By Hugh F. Kearney

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1593-1641) is without doubt one of the nice arguable figures of English background. for plenty of he was once 'the nice Apostate' who deserted the reason for liberty within the 1620s. For others he used to be a herioc determine who died at the scaffold because the King's reliable servant. In creating a judgement approximately Strafford, his years of strength, as Lord Deputy of eire (1633-40), are or the most important value. Professor Kearney's definitive account, first released in 1959 offers crucial examining for these learning the origins of the Civil Wars.

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P. , i6ij-2j, p. 532. , 162J-32, p. 223. , 162J-32, pp. 121-2. 6 In June 1627. Lismore Papers, ed. A. B. Grosart (1886), ii. 219. He returned in Aug. 1628. P. , 1621-32, p. 373. 1 The second member of the trio, Charles Wilmot, was appointed commander-in-chief in Ireland in August 1629, a sign that the star of the deputy's party was already on the wane. It was not surprising that he should have been found in the opposition camp to Falkland and Boyle since he had for years been under attack by a member of Boyle's party, Sir Charles Coote, who accused him of maladministration in Athlone.

One son might be studying at one of the Inns of Court in London while another was a member of the Irish college at Douai. The same families of the Pale who agitated in Chichester's parliament (1613-15) and Falkland's Great Council (1626-7) provided many of the members of the Capuchin mission to Ireland, which itself was established by a Palesman, Father Francis Nugent. Thus the old English, while conscious of their ties with England, were in constant touch with Counter-Reformation Europe and this link acted as a political yeast, preventing them from degeneration into an opposition of merely insular significance.

Vicary Gibbs and others, London, 1910- ). Gilbert, Ire. confed. = J. T. , Dublin, 1882-91). C. = Historical Manuscripts Commission. IMS. = Irish Historical Studies (Dublin, 1938- ). Liber mun. pub. Hib. , London, 1852). Lords9 jn. Ire. = Journals of the house of lords of Ireland (Dublin, 17791800). Louth Arch. Soc. Jn. = Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society (Dundalk, 1904- ). I. = National Library of Ireland. PP. List — Return of members of parliament, ordered by the house of commons, to be printed.

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