overcome pronunciation difficulties for the Spanish. William Burke was one of five brothers who left Ireland to enrol in Spanish service in the late 1580s.

Without specific accompanying information, however, caution must be exercised with some of these names. This is especially in the case of families who used the same Christian names from one generation to the next.
A William Burke was with DonalO'SullivanBeare at Dunboy Castle in 1602. Another, brother of the Baron Leitrim, signed himself Lord of Bealatury in Spanish documents of 1616. Murish Fitzgerald may refer to one Mauricio Geraldino of Spanish records who commanded an infantry company in 1611. Thomas Fitzgerald, a cousin of Maurice Fitzgerald, was noted in records of 1589 to have been shipwrecked off Scotland with the Great Armada before making hisway to the Low Countries. Edward Fitzgerald's career in the Spanish Army of Flanders began in the 1590s as captain of an independent Irish infantry company. In 1611, Fitzgerald, by then a major, was transferred to serve the Archduke Albert.

The names of English-Irished, eclesiasticall begin with PeterLombard, archbishop of Armagh and Primate in Rome. Lombard was born at Waterford and excelled at the University of Leuven. He died at Rome in 1625. He and ThomasWalsh, of the habite of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland, were first cousins of LukeWadding. ThomasWalsh was also related to the Whites of Clonmel. In a separate source, PhilipO'SullivanBeare states that Walshpreached the faith in Ireland before becoming Catholic archbishop of Cashel and Emly in 1626.

LukeWadding was theologian to the Spanish embassy which