Kilkenny.
_Robert de Welle._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of what family
was Robert de Welle, who married Matilda, one of the co-heirs of Thomas de
Clare, and in 15th Edward II. received seisin of possessions in Ireland,
and a mediety of the Seneschalship of the Forest of Essex in her right?
(_Rotul. Original., Record Commission_, pp. 266, 277.) And how came the
Irish title of Baron Welles into the family of Knox?
Again, where can I meet with a song called the Derby Ram, very popular in
my school-boy days, but of which I recollect only one stanza,--
"The man that killed the ram, Sir,
Was up to his knees in blood;
The boy that held the bucket, Sir,
Was carried away in the flood."