Sentence:  Having “secret notice,” the writer of “True Remembrances” declares of the above complains, he retired into Munster, intending to proceed to England, to justify himself; but was detained there for want of money by the breaking out of rebellion. This <WSD>adversity</WSD> befell him in the autumn of 1598. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An event that is adverse; calamity.