is described as guardian of the fryers of Multyfernam where he liveth. He served as guardian at the abbey for five years and was suceeded by Maurice UltaghO'Donleavy. During Magrath's guardianship the abbey was raided in 1613. According to DonatusMooney's history, Magrath was still living in 1616.

Ussher's list states that Ultagh was beyond the Seas and in Tyrone's companie and came lately from thence and lives neaer for most part at Multyfarnan.Maurice UltaghO'Donleavy was one of the outstanding Franciscans in Ireland in the first half of the seventeenth century. He returned to Ireland in the early 1610s and became guardian of Multyfarnham in 1615. Christopher Nugent, the principall countenance of the said fryers, provided patronage and protection to the Franciscans. He died in 1626 and was buried atMultyfarnham Abbey. The following decade, Ultagh contributed one of the attestations in favour of the

Annals of the Four Masters and died three years later in 1639.

The penultimate name recorded, William Bathe, Jesuite, refers to JohnBathe's brother. Trained as a musicologist and linguist, William was educated at Oxford. In 1611 he published his

Janua Linguarum, or Gate of Tongues, at Salamanca. This book provided a method for acquiring a working knowledge of Latin in a short time and was translated into nine languages within twenty years. WilliamBathe died in Madrid at 48 years of age on 17 June 1614.

A volume of Irish Franciscan manuscripts at University College Dublin preserves another seventeenth-century copy of the

Breviate and extracts of O'SullivanBeare's Zoilomastix, showing the popularity of his works among the exiled community. The