Red Hugh O'Donnell. Both Raymond de Burgo and PhilipO'SullivanBeare were at Lisbon in 1618.

The names of the Auncyent Irish Ecclesiasticall open with Owen M'Mahon, i.e. Dr Eóghan Mac Mathghamhna, aliter Eugene Matthews, Catholic archbishop of Dublin. Related by birth to the Ulster earls, he was educated at Salamanca. After his consecration, Mac Mathghamhna made his way from Leuven to his diocese. This corresponds to the

Breviate which states that he was in Ireland. Mac Mathghamhna died in 1623.

The document then declares that DonFlorenceConrio, i.e. FlaithríÓ Maoil Chonaire, was entertayned by his Majestie in the states of Flaunders. He had returned to Leuven in the Spring of 1618, indicating that the

Breviate was written after his departure. The name of DonatusMooney occurs next. He was elected minister provincial of the IrishFranciscans by the chapter held at Waterford in 1615. In the closing months 1617 and the early part of 1618, Mooney wrote a history of the Franciscan province of Ireland. His name is mentioned here in conjunction with that of Francis Colman, who hath bene provinciall of the order of St Frauncis in Ireland. Colman held office for the usual three-year term, from 1609 until 1612.

Rocque de la Cruz OP, i.e. Roche MacGeoghegan, was a native of the diocese of Meath related to the O'Neills. Minister provincial of the Irish Dominicans, MacGeoghegan later became Catholic bishop of Kildare. His confrères Bernard O'Brien and Vincent Hogan, of this order, were the priors of St
Saviour's at Limerick and Loragh respectively. O'Brien was an uncle of the martyr Terence Albert O'Brien,