430 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 
Then follows an exhortation to the passer by, on which I shall have 
something to say presently. 
I1.— Inscription of A.D. 1569 (see fig. 3, Plate xxz.). 
ihe | Hie Facet | Willellimus obrin fils momi nati filit 
Wilelini tilit | Dawid rufi Glene iro de | Corralel hil -- |r 
ballenebrenagh ac burgttis | ueteris | Leghienie | obit 
rou die mefis GFuni Ma o° | ceeeefrir® | et ems | uror 
Winna kewanagh filia Wauvici | filij Donati | uilbmonefis 
j obijt—die | megif—Wpisn°eeeee—Corit ata ppici | ectur 
Def dmeit 
This reads in English :—- 
““T. H.S. Here lies William O’Brin, son of Ferganaim (or of 
‘nameless’) son of William Fitz David Roe, Gent., of Corranloski and 
Ballenebrenagh, and burgess of Old Leghlin. He died on the 17th 
of June, a.p. mecccctxtx. And his wife, Winna Kewanagh, daughter 
of Maurice Fitz-Donogh of Wilbinon (?), who died on the —— of —, 
A.D. Mccccc—. On whose souls God have mercy. Amen.” 
Owing to the interchangeable nature of the black-letter characters, 
the want of word-division, &c., there is some uncertainty as to the 
force of some words in the original, which I will mention seriatim :— 
In No. 1 (a), the fourth word, before Johannes, is like hic re- 
peated, and so Ryan reads it, but that is unmeaning. I read it mC, 
which would be, and was probably meant by the carver for, ’Mac. 
But, as no Christian name precedes it, that seems out of place, and I 
submit that the 0 is to be deemed an error—one of many—for Y, and 
that we have an early form of our modern “ Mr.,” an abbreviation of 
Magister, which, in the form of ‘‘ Master,’’ was commonly used as an 
appellation of dignity in.the Elizabethan period to which these monu- 
ments belong, and of which traces are found even in Roman inscrip- 
tions, as may be seen in Hubner. Mention of two persons of this very 
name, ‘‘ William and Arthur Mac Bryn, sons of Master Arthur Mac 
Bryn,” occur in a grant of Primate Sweteman, a.p. 13865 (Elrington’s 
Ussher, xi. 436-7, quoted in King’s Primacy of Armagh, p. 39: see 
also p. 40). 
In No. 1 (0), the next word after Johannes unquestionably 
reads—as Ryan has it—mutus = dumb; but, considering that as the 
letter { in these inscriptions is usually undotted, so that this criterion 
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