CONTENTS. ix PAGE Effect of the attempt to force the Reformation upon the Irish . . . . ::- k VV--*' . . . . 221 Tirlogh Lenogh Chief of the O'Neils . . . . 223 The Irish Debt . . ->;;, ' . . 225 Plans for English Colonies . . . . . . 226 The Earl of Desmond a Prisoner in London . . . . 229 Proposal to partition Munster among a Party of English Gentlemen . . . . . . . . . . 230 Intention of the Colonists to exterminate the native Irish 233 Quarrel between the Butlers and Sir Peter Carew . . 235 League of the Irish Chiefs . . . . . . 236 The Archbishop of Cashel goes to Spain to offer the Irish Crown to Philip . . . . . . . . 237 Murder of the English Settlers in Cork . . . . 241 Massacres and Counter-massacres . . . . . . 243 Edward Tremayne in Ireland . . . . . . 245 Sir H. Sidney overruns the South and West . . 248 Quarrel with the House of Ormond . . . . 250 Sir Humfrey Gilbert in command at Kilmallock . . 251 "Wholesale Slaughter of the Irish . . . . . . 252 A Week's Service in Wicklow . . . . . . 255 Enormous cost of Ireland to the English Crown . . 259 Sir Edward Fitton President of Connaught . . 260 Fortunes of the Archbishop of Cashel in Spain . . 264 Ireland a Fief of the See of Eome . . . . 266 Complications of European Politics . . . . 267 Sir Thomas Stukely at Madrid . . . . . . 268 History of Stukely . . . . . . . . 269 Two Parties among the Irish Catholics . . . . 273 Intended Invasion of Ireland by the Spaniards . . 274 Sir Henry Sidney resigns his Office . . . . 278 Sir William Fitzwilliam Deputy . . . . . . 278 Universal Disorder and Confusion . . . . . . 279 Report of Tremayne . . . . . . . . 282 Sir John Perrot President of Munster 286
