GLEANINGS ON O'iDONNEL~ HISTORY naill, The O'Donnell. ,Bib1iog1·ap'hical note: The "'bituary note is from Brussels .Ms 463l:l (505), ff. 178v-179r, the MS which also ieontains the shorter recension of the Martyrology of Donegal. For Hugh O'Donnell, see B. Jennings, 'The career of Hu,gh, son of Rory O'Donnell, earl of Tirconnel, in the Low Countries, 16071642,' in Studtes, XXX (1941), 219-34; T. O Cianain, The Flight of the earls, ed. P. Wals'h, pp. 4-5, 18, 73; Analecta hib~:mica, VI, 116; Cal s. p. Ire., 162532, p. 1912; S. O'Brien, ed., Mea~gra i gcuimhne Mhichil Ui C.hleirigh, p. 78; Commentarius rinuccinianus, I 334. Archivo General de .Simancas, Estado, k.gajos 625, 989, 1749, 2025, 2300, etc. (See section 3 below). Note that while O'Clery says he was drowned,, the authors of the Commentarius put it rather differently: 'f.famma aliquot classis Hispanicae navibus a Gallis injecta, incendio luctuosum in modum periit.' There are se·vernl documents in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, which bear his signature, usually in some such fa.rm as 'OdoneJ, Comes de Tyrconell.' Two or three of them also bear his se.al. Cf. HMC, rep. on Franciscan MSS, pp. 28, 37, 98, 99, 100, 103. For interesting references to him in a letter of Archbishop F·lorence Conry to Fr. Luke Wadding, see id., pp. 104-6. For Ma1·y Stuart O'Donne! 1 see also 1:Yiac-Geoghegan, The history of Ireland, ancfomt and modern (Dublin, 1844), pp. 556-7 (whose account derives fro·m one written in Spanish by Albert Henriques and published at Brussels); O'Donovan in AFM, VI, appendix, 2380-4; Archivium hibernicum, IX, 275 XL!, 136-8; Cal. s. p. Ire., 1625-32 pp. 41, 43, 44, 55 108, 486. MacGeo.ghegan reproduces a lette1~" of praise and commendation addressed to. her •by Pope Urban V1NI on 13th February, 1627, after her memorable escape from England. On the other hand, there is a Spanish letter of ·Hugh O'Donnell in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, D 2, P. 532 complaining about a ·woman going around in man's clothes claiming to be his sister and defaming him and his people. This letter is dated 29th · July, 1630, Cf. HMC, rep. on Franciscan MSS, . p. 28. For ~ory's wife and her reactions to his sudden flight without informing · he::.·, see Cal. s. p. Ire., 1606-8, pp. 295300; C. P. Meehan, The fate and fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Don.21, earl of Tyrconnel (Dublin, 1868), pp. 230, 241-52. · I am indebted to the autho:.dties of t'he Royal Library o.t .Brusse·:s for permission to print the note by Michael O'C!ery from the :Ms in their charge; to Don Ricardo Magdaleno, director of the Spanish '5tate archives at Sim~ ancas for permission to utilise information from documents in his charge; and fo Dr. Richard Hayes·, 1.:.irector of the Naitonal Library of Ireland, .and the board of trustees for permission to consult their microfilm of the Brussels MS and to utilise information from the Simaneas documents. (2) Th.~ praises of Cineal Chonaill. MS A 14 in the Franciscan Library, Killiney, consists mainly of a copy of Ke.ating's history of · Ireland which once be1ongE:d to the Franciscan F1·iary, Donegal. Bound in at the beginning of the volume are miscellaneous pape:s which did not belong to it originally, and one of these, now m.arktd f. ix, contains two pages in Irish which might be caHed a summary of the glories of the O'Donnel1s and their kindrEd. The scribe has not so far been identified. He may have been ·one of the O'Clery fami:y, or a Franciscan admirer;·of the O'Donndls. At any rate, it would: appear to have emanated from some follower, client, or chronic1er of the O'Donnell chieftains. Owing to teq.rs, rubbing, and fraying at the margins, parts of the text are no longer le,gible. It has the appearance of. 465.
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