641, ob. 15 Septr. 1680, s. pr." 



J. C. Symons. 



P. S. One of R. Symonds's nephews died in 

 arms for King Charles. 



Swift's Drapier's Letters (2"^ S. vii. 148.)— We 

 have the following account of "Wood's Halfpence," 

 which occasioned these celebrated Letters, in An 

 Essay on Medals, Sfc. by John Pinkerton, Lond. 

 1789, vol. ii. pp. 126-7 : — 



" In 1722 William Wood, Esq. acquired from George 

 1. the famous patent which excited such discontent in 

 Ireland. This was for coining halfpence and farthings; 

 and the loss to Ireland from the small size allowed to 

 these pieces by the patent, itself was estimated at 60,000/., 

 but Wood caused them to be struck of a far smaller form 



than the patent bore, so that his gain would have been 

 near 100,000/. Much exaggeration is however suspected 

 in this estimate, for the fact is, that Swift and other 

 Jacobite writers took this poor occasion to disturb govern- 

 ment. These coins are of very fine copper and workman- 

 ship, and have the best portrait of George I. perhaps to 

 be anywhere found. Sir Isaac Newton, then at the head 

 of the Mint, said they were superior to the English in 

 everything but size." 



The want of size (or weight) in these coins, 

 which the honesty of Sir Isaac acknowledged, was 

 certainly a most important desideratum. Pinkerton 

 appears to admire them very much in the light of 

 an amateur. Whether the Dean opposed the issue 

 from political motives or not, it was at least a fair 

 subject for exposure, and the transaction in 

 several of its features looked extremely like a 

 fraud on the Irish public, or what now sometimes 

 goes under the name of a "job." In the private 

 sense of the word it was " economic«Z science " with 

 a vengeance. G. N. 



" Vallanceys Green Booh " (2°^ S. vii. 200.) — 

 I beg to inform J. V. Is', that I have not at pre- 

 sent leisure to examine so minutely as he requires 

 this MS. for information relating to " the Refor- 

 mation in Ireland." The Green Book contains 

 600 closely written pages, and would take some 

 time to read through ; but if J. V. N. would send 

 a gentleman to my office any day during office 

 hours, he shall have every facility in his examina- 

 tion of the MS. referred to. James Mokrin. 



Rolls' Office, Chancery, Dublin. 



Beuhelzoon (2°* S. vi. 511 ; vii. 77. 135.) — A 

 correspondent asks (2'"> S. vi. 511.) "Is not the 

 word ' pickle ' said to be derived from the name 

 of this great man, as inventor of the art ? " An- 

 other correspondent replies (vii. 77.) that the 

 suggestion of S. P. O. is " fully supported by 

 the best authorities." Upon this K. N., a third 

 correspondent, condemns in very positive terms 

 " the renewed assertion that the woini pickle is 

 derived from one \Vm. Beukels," though no one 

 asserts it ; and the same correspondent confidently 

 affirms that pickle "is derived from no such per- 

 son ; but from the Dutch word pekel, signifying 

 brine ; " adding, " The mistake has been corrected 

 over and over again." 



In what sense does K. N. speak of correcting a 

 " mistake ? " To derive pichle from pehel is to 

 leave the question untouched ; for pekel is only 

 one word out of many, all pointing to a common 

 source. I know but two ways in which the very 

 generally received derivation from " Beukels " 

 can be set aside. One would be by offering a 

 better; the other, by showing that the old Ger- 

 man and Dutch words, corresponding to " pickle, 

 were in existence before Beukelzoon or Beukels 

 was known. It may be fairly questioned whether 

 your correspondent K. N. can do either. In 

 German, Dutch, and the cognate languages and 



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