Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3)
CHAPTER VIII.
THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.
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