CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER XIX.
FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO THE YEAR 1561.
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The Protestants rejoice at Elizabeth’s accession[1]
Dispute as to the O’Neill succession[2]
Sussex Lord Deputy—the Protestant ritual restored[5]
Parliament of 1560—the royal supremacy[6]
Expectations of a Catholic rising[7]
Attitude of France, Spain, and Scotland[8]
Clearsightedness of Elizabeth[10]
Desmond, Ormonde, and O’Neill[10]
Reform of the coinage[12]
Fitzwilliam Lord Deputy[14]
Claims and intrigues of Shane O’Neill[15]
Conciliatory attitude of the Queen[19]
Shane O’Neill supreme in Ulster[21]
CHAPTER XX.
1561 AND 1562.
Sussex completely fails in Ulster[23]
He plots against Shane O’Neill’s life[27]
A truce with Shane[30]
Who goes to England[32]
Shane O’Neill at Court[33]
The Baron of Dungannon murdered[38]
Shane in London—he returns to Ireland[40]
Desmond and Ormonde[41]
Official corruption[43]
CHAPTER XXI.
1561-1564.
Grievances of the Pale[46]
Desmond and the Queen[48]
Projects of Sussex[49]
Elizabeth attends to the Pale[50]
Shane O’Neill professes loyalty[51]
Shane oppresses O’Donnell and his other neighbours[52]
Sir Nicholas Arnold[57]
Failure of Sussex[58]
He attempts to poison Shane[64]
Royal Commission on the Pale[65]
Desmond and Ormonde[66]
CHAPTER XXII.
1564 AND 1565.
Great abuses in the Pale[68]
Extreme harshness of Arnold[73]
Shane O’Neill in his glory[74]
Shane’s ill-treatment of O’Donnell[76]
Shane and the Scots[79]
Nothing so dangerous as loyalty[80]
CHAPTER XXIII.
1565.
Desmond, Thomond, and Clanricarde[82]
Ormonde will abolish coyne and livery[83]
Private war between Desmond and Ormonde[85]
Shane O’Neill and the Scots[89]
Supremacy of Shane[90]
Sidney advises his suppression[91]
Desmond and Ormonde—Sidney and Sussex[92]
Ireland is handed over to Sidney[94]
Failure of Arnold[98]
CHAPTER XXIV.
1566 AND 1567.
Sidney prepares to suppress Shane[102]
Who thinks an earldom beneath his notice[103]
The Sussex and Leicester factions[105]
Mission of Sir F. Knollys[105]
The Queen still hesitates[106]
Shane’s last outrages[107]
Randolph’s expedition reaches Lough Foyle[108]
Sidney easily overruns Ulster[109]
Randolph at Derry[110]
Sidney in Munster—great disorder[111]
Tipperary and Waterford[112]
Horrible destitution in Cork[113]
Sidney’s progress in the West[114]
Failure of the Derry settlement[115]
Defeat and death of Shane O’Neill[117]
His character[118]
Sidney and the Queen[120]
Sidney and Ormonde[121]
Butlers and Geraldines[122]
The Queen’s debts[123]
CHAPTER XXV.
1567 AND 1568.
Sidney in England—Desmond and Ormonde[124]
Cecil’s plans for Ireland[126]
The Scots in Ulster[127]
Massacre at Mullaghmast[130]
The Desmonds—James Fitzmaurice[131]
Starving soldiers[132]
Miserable state of the North[133]
Abuses in the public service[134]
Desmond in London—charges against him[134]
Charges against Kildare[138]
Sir Peter Carew and his territorial claims[139]
He recovers Idrone from the possessors[144]
James Fitzmaurice’s rebellion[145]
The ‘Butlers’ war’[146]
CHAPTER XXVI.
1568-1570.
Sidney’s plans for Ulster[149]
Fitzmaurice and the Butlers[150]
Parliament of 1569—the Opposition[152]
The Bishops oppose national education[155]
Fitzmaurice, the Butlers, and Carew[156]
Atrocities on both sides[161]
Sinister rumours[161]
Ormonde pacifies the South-East[162]
Sidney and the Tipperary gentlemen[163]
Sidney’s march from Clonmel to Cork and Limerick[164]
The Butlers submit[166]
Humphrey Gilbert in Munster[167]
Fitzmaurice hard pressed[168]
Ulster quiet[169]
CHAPTER XXVII.
1570 AND 1571.
The Presidency of Connaught—Sir Edward Fitton[170]
Services of Ormonde[171]
Thomond in France—diplomacy[172]
Session of 1570—attainders and pardons[174]
First attempt at national education[176]
Commerce—monopolies—Dutch weavers[177]
The Presidency of Munster—Sir John Perrott[179]
Fitton fails in Connaught[182]
Tremayne’s report on Ireland[184]
Ormonde in Kerry—services of the Butlers[184]
Perrott’s services in Munster[186]
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FOREIGN INTRIGUES.
Fitzmaurice proposes a religious war[190]
Catholics at Louvain—suspicious foreigners[190]
Archbishop Fitzgibbon and David Wolfe[192]
Fitzgibbon’s own story[193]
Philip II. hesitates[196]
Thomas Stukeley[196]
English and Irish parties in Spain[199]
Ideas of Philip II.[201]
Fitzgibbon, Stukeley, and Pius V.[202]
Fitzgibbon negotiates with France and England[205]
CHAPTER XXIX.
1571 AND 1572.
Want of money—Perrott and Ormonde[207]
Perrott will end the war by a duel[209]
Proposal to colonise Ulster—Sir Thomas Smith[211]
Sir Brian MacPhelin O’Neill[213]
Want of money—the army reduced[214]
Fitton, Clanricarde, and Clanricarde’s sons[216]
Fitton driven out of Connaught[219]
Perrott’s activity in Munster[221]
A mutiny[223]
The Irish in Spain—Stukeley[225]
Effects of the day of St. Bartholomew[227]
Rory Oge O’More[227]
Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne[228]
Fitzwilliam cannot govern without men or money[229]
CHAPTER XXX.
1572 AND 1573.
Smith’s failure in Ulster[231]
Submission of James Fitzmaurice[233]
Treatment of the Desmonds in England[234]
Walter, Earl of Essex[239]
Alarm at his colonisation project[241]
Essex proposes to portion out Antrim[242]
Smith is killed[246]
Perrott’s government of Munster[248]
Desmond escapes from Dublin[252]
Wretched state of King’s and Queen’s Counties[253]
Fitzwilliam and Fitton quarrel[254]
Catholic intrigues[257]
Failure of Essex[258]
The Marward abduction case[261]
CHAPTER XXXI.
1573 AND 1574.
Threatening attitude of Desmond[263]
Fitzwilliam and Essex[268]
Essex governor of Ulster[269]
Essex powerless[272]
Troubles of Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam[274]
Evil condition of Munster[276]
Essex and Desmond[278]
Ormonde solemnly warns Desmond[281]
Campaign in Munster—Desmond plots[283]
Essex struggles on in Ulster[284]
CHAPTER XXXII.
ADMINISTRATION OF FITZWILLIAM, 1574 AND 1575, ANDREAPPOINTMENT OF SIDNEY.
Essex wrongfully seizes Sir Brian MacPhelin[288]
Violent disagreement of Essex and Fitzwilliam[290]
The Essex scheme is finally abandoned[294]
Profit versus honour[295]
Official corruption[296]
Arrest of Kildare[297]
The revenue—a pestilence[300]
General result of the grant to Essex[301]
The Rathlin massacre[301]
Ulster waste—Sidney’s advice[304]
Bagenal’s settlement at Newry[306]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
ADMINISTRATION OF SIDNEY, 1575-1577.
Sidney and the Butlers[307]
Ormonde and his accusers[308]
Death and character of Carew[309]
Sidney’s tour—Leinster[310]
Munster[312]
Fitzmaurice in France[314]
Sidney in Limerick, Clare, and Connaught[316]
Sidney on the Irish Church[319]
Troubles in Connaught—Clanricarde’s sons[321]
Sir William Drury Lord President of Munster[322]
Essex in England[324]
His return, death, and character[325]
Leicester and Essex[326]
Agitation in the Pale against the cess[327]
The chiefs of the Pale under arrest[332]
A composition agreed upon[333]
CHAPTER XXXIV.
LAST YEARS OF SIDNEY’S ADMINISTRATION, 1577 AND 1578.
Lord Chancellor Gerard’s opinions about the Pale[334]
Drury’s opinions about Munster[336]
Maltby’s opinions about Connaught[338]
Rory Oge O’More[340]
Rory is killed by the Fitzpatricks[344]
Sidney’s last days in Ireland[347]
Character of Sir Henry Sidney[350]
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE IRISH CHURCH DURING THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OFELIZABETH’S REIGN.
The Queen aims at outward uniformity[353]
See of Armagh—Adam Loftus[354]
Papal primates—Richard Creagh[356]
See of Meath—Staples[359]
Other sees of the Northern province[360]
Province of Dublin[361]
Province of Cashel[364]
Province of Tuam[367]
Spiritual peers—Papal and Protestant succession[367]
David Wolfe, the Jesuit[370]
INDEX[373]

MAP.

IRELAND ABOUT 1570To face p. [149].

Errata.

Page46,line 2, for 1561 read 1562.
"47,headline, for 1561 read 1562.
"156,for Archbishop of Ross read Bishop of Ross.
"173,for Henry III. read Charles IX.
"283,for Thomas Butler read Theobald Butler.
"367,for Dermot O’Diera read Cornelius O’Dea.

IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS.

CHAPTER XIX.
FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO THE YEAR 1561.

Accession of Elizabeth. Joy of the Protestants.