Notes
[131]. Considerations touching the Queen’s service in Ireland. (Cabala, II., 52).
[132]. Wentworth to Cottington, October 1, 1632. (Strafford Letters, I., 74.)
[133]. Wentworth to Coke, November 28, 1636. (Ibid., II., 38, 39.)
[134]. “Certainly it is my duty to witness this truth for his Majesty, that, since I had the honour to be employed in this place, he hath not been pleased that the hair of any man’s head should be touched for the free exercise of his conscience.” Wentworth to Con, May 15, 1637. (Ibid., II., 112.) Compare the charge made against him at his trial of showing favour to Catholics. Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford.
[135]. Bramhall to Laud, February 23, 1638 (Calendar of State Papers, 181-183); Wentworth to Bramhall (Rawdon Papers, p. 43); Lesley to Wentworth, September 22 and October 18, 1638 (Strafford Letters, II., 219, 226, 227); Lesley’s Confutation of the Covenant. Adair’s Narrative, chap. III.
[136]. Lesley to Wentworth, October 18, 1638. Laud to Wentworth, November 2, 1638. (Strafford Letters, II., 226, 227, 230, 231.)
[137]. Wentworth to Charles, July 28, 1638. (Ibid., II., 187-189.) For a detailed account of the condition of the Irish army at this time see Wentworth to Coke, August 10, 1638. (Ibid., II., 197-201.)
[138]. Wentworth to Charles, November 11, 1638. (Ibid., II., 233-236.)
[139]. Act of State by the Lord Deputy and Council, May 16, 1639. (Ibid., 343-346.)
[140]. Adair’s Narrative, chap. IV.
[141]. The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor of the Society of Jesus to the Covenanters of Scotland.
[142]. Clogy’s Life of Bedell, pp. 129-131. Compare Lords’ Journals, I., 112.
[143]. Commons’ Journals, I., 141.
[144]. Lords’ Journals, I., 106.
[145]. Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford, 517. This statement is confirmed by a Catholic pamphleteer who called himself Antonius Prodinus. “Thomas, comes Straffordiæ, Hiberniæ prorex, decem milia Catholicorum Hibernorum militum a multis ante mensibus in armis habuit in Ultonia.” Descriptio regni Hiberniæ, p. 41. Carte, however, asserts that the officers and 1,000 of the private soldiers were Protestants. Life of Ormond, I., 132.
[146]. For a full account of the Macdonnels of Antrim see Clan Donald by A. and A. Macdonald, vol. II., chap. 15.
[147]. Antrim to Wentworth, July 17, December 31, 1638, April 11 and 12, May 16, 1639: Wentworth to Windebank, March 20, 1639, enclosing Antrim’s propositions: to Vane, May 16, July 7, 1639: Windebank to Wentworth, April 13, 1639: to Antrim, April 13, 1639. (Strafford Letters, II., 184, 266, 300-305, 321-323, 339-340, 419-424, et alibi.)
[148]. Commons’ Journals, I., 141.
[149]. Ibid., 156-161.
[150]. Wentworth to Radcliffe, October 8, 1640. This letter, which is not included in the Strafford Letters, is printed in Whittaker’s Life and Original Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, pp. 209, 210. It is endorsed by Radcliffe, “Proposition, Scots, rejected by me and crossed.”
[151]. Commons’ Journals, I., 165. Compare Calendar of State Papers, 252-256, where Radcliffe’s answers are given.
[152]. Parliamentary History, IX., 40.
[153]. Charles to the Privy Council, December 15 and 30. Calendar of State Papers, 247-248.
[154]. Ibid., 261-262. Lords’ Journals, I., 152.
[155]. Commons’ Journals, I., 176-177.
[156]. Lords’ Journals, I., 157.
[157]. Commons’ Journals, I., 174-175. Lords’ Journals, I., 160. Calendar of State Papers, 333-337.
[158]. Rushworth’s Historical Collections, IV., 214.
[159]. A Sample of Jet Black Prelatic Calumny, pp. 131, etc.
[160]. Lords Justices to Vane, May 8, 1641. (Calendar of State Papers, 281-283.)
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By ARTHUR HOUSTON, K.C., LL.D.