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Ormonde pacifies the South-East 162 Sidney and the Tipperary gentlemen 163 Sidney’s march from Clonmel to Cork and Limerick 164 The Butlers submit 166 Humphrey Gilbert in Munster 167 Fitzmaurice hard pressed 168 Ulster quiet 169 CHAPTER XXVII. 1570 AND 1571. The Presidency of Connaught—Sir Edward Fitton 170 Services of Ormonde 171 Thomond in France—diplomacy 172 Session of 1570—attainders and pardons 174 First attempt at national education 176 Commerce—monopolies—Dutch weavers 177 The Presidency of Munster—Sir John Perrott 179 Fitton fails in Connaught 182 Tremayne’s report on Ireland 184 Ormonde in Kerry—services of the Butlers 184 Perrott’s services in Munster 186 CHAPTER XXVIII. FOREIGN INTRIGUES. Fitzmaurice proposes a religious war 190 Catholics at Louvain—suspicious foreigners 190 Archbishop Fitzgibbon and David Wolfe 192 Fitzgibbon’s own story 193 Philip II. hesitates 196 Thomas Stukeley 196 English and Irish parties in Spain 199 Ideas of Philip II. 201 Fitzgibbon, Stukeley, and Pius V. 202 Fitzgibbon negotiates with France and England 205 CHAPTER XXIX. 1571 AND 1572. Want of money—Perrott and Ormonde 207 Perrott will end the war by a duel 209 Proposal to colonise Ulster—Sir Thomas Smith 211 Sir Brian MacPhelin O’Neill 213 Want of money—the army reduced public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@48334@[email protected]#Page_214"