to DavidRothe's term as vice-primate of Armagh. The Roche family were cousins to the Rothes, which may explain the confusion surrounding the spelling of his name here. David Rothe died in 1650.

Bryan O Carne a jesuite, and a preacher was a brother of David, the Catholic archbishop of Cashel, referred to above, who was in Ireland until 1619. Here it is said he keepeth for the most part at the upper court with Lucas Shee esq.Sir Lucas Archer priest refers to the Cistercian vicar general in Ireland who was also abbot of Holy Cross, Co. Tipperary. JohnCoppinger was a graduate of Leuven. In 1608, he published

Mnemosymum or memorial to the afflicted Catholickes in Ireland and Theatre of the Catholick and Protestant Religion twelve years later. In the StatePapers, Jean Copengere, a priest from Waterford, is mentioned as one of the first students of the Irish College, Bordeaux. The Henry Fitz Symons recorded in Ussher's manuscript refers to the Jesuit military chaplain who worked with soldiers from Ireland and England based in Flanders from the late 1580s onwards. In 1614 and 1615 he published two works at Douai and on 8 November 1620 he was at the battle for Prague. In the same vein as Rothe's Analecta Sacra and Coppinger's Mnemosymum, Fitzsimon's writings included Irish Catholic martyrologies.

Christopher Cusack, priest was from Meath. In 1594 he founded St. Patrick's seminary at Douai for the diocesan clergy. He died in office as president of the college thirty years later. In Ussher's manuscript, LaurenceSedgrave is recorded for his role