December 26, 1908.

[CONTENTS]

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME

CHAPTER I
MOUNTJOY AND CAREY, 1603-1605
PAGE
Accession of James I.[1]
Agitation in Irish towns[2]
Insurrection at Cork[8]
Reform of the currency[14]
Chichester made Lord Deputy[15]
CHAPTER II
CHICHESTER AND THE TOLERATION QUESTION, 1605-1607
The laws against Recusancy[17]
Proclamation against toleration[19]
Cases of Everard and Lalor[21]
Attempt to enforce uniformity—the Mandates[23]
Bacon on toleration—Sir P. Barnewall[27]
The Mandates given up[29]
CHAPTER III
THE FLIGHT OF THE EARLS, 1607
Tyrone at Court[30]
O’Cahan’s case[31]
Death of Devonshire[33]
Earldom of Tyrconnel created[34]
Departure of Tyrone, Tyrconnel, and Maguire[37]
The fugitives excluded from France and Spain[39]
Reasons for Tyrone’s flight—Lord Howth[41]
Uncertainty as to the facts[42]
Lord Delvin’s adventures[44]
Royal manifesto against the Earls[47]
Tyrone leaves the Netherlands[48]
He reaches Rome[49]
CHAPTER IV
REBELLION OF O’DOGHERTY, 1608
The settlement at Derry[51]
O’Dogherty and Paulet[53]
Derry surprised and sacked[54]
Flight and death of O’Dogherty[56]
A ‘thick and short’ war[58]
A Donegal jury[60]
Forfeitures[61]
CHAPTER V
THE SETTLEMENT OF ULSTER
The tribal system[63]
Chichester’s plan of colonisation[66]
Bacon on the settlement[67]
The Scots in Ulster—Bishop Montgomery[68]
Church and Crown[70]
Chichester and Davies[71]
British settlers invited[72]
The natives neglected[74]
The survey[75]
Londonderry and Coleraine[76]
Sir Thomas Phillips[77]
Slow progress[78]
English and Scots compared[79]
Carew’s prophecy[81]
Settlers and natives[82]
Bodley’s and Pynnar’s surveys[85]
The Londoners’ settlement[87]
English, Scotch, and Irish[88]
Optimism at Court[90]
CHAPTER VI
CHICHESTER’S GOVERNMENT TO 1613
Sir John Davies on circuit[91]
Uniformity in Ulster—Bishop Knox[97]
Irish swordsmen deported to Sweden[99]
Piracy on the Irish coast[101]
CHAPTER VII
THE PARLIAMENT OF 1613-1615
No Parliament for 27 years[108]
A Protestant majority[109]
Roman Catholic opposition[110]
Violent contest for the Speakership[112]
Sir John Davies on the constitution[114]
Patience of Chichester[116]
Royal commission on grievances[117]
Election petitions—new boroughs[118]
Opposition delegates in London[120]
Doctrines of Suarez: Talbot, Barnewall, and Luttrell[122]
Rival churches—neglect of religion[122]
Ploughing by the tail[124]
Chichester found upright by the Commissioners[126]
The King verbally promises toleration[127]
But tries to explain away his language[128]
Bacon as philosopher and Attorney-General[129]
The King’s speech on parliamentary law[130]
Legislation[132]
The Protestant majority insufficient[134]
Taxes not easily collected[135]
Legislation against the Recusants abandoned[136]
James falls back upon prerogative[137]
CHAPTER VIII
LAST YEARS OF CHICHESTER’S GOVERNMENT, 1613-1615
The Ormonde heritage[139]
The MacDonnells in Antrim[141]
Irish expedition to the Isles[142]
Plot to surprise the Ulster settlements[145]
Chichester recalled; his position and character[147]
Death of Tyrone and Tyrconnel[149]
CHAPTER IX
ST. JOHN AND FALKLAND, 1616-1625
St. John tries to enforce uniformity[150]
Charter of Waterford forfeited[152]
Plantation of Wexford[153]
General dissatisfaction[156]
Bishop Rothe’s strictures[160]
Plantation in Longford and King’s County[162]
The new plantations not successful[164]
Plantation of Leitrim[166]
Irish swordsmen in Poland[167]
Unpopularity of St. John[168]
Lord Deputy Falkland[169]
Ussher and the civil power[170]
Effect of the Spanish match in Ireland[171]
Falkland’s grievances[173]
Death and character of James I.[174]
CHAPTER X
EARLY YEARS OF CHARLES I., 1625-1632
Accession of Charles I.[175]
Quarrel between Falkland and Loftus[175]
The case of the O’Byrnes[176]
Alleged plot of Lord Thurles[180]
The ‘graces’[180]
The bishops declare toleration sinful[181]
Irish soldiers in England[182]
Poynings’s law[183]
Falkland recalled[184]
Wentworth as a judge[185]
The religious orders attacked[186]
St. Patrick’s Purgatory[188]
CHAPTER XI
GOVERNMENT OF WENTWORTH, 1632-1634
Wentworth’s antecedents[190]
His alliance with Laud—‘thorough’[192]
His other friends[193]
Conditions of Wentworth’s appointment[195]
His journey delayed by pirates[198]
His arrival in Ireland[199]
His opinion of the officials[201]
First appearance of Ormonde[203]
Reforms in the army[203]
Church and State—Bishop Bramhall[205]
Wentworth, Laud, and the Earl of Cork[206]
Algerine pirates—sack of Baltimore[207]
Wentworth suppresses piracy[209]
CHAPTER XII
THE PARLIAMENT OF 1634
Wentworth’s parliamentary policy[211]
Wentworth and the Irish nobility[213]
How to secure a majority[214]
Parliamentary forms and ceremonies[215]
Wentworth’s speech[216]
Supply voted[219]
Wentworth refused an earldom[220]
The ‘graces’ not confirmed[221]
Parliamentary opposition overcome[222]
Judicial functions of Parliament—Gookin’s case[223]
Taxation[226]
Parliament dissolved[227]
Convocation[227]
The Thirty-nine Articles adopted[228]
Wentworth successful in all directions[229]
CHAPTER XIII
STRAFFORD AND THE ULSTER SCOT
Rise of Presbyterianism in Ulster[231]
Wentworth, Laud, and Bramhall[232]
Bishop Adair’s case[233]
The Covenant[236]
The Black Oath[238]
Repression of the Presbyterians[239]
A ‘desperate doctrine’[242]
Wentworth wishes to drive out the Scots[243]
CHAPTER XIV
WENTWORTH’S PLANS OF FORFEITURE AND SETTLEMENT
Defective titles[245]
Large colonisation schemes[246]
Roscommon, Sligo, and Mayo submit[247]
Resistance of Galway[249]
Treatment of the Galway people—Clanricarde[250]
Injustice of Wentworth’s policy[251]
Attack on the Londoners’ plantation[252]
CHAPTER XV
CASES OF MOUNTNORRIS, LOFTUS, AND OTHERS
Lord Wilmot’s case[255]
The Mountnorris case[256]
Martial law in time of peace[257]
Hard treatment of Mountnorris[261]
Case of Lord Chancellor Loftus[264]
Judgment of Royalist contemporaries[267]
Wentworth and Lord Cork[268]
Vindictive action of Wentworth[270]
Sir Piers Crosbie’s case[271]
Wentworth and Trinity College[273]
Provost Chappell[274]
The Irish lecture abandoned[275]
CHAPTER XVI
STRAFFORD’S GOVERNMENT, 1638-1640
Wentworth’s account of his services[276]
His power practically unchecked[278]
Country life and game laws[279]
Wentworth chief minister[281]
Made Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Strafford[282]
Meeting of an Irish Parliament[283]
Supply voted[283]
Declaration in praise of Strafford[284]
CHAPTER XVII
STRAFFORD’S ARMY
Lord Antrim’s plot against Scotland[285]
Wentworth garrisons Carlisle [287]
The new Irish army[288]
Muster and disbanding[291]
Danger from disbanded soldiers[292]
Recruits for France and Spain[293]
Owen Roe O’Neill and Preston[295]
CHAPTER XVIII
TRIAL AND DEATH OF STRAFFORD
Wandesford as Strafford’s Deputy[297]
The Irish Parliament refractory[298]
Strafford commander-in-chief[299]
Strafford at York[300]
His arrest[301]
The Irish Parliament repudiate Strafford[302]
Death of Wandesford[303]
Trial of Strafford[304]
Death and character of Strafford[308]
CHAPTER XIX
THE REBELLION OF 1641
Parsons and Borlase Lords Justices[312]
Roman Catholic majority in Parliament[313]
Apprehensions of a rising[315]
Rory O’More, Lord Maguire, and others[317]
The plot to seize Dublin is frustrated[319]
Outbreak in Ulster[320]
The government weak[321]
Ulster fugitives in Dublin[323]
State of the Pale[326]
Ormonde made general—Sir H. Tichborne[327]
The Irish Parliament after the outbreak[329]
The news reaches the English Parliament[330]
And the King[330]
Relief comes slowly[331]
Monck, Grenville, Harcourt, and Coote[332]
CHAPTER XX
PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION
Savage character of the contest[333]
Conjectural estimates[334]
The rising in Tyrone[335]
In Armagh and Down[336]
In Fermanagh[337]
In Cavan—the O’Reillys[338]
In Monaghan[342]
The Portadown massacre[342]
Imprisonment and death of Bedell[344]
Irish victory at Julianstown[347]
Belfast and Carrickfergus[348]
The Pale joins the Ulster rebels[349]
Meeting at Tara[350]
Defence of Drogheda[351]
Fire and sword in the Pale[357]

MAP

Ireland in 1625, to illustrate colonization projects[to face p. 1]