Chapter XX Fall of the House of Kildare
Rise of Wolsey to power—Resolves to destroy the Geraldines—Geroit Mor succeeded by his son—Earl of Surrey sent as viceroy—Kildare restored to power—Summoned to London and imprisoned—Again restored and again imprisoned—Situation changed—Revolt of Silken Thomas—Seizes Dublin—Archbishop Allen murdered—Sir William Skeffington to Ireland—Kildare dies in prison—“The Pardon of Maynooth”—Silken Thomas surrenders, and is executed.