Catalogue description SIEGE of KINSALE.

"A letter from a soldier of good place in Ireland to his friend in London, touching the notable victory of her Majesty's forces there against the Spaniards and Irish rebels, and of the yielding up of Kinsale and other places there, held by the Spaniards.--London, imprinted for Symon Waterson, 1602."

This letter, which is addressed "to the right worshipful, my especial friend, Sir. W. D., knight," gives an account of the siege of Kinsale, from 19th December till its close. It commences thus:--"Sir,--In my last of the 19th of December, I wrote to you at large of the arrival of the new supply of Spaniards at Castell-haven, Baltemore, and Beerehaven, and of their intents and beginnings to fortify in all those three important places."

The writer, for his narrative of the defeat of Tyrone and the capitulation of the Spaniards, has evidently made use of the preceding document.

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Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. IV, document 203.