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Ussher to Dr. Ward, 1633 (before September); to Laud, July 9, 1638, in his Works; Laud to Bramhall, August 11, 1638, in his Works, vi. 532 – ‘the motion of the Provost’s keeping the College, though he was a Bishop, proceeded originally from the Lord Deputy, and not from me’; to Wentworth, July 30, ib. vii. 43; to same, September 10, 1638, ib. vi. 535 – ‘Methinks you might speak privately with the Primate, and so do what you would with him. As for the Bishop of Derry, I presume you can rule him; if not, you were better send the Provost fairly with honour to his bishopric, and think of as good a successor as you can for the college’; to same, December 29, 1638, ib. vi. 551. Chappell’s metrical autobiography is in Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa, Lib. xi.

237

Wentworth to Laud, August 23, 1634, Strafford Letters. Further details may be found in Stubbs’s Hist. of the Univ. of Dublin, and in Dr. Mahaffy’s Epoch in Irish Hist.

238

Report by the Lord Deputy, June 21, 1636, State Papers, Ireland; Wentworth to Wandesford, July 25, Strafford Letters, ii. 13-23.

239

Laud to Wentworth, August 31, September 8 and 26, 1636, Works, vi. 466, vii. 279, 288; Wentworth to the King and to Laud, August 17 and 23; the King to Wentworth, September 3, Strafford Letters, ii. 26, 32; Dorothy, Countess of Leicester, to her husband, November 10 and January 10, 1636-7, Collins’s Sidney Papers, ii. 444, 456.

240

Wentworth to Laud, September 27, 1637; to Conway, June 16, 1623; to Cottington, November 24, 1633; to Laud, May 23, 1638, all in Strafford Letters; to his wife, August 1638, in Cooper’s Life of Strafford, ii. 39-41. The proclamation of August 3, 1637, dilates on the importance of providing sport for the Lord Deputy and Council. No licence to shoot with ‘hail-shot’ was to be granted unless the holder would give a bond not to use it within the bounds mentioned in the text. The privileged tract was reserved to Councillors of State for hawking.

241

Wentworth to Laud, September 27, 1637; to Lady Clare, August 10, 1639, in Strafford Letters; to his wife, September 12, 1637, in Cooper’s Life of Strafford, ii. 43. Naas is twenty English miles from Dublin, a good deal more than twelve Irish, and Tinahely fifty-three miles.

242

R. Weckherlin to Sir John Coke, August 25, 1639, Melbourne Hall Papers; W. Raylton to same, August 13, ib.; Wentworth to Radcliffe, September 21 and October 28 in Whitaker’s Life of Radcliffe, 181-3.

243

Wentworth to Radcliffe, December 10, 1639, in Whitaker’s Life of Radcliffe, 187. Speech on being made an Earl, January 12, 1639-40, Strafford Letters, ii. 390. Coke’s dismissal from the secretaryship was decided before December 13, Melbourne Hall Papers, ii. 245. ‘The King declared his resolution for a Parliament in case of the Scottish rebellion. The first movers to it were my Lord Deputy of Ireland, my Lord Marquis Hamilton, and myself’ – Laud’s Diary, December 5, 1639, Works, iii. 233, 283.

244

Irish Commons Journals; Council of Ireland to Windebank, March 19; Strafford to the King, March 23, Strafford Letters, ii. 394-6.

245

Irish Commons Journals; Irish Statutes, 15 Car. I.; Strafford Letters, March 16-April 3, 1639-40, ii. 394-403. The Declaration is in Nalson, i. 283. If further evidence were needed of Strafford’s complete reconciliation with the Queen, we have Madame de Motteville’s: ‘Il avait été brouillé avec la Reine, mais depuis quelque temps il était lié à ses intérêts,’ Mémoires, chap. 9. There is a useful itinerary for Strafford in the ninth volume of the Camden Miscellany. Cork says in his diary that Strafford left London very early ‘to avoid the concourse of myself and many others that desired to wait upon him,’ Lismore Papers, 1st series, v. 129.

246

Strafford Letters, ii. 184, 211, 266-306. For personal details see Hill’s Macdonnells of Antrim. Lord Deputy and Council to Coke, Melbourne Hall MSS. calendared by Hist. MSS. Comm. under July 1637, but apparently belonging to 1639.

247

Wentworth to Windebank, March 20, 1638-9, enclosing Antrim’s written proposals, Strafford Letters. Charles’s informal commission to Antrim, dated June 5, 1639, is printed in Hill’s Macdonnells of Antrim, Appx. 12, Melbourne Hall MSS., ut sup.

248

Willoughby to Wentworth, six letters in May and June 1639 in Strafford Letters; to Vane, June 18, 1641, in State Papers, Ireland; to Coke, July 23, 1639, in Melbourne Hall Papers.

249

Strafford Letters, ii. 187, 228, 244, etc. There are six letters from Willoughby to Wentworth during April and May 1639, and see his letter to Vane of June 18, 1641, in State Papers, Ireland; Wentworth to Cottington, February 10, 1638-9, in vol. ix. of Camden Miscellany.

250

Lady Carlisle to Leicester, October 17, 1639, Collins’s Sidney Papers.

251

Northumberland to Leicester, December 12, 1639, Collins’s Sidney Papers, ii. 624; Strafford to Coke, March 16, 1639-40; to the King, March 23; to Windebank and Hamilton, March 24; to the King, April 16, 1640, Strafford Letters.

252

Wentworth to the King, July 28, 1638, Strafford Letters; Carte’s Ormonde, book ii. Army List among Carte transcripts, vol. i., to which is appended a note that ‘this army was the 10,000 men raised for the expedition into Scotland.’

253

The King to Ormonde, May 8, 1641, and Vane to same, August 20, Carte’s Ormonde, vol. iii.; Council of Ireland to Vane, June 30; Petition of Irish Colonels to the King, August 8, State Papers, Ireland. Rudyard’s speech, August 28, in Rushworth. Resolution of embargo in Nalson, ii. 477.

254

An unsigned paper of May 7, 1641, as to pledging private credit for the money; Lords Justices and Council to the Sheriffs, May 21, and to Vane, June 1; Ormonde to Vane, May 21 and June 9, State Papers, Ireland.

255

Barrymore to Cork, May 26, 1639, Lismore Papers, 2nd series, vol. iv.; Wentworth to Coke, May 18, 1639, Strafford Letters, ii. 342; letters of Sir Adam Loftus in State Papers, Ireland, April 26 and 29, 1641.

256

Wentworth to the King, July 16, 1633; to Preston, October 1, 1635; Coke to Wentworth, January 21, 1634-5; Colonel Thomas Preston to Wentworth, July 6, 1635, Strafford Letters.

257

Strafford to the King, April 15, 1640, Strafford Letters, ii. 411; Gardiner’s Hist. of England, chap. xci.; Lady Essex Cheeke to Lord Mandeville, May 16; Eighth Report of Hist. MSS. Comm., appx. ii. 56 b.

258

Wandesford to Radcliffe, June 12, 1640, in Whitaker’s Life of Radcliffe. Writing to Ormonde in March, 1664-5, Sir W. Domville estimated a subsidy at 15,000l., Carte MSS. vol. xxxiv.

259

Wandesford to Ormonde, May 26 and 29, June 7, 12, and 30, 1640, Carte transcripts; Strafford to Radcliffe, July 3 to September 1 in Whitaker’s Life of Radcliffe, p. 202.

260

Minutes of York Council in Hardwicke State Papers, ii. 241, 284, September 29 and October 18, 1640; Answer of the Scots Commissioners, October 8, in Rushworth, iii. 1292; Whitaker’s Life of Radcliffe; Baillie’s Letters, October 1, i. 257; Clarendon’s Hist. of the Rebellion, ii. 107; Ulick Earl of St. Albans and Clanricarde to Windebank, York, October 26, 1640. Hardwicke State Papers, ii. 207.

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