Excerpt from Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. 3 of 3: With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History It has not been thought generally necessary to give the dates both in old and new style. The officials, and English men generally, invariably refused to adopt the Gregorian calendar, but the priests, and many Irishmen who followed them, naturally took the opposite course. As a rule, there fore, the chronology is old style, but a double date has been given wherever confusion seemed likely to arise. It has often been said that religion had little or nothing to do with the Tudor wars in Ireland, but this is very far from the truth. It was the energy and devotion of the friars and Jesuits that made the people resist, and it was Spanish or papal gold that enabled the chiefs to keep the field. This volume shows how violent was the feeling against an ex communicated Queen, and, whether they were always right or not, we can scarcely wonder that Elizabeth and her ser vants saw an enemy of England in every active adherent of Rome. At first the Queen showed some signs of a wish to remain on friendly terms with the Holy See, but she became the Protestant champion even against her own inclination. Sixtus V. Admired her great qualities, and invited her to return to the bosom of the Church. Strange proposition Says Ranke, as if she had it in her power to choose; as if her past life, the whole import of her being, her political position and attitude, did not, even supposing her conviction not to be sincere, enchain her to the Protestant cause, Elizabeth returned no answer, but she laughed.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.