FROM THE YEAR 1536 TO THE YEAR 1540.

Administration of Lord Leonard Grey[195]-[220]
The royal supremacy established by law[196]
The Act of Absentees[197]
The O’Neills[198]
Poverty of the Crown[199]
Grey in the West of Ireland[200]
Want of money[204]
Grey and the O’Connors[206]
Vague good intentions of Henry VIII.[210]
The O’Neills and O’Donnells[212]
Grey and the O’Connors[213]
Seizure of the five Geraldines[215]
Eclipse of the Kildare family[216]

CHAPTER XII.

END OF GREY’S ADMINISTRATION.

Ormonde proposes to reform his country[221]
Grey almost constantly engaged in war[222]
His quarrel with the Butlers[223]
The O’Carrolls[223]
The O’Mores[224]
Rash expedition of Grey[226]
His dispute with the Butlers[229]
The revenue[233]
Cromwell’s Irish policy[234]
The royal supremacy acquiesced in[236]
A Catholic movement nevertheless makes itself felt[238]
Grey routs the O’Neills[240]
Fall and fate of Grey[243]

CHAPTER XIII.

1540 AND 1541.

Confusion after Grey’s recall[247]
Sir Anthony St. Leger Lord Deputy[249]-[261]
His policy[250]
Case of the O’Tooles[251]
The King will not allow a military brotherhood[254]
Desmond abjures the Pope[255]
Success of St. Leger with the Irish chiefs[256]
Henry VIII. made King of Ireland by Act of Parliament[259]

CHAPTER XIV.