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IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS

VOL. II.


Printed by
Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square
London


IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS

With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History

by

RICHARD BAGWELL, M.A.

In Two Volumes

VOL. II.







London
Longmans, Green, and Co.
1885

All rights reserved




CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.


CHAPTER XIX.

FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH TO THE YEAR 1561.

                                                      PAGE

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