[131]. Considerations touching the Queen’s service in Ireland. (Cabala, II., 52).
[132]. Wentworth to Cottington, October 1, 1632. (Strafford Letters, I., 74.)
[133]. Wentworth to Coke, November 28, 1636. (Ibid., II., 38, 39.)
[134]. “Certainly it is my duty to witness this truth for his Majesty, that, since I had the honour to be employed in this place, he hath not been pleased that the hair of any man’s head should be touched for the free exercise of his conscience.” Wentworth to Con, May 15, 1637. (Ibid., II., 112.) Compare the charge made against him at his trial of showing favour to Catholics. Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford.
[135]. Bramhall to Laud, February 23, 1638 (Calendar of State Papers, 181-183); Wentworth to Bramhall (Rawdon Papers, p. 43); Lesley to Wentworth, September 22 and October 18, 1638 (Strafford Letters, II., 219, 226, 227); Lesley’s Confutation of the Covenant. Adair’s Narrative, chap. III.
[136]. Lesley to Wentworth, October 18, 1638. Laud to Wentworth, November 2, 1638. (Strafford Letters, II., 226, 227, 230, 231.)
[137]. Wentworth to Charles, July 28, 1638. (Ibid., II., 187-189.) For a detailed account of the condition of the Irish army at this time see Wentworth to Coke, August 10, 1638. (Ibid., II., 197-201.)
[138]. Wentworth to Charles, November 11, 1638. (Ibid., II., 233-236.)
[139]. Act of State by the Lord Deputy and Council, May 16, 1639. (Ibid., 343-346.)
[140]. Adair’s Narrative, chap. IV.