Galway. He was awarded a commission in 1605 after recruiting sixty soldiers in Ireland at his own expense. Significantly, the majority of levies among Irish exiles that year were conducted by Old English captains. Walsh was wounded in 1616 while in the service of ColonelJohnO'Neill.

In 1608, one NicholasWise served with CaptainThomasStanihurst's infantry company. Six years later, Ó Maoil Chonaire proposed that NicholasWise be appointed Irish consul in Andalusia.
His brother, AndrewWise, a knight of the order of Malta, supported DonalO'SullivanBeare's application to enter the military order of Santiago. During the Nine Years War, EnsignThomasStanihurst had served as a messenger between HughO'Neill and the Archdukes Albert and Isabel. Stanihurst's more famous brother, the historian and scientist Richard, died in 1618. That he is not included in the

Breviate, indicates that thelist was compiled after his demise. The Stanihursts of Corduff, Co. Dublin, were civic administrators related by marriage to the Usshers.

Two members of the clergy who defy the set definitions are DavidKearney, Catholic archbishop of Cashel since 1603, and the Jesuit FrJamesArcher. The

Breviate explains that Kearney, despite descending by righte lyne from the auncient Irish [...] is of an Englished condicion. Correspondence for the period clearly identifies him as a political ally of PeterLombard and DavidRothe. This the Breviate attributes to Kearney's training as a canon lawyer and the guidance he received from the Society of Jesus. He was retained at court in Madrid on 1,000 ducadosper annum from 1619 until his death five years later. During this time, he sat on the Junta of six advisers who