_"Wellesley" or "Wesley"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 173. 255.).--Your readers will
find, in Lynch's _Feudal Dignities_, the name spelt _Wellesley_ in Ireland,
so long ago as the year 1230, and continued so for several centuries at
least subsequent to that date. The Public Records also bear evidence of the
high position and great influence of the Wellesleys, not _Wesleys_, for a
lengthened period in Irish history.