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perished, save only five who hardly got to shore. This rock of 

 Bunboys is hard by Sorley Boys House (of Dunluce)." 



Also same, p. 98, 25, 1 : — " The examination of James Macharg : 

 He saith he was imprest at Lisbon, After the fight in the narrow 

 sea, she fell upon the coast of Ireland in a haven called Erris St. 

 Donnell, where, at their coming in, they found a great ship called the 

 Rat (' Rata ') of 1000 tons or more in which was Don Alonso de Leiva. 

 After she perished Don Alonso and all his company were received 

 into the hulk of ' St. Anna,' with all the goods they had in the ships 

 of any value, as plate, appai'el, money, jewels, weapons, and armour, 

 leaving behind them victual, ordnance, and much other stuff which 

 the hulk was not able to carry away, which done they set the ship on 

 fire, and made sail for Spain, in which course, by a contrary wind 

 they were driven back upon M' Sweeny ne Doe's country to a place 

 called Lough Erris, where falling to anchor, there fell a great storm 

 which brake in sunder all their cables, and struck them upon ground, 

 whereby Don Alonso and all his company were enforced to go on 

 shore, taking all their goods and armour with them, and there by 

 the ship's side encamped themselves for the space of 8 or 9 days. 

 Don Alonso before he came to land was hurt in the leg by the 

 capstan (capestele) of the ship in such sort as he was neither able to 

 go, nor ride, neither during the 9 days of his encamping, nor upon 

 his remove, but was carried from that place wherein the Galleas 

 named ' Jerona ' lay, between four men, being 19 miles distance^ 

 where likewise, he and all his company encamped 12 or 14 days, in 

 which time the Galleas was finished and made ready for sea, as well 

 as she could be. He being advertized certainly from time to time 

 that the Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam was preparing himself to come 

 against them, put himself aboard her, having for his pilots, 3 Irish- 

 men and a Scot. There was in the Galleas of her own soldiers, besides 

 300 slaves, 500 to 600 men. He saith that D. Alonso for his stature, 

 was tall and slender, of a whitely complexion, of a flaxen and smooth 

 hair, of behaviour mild and temperate, of speech good and deliberate, 

 greatly reverenced, not only by his own men, but generally of all 

 the whole company. And they being all shipped, in the said 

 Galleas, he sold they departed for Scotland, but what became of 

 them this examinate cannot say." 1588. Deer. 29. 



Some relics still exist of the " Gerona," as would appear from the 

 following extract from O'Donovan's Letters on Fermanagh, p. 51, 

 where, speaking of the Museum of Castle Caldwell : — " A part of the 

 top of one of the Guns of the Spanish Armada raised out of the sea at 



