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descriptive of the son’s descent—when appended to his name. 
This British arrangement may have been complete in itself, é.g.— 
Kenneth MacAlpin (A.D. 843, Scotland); and the introduction of 
the Roman “fil:” may in some instances have produced a redun- 
dancy—unless, (as we have already surmised) allusion was inci- 
dentally made to an ancestor more remote, whose name descended 
in that involved manner to his posterity, represented in the 
person of the father of the deceased. 
We may yet be driven to seek for some other exposition of 
the word—but in any case we may presume that names like 
Mogred, Magrath, or Macraith (a Welsh Patron Saint),—however 
they originated,—might, by being Latinized, easily assume the 
form ‘ Mograttus.”* 
being Gaelic for John; In Irish-Celtic also we have MacCarty, Maguire, &e., 
and the still shorter ’O’ genealogically used (in O’Connor, &c.,) for the 
“Son of.” On the Irish Ua, O, see “‘ Christian Inscriptions,” (ed: by Stokes), 
pp. 29, 33, now being publd., Dubl. Univ. Pr., for the Royal H. and A. As- 
socn. of Ireland. It has been affirmed that the word—as used, of old—was Mo, 
O, Ma, or Mac.: according to circumstances. (see White’s Hist. Gt. Brit. 
and Ir., p. 70.) We find the following given (Cornu-B. Lex). Mab,—a son; 
(Cornish Vocab. :) ‘‘ filius.”; Welsh and Armoric, Mab, Map; Ir: Gael: and 
Manx, Mac. Its Welsh form, even declined to ’Ap, or ’P thus—Howel ’Ap 
Rees (’ Price), a Prince of Wales in the 9th century. 
* Dr. Bannister (Glossary) gives Mag,—a brood. He also quotes, from 
the Bodmin Manumissions, Macurth—and supposes that Macraith and the 
modern Mackworth may be varieties of the same name. He thinks that the 
proper names Maker or Magarus, Machus, and Maccos may be traced to a 
word meaning greatest; or to the Greek wakcheL0s blessed. Macleod and 
Dewar (in their Gaelic Dict.) have given Mog,—clumsy paw or hand; 
mogur,—bulky ; Moighre,—stout, handsome man. Williams (Corn-Br. Lex.) 
has Mocha, Mochya, Moy, &c¢.,—most or much; and grath, grayth, gras,— 
grace or favour; Welsh, rhad, Lat. gratia. If Moy and Grath were to be 
combined, probably the adjective would follow the substantive—therefore we 
can scarcely accept this as the derivation of Mograttus. Such a name how- 
ever as Grath or Rhad, (White mentions an early Scottish King Wrad) might, 
with prefix Mab or Mac,—become Mograttus. This result might also attend 
the blending of the same prefix with one or other of such names as are 
referred to by Dr. Barham in the Cuby pedigree, e.g. Geraint or Gerrans, 
Garwy, and those that can be changed from Vor to Gwr; like Gwrtheyrn— 
Vortigern. (R. I. of C. J. vol. ii, p. 52.) In the poems of Aneurin we read 
Garadawe for Caradoc, and the Bard appealed to Gwriat as having witnessed 
a battle he was describing. We can perceive how easily, with Mab or Mac 
for a prefix, either of these when Latinized would also produce the name 
Mograttus or something very similar to it. 
Dr. Borlase refers to ‘‘Coelus fil.: Mayrici” amongst the chieftains, 
and also ‘‘Moduncius (Dunwallo) fl.: Cloteii.” Saints’ names—Mocheeus, 
or Mochtus, and Macallius or Maughold, (Manx), also are met with—but the 
legend on the Phillack Stone cannot be read otherwise than as Mogratti. 
