debated over negotiations for the Spanish Match. Conversely, JamesArcher of Kilkenny, though alltogether Englished, allied himself to the King of Spain and HughO'Neill during the Nine Years War. Born in 1549, JamesArcher had served as rector at the Salamanca Irish college. According to EdmundHoganSJ, Archer was sixty-eight years of age in 1617, the oldest Irish Jesuit at the time. His name is not, however, in the catalogue of Irish Jesuits of 1626, so he must have died between 1617 and 1626.

Amongst Irish military officers, the Old English CaptainWalterde la Hoyde had fought on the side of the auncyent Irish in the last warres; while the earl of Thomond, being an auncient Irish did helpe the English. The misspelling of his name as Whyte at the start of themanuscript, combined with JamesUssher's ascription of the original source to PhilipO'SullivanBeare in Madrid, shows that this was a translated copy. Furthermore, the name of Fr Richard Bermingham OP of Co. Meath, known in Spain as Fray Ricardo de la Peņa, appeared in the earliest Spanish collation now kept at the Real Academia de Historia.

Although informed by different sources, comparing their contents suggests that the

Breviate and Priests of Ireland and Gentlemen gone abroad were submitted together for inclusion in Ussher's manuscript. Towards the end of the Breviate, JohnBathe is amongst the names of English-Irished seculars. In Priests of Ireland and Gentlemen gone abroad, JohnBathe of Drumcondra Castle, Co. Dublin, is referred to as aforementioned. JohnBathe was consulted as an adviser at court and accompanied HenryO'Neill to Madrid in 1609.