[109]. Wentworth and the Commissioners to Coke, August 25, 1635, and enclosures. (Ibid., I., 450-458.) For the fining of the jury we have Wentworth’s own admission; if his enemies may be believed, they were also “pilloried with loss of ears, bored through the tongue, and marked in the forehead with a hot iron, with other like infamous punishments.”—Irish Commons’ Journals.
[110]. Coke to Wentworth, September 20, 1635. (Strafford Letters, I., 464-465.)
[111]. It was finally abandoned in April, 1641. See Gardiner’s History of England, X., 45, where a letter of the Lords Justices is quoted.
[112]. “The Plantations prove a most laborious work; I could not imagine their march had been so heavy.”—Wentworth to Charles, June 5, 1638. (Strafford Letters, II., 175.) In another letter he recommends that a body of cavalry should be sent into Connaught “as fit lookers-on whilst the plantations are settling.” Wentworth to Coke, August 10, 1638. (Ibid., II., 197-201.) For the influence of Lord Clanricarde in preventing the plantation, see Wentworth to Coke, May 18 and July 9, to Charles, July 9 and August 13, 1639, (Ibid., II., 340, 366-369, 381.)
[113]. Wentworth to Charles, June 5, 1638. (Ibid., II., 175-176.)
[114]. Wentworth has been generally blamed for this sentence, which was one of the principal matters urged against him at his trial; but, though it is evident from several passages in his Letters that he regarded it with approval and was ready to turn it to the King’s advantage, the case had actually been pending for some years before he came to Ireland. See the correspondence between Charles I and the Lords Justices in 1631. (Concise View of the Irish Society. Appendix, pp. 185-188.)
[115]. Reid’s History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, I., 213. Leland’s History of Ireland, III., 40, 41.
[116]. “There was little or no manufacture amongst them, but some small beginnings towards a clothing trade, which I had and so should still discourage all I could, unless otherwise directed by his Majesty and their lordships, in regard, it would trench not only upon the clothings of England, being our staple commodity, so as if they should manufacture their own wools, which grew to very great quantities, we should not only lose the profit we made now by indraping their wools, but his Majesty lose extremely by his Customs, and, in conclusion, it might be feared they would beat us out of the trade itself, by under-selling us, which they were well able to do.”—Wentworth to Wandesford, July 25, 1636. (Strafford Letters, II., 13-23.) For his encouragement of the linen trade see the same letter.
[117]. Wentworth to Coke, November 28, 1636. (Ibid., II., 38-39.)
[118]. Wentworth to Coke, August 3, 1633. (Ibid., I., 97.)