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EEMAEKS OX CERTAIN PASSAGES IN CAPT. CUELLAP'S 

 NAERATIVE OF HIS ADYENTURES IN IRELAND 

 AFTER THE WRECK OF THE SPANISH ARMADA IN 

 1588-89, FOLLOWED BY A LITERAL TRANSLATION 

 OF THAT NARRATIVE. Br PROF. J. P. O'REILLY. 



[Read February 27, 1893.] 



In' a recent series of articles on the "Invincible Armada," by Mr. 

 Froude, wbich. appeared in Longman^s Magazine^ be cites, amongst 

 other autborities, tbe remarkable work of tbe Spanish naval captain, 

 Cesareo I'"emandez Duro, "La Armada Invincible," whicb gives a 

 lucid account of that extraordinary expedition, based upon original 

 documents, copies of which foi-m tbe essential and more promi- 

 nent portions of Duro's work. In the first volume this author gives 

 an admirable summary of the main events of the expedition ; the 

 remainder of the first volume and the entire of the second are 

 devoted to the reproduction of the original documents on which the 

 summary is grounded, as also to a list of authors whose works bear on 

 the question. Amongst these original documents is that numbered 

 184 (p. 337 of vol. ii.), and having for title, " Carta de uno que fue 

 €n el Armada de Inglaterra y cuenta la Jornada" (Letter of one who 

 took part in the English Armada and his account of the affair) by 

 Don Francisco Cuellar. As it is a narrative of what happened to 

 that officer from the time that he was wrecked on the coast of 

 Ireland to the date of his arrival in Flanders, and as it gives bis 

 experience of the people he met with, and of the country, during bis 

 more than six months' stay in Ireland, I thought that a translation of 

 it might prove interesting to the members of the Academy, and 

 possibly be of some service for the history of Ireland during tbe 

 period in question, the more particularly as he gives a very precise, if 

 somewhat short, account of the manners and style of living of the 

 inhabitants with whom he came in contact, and which may serve as a 



