The Fitzgeralds were Yorkists, the Butlers Lancastrians 102 Lambert Simnel crowned in Ireland 104 The Irish Yorkists cut to pieces at Stoke 105 Mission of Sir Richard Edgcombe 106 The Irish nobility in England 108 The Butlers and Geraldines 109 Perkin Warbeck 110 Sir Edward Poynings holds a Parliament at Drogheda 111 Poynings' Acts 112 Second visit of Perkin Warbeck 113 Weakness of the Government 114 Third visit of Perkin Warbeck 115 Power of the Kildare family 115, 117-120 Battle of Knocktoe 120 Henry VII. wished to separate the two races 122 CHAPTER IX. FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE YEAR 1534. The Kildare family in power 124-128 The Ormonde family much reduced 125 Viceroyalty of Surrey 128-139 The Pale a very small district 129 Misery of the country 131 O'Donnell and O'Neill 132 Desmond and the MacCarthies 133 Policy of Henry VIII. 134 Unsteadiness of English policy 136 The Irish constantly at war 140 The Butlers and Geraldines were scarcely more peaceable 145 Wolsey's policy 148 A Viceroy captured by the Irish 150 The rivalry between Ormonde and Kildare 149-152 Skeffington Viceroy 152 Overshadowed by Kildare 154 Results of the Kildare power 154-158 Fall of Kildare 161 CHAPTER X. THE GERALDINE REBELLION--SKEFFINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION, 1534-1535.