great struggle for it, 284-286, 363, 427;

‘that long desired place,’ 428;

the fishery there, 447

Baltimore, 95, 153;

held by the Spaniards, 406, 412-414, 419

Baltinglas, James Eustace, Viscount, his rebellion, 51-55, 57, 59, 60, 70, 82, 83, 92, 99, 116, 144, 164, 193

Bancroft, Richard, prebendary of St. Patrick’s, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, 134

Bandon River, 353, 405, 406

Bann River, 189, 266, 430, 447

Bannada Abbey, 155

Bantry Bay, 419

— Barony of, 430

— Abbey, 95, 419

Barbary, 10

Barkley, Captain, M.P. for Antrim, 141

— Captain Francis, his valiant defence of Askeaton, 306, 307

Barnewall, Christopher, 116, 117

— Sir Patrick, 470

Barnstaple, 25, 250

Barrow River, 135, 324, 447

Barry or Barrymore, James FitzRichard Barry, Viscount (died 1581), 34, 45, 46, 50, 56, 85, 112, 124, 234

— — — David Barry, Viscount, son and successor of the foregoing, 240, 241, 306;

his loyalty, 307, 312, 328;

persecuted by Tyrone, 353, 360, 365, 390, 401, 404, 430

Barry, John, 307

Bartoni, Alexander, 74

Basques, Biskyes, Biscayans, 70

Bath, 167

Baxter, Nathaniel, 457

Bayonne, 164

Beaumont, Count Harley de, 314, 454

Beaumaris, 278, 319

Becher, or Beecher, Fane, 199

— Sir William, 305

Becket, Thomas, 52

Bedell, William, Bishop of Kilmore from 1629, 473

Bedford, Francis, Earl of, 94, 236

Belfast, 289

Bellaclinthe, 341

Belleek, in Fermanagh, 154, 196, 234, 236, 284, 286

— in Mayo, 26

Belvelly, 87

Benburb, 392, 393

Bere, Berehaven, Bere Island, 48, 95, 412, 413, 421, 430, 447

Bermingham: see Baron of Athenry

— John, 221, 222

— or Birmingham Tower, in Dublin Castle, 28

Berwick, 40

Bilbao, Bilboa, 11, 74

Bingham, Sir Richard, 65, 69;

his smart seamanship, 71;

Chief Commissioner of Connaught, 124, 125, 129;

M.P. for Roscommon, 141;

makes a composition in Connaught, 147;

crushes the Scots at Ardnarea, 151-157, 159;

goes to Holland, 166-168, 170, 177;

his account of the Armada, 188, 191, 192;

his struggles in Connaught, 203-216, 229, 233, 253, 254;

his great strategic idea, 256, 260, 263, 269, 270;

in disgrace, 271;

his ideas adopted in his absence, 276, 278, 279, 294;

restored to favour before his death, 310, 314, 352, 427, 439

— George, brother of the foregoing, 189, 191, 208, 216, 254

— John, brother of the two foregoing, 260, 270

— George Oge, cousin of the three foregoing, 253

Biscay, 10, 65, 163

Biscayans or Biskyes: see Basques

Blackford, 324

Blackfriars, Dublin, 132

Blacksod Bay, 178

Blackwater, river and fort in Ulster (this is Spenser’s Blackwater), 9, 92, 137;

land reserved by the Crown, 170, 254, 262;

new fort built, 284;

gallant defence, 286, 287, 289, 291;

great disaster in attempting relief, 294, 295, 296, 300, 329, 339, 369, 392, 393, 418, 455

Blackwater River, in Munster, 39, 41, 47, 94, 95, 103, 112, 137, 199, 306, 328, 410

Blake, James, 426

Blarney, 55, 429

Blaskets, islands and sound, 45, 173, 174, 188

Blind Abbot: see William Burke

Blount, Sir Christopher, 294, 319, 323, 328, 331, 335, 339

Bodley, Sir Thomas, 473

— Captain Josiah, brother of the foregoing, 404, 435, 449, 455, 456

Bologna, Bolognese, 74, 77

Bolsena, 77

Bonville family, 48

Bordeaux, 472

Borgias, the, 462

Bostock, Captain John, 422

— Captain Ralph, 250, 251

Bothwell, 194

Bourchier, Sir George, 35, 45, 56, 58, 68, 84

Boylagh, in Donegal, 189

Boyle, Richard, afterwards Earl of Cork, 199, 382;

his remarkable journey to London, 414;

his connection with Spenser, 457

— Robert, son of the foregoing, 473

— Elizabeth, cousin of the foregoing, married to Edmund Spenser, 457

— in Roscommon, 244, 263, 301, 336, 337, 429, 431

Boyne River, 392

Bramhall, John, Bishop of Derry, translated to Armagh in 1661, 463

Brefny O’Rourke, 79: see Leitrim

Brest, 11

Brewett, Miles, 164

Bridgewater, 52

Brill, 280, 281, 287

Bristol, 12, 25, 26, 83, 249, 252, 381, 415

Brittany, 247, 424

Broadhaven, 376

Brooke, Sir Calisthenes, his opinion of Irish service, 286, 344

Browne, or Brown, Charles, 67, 77

Browne, Archbishop, 132

— John, 204

— Sir Valentine, 114, 126, 127, 200

— Sir Nicholas, son of the foregoing, 200, 293, 443

— Sir Valentine, the younger, brother of Sir Nicholas, married to a Desmond, 384

Bruff, 302, 328, 377

Bruges, 145

Bruree, 46

Brussels, 3, 18

Bryskett, Ludovic, 85, 457

Buckhurst, Lord Treasurer, 265, 395, 396

Buckingham, George Villiers, first Duke of, 384

Bunamargey Abbey, 138

Bunboys, 180

Bundrowes, 236

Bungunder, 70

Buoncompagno, Giacomo, son of Pope Gregory XIII, 119

Burgh, or Borough, Thomas, Lord, Lord Deputy, 273, 277, 278, chap. 46 passim, 295, 439

Burgh, Lady Frances, 287

Burghley, Lord Treasurer, 36;

his exhortation to Ormonde, 38, 73, 89, 96, 97, 100, 101, 111, 112, 123, 132, 134, 135, 137, 149, 157, 158, 163, 166, 209, 224;

friendly to Sir John Perrott, 228, 229;

his consideration for Fitzwilliam, 239, 241;

he makes the clergy pay for the war, 250, 255;

his foresight, 260;

his opinion of Russell, 264, 265, 271;

his feeling for Norris, 280;

effect of his death on Essex, 313, 314, 395

Burkes, or De Burghs of Co. Galway (Upper Burkes), 136, 152, 269, 406, 409;

for Earls of Clanricarde see under Clanricarde

Burke, or De Burgh, Ulick, Earl of Clanricarde, son of the foregoing: see Clanricarde

Burke, Sir John Shamrock, half-brother of the foregoing, created Baron of Leitrim, his rebellion, 79, 81, 84;

his violent end, 119;

his character and popularity, 120, 253, 302, 430

— William, brother or half-brother of the two foregoing, in rebellion, 79, 84;

hanged, 88, 92

Burke, Redmond, son of Sir John Shamrock, 302, 309

— William, brother of the foregoing, 430

— Lady Mary, sister or half-sister of Ulick, John, and William, married to Brian O’Rourke 120, 121, 214

— Lady Honora, sister of the foregoing, 79

Burkes, or Bourkes of Co. Mayo (Lower Burkes), 153-157, 178, 204-216, 260, 263, 269, 270, 278, 406

Burke, Redmond Na Scuab (of the besoms), 253

— Sir Richard MacOliver, 92, 93, 147

— Richard, called the ‘Devil’s Hook,’ 178, 204, 205

— — called ‘Richard in iron,’ married to Grace O’Malley, 43, 44, 92, 93

— Oge, called Fal fo Erinn (hedge or pale of Ireland) hanged by Bingham 151, 152, 211

— Theobald, known as Tibbot ne Long (of the ships), 38, 366, 427

— — calling himself MacWilliam Iochtar, 260, 365, 368

— William, calling himself MacWilliam Iochtar and known as the ‘Blind Abbot,’ 205, 207, 211, 215

— MacDavid, 431

— MacWilliam, 44

Burkes, or Bourkes, of Clanwilliam, in Limerick, 326

Burke, Sir William, chief of the Limerick Burkes and created Baron of Castle Connell, 45

— Theobald, son of the foregoing, 23

Burnell, Henry, 143

Burren, 311, 365

Burrishoole, 44, 176

Bute, 138

Butler family, 41, 86, 308, and see under Ormonde, Dunboyne, Cahir, and Mountgarret

— Piers, Ormonde’s brother, 65, 96

— Lady Elizabeth, Ormonde’s daughter, afterwards married to Sir Richard Preston, 359, 384

— Sir Theobald, afterwards Baron of Cahir of Cahir, 31

Butler, James Galdie, of Cahir, brother of Thomas Lord Cahir, 325, 326

— Eleanor, sister of Richard Lord Mountgarret, married to Thomas Lord Cahir, 309

— Piers, Ormonde’s natural son, 117

Butleraboo, 38

Buttevant, 46

Button, Captain, 401

Cadiz, 164, 266

Cahir, 31, 96;

besieged by Essex, 325, 329, 332, 377

— Thomas Butler, Baron of, 325, 333, 465

Calais, 174, 181

Calderon, Coco, 173

Callan, in Kilkenny, 141

— River, in Armagh, 298

Cambridge, 163

Campbell, Lady Agnes, married to Tirlogh Luineach O’Neill, 130

Campion, the Jesuit, 52, 455

Campo, Alonso del, 408

Canterbury: see Bancroft

Cantire, 128, 139

Canutius, 78

Caraçena, Marquis of, 425

Carbery, in Cork, 201

Carbury, in Sligo, 208

Carew, Sir George, afterwards Earl of Totnes, Master of the Ordnance 1588, Lord President of Munster 1600, 36, 45;

at Glenmalure, 61-63, 160, 168, 172, 192, 217, 218;

consulted in England 239, 305;

Essex dislikes him, 314, 326, 328;

President of Munster, 353-356, 359-361, 363-365, 378-382, 384, 390, 392, 396;

his services before Kinsale, 399, 400, 402-404, 406, 407, 412-414, 416;

his reduction of Munster 419-424;

his spies, 423;

very tired of Ireland, 433, 434, 448;

fond of tobacco, 455, 465

— Sir Peter, the younger, brother of the foregoing, 61-63

— Castle, in Pembrokeshire, 123

— — near Bantry, 419

Carey, Sir George, Vice-Treasurer, 345, 395, 436

Carleile, Captain, 138, 139

Carlingford, 141, 276, 320, 369, 372

Carlos, Don, 258

Carlow, 6, 8, 371, 443

Carlow County, 20, 88, 166, 323

Carmelites, 193, 253

Carnew, 330

Carrick-on-Suir, 96, 230

Carrickfergus, 8, 138, 139, 141, 261, 289, 290, 320, 322, 361, 394, 396, 418