Well, he had been practising with the King of France, but got nothing but laughter for his pains, and so went over to the Most Catholic King, and promises him to join Ireland to Spain, and set up Popery again, and what not.

And he, I suppose, thinking it better that Ireland should belong to him than to the Pope's bastard, fits him out, and sends him off on such another errand as Stukely's,--though I will say, for the honor of Devon, if Stukely lived like a fool, he died like an honest man." "Sir Thomas Stukely dead too ?" said Amyas.
"Wait a while, lad, and you shall have that tragedy afterwards.

Well, where was I?
Oh, Fitzmaurice and the Jesuits land at Smerwick, with three ships, choose a place for a fort, bless it with their holy water, and their moppings and their scourings, and the rest of it, to purify it from the stain of heretic dominion; but in the meanwhile one of the Courtenays,--a Courtenay of Haccombe, was it ?--or a Courtenay of Boconnock?
Silence, Will, I shall have it in a minute--yes, a Courtenay of Haccombe it was, lying at anchor near by, in a ship of war of his, cuts out the three ships, and cuts off the Dons from the sea.

John and James Desmond, with some small rabble, go over to the Spaniards.

Earl Desmond will not join them, but will not fight them, and stands by to take the winning side; and then in comes poor Davils, sent down by the Lord Deputy to charge Desmond and his brothers, in the queen's name, to assault the Spaniards.