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(December.) Sir Richard Levison returned into the harbour of Kingsale, and 
reported to the Lord Deputy the damage done to the Spanish fleet at Castlehaven : 
“the seventh of December, the wind being extremely at south-east, he rode still at 
Castlehaven, the night following, with wind at west-south-west, he warped out with 
the ships.” While Sir Richard was at Castlehaven he was exposed for some time to 
the fire of cannon from the shore, “being by no industry able to avoid it until some 
calmer weather came.” 
« The thirteenth, the weather fell out to be extreme foul and stormy. The four- 
teenth, foul weather, wherein nothing was performed. The seventeenth, foul and 
stormy weather. The nineteenth, by reason of stormy and foul weather, nothing on 
either side was performed. This morning the ordnance played oftener.” By the 
context it appears to have been the twentieth. ‘The next morning that work was 
brought to great perfection, though the night fell out stormy, with great abundance 
of thunder and lightning, to the wonder of all men, considering the season of the 
year.” The latter end of December is described as being extremely tempestuous, 
cold, and wet, at the time an attack was expected from O’Neal’s army. 
In February Captain Flower was obliged to put back, in an attempt to reach the 
castle of Dunboy, “by reason of foul weather and contrary winds.” 
In a letter, dated the 15th of February, 1601, O. S. the wind is described so 
westerly, as to prevent the arrival of shipping to carry away the Spaniards that sur- 
rendered. 
«The eighth of March, Don Juan being at Kingsale, hourly expecting a wind to 
be gone, and, finding a flattering gale, went aboard, but, for want of a fair wind, 
departed not from Kingsale until the sixteenth of the same month.” 
(May.) The army is described as on its way to besiege the Castle of Dunboy. 
“ The fifth and sixth the weather was so tempestuous, that we could not stir out of 
quarters. The thirteenth, unseasonable weather. From the seventeenth to the six 
and twentieth nothing happened worthy of notice, only we were detained in our 
camp with contrary winds, and with strange, unseasonable, and tempestuous weather. 
The six and twentieth the wind turned fair, and the shipping drew forth, but imme- 
diately the weather proved so tempestuous, they were constrained to return to their 
former road. The seven and twentieth, the eight and twentieth, the nine and 
twentieth, and the thirtieth, we were detained with like contrary winds, and unseason- 
able, foul, and stormy weather. The one and thirtieth the weather grew fair, and we 
took advantage thereof.” 
(June.) ‘ The sixth being Sunday, a foul and stormy morning.” It is to be 
supposed that the rest of this month was favourable, as no complaint is made of the 
weather during the siege of the castle of Dunboy. 
(July.) We find, by the Pacata Hibernia, that in this month Sir Charles Willmot 
was sent into Kerry, to remove all the inhabitants, with ‘e goods and cattle, into 
