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tion of the stone bears the motto "en . diev . ma . fiavnc ." (fiance) 

 that of the Cheever family ; below which is the inscription* 



CHEISTOFOE . CHEVER . RMIG ET . DAME ANE . PLUNKKET. 



No. 98. Monumental slab of the family of Nugent, Barons of Delvin, 

 from the east wall of the ruined church of St. Mary's, at Fore, in the 

 county of Westmeath. The inscription, which is intended to be a clear 

 and succinct account of the pedigree of some families of this branch of 

 the Nugents, is so completely the reverse, that I transcribe it as a genea- 

 logical cariosity : — 



THES . MONUMENT , WAS . FIRST . 

 BEGUN . FOR . OLIVER . NUGENT . 

 OF . BELENA . IN . THE . COUNTY 

 OF . MEATH . ESQ . BROTHER . TO 

 THE . HONORABLE . RICHARD . 

 LORD . BARON . OF . DELVIN . BY . 

 CHRISTOPHER . NUGENT . HIS 

 SON . AND . HEIR . WHICH . OLIVER 

 DIED . THE 17 OF . MARCH 1589 . AND 

 WAS . HERE . ERECTED . AT . THE . COST 

 AND . CARE . OF . ROBERT . NUGENT . OF 

 CLONEGIRACH . AND . XPHER . N T * 

 GRANDCHILDREN . TO . THE . S D " , 

 XPHER . OF . NICHOLAS . & ROBERT 

 SON . OF . OLIVER . N T> . OF . WILLIAM 

 XPHER . EDMOND . & RICHARD 

 SONS • OF JAMES . N T - . BOTH . NEPH 

 EUS . TO . THE . S 0, . AND . OF . EDMOND 

 N T - . GRANDCHILD . TO . THE . S 1 *' XPHER 

 & THOMAS . HIS . SON . FOR . THE 

 INTERRING . OF . THEM . & THER 

 POSTERITY . ANNO . DOM. 1689 

 GOOD . XPIANS . PRAY . FOR 

 THESE . HERE . 1NTERRD. 



The inscription is surmounted by the Nugent arms, with the motto 



" DECREVI." 



No. 99. Coat of arms and inscription over the doorway of the old 

 Castle of St. Johnstown, county of Tipperary. The shield is of the six- 

 teenth century type, and bears quarterly, 1st and 4th, three fish proper ; 

 2nd and 3rd, ermine, or, six scollop shells, three and three. The in- 

 scription is as follows : — - 



ROBERT DE SETO . TO HE . DNS DE - 

 SCADANSTOWNE . LISMAINAN . CVOLAGH 

 ET TOCIVS PLEBIS ILLIVS . ME FECIT. 



* Evelyn P. Shirley, in his " Memoir on the Arms of the Landed Gentry of Eng- 

 land," gives three goats passant as the arms of Thorold of Marston, Bart., 1642. This 

 coincidence is somewhat singular, and is not unworthy of some explanation. 



