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Lord Strafford
Author: H. D. Traill

LORD STRAFFORD - 1907 - CONTENTS - CHAPTER I PACE EARLY LIFE. 1 CHAPTER I1 THE FIRST P ARLIAMEN OF T CHARLES . 8 CHAPTER 111 CHAPTER IV THEORIES O F WENTWORTHASP OSTASY . . 32 CHAPTER V THE PRESIDENC O Y F THE NORTH . . 48 v i CONTENTS CHAPTER V1 THE APPOINTMEN TO T IRELAND . CHAPTER V11 THE IRISH PARLIAMENT PAGE . 68 CHAPTER V111 THE CHURCH OF ... more »IRELAND . CHAPTER IX THE PLANTATIO O N F CONNAUGH . T . 108 CHAPTER X THE MOUNTNORRCIAS SE . . 192 CHAPTER XI GENERARL EVIEW O F WENTWORTHIRSI SHA DMINI - S TRATION . 134 CHAPTER XI1 THE LOFTUSC ASE-THE SCOTCH W AR . CONTENTS vii CHAPTER XI11 PAGE CHAPTER XIV . . CHAPTER XV ATTAINDE A R N D EXECUTIO . N CHAPTER I - EARLY LIFE - IN that momentous struggle between the rival principles of Parliamentary Government and Monarchical Rule which fills the annals of our country throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the latter of the two contending theories is popularly and not unnaturally associated with the name and personality of Charles the First. The purpose of the following pages is to delineate the character and to trace the career of a man who might be much more justly regarded as the historical representative of the Absolutist cause-of a man who dedicated to it an intellect incalculably keener and a will immeasurably stronger than the most fanatical of cavaliers has ever attributed to Charles, and who sealed his loyalty to it in a higher sense than did his unhappy master by a death upon the scaffold. Of. him it can be said, as it never could be said of the monarch who used and betrayed him, that if any man could have held firm the flood-gates of authority against the rising tide of democratic aspiration, it was he. To his powerful arm and to none other would the Trojans of Royalism have been justified in committing the defence of their citadel and only from his failure to preserve it could they have had a right to draw the Virgilian omen of an irresistible fate. He alone was entitled to appropriate the boast of Hector and to declare that Si Pergama dextra Defendi possent etiam hlc defensa fuissent. His life, in short, was the life of the Absolutist cause, his te nporarym astery its fleeting hope, his defeat and death its destruction. Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of Strafford and Baron Wentworth, was born in Chancery Lane on Good Friday, . April 13th, 1593, at the house of his maternal grandfather Robert Atlrinson, a bencher of Lincolns Inn. He came of an old Yorkshire family which had been seated on the manor of Wentworth since the Conquest. His father, Sir William Wentworth, does not appear to have taken any active part in public life, but the family had in the course of its history given not a few servants to the State a Lord Chancellor and a Bishop were numbered among its members. The greatgrandfather of the subject of this memoir was in favour, it would appear, at the Court of Henry the Eighth, and the appendix to Radcliffes collection of the Straflord Letters contains a curious grant under the hand of that monarch authorising his well-beloved subject, Thomas Wentworth, for certain diseases and infirmities which he daily sustegneth in his hede, to wear his bonet on his said hede in the royal presence. As the eldest son of an important county family, Wentworth, of course, received the education cleemed necessary to fit him to become its head. He was sent at an early age to St. Johns College, Cambridge, where, without being known to have particularly distinguished himself, he must have laid the foundations of a sound scholarship, and whence he bore away with him affectionate remembrances of his University, which were to reveal themselves on more than one occasion in later life...

ISBN-13: 9781408618295
ISBN-10: 140861829X
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 216
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