[168] The petition is in _Cabala_, 221, other documents are in Lady Theresa Lewis's _Friends of Clarendon_, i. Appx. B-E. The imprisonment was from January 17 to 27, 1629-30. [169] Lord Cork's Diary in _Lismore Papers_, 1st series, iii. 2. Wilmot to Dorchester, October 22, 1629. The instructions to the Lords Justices are calendared under July, No. 1443. [170] Lord Cork's Diary in _Lismore Papers_, 1st series, iii. 13. Wilmot to Dorchester, January 6, 1630; Cork to same, January, No. 1591, with enclosures; Privy Council to the Lords Justices, January 31, printed in _Foxes and Firebrands_, ii. 74, 2nd ed., Dublin, 1682; Gilbert's _History of Dublin_, i. 242, 300; Cork to Dorchester, March 2, 1630. [171] Wilmot to Dorchester, February 1, 1631; Lord Cork's letters of December 8, 1630, and January 12, 1631; Ware's Diary in Gardiner, viii. 28; Lord Cork's Diary, November 26, 1632, in _Lismore Papers_, iii. 167. [172] Todd's _St. Patrick_, vii.; Hill's _Plantation in Ulster_, 184; Henrietta Maria to Wentworth, and his answer, October 10, 1638, in _Strafford Letters_; Lord Cork's Diary, September 8, 1632 in _Lismore Papers_, iii. 159; Cæsar Otway's _Sketches_, 1827. CHAPTER XI GOVERNMENT OF WENTWORTH, 1632-1634 [Sidenote: Wentworth Lord Deputy, Jan. 1632. His antecedents.] [Sidenote: His rapid promotion.] Dr. James Welwood, physician-in-ordinary to William III., wrote a short history of the hundred years preceding the Revolution and dedicated it to the King. He gave Strafford full credit as a great orator and greater statesman, and as a zealous opponent of illegal taxation during the first three Parliaments of Charles I., but goes on to say that 'the Court bought him off, and preferred him to great honours and places, which lost him his former friends, and made the breach irreconcilable.' That was the orthodox Whig view of the case, which prevailed when the Stuart monarchy had been finally converted into the parliamentary system of Walpole. The Puritans were satisfied to call Strafford an apostate, and the Whigs followed them. But he never really belonged to the popular party, and he sought office from the first, not only from ambition but from a love of efficient government. He became Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding in 1615, when he was only twenty-two, and a member of the Council of the North less than four years afterwards. A year later he was a successful candidate for the representation of Yorkshire, with a Secretary of State as his colleague, no other than Sir George Calvert, who became the Roman Catholic Lord Baltimore. In seeking the support of an influential neighbour at the election held on Christmas Day, 1620, Wentworth said: 'In London I will carry you to Mr. Secretary, make you known to him, not only procure you many thanks from him, but that you shall hereafter find a readiness and cheerfulness to do you such good offices as shall be in his way hereafter. Lastly, I