_Basnet Family_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.; Vol. iv., p. 77.).--My attention
has been directed to the inquiries made touching this family, and I have
looked into my Manuscript Collections for such as related to the name. I
find them distinguished by me into Bassenet and Basnet, though the
latter writer on the subject identifies them as one and the same. The
classification in my books subdivides the notices I possess (as in the
instance of other pedigrees, 3000 surnames, for which I have gathered
illustrations), according to the localities where _they_ fix the name.
These references are numerous in Ireland, and far more in England;
especially in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Essex,
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire,
Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Surrey; as well as in MSS. of rare
access. These various notices would be too numerous, and, to the many,
too uninteresting, to engross your pages, or I would gladly draw them
out. Those who feel interested may receive further information on
communicating their wishes to me by letter.