[200] Wentworth to Coke, December 16, 1634; Coke to Wentworth, March 25, 1635, Strafford Letters. Lords’ Journals, November 25, 1634, April 6 and 15, 1635. Gookin’s letter is calendared among State Papers, Ireland, under 1633, p. 181 (Addenda): it was not written until after Wentworth’s arrival, late in July.
[201] Irish Commons Journals, November 4 and 15, 1634. The act of Council condemning Dongan was signed by George Shirley, Wandesford, Mainwaring, Sir Charles Coote, Sir J. Erskine, and Adam Loftus. Coventry to Wentworth, December 24, 1635, and the answer, March 1, 1636, announcing a further leave of six months to Price, Strafford Letters; Wentworth to Price, February 14, 1636, in State Papers, Ireland.
[202] Wentworth to Coke, December 16, 1634, with the King’s answer of January 22; Coke to Wentworth, January 21; Wentworth to Coke, April 7, 1635; the Commons of Ireland to the Lord Deputy, April 1, in Strafford Letters, i. 408; Irish Commons Journal, March 20, 1634-5; Wentworth to the Earl of Danby, April 21, 1635. There were two short sessions between January 26 and April 18, the date of dissolution. At the beginning a good many days were lost by the non-arrival of Bills from England.
[203] Mant’s Irish Church, 121; Ball’s Reformed Church of Ireland, 108; Cal. of State Papers, Ireland, April 28, 1615. The Irish Articles of 1565 and 1615 are printed as an appendix of Elrington’s Life of Ussher, Works, i. xxxv.
[204] Wentworth to Laud, August 23 and December 16, 1634, and Laud’s answer of October 20, in Strafford Letters; Wentworth’s letter to Leslie, December 10, 1634, is in Laud’s Works, vii. 98; Ussher to Dr. Ward, September 15, 1635, in his Works, xvi. 9; Bramhall’s account of the proceedings, written some years later, is in his Works, v. 80.
[205] Sir Thomas Roe to the Queen of Bohemia, December 10, 1634, from London, and her answer from the Hague, February 11/21, 1635, in State Papers, Domestic. Roe contemplated a visit to Ireland about this time, but does not seem to have made it; see Wentworth’s letter to him of September 1, 1634.
[CHAPTER XIII]
STRAFFORD AND THE ULSTER SCOTS
Rise of a Presbyterian community in Ulster.
Two tolerant bishops.