Excerpt from The History of Ireland, Vol. 3: From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals, to the Present Time On this very day, the Spaniards, having taken advantage of a change in the wind to tack about, had entered the haven of Kin sale and taken possession of that town, which was at once evacuated by its small English garrison. After their departure the gates were thrown open to the foreigners, the sovereign, we are told, with his white rod in his hand, going to billet and cess them in several houses, more ready than if they had been the queen's forces.an. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.