IRISH QUERIES.
1. O'Donovan, in his edition of the Post-Invasion Annals of the IV. Masters, vol. iii. p. 2091. note, says that he "intends to publish a review of Spenser's View of the State of Ireland, in which he will give him full credit for his discernment of abuses, and expose all his intentional figments." Query, Has this review since appeared in any Irish periodical, or other publication?
2. What is the relationship (or may it possibly be the identity?) between Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of William, Earl Marshal, the famous Protector, during Henry III.'s minority, and Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, who married a daughter of King Edward I.?
3. The inquirer will consider himself extremely indebted to any one who will inform him of the existence of a set of Middle-Age Maps of the countries of Europe, of 8vo. or small 4to. size, published in England, France, or Germany, in print, or easily to be had second-hand, more or less accurate.
Koch's Révolutions de l'Europe, tome iii., Paris, 1814, gives seven maps of the whole continent and its adjacent islands, at the following periods of Middle-Age history:
(1.) Avant l'Invasion des Barbares;
(2.) Vers la Fin du Ve Siècle;
(3.) Sous l'Empire de Charlemagne;
(4.) Vers la Fin du IXe Siecle;
(5.) Vers 1074;
(6.) Vers 1300:
(7.) A l'An 1453;
which contain, of course, but few names of places. Were Europe divided into five unequal parts, say, 1. The Northern Countries; 2. The British Isles; 3. The Germanic Countries, Hungary, &c.; 4. France and Spain; 5. Italy, Turkey, &c.; and maps of these five parts given, the Northern Countries at three periods, the British Isles at four ditto, and the others at seven periods, as above, we should require twenty-eight maps (not too great a number, as the King's College Modern Atlas, of a convenient size, has twenty-five), which if they contained names of places as closely packed as the King's College Atlas, and laid down from Spruner, or some other trustworthy authority, would soon, it may be said without much foresight, be in the hands of so many readers of history, as to answer thoroughly to any bookseller undertaking to bring them out.
4. A copy of O'Brien's Irish-English Dictionary, first edition, 4to., old, half-calf, margins a little water-stained, otherwise perfect and clean, lately priced at 25s., to be exchanged for a clean copy of the edition of 1832 (inferior in value but more portable), and a clean copy of Thady Connellan's elementary Irish Dictionary, published by Wall, Temple Bar; Hatchard, and Rivingtons: or the latter will be purchased at a moderate price, without exchange.
Any one desiring to report the books wanted, to be so kind as to do so in "N. & Q."
MAC AN BHAIRD.