Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
Letter Book of Florence Mac Carthy Reagh, Tanist of Carbery, Mac Carthy Mór (Author: Various)

Document 166

John Meade, mayor of Cork to Carew, lord president of Munster, 21 September 1601.

Right Honourable. This very hower about six a clock in the afternoon of this day being the 21st of September came a post to me from Kinsale, aduertising of 55 shippes seen this afternoon hard by the Old Head of Kinsale, which I suspect are our enemies; and the wind serves them well for this harbour or Kinsale, and so in hast,

J. MEADE, Maior.