[70]. Hammond L’Estrange, Annals of the Reign of Charles the First, p. 116. Compare Foxes and Firebrands, pt. 2, p. 71; Wilmot to Dorchester, January 6, 1629-30. (Calendar, 1625-1632, 1570.) “Tharchbishop of Dublin, and the Maior of Dublin, by the direction of vs, the Lords Justices, Ransackt the howse of f. fryer in Cook Street,” Lord Cork’s Diary, December 26, 1629.
[71]. The Catholic University seems to have given particular offence to the Protestant clergy. Thus Bedell, writing to Wentworth, complains that “his Holiness hath erected a new university at Dublin to confront his Majesty’s college there.” (Strafford Letters, I., 147.) The documents relating to the seizure of its property will be found in Mahaffy’s Epoch of Irish History, ch. V.
For an account of St. Patrick’s Purgatory see Richardson’s Folly of Pilgrimages, p. 44, and for its destruction Lord Cork’s Diary, September 8, 1632. In October, 1638, the Queen wrote to Wentworth begging him to allow it to be restored. He declined on the ground that it was “in the midst of the great Scottish plantation.” (Strafford Letters, II., 221, 222.)
[72]. Lords Justices to Wentworth, February 26, 1631-2. (Ibid., I., 67-70.)
[73]. Charles to the Lords Justices, January 12, 1631-2. (Ibid., I., 62-63.) Miss Hickson has quoted a most significant entry from the MS. journal of an Anglo-Irish official: “July 23, 1633. The Lord Viscounte Wentworth came to Ireland to govern ye kingdom: manie men feare.” (Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, I., 52.) Lord Cork expressed his dissatisfaction still more forcibly: “A moste cursed man to all Ireland and to me in particular.” Diary, July 23, 1633.
[74]. Wentworth to Cottington, October 1, 1632. (Strafford Letters, I., 74-77.)
[75]. Wentworth to Charles, April 12, 1634. (Ibid., I., 182-187.)
[76]. Charles to Wentworth, April 17, 1634. (Ibid., I., 233.)
[77]. Wentworth to Coke, June 24, 1634. (Ibid., I., 269, 270.)
[78]. Wentworth to Coke, August 18, 1634. (Ibid., I., 276-282.)