[99]. The best accounts of the Convocations of 1613-15 and 1634-35 are in Elrington’s Life of Usher, pp. 39-49, and 165-187.
[100]. Wentworth to Laud, August 23, 1634. (Strafford Letters, I., 298-301.)
[101]. “The Popish party, growing extreme perverse in the Commons House, and the Parliament thereby in great danger to have been lost in a storm, had so taken up all my thoughts and endeavours that, for five or six days, it was not almost possible for me to take an account how business went among them of the clergy.”—Wentworth to Laud, December 16, 1634. (Ibid., I., 342-345.)
[102]. Ibid.
[103]. Mahaffy’s Epoch of Irish History, ch. VI.
[104]. Wentworth to Laud, January 31, 1633-34. (Strafford Letters, I., 187-189.)
[105]. Brief of his Majesty’s title to Connaught. (Ibid., I., 454-458.) For the history of the settlement of the De Burghs in Connaught compare Matthew Paris, Historia, p. 230, etc.; Annals of Lough Cé; preface to Lord Clanricarde’s Memoirs; The O’Conor Don’s O’Conors of Connaught, pp. 88-95.
[106]. Wentworth to Charles, December 9, 1636. (Strafford Letters, II., 41.)
[107]. Wentworth to Coke, July 14, 1635. (Ibid., I., 442-444.)
[108]. “Sir Lucas Dillon, the foreman of the jury, hath behaved himself with so much discretion and expressed all along so good affections, as I cannot choose but here to mention him, and hereafter to beseech his Majesty he may be remembered when upon the dividing of the lands his own particular come in question. In truth, he deserves to be extraordinarily well dealt withal.”—(Ibid.)