Note 345 — Chapter XLIX
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Docwra’s Narration; Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part ii. lib. i. cap. 2; Four Masters, 1600. Mountjoy left Dublin on May 6, and remained out till the end of the month. See also his letter to Carew of July 1 in Carew. ‘The garrison of Derry,’ say the annalists, ‘were seized with disease on account of the narrowness of the place and the heat of the summer. Great numbers died of this sickness.’