Index of Gardiner's History of England

Strafford, Earl of, 1640-1641 (Thomas Wentworth),

• appointed Lieutenant-General of the army for the second Bishops' War,
• supports Leicester's candidature for the Secretaryship,
• his intimacy with Lady Carlisle,'
• asks that Coke shall retain the secretaryship,
• is asked by the Queen to protect the Catholics,
• is supposed by Rossetti to be a Puritan,
• sets out for Ireland,
• obtains subsidies from the Irish Parliament,
• returns to England,
• advises the King to call on the Lords to declare that supply must precede grievances,
• disservice rendered to the King by,
• announces that a refusal of supply will be followed by a dissolution,
• recommends the King to abandon ship-money and to be contented with eight subsidies,
• reluctantly votes for the dissolution of the Short Parliament,
• holds' that as Parliament has failed in its duty, the King is justified in helping himself,
• argues for an aggressive war on Scotland,
• reminds Charles that he has an army in Ireland,
• talks of making the nobility smart,
• his words about the Irish army immediately disclosed,
• probable intention of,
• does not realise the feeling which the employment of an Irish army would rouse in England,
• becomes the embodiment of tyranny in the popular mind,
• recommends the King to hang some of the aldermen,
• appointed a commissioner to negotiate an alliance with Spain,
• asks the Spanish ambassadors for a loan,
• is blamed for the Lambeth riots,
• illness of,
• his conversation with Bristol on the political situation,
• his secrets divulged by the courtiers,
• is in danger of his life,
• catches a chill in receiving the King's visit,
• recovers his health,
• dissuades Charles from paying the soldiers with base coin, but threatens those who oppose the debasement of the coinage,
• pleads with the Spanish ambassadors for a loan,
• wishes the King to reject a petition from Yorkshire,
• receives a patent giving him command over the Irish army,
• again presses the Spanish ambassadors for a loan,
• expects England to be stirred to resistance by a Scottish invasion,
• is appointed to command the English army,
• continued hopefulness of,
• is taken ill, but arrives at York, and urges the Yorkshiremen to support the King, even if he cannot pay them,
• continued illness of,
• complains of the state of the army after the rout of Newburn,
• persuades the Yorkshiremen to offer their trained bands without petitioning for a Parliament,
• is made a Knight of the Garter,
• expects that England will rally round the throne,
• urges on the Great Council the necessity of supplying the King,
• recommends that the army shall remain on the defensive,
• wishes the Scots to be allowed to do their worst,
• is named a chief incendiary by the Scots,
• proposes to drive the Scots out of Ulster,
• does not venture to recommend a breach with the Scots,
• general detestation of,
• is sent for by Charles,
• the Commons inquire into his conduct in Ireland,
• resolution of the Commons to impeach,
• is supposed to have taken part in a Catholic plot,
• advises the King to accuse the Parliamentary leaders,
• is reported to have boasted that the City would soon be brought into subjection,
• charge prepared against,
• is impeached and committed to-custody,
• acknowledgment of Charles that some faults may have been committed by,
• preliminary charge against,
• is committed to the Tower, and writes to his wife,
• detailed charges against,
• Mary de Medicis asserts that the King intends to liberate,
• remains in command of the Irish army,
• is allowed time to prepare his answer,
• his answer read,
• arrangement of Westminster Hall for the trial of,
• Pym opens the case against,
• professes his respect for the House of Commons,
• character of the Irish government of,
• asserts that he had not committed treason,
• growth of a feeling favourable to,
• effect of the charge of intending to bring over the Irish army against,
• evidence of Vane's notes against,
• replies to the evidence,
• hypothetical explanation of the words about the Irish army used by,
• his enunciation of the principle on which the King can use his prerogative above the law,
• impression produced by his argument,
• danger apprehended by the Commons from the acquittal of,
• charge arising from the wording of the commission granted to,
• illness of,
• anger of the Commons at the permission to adduce fresh evidence accorded by the Lords to,
• proposal to bring in a Bill of Attainder against,
• proceedings in the Commons on the Bill of Attainder against,
• makes his general defence before the Lords,
• finds advocates in the House of Commons,
• hearing of the legal argument in behalf of,
• is declared a traitor by the Commons,
• is assured by Charles that he shall not suffer in life, honour, or fortune,
• Essex refuses to vote against the death of,
• the Londoners' petition for the execution of, and the Lords read a second time the Bill for the Attainder of,
• preparations for the escape of,
• considers the King's intervention impolitic,
• Charles attempts to save by force,
• a mob calls for the execution of,
• writes to the King offering his life,
• offers a bribe to Balfour to connive at his escape,
• is informed that he is to die, and asks to see Laud,
• last speech of,
• execution of,