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Ixviii SOME NOTICE OF THE
on circuit how such a name could have arisen before tho
time of guns, gunpowder, and gunnery little thinking that
it would afterwards be my
chance to know that this was
the seat of an Ostman or Dane named Gunnar, and probably
called by him and his countrymen "Gunnara stadr" or
"Gunnars holt" as the family settlement in Iceland was
named, 1
but changed by the Irish into Bally-Gunnar.
Ostmen and the It is also striking how few Scandinavian names of men
roll of Dublin, are found in a roll of freemen of some guild of Dublin,
containing about 1,500 names, made within thirty years
after the Conquest. 2
Except Walter s. of Edric, William s. of Godwin, 8. Philip of
Harald, William s. of Gudmund, Robert s. of Turkeld, William
Wiking, William s. of Ketill, Simund Thurgot, there are no
Scandinavian names to be found.
and brought them to England at a
charge of 1,000, which force
fought
at the Castle of Leslcadle
in Cornwall, Essex's army being
there. Carte Papers, clxi., p. 2.
Ormonde backed the petition and
reminded the King '
that H. M.
said in his coach going towards
Bury St. Edmunds, Lord Bath
being also in the coach, that Sir
Robert Walsh should have compensation
for his services and
1
Bufferings, (ib.} Previous to this on
March 1 8th, 1 68 1
, he wrote a letter
to the King in indignation atbeing
commanded out of his presence as
a Papist by Mr. Secretary Lionel
Jenkins, reminding H. M. how he
had his blessed father's commission
to wear a gold medal with his
royal effigy, for services rendered
at the battle of Edgehill (Carte
Papers, vol. 216, p. 10.) In a
letter to Jenkins he complains that
he " with this medal on his breast
hpuld be driven out of the royal
presence by any upstart suggester
like Dr. Titus Gates." (Ibid. p. 9).
And to Ormonde, recounting the
indignity
and the warmth of his
temper, he says " the best man in
the kingdom once told me '
no
butter would stick on my bread.'
A bedchamber man (he added) once
said 4
the best man in the kingdom
(meaning Ormonde) was my enemy."
I had a mind to Culpepper him."
(ibid, p. 8); in allusion to this that
about thirty years before, in 1648,
when the King (then Prince of
Wales), and he and many more
were in exile at the Hague, Sir
Robert Walsh, by order of the
Prince, was imprisoned for a
bastinado he gave to Lord Cul-
pepper.
1
Index of names of places in
Iceland. Sturlunga Saga.
2 Historic and Municipal Docu-
ments of Ireland in the Archives
of the City of Dublin, by J. T.
Gilbert.