Index of Gardiner's History of England

Wentworth, Viscount, 1628-1640 (Thomas Wentworth),

• becomes President of the Council of the North, and delivers a speech at York,
• his view of the ecclesiastical question, and of the cooperation of the people in the work of government,
• devotes himself actively to the maintenance of the King's authority,
• strength and weakness of his policy.
• contrast between his ideas and those of Eliot,
• regards himself as the maintainer of the old constitution,
• carries to the King a paper containing Sir Robert Dudley's advice, and becomes a Privy Councillor,
• becomes intimate with Laud,
• his conduct as a Privy Councillor,
• his conduct as President of the Council of the North,
• influence of residence in the North on the political ideas of,
• is insulted by Henry Bellasys,
• death of the wife of,
• is appointed Lord-Deputy of Ireland,
• is attacked by Sir David Foulis,
• summons the sheriffs of Yorkshire before the Council of the North,
• vindicates the authority of the Council,
• protests against the acceptance of Foulis's offer of service,
• struggle of, against the influences of wealth and position,
• urges the Star Chamber to show no mercy to Foulis,
• appeals to the Privy Council to support the jurisdiction of the Council of the North over Sir Thomas Gower,
• leaves York, having obtained the grant of fuller powers to the Council of the North,
• married life of,
• complains that Portland does not answer his letters,
• becomes Lord-Deputy of Ireland,
• his qualifications for governing the country,
• his system of government,
• needs the support of an army,
• obtains prolongation of the contribution for a year,
• intends to see with his own eyes,
• writes a sharp letter to the Lords Justices,
• arrives in Dublin,
• obtains the prolongation of the contribution for another year,
• his confidence in the power of government,
• pays the army and reduces it to discipline,
• his relations with the Irish Council and the King',
• attempts to dissuade the King from promoting Lorenzo Cary,
• represses piracy and encourages trade,
• discourages the Irish cloth manufacture,
• his remedy for the disorders of the Irish Church,
• orders the removal of Lady Cork's tomb, and removes the communion-table at Christ Church,
• his plan for managing the Irish Parliament,
• his speech at the opening of Parliament,
• his consistency considered,
• obtains six subsidies, and asks in vain for an earldom,
• announces that all the Graces will not be passed into law,
• obtains the assent of the Irish Convocation to the English articles,
• attempts to repress nonconformity in Ulster,
• proposes to bring fresh English colonists into Ireland,
• visits Connaught,
• obtains a title for the King in Roscommon, Sligo, and Mayo,
• puts down the resistance of the Galway jury,
• bad example set by, in his treatment of the jury,
• his policy of Thorough,
• is spoken of as likely to be Lord Treasurer,
• attacks upon, in the English Court,
• disregards Laud's warning of the impolicy of provoking enemies, but regrets that he cannot depend on the King,
• detects Mountnorris's malversations,
• is authorised to proceed against Mountnorris,
• brings Mountnorris before a council of war,
• assures Mountnorris that his life will be spared,
• reflections on his conduct to Mountnorris,
• gives an account of his proceedings in Mountnorris's case,
• visits England, and defends his government of Ireland,
• his authority established in Ireland,
• advises the King against going to war for the Palatinate,
• wishes the King to have money for a land army,
• wishes to vindicate the Crown from the conditions and restraints of subjects,
• compared with Richelieu,
• mediates between Vermuyden and the inhabitants of Hatfield Chase,
• is satisfied with the improved condition of Ireland,
• comments on Prynne's case,
• wishes Hampden to be whipped into his senses,
• criticises Antrim's capacity as a leader,
• sneers at the Covenant,
• his plan for the reduction of Scotland,
• wishes Scotland to be governed by the English Council,
• holds that the safety of the people is the highest law,
• sends 2,000l. to the King for the war against the Scots,
• reports against Antrim's military capacity, and dissuades Charles from invading Scotland,
• begs Charles not to fight with an untrained army,
• sends advice on the way in which the war should be carried on,
• visits England to carry on his case against Crosby and Mountnorris,
• alleged manslaughter of Esmond by,
• takes the Great Seal from Lord Loftus,
• induces Charles to allow the prosecution of Loftus,
• becomes Charles's chief counsellor,
• recommends the calling of a Parliament,
• takes part in the Councillors' loan,
• is created Earl of Strafford,
• See Wentworth,Sir Thomas
• See Wentworth, Lord
• See Strafford, Earl of