ur Miles from Finis Cove,[6] the Place where We are on Shore,
etc.

[Footnote 2: Cape Clear and the Fastnet Rock form the southernmost
extremity of Ireland.]

[Footnote 3: Northeast by east.]

[Footnote 4: Luffed.]

[Footnote 5: The Townshends were the leading people of Castlehaven,
living at Castletownshend, from Cromwell's time to ours. This was Col.
Richard Townshend. Richard and Dorothea Townshend, _An Officer of the
Long Parliament and his Descendants_, pp. 150-151, with portrait.]

[Footnote 6: Between Castlehaven and Baltimore, and four miles south
of Skibbereen. The rocky coast in just this region inspired Swift's
once celebrated poem, _Carberiae Rupes_ (1723).]

_136. Protest of Capt. Mackay. November 15, 1739._

To all Christian People unto whom this Publick Instrum't of Protest
doth come or may Concern, Be it known and Manifest that this Day there
came and Personally appeared before me, Thomas Lucas, Gent'm, Notary
and Tabellion Publick in and throughout the Kingdom of Ireland by
Regal Authority, Lawfully Admitted and sworn at Skibbereen[1] in the
County of Cork and Kingdom aforesd, George Johnston, Mate, Joseph
Hall, Boatswain, William Cromie, Mariner, belonging to the good Ship
or Vessell called the _Amsterdam Post_, burthen Forty Tuns, whereof
AEneas Mackay is Master, and Voluntary made oath on the Holy Evangelist
That on the Twenty eighth Day of Octo. last they sailed with said
Vessell from the Canaries bound to Corke, and met with very bad
Weather on their Voyage; that on Thursday the Fifteenth of this Inst.
Novemb'r,[2] ab't three of the Clock in the Morning, the Weather being
very desperate, they lost their Main Boom and anchor and one third of
a Cable of[f] the Stage of Castle Haven, and all the Sails much
Damaged; and that about five of the Clock in the morning the Vessell
was stranded at Finins Cove near Castle Haven Harbour, where the
Vessell now lyes; that by the Violence of the Weather they have reason
to Suspect they have Received great Damage. Wherefore the Notary, at
the Special Instance and Request of AEneas Mackay, Master, George
Johnston, Mate, Joseph Hall, Boatswain, and Wm. Cromie, Mariner, have
Protested, as by these Presents I Do Protest against the Seas and
Winds for all Losses, Damages, Prejudices or hindrances whatsoever
known or as yet unknown which the Ship or Vessell, or the Owners,
Freighters or Insurers, or any other Person or Persons has Sustain'd
or Received or here