deed a very insufferable thing for them thus to interpose in causes which are purely civil, and of passing ill consequences to warm and inflame the subjects one against another, and in the last resort to bring it to a direct party of Protestant and Papist, which surely is to be avoided as much as may be, unless our number were the greater."

271. Letter from Bishop Bridgeman (of Chester), thanking him for certain judicious church promotions.

273. His promise to raise and clear the revenue," and if in all this I make one penny of benefit to myself, in the course of these payments, let my master take my head upon my return."

Speech at the opening of the Irish Parliament."I spake it not betwixt my teeth, but so loud and heartily, that I protest unto you I was faint withal at the present, and the worse for it two or three days after. It makes no matter, for this way I was assured they should have sound at least, with how little weight soever it should be attended. And the success was answerable: for had it been low and mildly delivered, I might perchance have gotten from them, it was pretty well whereas this way, filling one of their senses with noise, and amusing the rest with earnestness and vehemence, they sware (yet forgive them, they know not what they say) it was the best spoken they ever heard in their lives."

274. "Surely this kingdom is in an excellent way, and England to hope for a considerable supply from hence, which hitherto hath been of infinite expense unto us."

284. "Surely the more I am trusted, the greater shall be my care. I shall be watchful upon all occasions, and by fitting degrees still to abate from the power of the Popish clergy, which indeed was grown to excess, and a shame it was ever suffered to rise to such a height."

295. Obliged, by want of support from England, to give up his scheme of making iron ordnance in Ireland.

296. Tallow-their great staple commo

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dity, out of which they pretend are to be raised their own rents, and all the great payments to his Majesty. Direction had been sent from England to stop its exportation, which Strafford would not follow, saying it would infinitely discontent them all, nothing so much, and destroy their trade above all that can be foreseen.

297. "I spend a round sum, more than all my entertainments come to."

300. He intreats of Laud to aid him in keeping the revenue of Ireland from the English minister.

300. Cottington. Who was this with the beads? 330.

303. A greyhound for the prince. 1634. 308. Restraint of tallow,-it was designed to give the Soap Corporation the sole right of vending it. His arguments against it.

350. His conduct when Sir Piers Crosby threw out the bill for repressing of murders, by a strict punishment of the accessories. 353. Motives for continuing the parliament.

All the Protestants are for plantations, all the others against them.

364. Intrigues of France with the Papists. France having taken up the ambitious views of Spain, and employing the same course of policy. This is a good letter of Coke's.

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365. Charles chose to have the Irish Parliament dissolved. " My reasons," he says, are grounded upon my experience of them here; they are of the nature of cats. They ever grow curst with age; so that if ye will have good of them, put them off handsomely when they come to any age, for young ones are ever most tractable. And in earnest you will find that nothing can more conduce to the beginning of a new, than the well ending of the former Parliament."

367. He delays admitting the Earl of Nothisdale to be of the council, because he is a Papist. "I judge it without all question far the greatest service that can be done unto your crowns, on this side, to draw Ireland into a conformity of religion with

England, which indeed would undoubtedly set your Majesty in greater strength and safety within your own dominions, than any thing now left by the great and happy wisdom of yourself and blessed father unaccomplished, to make us an happy and secure people within ourselves. And yet this being a work rather to be effected by judgement and degrees, than by a giddy zeal and haste, whenever it shall seem good in your wisdom to attempt it (for I am confident it is left as a means whereby to glorify your Majesty's piety to posterity) there will in the way towards it many things fall continually in debate and consideration at the board with which it will be very unfit any of the contrary religion be acquainted."

371. "I must tell you I am in a libel threatened with a Felton or a Ravillac already." 1634.

378. Laws of wills and uses. His aim to gain wardships for the crown, that the best houses might be bred up in religion as they fall.

392. "The Biscayners are fishing our western ports, and have been up the river of Limerick forty or fifty miles within land, and there taken two or three Dutchmen of very good value; and would in a short time, if suffered, destroy the whole trade of this kingdom."

401. Levying the subsidies.-"Yet that I might be the more sure that all things shall be carried indifferently, and that the burthen may lie upon the wealthier sort (which, God knows, hath not been the fashion of Ireland), I have told them, that I will join four commissioners with theirs in every county, with these only instructions (the sum being thus set by themselves) to see that all things be carried suitable to his Majesty's justice and princely regard of his people."

411. Weston's ill will to him, and jealousy of his familiarity with Laud.

431. -"by your experience in both houses you have discovered the root of all disorder in that kingdom to be the universal dependence of the Popish faction upon Jesuits and friars; which former deputies have also observed, and thereupon moved for their banishment and suppression; but it seemeth the performance was reserved for your active resolution."

444. Galway."A country which lies out at a corner by itself, and all the inhabitants wholly natives and papists, hardly an Englishman amongst them, whom they kept out with all the industry in the world.” 473. Flax. He sends to buy seed.-Vol. 2, p. 19.

executed."

394. "Some loose and dissolved men of war of S. Sebastian's, the Passage, and Dunkirk, have demeaned themselves worse towards us than ever."

392. The great business of the Londoners' plantation. Methinks, sir (if I may be so bold), would your Majesty be pleased to reserve it entire to yourself, after it be once settled well, it might prove a fit part of an appanage for our young master the Duke of York. Believe me, I am of opinion it may be made a seigniory not altogether unworthy his Highness."

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504. Howell says of him, "I never knew any man's misery so little resented, who having contested with so many lord deputies is now met withal."

511. Cottington.-" You said right, that Mountnorris his business would make a great noise; for so it hath amongst ignorant, but especially ill-affected people; but it hath stuck little among the wiser sort, and begins to be blown away amongst the rest."

Garrard writes more faithfully.-508-9.

Vol. 2, p. 15. Strafford.-"The truth is, Sir L. Carey is a vain young man, and cannot be sufficiently taught to learn his duty, as well to his betters as to his own soldiers.

You shall do well to cause him to pay his soldiers what he oweth them, and to defalk it out of his own entertainments. I understand by his uncle Newburgh, he has a great mind to part with his company, and to bestow himself in the Low Countries, which I am glad of, that we may get shut of him there."

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oppressing Lords to their gracious King, the "true foundation of wealth and peace and the only hope of introducing civility and religion, wherein the prosperity of tha kingdom doth consist." He tells Wentworth this in his masterpiece.

108. "If old Ned Coke were alive again, he would perchance advise him to

18. Equal justice. Wills and uses. 23. "I have with much difficulty obtained direction for a privy seal for taking off the four shillings upon a ton of coals, new imposition; as also that other immeasurable charge set upon horses to be transported hence into Ireland, as also one shilling and sixpence upon every head of cattle, and stopped another imposition intended to be set upon all live sheep brought thence."

42. He recommends that the King should preferably employ men of fortune in his service, rather than those who have their fortunes to make.

54. Charles intended the place of Admiral for the Duke of York.

56. Sir Henry Anderson, of Yorkshire, obtains an audience, and makes a remonstrant speech to the King, 1636.

65. Duke of York to be provided for in Ireland. "God having blest you with so royal and plentiful a posterity, if provisions be not early thought of for them by your servants, and by yourself, they will at some time or other fall weightily and with pressure upon the crown."

72. Marquis Hamilton is not easily taken off, especially where there is a glimmering of good profit to come in.-GAR

RARD.

92. Plots of the exiles, and advice concerning the army in Ireland, to be kept up till total conformity in religion be brought about.

him, and tell him (as he never failed to do, as often as a patent of monopoly came in his way) animalia solivaga semper sunt nociva, and for better authority quote him Aristotle for it."-WENTWORTH.

109. He writes to the Duke of Medina, saying, he has sent "those merchants and ship to begin and settle, I trust, a trade of linen cloths, much if I deceive not myself, to the benefit of both kingdoms."

111. Irish abroad plotting rebellion, and inciting Spain and Rome to encourage and support it.

112. Strafford's letters to Con upon this subject.

119. To Laud. "If others would keep the same quarter with us your grace doth, that is, first require our opinions on this side, before anything be resolved there, his Majesty would not be so early and often engaged to the prejudice of these affairs; and drawing along with it a mighty disadvantage upon us, that by this means become the negative ministers of casting them aside at after, and contracting unto ourselves the hatred of the parties interested, as the reward of our good and faithful service."

96. Against sending the rents to the English Exchequer.