Treachery of James I to the Irish Chiefs—“The 174 Flight of the Earls” BOOK III RECORDING THE DOINGS OF THE ENGLISH AND IRISH, IN 183 IRELAND, FROM THE TIME OF JAMES I TO THE JACOBITE WARS IN THE DAYS OF JAMES II AND WILLIAM III CHAPTER I Confiscations and Penal Laws—The Iron Rule of Lord 185 Strafford CHAPTER II Irish Military Exiles—Rory O’More Organizes a 192 Great Insurrection CHAPTER III Horrors of Civil War in Ulster—Battle of 200 Kilrush—Rory O’More Disappears from History CHAPTER IV Proceedings of the Confederation of 208 Kilkenny—Arrival of Owen Roe O’Neill and Rinuccini CHAPTER V Treason of Ormond to the Catholic Cause—Owen Roe 218 O’Neill, Aided by the Nuncio, Prepares to Fight CHAPTER VI The Famous Irish Victory of Benburb—Cruel Murder 221 of the Catholic Bishop of Ross CHAPTER VII Ormond’s Treacherous Surrender of Dublin—Ireland’s 226 Choice of Two Evils CHAPTER VIII “The Curse of Cromwell”—Massacres of Drogheda and 230 Wexford—Death of Sir Phelim O’Neill CHAPTER IX Sad Fate of the Vanquished—Cruel Executions and 236 Wholesale Confiscations CHAPTER X Ireland Further Scourged Under Charles II—Murder 240 of Archbishop Plunket—Accession of James II CHAPTER XI Well-Meant but Imprudent Policy of King 245 James—England Invites William of Orange to Assume the Throne CHAPTER XII Irish Soldiers Ill-Treated in England—Policy of 253 Tyrconnel—King James Chosen by the Irish Nation BOOK IV CHRONICLING IMPORTANT EVENTS IN IRELAND FROM THE 259 ARRIVAL OF JAMES II IN THAT COUNTRY UNTIL THE DEPARTURE OF THE DUKE OF BERWICK TO FRANCE AFTER THE FIRST SIEGE OF LIMERICK, IN 1690 CHAPTER I King James in Ireland—Enthusiastic Reception of 261 Him by the Irish People—Military Operations CHAPTER II Jacobites Foiled at Londonderry—Mountcashel 264 Defeated at Newtown Butler—King James’s Irish Parliament CHAPTER III