munity, who was an eloquent preacher, coming suddenly in front of a Protestant cavalry regiment and being recognised as a friar, was immediately cut to pieces.

Father Richard Barry, preacher-general, of the same community, while he held the office of prior in the convent of Cashel in 1647 was captured there with many others on the Rock of St. Patrick. Previous to the coming of the enemy to besiege the city, he had with fatherly prudence sent away his subjects to escape their cruelty. The rest of the ecclesiastics and a great number of lay people were killed at the first onset, but the commander of the troops reserved Father Barry for a more cruel fate. He was the only one of the clergy that appeared in the religious habit. Holding the crucifix aloft in one hand and the rosary in the other, on being asked to cast off the habit and take part in their execrable rites, he courageously answered: "This garb of mine represents the garment of Jesus Christ and His Passion and is the badge of my profession." On saying this he was seized and bound to a stake, and while they were preparing the faggots was exposed to the insults. of the cruel soldiers. The pile having been set on fire he was slowly tortured from head to foot for about two hours, yet from the midst of the flames, did not cease to commend his own soul and the faithful people to God. Being at last transfixed with a sword, he died on the fifteenth of September. After the departure of the enemy, his remains were brought from the place of execution and buried in the convent of Cashel. Although this father suffered martyrdom at Cashel, where he was prior, he is with justice reckoned among the members of his convent of Cork, that so Christ-like a son may make the mother rejoice who brought him forth to spiritual life in the same Lord Jesus Christ.

Father John O'Murphy, who pursued his studies with

1640. Ille studiis peractis in Hispania, redux Corcagiam, exercuit concionatoris munus valde facunde et cum egregia laude per multos annos. In quantum discere potui, desiit vivere sub initio anni 1641.

Nuper post ultimum exilium obiit pie ejusdem nominis, alter R. P. Joannes, qui fuit vir bonus et sæpius ibidem ac alibi prior. Obiit autem in carcere detentus quatuor annos; ob podogram enim nequivit fugere.

R. P. Fr. Jacobus Barrett, hibernice Baired, vir nobilis, post longi conjugii vincula soluta per uxoris obitum, suscepit Corcagiæ habitum, ac professus est ibidem. Hic vixit cum summa humilitate et exemplo, ita ut nonnulli hæretici considerantes bonitatem et venerandam senectutem viri, antecedenter illis not in sæculo, commoti quadam naturali compassione, procuraverint eum detinere domi. Indutus ergo ad modum vacarii abscondit se ut custos boum cujusdam Angli. Hic vixit et defunctus est cum magna opinione bonæ et virtuosæ vitæ.

R. P. Fr. Ludovicus Shinnick, hibernice O'Scannuidh, pro eodem conventu professus est Lovanii. Consanguineus erat magni Doctoris Lovaniensis ejusdem nominis. Studuit bene ibidem, eratque diligens quæstor pro conventu, et prudens confessarius. Hic callebat optime Flandricam linguam, unde missionem fecit utiliter in Hollandia multo tempore cum fructu. Munitus pie sacramentis, obiit Bredæ anno 1700. Fuit pacificus et maturus prudentia.

R. P. Fr. Joannes Regan fuit ibidem insignis annuntiator Divini verbi, circa annum 1641, et ultra.

Ex hujus conventus filiis, vivos nosco solum duos: R. adm. P. Fr. Gulielmus Barry studuit fructuose in

Cor

Se et

success in Spain, belonged to the same community about
1640. On his return to Cork he preached with eloquence
and distinction for many years.
As far as I could learn

he departed this life at the beginning of 1641.

Since the late exile, another Father John O'Murphy has died in Cork, a good man who was often prior there and in other places. He died in prison after four years' confinement: hindered by his gout he had been unable to leave the country.

Father James Barrett, in Irish Baired, a nobleman who, when the bonds of married life were broken by the death of his wife, received the habit at Cork and was professed there. He was remarkable for the practice of humility and other virtues, so that some Protestants considering the goodness and venerable age of the man whom they had formerly known as a layman, were moved to compassion and found means to enable him to remain in Ireland. Clothed in the garb of a cowherd, he escaped detection as the keeper of the cows of a certain Englishman. He lived and died in the odour of virtue.

Father Louis Shinnick, in Irish Ua Scannuid, a relative of the great Doctor Shinnick of Louvain, was professed for the Cork convent at Louvain and studied there with diligence. He was a very good questor for his convent and a prudent confessor. Having a good knowledge of the Flemish language he did useful missionary work in Flanders for a long time. Fortified by the last sacraments he died at Breda in 1700. He was of mild disposition and mature prudence.

Father John Regan of this house was a distinguished exponent of the Divine Word about 1641 and afterwards.

Of the members of this community I know only two living:

Father William Barry, who studied with success in the

magno conventu Tolosano, deinde docuit philosophiam in provincia Franciæ, inde remeans in Hiberniam, prædicavit cum speciali approbatione hybernice et anglice. Fuit pluries prior in sua provincia et factus est prædicator-generalis in provincia ob gratiosam prædicandi vim. Multa passus est in persecutione suscitata anno 1680, et etiam in bello ultimo sub nostro magno et Catholico Rege Jacobo usque ad ejus egressum ex patria, cum Catholico exercitu in Galliam. Prior Lovanii factus in penurioso tempore, verumtamem inventus est tam providus oeconomus quod præterquam aluisset satis magnam communitatem Lovanii cum adventantibus quotidie ex Hibernia ob exilium generale latum et executioni violenter datum, ipse reparari procuravit totam habitationem fratrum minitantem tunc præ vetustate proximum casum ædificii, et refectorium pulchrum cum pari culina erigi fecit ab imis fundamentis. Prioratu Lovaniensi finito cum laude, factus est prior in conventu reverendorum Patrum Anglorum nostri Ordinis Bornemiæ, ubi pari decore processit usque ad finem sui officii. Modo habitat gravis vir et valetudinarius in Gallia in Castro Tierrensi in regali xenodochio. Est quidem placidus et bonus religiosus.

R. P. Fr. Petrus O'Garvan studuit Ulissiponi, ibique docuit philosophiam. Redux in patriam factus est prior Corcagiensis, sed capta urbe ab hoste, redivit in Lusitaniam. Quid autem ibi agat modo, ego ignoro; audivi ab aliquo, quod sit theologiæ lector, et credo merito si se applicuerit, nam ingenium habet et est gratus religiosus; appellens enim in patriam vidi eum Corcagiæ, anno 1689.

DE FRATRIBUS CASTLELYONENSIBUS.

In eodem comitatu est conventus vocatus Castlelyons,

great convent of Toulouse, then taught philosophy in the province of France and after his return to Ireland, preached in Irish and English with great distinction. He was often prior and was made preacher-general in his province on account of his oratorical powers. He suffered greatly in the persecution which arose in 1680 and also in the late Jacobite war until his departure from the country with the Catholic troops to France. He was made prior of Louvain at a time of great want and proved such a good manager that he was able to support not only this large community but those also who arrived day by day from Ireland, owing to the vigorous way in which the decree of general exile was put into execution. He repaired the convent, then in an almost ruinous state, and built a commodious new refectory and a kitchen. When his term of priorship at Louvain expired, he was made prior of the convent of our English fathers at Bornhem where he discharged the duties of his office with equal success. At present the venerable man is living in poor health in the royal hospital at ChâteauThierry. He is a placid and good religious.

Father Peter O'Garvan studied at Lisbon and taught philosophy there. After his return he was made prior of Cork, but on the taking of the city by the enemy he went back to Portugal. What he is doing there at present I do not know; I heard from somebody that he is lector of theology and I believe he will be an excellent teacher if he has applied himself. I know he has intelligence and a good address, for on my way home in 1689 I met him in Cork.

THE FRIARS OF CASTLELYONS.

In the same county there is an abbey" called Castle