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The favourable reception which was accorded to the paper entitled "The Spanish Armada in Ulster and Connacht," which appeared in Vol. I., Part III., April, 1895, of The Ulster Journal of Archæology , and the continued interest in the subject, which seems rather to increase as the literature becomes more extensive, has induced me to re-write the paper, and add much information I was not possessed of when the first paper was printed. Mr. Crawford's most valuable contribution, which forms the secon

T HE publication of a work entitled " La Armada Invincible " [Madrid, 1885], by Captain Cesareo Fernandez Duro, a Spanish naval officer, has been the means of bringing to light many fresh and interesting particulars relating to this ill-fated venture; and, though the incidents narrated are, as might be expected, viewed from the Spanish standpoint, yet the history is written in a spirit of moderation, and gives evidence of great research. Amongst the valuable documents which have been collected a

Shortly after the publication in Madrid of the second volume of Captain Duro's book—" La Armada Invencible "—the Earl of Ducie drew special attention to it in an article which appeared in the number of the Nineteenth Century for September, 1885. Subsequently Mr. Froude took up the subject, and discoursed upon it in Longman's Magazine for September, October, and November, 1891, giving a general sketch of the salient features of the ill-fated expedition from the Spanish point of view, as disclosed

Letter of One who was with the Armada of [for] England, and an Account of the Expedition. I BELIEVE that you [1] (1) will be astonished at seeing this letter on account of the slight certainty that could have existed as as to my being alive. That you (2) may be quite sure of this I write it [the letter], and at some length, for which there is sufficient reason in the great hardships and misfortunes I have passed through since the Armada sailed from Lisbon for England, from which our Lord, in His