Wentworth was well inclined to take the advice given by Parsons, but there was one department of Irish affairs which would not wait, and that was the revenue. The Lords Justices announced that they would have to begin the financial year on April 1, 1632, with less than £14,000 still to be raised out of the £120,000 promised in 1628. This was not enough to pay the army till December, and they realised that it was impossible to decrease that force. They could suggest no better means of making the ends meet than by ruthlessly exacting the fines of one shilling a Sunday from the Irish Roman Catholics who refused to go to church. A worse kind of tax could scarcely be devised, but it was legal, and Wentworth had made no scruple of levying it in Yorkshire. He sent over a Roman Catholic agent to Ireland, who obtained a promise of £20,000 from his co-religionists on condition of escaping the Sunday dues for another year. This provided money for immediate necessities, but he had no idea of letting the Protestants escape. He told Cottington that it was safer to displease the minority than the majority, and grounded his action upon this. It is not surprising that he made enemies of the Protestants in the long run, and that he did not make friends of the Roman Catholics. Nor was he particularly anxious to conciliate the men with whom he would have to work in Ireland. Lord Mountnorris lingered at Chester on account of his wife's health, and Wentworth ordered him to go over at once and attend to his financial business. The letter is civil enough in form, but contains the scarcely-veiled threat that Mountnorris would be the sufferer if he were untrue to him or suspicious of him in any way. Considering that he himself evidently distrusted the Vice-Treasurer it was hardly wise to bid him send over £2,000 of the new Deputy's salary at once, 'for,' he said, 'I have entered fondly enough on a purchase in Yorkshire of £14,000, and the want of that would very foully disappoint me.' To the Lords Justices Wentworth was still more outspoken. They had disobeyed orders by keeping secret the King's letter of instructions which they had been ordered to publish, by ordering the payment of Sir Francis Cook's arrear, and by failing to send over a detailed statement of the Irish revenue. Wentworth said plainly that he would not allow such presumption in them as to 'evacuate his master's directions, nor contain himself in silence, seeing them before his face so slighted, or at least laid aside very little regarded.'[179] [Sidenote: Wentworth's journey delayed by pirates.] [Sidenote: Radcliffe goes before with Lady Wentworth.] [Sidenote: Audacity of the pirates,] [Sidenote: who plunder the Lord Deputy's baggage.]