lost in Glmmagiveny B}[y. near Inishowen Head, and again I)e Levva ha, rely escaped with his life, only to lose it a little later in the. t;irona. The N. N. de iu Iosa went to pieces among the Blaskets. The ,qt. M.'cos, the Sa. Jua., 4 of the squadron of l)iego Flores. the Trinidad I'alenccra, and the Falcon Bla.co Mediano, also left their hones in Ireland. And the San l'cdro Mtyor,; after having escaped the perils of Scotland and Ireland, lost her way in the mouth of the Channel, and inet her end in Bigbury Bay, ])evon- shire. These are about all that can be identified. but they are l,y no ttean all that perished. Writing' on Ottoher 1st. to ValsynghanL Sir }tichard Bingham. Governor of Connaught., said

"After the Spanish fleet had doubled ,'Sct,thmd and were in their conrse homeward.-. they were I,y contrary weather driven npon the everal parts of this province an,I wrecked. as it were, I,y even portions, 3 hips in ever 3 of the & eveml counties l,,,rdering nl,,,n the z coasts, viz., in $1igt,, Mayo (l:tlway, and Thtmmnd. So that lg shi ls l,erisl,tq, that all we know {,l on the ro,'ks and sands 1,v the sht,re side. and st,me ;i ,r 4 besides to seal,oanl of the out isles, whh.h l,mently sank, both men aml ships, in the night time. Aml so can I say, },y g,,,,d estimation, that fl or 7000 Ielt have },ve cast away on these coasts, save mne loo0 of thein which escaped land in everal l,lace8 where their hip fell, xvhich ithenee were all l,ut tn the

The cruelties practised on the shipwrecked Spaniards, whose miserable situation shouhl have given them a claim to protection, were as I,ad as any practised hy Alva in the Low Countries. There were; other wrccks, both in Munster and in Ulster. The ships ltttlst have been in terrible straits fiw lack of provisions, and epecially of water. The San Jultn, flagship of Juan Martinez de leclde. seems to have landed a party t-Dingle and to have ,/I,t:ined water hy force? A prikoner, taken in skirmish there, s'id, when exmnined. 't that in the Stn Jua. three or four nlen a dy had died of hunger or thirst, although she was one of the hest 'fdrnished ships in the Armada; md that men had been dying daily o[ sickness. Another prisoner averred that two huBdred persons in the St) JlttOI had died.

Of 'the one hundred and twenty-eight or one hundred and

$. I'. h'ehm,l, Eliz. cxxxri. 36, iii. lb. cxxxvi. 41, v. a I[u?. i. 125. 4 With 1},n Diego Em. iquez. Din'o, ii. 342.

$. P. h.lan,l, Eliz. cxxxvii. 15.  Dnro, ii. 3:12. 
' Ar:h. Nat. de la France,' K. 1592, doss. B. Sl. This wreck was on October 28th, 
h. P. lrelan, l, Eliz. cxxxvii. 3. 
A few, h,,wever, escaped, in spite of Bingham aml his peol,le. 

' l}uro, i. 210. n S. P. Dmn. ccxvi. 17.