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Norman origin abundantly throughout Ireland. In Ulster the 

 new names were confined chiefly to the counties of Antrim and 

 Down. In an act of attainder of Shane O'Neill, passed in the 

 eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth, there appears the following 

 clause in relation to the English inhabitants of this part of Ulster : 

 "John de Corsie, sent into Ulster by Henry II., first won the 

 citie of Down, and then all Ulster, of whose companions in arms 

 there remaineth at this day in Ulster, as a testimonie of that con- 

 quest, certayne stirpes of English bloud, as the Sauvages, Jordans, 

 Fitzsimons, Chamberlins, Benson s, Russells, Audeleyes, Whytes, 

 and many others, as propriatories of large portions of land." And an 

 old map of Carrickfergus, of the year 1550, given by M'Skimmin 

 in his history of that place, shows us the houses of persons of the 

 following names — Sindall, Dobbyn, Stevenson, Russell, Wylles, 

 Savage; these were doubtless the names of Anglo-Norman families 

 in the main who had survived from the conquest. In a general par- 

 don granted to some of the inhabitants of the counties of Down and 

 Antrim, in the first year of James L, I find the English names of 

 Brooke, Jenocke, Savage, Woodes, Wallis, Lynn, Eustace, and 

 Rives, M'Varnocke or Varnick, Spratt, numerous - Russells and 

 Savages, and Fitzsimons ; these were no doubt in the country 

 before the wars conducted by Essex. The names St. Ledger, 

 Parker, Piers, Aunershop, appear as landholders in Down and 

 Antrim during the reign of Edward III. There was a constant 

 arrival of fresh adventurers from England for some time after the 

 conquest, and the English influence increased very steadily in the 

 island; but, about the beginning of the 14th century, owing 

 to a variety of circumstances, it began sensibly to wane, and was 

 literally shattered to pieces by the Scotch invasion under Bruce in 

 13 15. Edward Bruce landed near Carrickfergus in 13 15 with 

 6,000 men. He found Ulster then in the possession of the great 

 de Burgo, known as the Red Earl. Bruce defeated him in two 

 battles, and pushed his conquests as far as Limerick, endeavouring 

 to extirpate the Anglo-Norman colony everywhere. He, however, 

 was finally defeated by de Bermingham, near Dundalk, and slain 

 — the mass of his army, it would appear, escaping to Scotland. 



