ancient military officer of superior rank, who commanded a certain
number of troops. In the English _State Papers_ of that period the
translation adopted for it is simply camp-master.
[15] _Mayorazgos_--heirs to estates, by right of primogeniture.
[16] _Agravios_ = offences, _insults_.
[17] _Maesos de Campo._ See Note 5.
[18] _Avieso_ = irregular, perverse.
[19] _Auditor_ = a Judge appointed to assist military or naval officers
with his advice in Law proceedings.
[20] _Fiesta_ = feast. This is a curious use of the word.
[21] _Hecho una sopa de agua_--an idiomatic expression, meaning "_wet
through to the skin_."
[22] _Arca_--coffer, _iron chest for money_. The dictionary of the
Spanish Academy gives a definition of _Arca_, of which the following is
a translation: "A large chest, with flat lid attached to it by hinges
or hooks, so that it can be opened and shut, and which is fastened in
front with a lock or padlock. It usually consists of plain wood without
lining in the interior or covering outside."
[23] _Wolves_ did not disappear from Ireland till the early part of the
eighteenth century. There was a presentment for killing them, in the
County of Cork, as late as the year 1710.
[24] This might also be translated "that I might recover in it."
[25] The part within the brackets was accidentally omitted in copying
the rough draft of the original translation. _Montes_ signifies both
mountains and woods. Cuellar uses _montaña_ to signify mountain, and
_montes_ apparently for woods. He also makes use of _bosque_, a wood
with thick underbrush, or a thicket.
[26] _Encaminaria_ = would guide, put in the right road.
[27] _Paja_--coarse grass or straw.
[28] _Bosque_--wood or thicket, with much underbrush.
[29] _Hermosisima por todo extremo._ This implies a very strong
expression, consisting, as it does, of a double superlative.
[30] _Poltron_ = poltroon.
[31] _Amiga_ = female friend.
[32] _Real_--a Spanish coin, value a dollar.
[33] _Jubon_--doublet, jacket.
[34] _Paga_--literally means payment; but when applied to soldiers or
sailors, as in this case, it means monthly pay.
[35] _Hacienda Norte de las montañas._ _Norte_, strictly speaking,
means the _Arctic pole_; but, according to the Dictionary of the
Spanish Academy, it is also used, metaphorically, to mean _direction_,
or guide, in allusion to the _North Star_, by which navigators guide
themselves with the direction of the mariner's compass.
[36] _Aquellos herejes salvajes_--literally, heretics, savages, both
being nouns.
[37] _Fortuna_--generally means _fortune_ or _chance_, but it also
signifies a _storm_ or _tempest_. It is in this latter sense that it
appears to be used here; for Cuellar goes on to describe the injured
state in which the ship was.
[38] _Y los pasaron todos á cuchillo_ = and they passed them all to
the _knife_. An idiomatic expression in Spanish corresponding to the
English one, _were put to the sword_.
[39] Cuellar has not expressed himself clearly here, but he
seems to mean that he did not oppose the blacksmith's wishes.
[40] _Muy hermosa por todo extremo._ This is a slight
modification of a similar expression on a previous occasion. See Note
29.
[41] _Corzos_ = roe-deer. _Cervus capreolus_, or _Capreolus caprea_.
[42] _Calzas_ = trousers, hose.
[43] _Sayos_ = loose coats.
[44] _Pelotes_ = goat's hair.
[45] _Mantas_ = blankets.
[46] _Anda Santiago._ This is a slang expression, meaning to attack. It
is derived from the fact that _Santiago_ was the war-cry or watchword
of the Spaniards when going into action, _Santiago_ being the patron
saint of Spain.
[47] _Compuestas_ = composed, made up.
[48] _Por el agua que habia de for medio._
[49] _Un trompeta_ = a trumpeter. This noun is both _feminine_ and
_masculine_, meaning, respectively, _a trumpet_ and _a trumpeter_.
The masculine article _un_ shows that the noun is used here in its
masculine form.
[50] _Christmas._
[51] _Mano de papel_ = a quire of paper.
[52] Cuellar uses the word _courtesy_ on several occasions where
_kindness_ is what he seems to mean.
[53] Mass appears to have been said in the night-time, and the
preparations may also have been made during the night, so that the boat
might leave at daylight, and not attract too much attention.
[54] Here the manuscript is stated to be torn and illegible.
[55] _Echarnos a nado._ _Echarse a nado_ literally means to cast
oneself afloat; but it has also a metaphorical signification--viz.,
_to make a desperate attempt_. As the same expression is made use of
twice close together, it may be that in the first instance it was meant
metaphorically; but this is by no means certain.
[56] See preceding Note.
INDEX.
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_Academia de la Historia_, 7
Aghanlish (townland), 16
Allingham, Hugh, 39
Alonzo de Leyva, 65
Anchor, Spanish, 33
"_Armada, La, Invencible_", 5
Armada Exhibition, 31
Aran, North Island of, 33
Ballyshannon Castle, 23
Belleek Castle, 23
Beallach-in-Mithidheim, 16
Bell, Spanish, in Donegal Church, 34
Bingham, Sir R., 22
Blacksod Bay, 26
Bundrowse, 10
Burke, Richard ("The Devil's Son"), 26
Bush River, 29
Carrig-na-Spaniagh, 9
Cacair-Sinchill, 16
Castlefort Bay, Co. Donegal, 33
Castlecaldwell Museum, 34
Carndonagh Church, 34
Cannon, Brass, recovered from Armada Ships, 33
Cattle-booley, An Ancient, 17
_Century, Nineteenth_, 5
Church Relics, MacClancy's, 20
Chests, Money, 29-32, 51
Clew Bay (Money Chest), 31
Connaught, 6, 10, 25
Crannog, MacClancy's, 16
Crawford, Robert, 6
Cuellar, Captain, 7, 42, 44
Cuellar and his Comrades arrive at Dunkirk, 70
Dartree MacClancy (territory), 15
Dartry Mountains, 13
De Leyva, 26, 65
Don Martin, 6
Don Diego Enriquez, 9, 49, 51
Don Graveillo de Swasso, 23
Don Cristobal de Avila, 47
Don Tomas de Granvela, 65
Don Reimundo Termi, Bishop (not identified), 67
Donegal Bay, 39
Donegal Mountains, 13
Doire-Melle, 16
Dromahair Castle, 26
Ducie, Earl of, 5, 39
Duro, Captain, 5, 39
Dun Carbery, 16
Dunluce Castle, 29, 65
_Duquesa Santa Anna_, 34
"Enchanted Ships, The", 32
England, Queen of, 60
_El Gran Griffon, Capitana_, 34
Erris Head, 7, 26
Erne River, 23
Expedition against the Spaniards, 22
_Feàr-Gortha_, 18
Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy, 22
Figure-head of Spanish Ship, 5
Froude, J. A., 5, 6, 39
_Girona, The_, 27-29, 34
Giant's Causeway, 28
"Governor, Great, of the Queen", 62
Glack (townland), 15
Glenade, 13, 15, 41
Glencar Lough, 13
Glennageveny Bay, 28
Habits of the Irish in 16th Century, 17-19, 61, 62
Hamilton, Major (Money Chest), 32
Head-dress of Irish Women of the Period, 19
"Hungry Grass" (superstition), 18
Inismurray Island, 11
Iniskeen Island, 16
Inisheher Island, 15
Inisowen, 23
Ineen Dubh (O'Donnell's wife), 23
Killybegs, 27
Latin Language, 14, 55
_La Trinidad Valencera_, 34
"_La Armada Invencible_", 39
Laughton, Professor (Navy Records Society), 34
Leitrim Mountains, 41
Lord Deputy, 19, 23
_Longman's Magazine_, 39
Martin de Aranda, 7, 47
Manglana (MacClancy), 19, 42, 43, 62, 65
MacClancy, Boethius, 22
MacDonnell, Sir James, 25
MacSwine's Territory, 27, 29
Medina, Duke of, 7
Melvin Lough, 15-17
Molaise, St., 11
Mullinaleck (townland), 16
Mullaghderg, 32
Myler McGrath, 24
Newtown Village (O'Rourke), 13
Niall of the Nine Hostages, 16
_Nineteenth Century_, 39
North: in what sense used in narrative, 55
Oaten Bread, 17, 18
O'Clery's Castle, 29
Ocan (O'Cahan), 65
O'Donnell's Castle, 23, 31
O'Donnell, 23, 27
O'Doherty's Country, 23
O'Gallagher (_alias_ O'Toole), 23
Ommanney, Sir Erasmus, 33
O'Neill, 21, 27
O'Rourke, 13, 15, 41, 57-59
Palmistry in the 16th Century, 17
Paredes, Count de, 65
Provost Marshal, 7
_Rata, The_, 26, 27, 34
Rossclogher Castle, 16, 17, 19-21
Rossfriar, 20
Rossan Point, 27
Rosses, The, 32
Sassanas, 56
_San Pedro_, 7, 47
_San Juan de Sicilia_, 9, 34
_San Martin, The_, 27, 34
_Santa Anna, The_, 27
Scotland, Cuellar escapes to, 65-68
Scotland, King of: his attitude towards the
Spaniards, 68
Sedgwick, Mr.: his translation referred to, 41
Siege of Rossclogher Castle, 19-21, 63, 64
Spaniard Rock, 28
Spanish Eagles (Decoration on Chest Lid), 31
Spanish Vessels lost on the coast, 34
Spanish Vessels: why so many were lost, 34
Spanish Vessels, Tonnage and Number of Men in, 34
Spanish Arms, 33
Spanish Gold Coins found in Donegal, 34
Spanish Cannon, 33
Straw Huts referred to, 54
Staad Abbey, 11, 52
State Papers quoted, 10, 15, 21-29
Tory Island, 7
Translation of Spanish Narrative. By R. Crawford, 45
Tullaghan, 16
_Ulster Journal of Archæology_, 39
United Service Institution, London, 33
War Materials in use in 16th Century, 20
Wolves in Ireland in 16th Century (Note), 51
Women, Beauty of, 62
_ILLUSTRATIONS._
PAGE
Figure-head of Spanish Galleon, wrecked at Streedagh 5
Map of West and North-West Coast of Ireland, drawn A.D. 1609 8
The Spaniards holding Rossclogher Castle, with Vignette of
the Castle as it now is, from a sketch by Mrs. Allingham,
Ballyshannon 21
Wreck of a Galleon on Antrim Coast 28
A Spanish Treasure Chest 31
Spanish Anchor, drawn by Maude Allingham from a photograph
specially taken in London 33
* * * * *
IN PREPARATION.
Annals of * *
Ballyshannon & Tir-Hedba.
By HUGH ALLINGHAM, M.R.L.A., ----
Author of
Ballyshannon: Its History and Antiquities,
Captain Cuellar's Adventures in Connacht and Ulster, A.D. 1588
&., &., &.
* * * * *
The wide popularity and favourable reception of the HISTORY OF
BALLYSHANNON, published in 1879, and long hout of print, has induced
the author to extend the field of his researches over a much wider
area--a work on which he has been engaged for some years, and which
is now approaching completion.
* * * * *
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