[79]. Wentworth to Coke, October 6, 1634. (Ibid., I., 304-328.)
[80]. “Your last public despatch has given me a great deal of contentment, and especially for keeping off the envy of a necessary negative from me of those unreasonable Graces that that people expected from me.”—Charles to Wentworth, October 23, 1634. (Ibid., I., 331.)
[81]. Wentworth to Coke, December 16, 1634. (Ibid., I., 345-353.) For the proceedings of this Parliament I have also consulted the Irish Commons’ Journals, I., pp. 59-119, but they add very little to our information. For its legislation see Irish Statutes, 10 and 11, Charles I.
[82]. Charles to Wentworth, January 22, 1634-5. (Strafford Letters, I., 365.)
[83]. Wentworth to Laud, January 31, 1633-4. (Ibid., I., 187-189.)
[84]. Bedell to Laud, April I, 1630. (Burnet’s Life of Bedell, pp. 35, 36.)
[85]. A full Confutation of the Covenant, lately sworn and subscribed by many in Scotland: delivered in a speech at the visitation of Down and Connor, September 26, 1638. By Henry Leslie.
[86]. The Irish articles are printed in Elrington’s Life of Usher, Appendix, xxxiii.—L.
[87]. Bramhall to Laud, August 10, 1633. (Collier’s Ecclesiastical History, VIII., 72-75.)
[88]. “Every parish hath its priest, and some two or three apiece; and so their mass-houses also; in some places mass is said in the churches.” Bedell to Laud, April 1, 1630. Compare a report some years earlier on the ecclesiastical state of the province of Armagh, from which long extracts are printed in Mant’s History of the Church of Ireland, I., 395-408.