[57] _The Earls of Kildare_; Harris's _Dublin_; _Four Masters, ad ann._ 1492. [58] Ware; Gairdner's _Life of Richard III._; _Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII._, ii. 55. [59] _Irish Statutes_, 10 Henry VII., Dec. 1, 1494. [60] _Ibid._, chaps. iv. and xxii. [61] Gilbert's _Viceroys_, p. 454, and Ware. The Act is not in the printed statutes. [62] _Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII._, vol. ii. pp. lxxvi. 237, 242, 299; _Histories of Waterford_, by Smith and Rylands; _Four Masters and Annals of Lough Cé ad ann. 1505_. [63] _Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII._, vol. ii. pp. 64 and 67. [64] Hattecliffe's accounts in _Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII._, vol. ii. pp. 297-318. [65] Ware; Hattecliffe's _Accounts_; _Earls of Kildare_. [66] Gairdner's _Richard III._; Smith's _Waterford_, where is given the correspondence between Henry and the city; _Carew_, vol. v. p. 472, where the events of 1487, 1495, and 1497 are mixed up; Sir Piers Butler to the Earl of Ormonde, in Graves's _St. Canice_, p. 193. [67] _Four Masters_, with O'Donovan's notes, under 1485. The 'Annals' of Andreas and the 'Douze triomphes de Henri VII.,' are in _Memorials of Henry VII._, ed. Gairdner. [68] Sir Piers Butler to the Earl of Ormonde, in Graves's _St. Canice_, p. 193. Stanihurst says Sir Piers waylaid his enemy. [69] All the authorities bearing on this event are collected in Graves's _St. Canice_, pp. 193-198. [70] The Acts of this Parliament (supposed lost) are printed by Mr. Gilbert in his _Facsimiles of Irish National MSS._, vol. iii., from the English Patent Rolls. Ware; _Four Masters_. [71] _Four Masters_ and O'Donovan's notes, under 1487, 1488, and 1498. [72] Ware; _Four Masters_. [73] Sidney to Leicester, March 1, 1566, in the _Irish State Papers_. The account of the battle of Knocktoe is made up from Ware, Stanihurst, the _Four Masters_, and the _Book of Howth_. The _Four Masters_ seem to have thought that the forces of the Pale were not engaged, and O'Donovan rather countenances them, but the _Annals of Lough Cé_ say Kildare mustered 'all the foreigners and Irish of Leinster and of Northern Ireland.' (_Ad ann. 1504._) The details in the _Book of Howth_ may not be all correct, though there is nothing antecedently improbable in Lord Gormanston's truculent speech. [74] _Irish Statutes_, 24 Hen. VII.; _Letters and Papers of Henry VIII._, Oct. 7, 1515. [75] The statutes referred to are printed in Hardiman's _Statute of Kilkenny_. See Gilbert's _Viceroys_, p. 459. [Illustration: IRELAND ABOUT 1500. _London: Longmans & Co._] CHAPTER IX. FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE YEAR 1534. [Sidenote: Accession of Henry VIII., 1509. Kildare remains in power.]