[119]. Townshend’s Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork, pp. 180-181.
[120]. Wentworth to Coke, March 25 and April 7, 1635 (Strafford Letters, I., 391, 392, 400-407.)
[121]. Wentworth to Coke, December 15, 1635. (Ibid., I., 497-501.) Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford. The account in Clarendon (History of the Great Rebellion, III., 111-114) is inaccurate.
[122]. Charles to Wentworth, July 31, 1635. (Strafford Letters, I., 448.)
[123]. Laud to Wentworth, January 2, 1635-6. (Laud’s Works, VII., 216) and Wentworth’s reply, March 9. (Strafford Letters, I., 517.)
[124]. Wentworth to Coke, December 14 and 15, 1635. (Ibid., I., 497-501.) Sentence on Lord Mountnorris, enclosed in the preceding. Somers Tracts, IV., 202-208. Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford, pp. 186-204.
[125]. Coke to Wentworth, October 26, 1635, enclosing Lord Wilmot’s submission. (Strafford Letters, I., 477.)
[126]. “This last packet advertised the death of the Earl of St. Albans, and that it is reported my harsh usage broke his heart. God and your Majesty know my innocency; they might as well have imputed unto me for a crime his being three-score and ten years old.”—Wentworth to Charles, December 5, 1635. (Ibid., 491-493.)
[127]. “I am full of belief they will lay the charge of D’Arcy the sheriff’s death unto me; my arrows are cruel that wound so mortally; but I should be more sorry by much the King should lose his fine.”—Wentworth to Wandesford, July 25, 1636. (Ibid., II., 13-23.)
[128]. Wentworth’s own defence of his administration is contained in the letter to Wandesford quoted in the preceding note.