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inscription was placed on this picture; but, in 1604 or 1614, Hatherin 
was the only mode of spelling that Christian nomenclature. Let us try 
back a little for instances, facts being stubborn things. 
Henry the Eighth chose to compliment some of his Queens by join- 
ing their initials with his own on some of his coinages, for circulation in 
Treland, but which were coined in London; and we have H. A. (Henry 
and Anne), H.I. (Henry and Jane), H. K. (Henry and Katherin).* 
In the award made at Cork, 22nd January, 1555, by James, Erle of 
Desmonde, the aggrieved and complaining party was Katerin Roche. 
(See Roche MS., printed in the 2nd vol. of ‘‘ Olla Podrida,” p. 428.) 
In 1562, Augustine Berhner dedicates to Katherine, Dutchess of 
Suffolk, Latimer’s Sermons, preached, 1552, at her Grace’s request. 
In 1564, at the Herald’s visitation for the county of Devon, Peter 
Sainthill, of Bradninch, registers his first wife as Kath. Browne. 
Grafton’s “‘ Chronicle,” printed 1572, gives Katherine as Queen to 
Henry the Fifth, and three of Henry the Highth’s Queens were Kathe- 
rines. 
And then we have the very remarkable and all-important deed of the 
old Countess herself, dated August 5th, 1575, which commences, ‘‘ whereas 
I, Lady Kathrin, late wief to Thomas, late Earle of Desmond,” &c. As 
the Countess was born, we suppose, not later than 1464, and took the 
name Kathrin in baptism, we have her proof that K commenced Kath- 
rin when she commenced Christianity. The feast of Saint Katherine, 
Virgin and Martyr, is celebrated on the 25th November. 
To bring this inquiry down to the period of the assumed inscription, 
I wrote to a friend in London, who is just reposing from the labours of 
bringing out a new edition of Shakspeare’s Plays, to know how the name 
in question was spelt in the first folio, 1623. He replies, ‘‘ In the 
folio itis always spelt with a K; sometimes there it occurs as Kathe- 
rina, and sometimes as Katherine,” 
We thus have a stream of authorities as evidence to show that, 
from about 1464 to 1623, the name always occurs commencing with K. 
And we may go much further back; for, on referring to the Calendar of 
Saints in Sir Harris Nicholas’s ‘‘ Chronology of History,” we find, at 
p-. 181, Catherine, vide Katherine. At p. 147, we have six Kathe- 
rines. Of these, the first, Katherine, Virgin and Martyr, is believed to 
have suffered martyrdom in the fourth century; and the last, Katherine 
of Sienna, died towards the close of the fourteenth. 
In France, at a later period, K was used in Latin inscriptions where 
C now appears. I have coins of Charles the Seventh, who died 1461, 
and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1477, whose names are en- 
* T am indebted to my kind friend, Dr. A. Smith, for the following note, which 
bears strongly on this point— K used instead of C in a proper name :— 
“Dr. William Bulleyn, who died on the 7th of January, 1576, in his book, ‘ The 
Government of Health,’ mentions Dr. William Kunningham. See ‘ Biographia Bri- 
tangica, vol. II., p.1022. Folio, London: 1748.’” 
