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from which Mr. Smith stated his conjecture that she was still 

 living when the stone was placed over her husband's grave. 

 The name " inominatus," Mr. Smith suggested, might be a 

 latinization of the Irish Christian name " Fearganonym" 

 (literally "a man without a name"), which appears frequently 

 in the Patent Rolls and other historical documents of this pe- 

 riod, as one commonly in use among various septs and families 

 of Irish descent. He read an extract from the Patent Roll of 

 the 28th, 29th, and 30th Henry VIII. (dorso, Ixxi. 3.) of the 

 enrollment of an " Indenture between Lord Leonard Gray, 

 Viscount Grane, the King's Deputy, and Fergynanym Roe 

 O' Byrne, whereby it is agreed that the said Fergynanym 

 shall be the king's faithful subject, and serve at hostings with 

 his power, at his own expense ; that he shall pay to the King's 

 use four-pence Ir. yearly, for every horse, mare, cow, bull 

 and ox, being in future in the town of Ballihorsy, Cowlyth, 

 Dwly, Dromor, and Kilparke. And the Deputy shall main- 

 tain and defend said Fergynanym, and his tenants, &c., and 

 the possessions in the towns aforesaid, against all men, as 

 well English as Irish." — 17 Sep. 1536. 



The O' Byrne mentioned in this indenture, Mr. Smith sup- 

 poses was the same whose tomb remains in the Cathedral of 

 Old Leighlin. 



In conclusion, he suggested that careful rubbings of the 

 tombstones which yet remain in the various churches and 

 abbeys, especially in Kilkenny and Cork, and other places 

 in the south of Ireland, and which are every day fast disap- 

 pearing under the hand of time, would preserve a vast deal 

 of curious information, of no inconsiderable value to the topo- 

 grapher, the genealogist, and the historian. 



Mr. Ball brought under the notice of the Academy, as an 

 unobserved fact, a beautiful provision in the foetus of the 

 spined dog-fish {Acanthias vulgaris), by which the mother is 

 protected from being lacerated by the spines of the young 



