Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849 by Various
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Eva, Daughter of Dermot Mac Murrough.
Mr. Editor,--I should be glad if any of your readers, Irish or English, could inform me whether we have any other mention of Eva, daughter of Dermot Mac Murrough, last independent king of Leinster, than that she became, in the spring of the year 1170, the wife of Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, at Waterford. Any fortunate possessor of O'Donovan's new translation of _The Annals of the Four Masters_, would much oblige me by referring to the dates 1135 and 1169, and also to the period included between them, for any casual notice of the birth of this Eva, or mention of other slight incident with which she is connected, which may there exist. A. HAPLESS HUNTER Malvern Wells, Nov. 20, 1849. John de Daundelyon. Sir,--In the north chancel of St. John's Church, Margate, is a fine brass for John Daundelyon, 1445, with a large dog at his feet; referring to which the Rev. John Lewis, in his _History of the Isle of Tenet_, 1723 (p. 98.), says: "The two last bells were cast by the same founder, and the tenor the gift of one of the family of Daundelyon, which has been extinct since 1460. Concerning this bell the inhabitants repeat this traditionary rhyme: |
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