GOY

GOY. A place on the river Seine In Lower Nonuandy. GOYMER. See Gaimar. GRABBY. A corruption of Groby, or some similar local name. GRACE. Raymond Fitz-William de Carew, surnamed ' Crassus,' 'Le Gros,' and ' Lc Gras,' accompanied Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, in his celebrated expedition into Ireland in 1 IGO, and he may be regarded "as the Achilles of the enterprise." He married Basilia de Clare, Strongbow's sister, with whom he acquired an enonnous estate in Killarney, subsequently known as " the Cantred of Grace's country ;" for "his cognomen Gros, given him on account of his prowess, gradually became first Gras, and then by English pronunciation Grace." Many of the English families of this name deduce their descent from Ireland. See Jlemoirs of the Faui. of Grace, by Sheflield Grace, Esq., F.S.A. GRADDON. See Gratton.

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