CHAPTER VIII.

THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.

The Fitzgeralds were Yorkists, the Butlers Lancastrians[102]
Lambert Simnel crowned in Ireland[104]
The Irish Yorkists cut to pieces at Stoke[105]
Mission of Sir Richard Edgcombe[106]
The Irish nobility in England[108]
The Butlers and Geraldines[109]
Perkin Warbeck[110]
Sir Edward Poynings holds a Parliament at Drogheda[111]
Poynings’ Acts[112]
Second visit of Perkin Warbeck[113]
Weakness of the Government[114]
Third visit of Perkin Warbeck[115]
Power of the Kildare family[115], [117]-[120]
Battle of Knocktoe[120]
Henry VII. wished to separate the two races[122]

CHAPTER IX.

FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE YEAR 1534.

The Kildare family in power[124]-[128]
The Ormonde family much reduced[125]
Viceroyalty of Surrey[128]-[139]
The Pale a very small district[129]
Misery of the country[131]
O’Donnell and O’Neill[132]
Desmond and the MacCarthies[133]
Policy of Henry VIII.[134]
Unsteadiness of English policy[136]
The Irish constantly at war[140]
The Butlers and Geraldines were scarcely more peaceable[145]
Wolsey’s policy[148]
A Viceroy captured by the Irish[150]
The rivalry between Ormonde and Kildare[149]-[152]
Skeffington Viceroy[152]
Overshadowed by Kildare[154]
Results of the Kildare power[154]-[158]
Fall of Kildare[161]

CHAPTER X.

THE GERALDINE REBELLION—SKEFFINGTON’S ADMINISTRATION, 1534-1535.

The Geraldine rebellion[163]
Loyalty of the Butlers[164]
Geraldine siege of Dublin[166]
Failure of the rebellion[169]
Surrender of Kildare[177]
The Desmonds and MacCarthies[180]
Desmond intrigues with France[181]
The Butlers and the Desmond Geraldines[182]
Desmond intrigues with Charles V.[184]
State of the South of Ireland[189]
Modern spirit of the Tudor monarchy shown by promoting new men[194]

CHAPTER XI.