[89]. Heylin’s History of Presbyterianism, p. 393.
[90]. See the autobiographies of Robert Blair and John Livingston, two of the ministers who obtained benefices by these means; also Adair’s True Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 1623-1670; and Dr. Killen’s preface.
[91]. Vesey’s Life of Bramhall.
[92]. Bedell to Laud, August 7, 1630. (Two Lives of William Bedell, pp. 311-314.)
[93]. Clogy’s Life of Bedell, p. 118.
[94]. See much evidence of this in Ware’s Bishops of Ireland.
[95]. Wentworth to Laud, December, 1633. (Strafford Letters, I., 171-173.)
[96]. “My Lord, I did not take you to be so good a physician before as now I see you are; for the truth is, a great many Church cormorants have fed so full upon it that they are fallen into a fever; and for that no physic better than a vomit, if it be given in time; and therefore you have taken a very judicious course to administer one so early to my Lord of Cork. I hope it will do him good, though perchance he thinks not so, for if the fever hang long about him or the rest it will certainly shake either them or their estates in pieces.”—Laud to Wentworth, November 15, 1633. (Ibid., I., 155, 156.)
[97]. Laud to Wentworth, March 11, 1634. (Ibid., I., 211.) See also several letters in the Lismore Papers, 2nd series, and Mason’s History and Antiquities of the Collegiate and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, pp. liii., liv.
[98]. Ware’s Annals of Ireland, A.D. 1560.