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Versailles he told me he had lived many years in 

 some capacity, before he came to Mucross : lience, 

 I presume, is the link with him between the two 

 places. 



HavinjT answered, to the best of my ability, the 

 above Query, allow me in conclusion to add a 

 Note on the right of sepulture within the pre- 

 cincts of Mucross Abbey, which I do not find in 

 the books. It is a privilege valued in the district, 

 says Mr. Gorram, as much by those who possess 

 it, as burial in Westminster Abbey ; conveying, 

 as it is thought, an aristocratic distinction, — to 

 establish a title to which it is necessary to show 

 that an ancestor of the family applying has already 

 been interred there. No fees are taken by the 

 proprietor. Middle Temple Gate. 



Round Tower of Tomgraney (2"'' S. iii. 37.) — 

 Would J. A. P. C. be so good as to state a little 

 more precisely the " local tradition '' that the " re- 

 mains of this round tower were visible fifty years 

 since." I do not find it in Ledwich's list of round 

 towers ; nor is Its existence noticed by Archdale, 

 and I have personal reasons for doubting that it 

 was visible so late as the present century. The 

 church and steeple of 965, mentioned in J. A. 

 P. C.'s quotation, are supposed to have been de- 

 stroyed in 1084; but the present church may still 

 be very ancient. C. 



Mayors Re-elected (2""^ S. ii, 384. 477.) — John 

 Campsie was five times Mayor of Londonderry, 

 1681-88; John Wotton, five times, 1712-27; 

 Henry McManus, six times, 1717-40; Charles 

 McManus, seven times, 1745-75 ; and John Con- 

 ingham, five times, 1777-88. — (^Ordnance Survey 

 of Londonderry^ pp. 87-89.) 



William Dobbin was five times Mayor of Car- 

 rickfergus, 1576-88 ; Roger Lyndone, six times, 

 1638-53; Willoughby Chaplin, fourteen times, 

 1733-57 ; Ezekiel D. Wilson, twenty times, 1769- 

 1819 ; Sir William Kirk, fifteen times, 1780-1814 ; 

 and the Marquess of Donegal, six times, 1803-21. 

 — (j\IcSkimin's History and Antiquities of Carrich- 

 fergus, pp. 315-38.) 



The list might easily be extended as regards the 

 mayors of Londonderry and Carrickfergus ; but, 

 as it is, I think it Avill be deemed sufficient. It 

 frequently happened that the same individual 

 served as Sovereign of Armagh in many succes- 

 sive years. (Stuart's Historical Memoirs of Ar- 

 magh, p. 476.) Abuba. 



Thomas Knight, Esq., served the office of Mayor 

 of Abingdon eleven times. On the passing of the 

 Reform Bill in 1832, it was proposed to elect him 

 for the twelfth time, but he declined the honour 

 on account of his great age (above eighty), and 

 he was elected first alderman Instead. 



William Doe Belcher, Esq., was seven times 

 Mayor of Abingdon ; he died in the year 1856. 



James Cole, Esq., was six times Mayor of 

 Abingdon. His corporate career coincided with 

 the latter part of that of Mr. Knight, and with 

 the earlier part of that of Mr. Belcher. 



I have no doubt that in those towns in which 

 the mayors are elected without reference to their 

 serving the office in rotation, many instances of 

 this kind will be found. F. A. Carringtow. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Gentoo (2"'^ S. iii. 12. 54.) — In support of the 

 Portuguese origin of this term, allow me to quote 

 the following extract from the Supplementary 

 Glossary of Terms used in the North-Western 

 Provinces (of Bengal), by the late Sir H. M, 

 Elliot, p. 323. : 



" This word is a corruption of the Portuguese gentio, a 

 Gentile. Dr. Frj'er (^Travels, 1672 to 1681) says 'the 

 gentues, the Portugal idiom for Gentiles, are the abo- 

 rigines.' He appears to be the first English writer by 

 whom the term is used ; but before his time Pietro dell'a 

 Valle speaks of the Hindus as gentili, following the ex- 

 ample of the Portuguese." 



E. C. B. 



Double Christian Names (2"'* S. ii. 516.) — " N. 

 & Q." has recorded many curious particulars about 

 ancient names, and might do so respecting what is 

 now going on with modern names. 



I knew an Individual who, upon hearing that 

 some relative had disgraced himself, changed his 

 name, and that of his wife and children, to the 

 name of an ancient family. 



A general, who lately died In India, affirmed at 

 a borough registration court, that he had gone to 

 walk in Clonmel with a brother when twenty 

 years of age, and each had one Christian name. 

 They met an old gentleman who asked the two 

 young men as a favour to share his names between 

 them. Each took two names, which one retains, 

 and the brother did so to his death. There was 

 no question of property. G. R. L. 



Deer Leaps (2"'' S. ill. 47.) — The Rev. T. D. 

 Fosbroke, in his Abstract of the MS. Lives of the 

 Barons of Berheley, by John Smyth, Esq., M.P. 

 for Midhurst, temp. Jac. I. (p. 77.), explains deer 

 leaps to be private parks adjoining forests allowed 

 by royal licence to have places where the deer 

 might enter by leaping, and be retained. 



Robert de Were, a son of Robert Fitzharding, 

 who lived temp. Hen. II., had deer leaps at his 

 manors of Bai-row and Inglish Combe, co. Somer- 

 set. F. A. Carkington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Andover Church (2°^ S. Hi. 48.) — I have en- 

 gravings (from private plates) of a few of the 

 monuments, with their inscriptions. In the old 

 church, which I shall have much pleasure in 

 showing Memor. The Editor of "N. & Q." will 

 furnish him with my address. W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



