[247] Wentworth to Windebank, March 20, 1638-9, enclosing Antrim’s written proposals, Strafford Letters. Charles’s informal commission to Antrim, dated June 5, 1639, is printed in Hill’s Macdonnells of Antrim, Appx. 12, Melbourne Hall MSS., ut sup.
[248] Willoughby to Wentworth, six letters in May and June 1639 in Strafford Letters; to Vane, June 18, 1641, in State Papers, Ireland; to Coke, July 23, 1639, in Melbourne Hall Papers.
[249] Strafford Letters, ii. 187, 228, 244, etc. There are six letters from Willoughby to Wentworth during April and May 1639, and see his letter to Vane of June 18, 1641, in State Papers, Ireland; Wentworth to Cottington, February 10, 1638-9, in vol. ix. of Camden Miscellany.
[250] Lady Carlisle to Leicester, October 17, 1639, Collins’s Sidney Papers.
[251] Northumberland to Leicester, December 12, 1639, Collins’s Sidney Papers, ii. 624; Strafford to Coke, March 16, 1639-40; to the King, March 23; to Windebank and Hamilton, March 24; to the King, April 16, 1640, Strafford Letters.
[252] Wentworth to the King, July 28, 1638, Strafford Letters; Carte’s Ormonde, book ii. Army List among Carte transcripts, vol. i., to which is appended a note that ‘this army was the 10,000 men raised for the expedition into Scotland.’
[253] The King to Ormonde, May 8, 1641, and Vane to same, August 20, Carte’s Ormonde, vol. iii.; Council of Ireland to Vane, June 30; Petition of Irish Colonels to the King, August 8, State Papers, Ireland. Rudyard’s speech, August 28, in Rushworth. Resolution of embargo in Nalson, ii. 477.
[254] An unsigned paper of May 7, 1641, as to pledging private credit for the money; Lords Justices and Council to the Sheriffs, May 21, and to Vane, June 1; Ormonde to Vane, May 21 and June 9, State Papers, Ireland.
[255] Barrymore to Cork, May 26, 1639, Lismore Papers, 2nd series, vol. iv.; Wentworth to Coke, May 18, 1639, Strafford Letters, ii. 342; letters of Sir Adam Loftus in State Papers, Ireland, April 26 and 29, 1641.
[256] Wentworth to the King, July 16, 1633; to Preston, October 1, 1635; Coke to Wentworth, January 21, 1634-5; Colonel Thomas Preston to Wentworth, July 6, 1635, Strafford Letters.