CHAPTER VI.--Acts of the Native Princes--Subdivision of
Tribes and Territories--Anglo-Irish Towns
under Native Protection--Attempt of
Thaddeus O'Brien, Prince of Thomond, to
Restore the Monarchy--Relations of the
Races in the Fifteenth Century

CHAPTER VII.--Continued Division and Decline of "the
English Interest"--Richard, Duke of York,
Lord Lieutenant--Civil War again in England--
Execution of the Earl of Desmond--
Ascendancy of the Kildare Geraldines

CHAPTER VIII.--The Age and Rule of Gerald, Eighth Earl of
Kildare--The Tide begins to turn for the
English Interest--The Yorkist Pretenders,
Simnel and Warbeck--Poyning's Parliament--
Battles of Knockdoe and Monabraher

CHAPTER IX.--State of Irish and Anglo--Irish Society
during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries

CHAPTER X.--State of Religion and Learning during the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries


BOOK VII.

CHAPTER I.--Irish Policy of Henry the Eighth during