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the same year, and speaks of Maguyllen as an Englishman. In 

 the Dublin Council Book, under 1541, we find "the submission 

 of Maguyllen, who desireth to be reputed as an Englishman, 

 as his ancestors were." It is worthy of remark also, that 

 the Christian names of some of the Mac Quillans were Norman 

 — e.g., Jenico, Mac Gerald, Mac Cuyllen. Shane O'Neill, too, in 

 writing to Queen Elizabeth, speaks of Mac Guillen as a " mere 

 Englishman." It is worthy of note that there is no mention of a 

 M'Quillin in the Annals of the Four Masters before the year 13 10. 

 O'Donovan supposed that the name was a corruption of Llewellyn ; 

 it is possible that the name is simply Mac William, assumed in 

 Ireland by some of the chiefs who accompanied Strongbow. There 

 is one thing certain, as O'Donovan tells us, that there is not a 

 single instance on record of any Anglo-Norman family having taken 

 any Irish names, except such as they formed from the names and 

 titles of their own ancestors, by prefixing Mac in place of Fitz — e.g., 

 Mac Maurice, Mac Gibbon. It is equally certain that Irish names 

 were very generally assimilated to the English in the Pale and its 

 vicinity, whether on account of the above mentioned law, or on 

 account of the social ban upon all whose name, or language, or 

 dress showed them to be mere Irish ; and from this it may be in- 

 ferred, that many families bearing English surnames throughout 

 the Pale, are of undoubted Irish or Danish origin. We have 

 authentic instances of this ; thus, Harris mentions the Shannaghs 

 (which means fox), having changed their name to Fox, and the 

 Gowans (gowan meaning smith), to Smith ; thus, Mac Intire^-son 

 of the carpenter, became Carpenter; Mac Spallane, Spenser; Mac 

 Killy, became Cock ; and Mac Cogry, or Kegry, L'Estrange ; 

 O'Mulclohy (in Sligo), has been mistranslated into Stone ; Mac 

 Connava has been rendered Forde ; O'Cnavin has become Bowen 

 (Bone). In Tyrone, Mac Rory is rendered invariably Rogers; 

 Mac Conry is made King. Besides those changes which were 

 made in accordance with the seeming meaning of the words, there 

 were others made from a resemblance of sound ; for instance, Mac 

 Laighed was changed into Leigh ; O'Duinne into Doyne ; Mac 

 Crossan into Crosbie ; O'Conner into Conyers ; O'Reilly into 



