he governed the Jesuit mission for twenty-three years. Holywood died on 4 September 1626.

ThomasWhiteSJ of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, is described as Rector of the Irish Seminarie in Salamanca. In 1592, he was granted a bequest by Philip II to establish the college and was subsequently placed in charge of the Irish college at Santiago before his second period as rector at Salamanca began in 1617.
Two years later, he held responsibility for the Irish college at Seville. White was born in the 1550s and died at Santiago de Compostela in May 1622. His illustrious brother, Stephen, is amongst the names recorded in the second text dealt with below.

Of the Englished-Irish Seculars named next, CaptainJamesGearnon commanded an Irish infantry company at Oostende in 1616 when 112 soldiers under his commandcollected 850 escudos for the Irish Franciscans at Leuven. Gearnon may have been related to AnthonyGearnon, the Franciscan army chaplain and author of

Parrthas an Anma. Born in 1585, Thomas Preston, son of the Viscount Gormanston, was married to a Flemish noblewoman named Margaret de Namur. He received a commission as a captain in the Army of Flanders in 1605 and rose to the rank of maestre de campo. The military career of Walterde la Hoyde lasted forty years, the first four with the Catholic confederates during the Nine Years Wars in Ireland, and the others as the captain of an Irish infantry company in the Spanish Army of Flanders. In 1621, CaptainGeorgede la Hoyde received a commission to raise a company of 200 Irish infantry. WilliamWalsh was from