as prefect at Douai. Sedgrave was a cousin of ChristopherCusack and his successor at the college. In 1624–5, his name was mentioned as being eligible for a bishopric in Ireland. A Note of Divers younge Gentlemen, pentioners Soulders, and schollers gone beyond the seas mentions one Steven White. This is most likely the StephenWhite who was the third scholar named in the foundation charter of Trinity College Dublin. He attended the Irish college at Salamanca established by his brother, Thomas. He researched and taught at Biburg, Ingolstadt, Kassel, Ratisbon, Schaffhausen and Dillingen where he held the chair of theology. He co-operated with the Irish Franciscans at Leuven in their work on the

Lives of Irish Saints, helped Heribert Rosweide SJ and the Bollandists in their research and supplied manuscriptsfrom Swiss and German libraries to the Protestant primateJamesUssher. About the year 1613, StephenWhite composed his Apologia pro Hibernia, refuting the errors of Cambrensis on the ecclesiastical history of Ireland before the Norman period. White was known amongst his peers as Polyhistor and DavidRothe described him as the Wonder of Germany. The list of soldiers from Desmond who made their way to Spain and Flanders dates from 1602.

The names and descriptions reveal inconsistencies in the second set of lists compared with independent sources for years of appointment, service and travel. This implies that the compiler kept adding details over a long period. Two examples suffice, Owen Groome Magrath [and] Morris Ultagh, both from Ulster. They occur consecutively among the divers priestes and fryers recorded around Westmeath. Owen GroomeMagrath