Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in AbsolutismThomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1593-1641) is one of the great controversial figures of English history. For many he was 'the Great Apostate' who abandoned the cause of liberty in the 1620s. For others he was a herioc figure who died on the scaffold as the King's good servant. In making a judgement about Strafford, his years of power, as Lord Deputy of Ireland (1633-40), are or crucial importance. Professor Kearney's definitive account, first published in 1959 provides essential reading for those studying the origins of the Civil Wars. |
Contents
ANGLOIRISH RELATIONS | 1 |
2 POLITICS 162030 | 7 |
THE OLD ENGLISH IN IRELAND | 15 |
THE APPOINTMENT OF WENTWORTH | 24 |
THE FINANCIAL BACKGROUND | 32 |
PROLOGUE TO PARLIAMENT | 42 |
THE PARLIAMENT OF 16345 | 45 |
THE POLITICS OF THE 1634 PARLIAMENT | 53 |
5 SUMMARY | 168 |
PERSONAL PROFIT | 171 |
THE DOWNFALL OF WENTWORTHS ADMINISTRATION | 185 |
2 OPPOSITION IN PARLIAMENT | 189 |
3 THE PARTIES IN PARLIAMENT | 192 |
THE IMPEACHMENT OF WENTWORTH | 199 |
AFTERMATH IN IRELAND | 209 |
CONCLUSION | 216 |
THE INSTRUMENTS OF THOROUGH | 69 |
THE PLANTATION OF CONNACHT | 85 |
CHURCH AND STATE | 104 |
WENTWORTHS ECONOMIC POLICY | 130 |
2 THE IRISH WOOL TRADE | 137 |
3 IRISH LINEN | 154 |
4 THE IRISH CUSTOMS FARM | 159 |
APPENDICES | 223 |
OF 1640 | 260 |
3 COMMISSION FOR DEFECTIVE TITLES 1636 | 264 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 277 |
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Common terms and phrases
Adam Loftus administration Anglo-Irish appointed Armagh Barnewall bishop boroughs Boyle's Bramhall Castle Chamber Catholic Charles Church of Ireland Civil Survey Clanrickarde cloth Commission committee Commons jn Connacht Court of Wards Crown customs farm deputy's deputyship Dillon Drogheda Dublin earl of Westmeath economic Edward election England English privy council export Falkland favourable Gaelic Irish Galway gentry Graces house of commons Ibid impeachment impropriate influence Irish customs Irish privy council Irish wool James Kildare Kilkenny king land Laud Limerick Lismore London Londonderry lord deputy Meath merchants Mountnorris Munster official old English opposition Ormonde Parsons plantation of Connacht planters political Port Book proprietors Protestant Puritan Ranelagh recusancy religious Richard Boyle S.P. Ire Scots Scottish seventeenth century Sir William Sir William Parsons Strafford Strafford MSS Strafford's letters Temple Newsam Thomas tion Tipperary trade Ulster Ussher Viscount Wandesford Waterford Wentworth Westmeath Wexford Wicklow wrote Youghal