with an universal contentment, as I take it.' He thought it had done more than all former Parliaments put together, both for King, Church and subject, and that Charles was 'more absolute master by his wisdom,' than his predecessors had ever been by the sword.[202] [Sidenote: Meeting of Convocation, 1613-1615.] [Sidenote: The Hundred and Four Articles.] [Sidenote: Character of the Irish Articles.] 'Proctors in the Convocation House' are officially mentioned in Henry VIII.'s time, but the first regular Convocation of the Irish Church was held in connection with the Parliament of 1613. It was summoned by the King's writ, and met in St. Patrick's Cathedral on May 24 in that year. It consisted of the bishops and of representatives from the four provincial synods. Lord Chancellor Jones as Archbishop of Dublin presided in the Upper, and Randolph Barlow, after wards Archbishop of Tuam, in the Lower House; both were Cambridge men. The principal business of this assembly was to pass the Articles, one hundred and four in number, which are generally attributed to James Ussher, then professor of divinity in Dublin. Ussher's Puritanism was more pronounced in his earlier days than afterwards, and James was less hostile to that school than he later became. These Articles, which superseded those of 1566, received the royal assent, though they practically incorporated those promulgated at Lambeth in 1595. They were more Calvinistic and more polemical than the thirty-nine received by the Church of England upon which Burnet, in the interest of peace and comprehension, expended his latitudinarian casuistry. It may suffice to note that of the Irish Articles the twelfth declares that 'God hath predestinated some unto life and reprobated some unto death: of both which there is a certain number, known only to God, which can neither be increased nor diminished'; and the eightieth that the Pope is 'that man of sin foretold in the Holy Scriptures whom the Lord shall consume, &c.' In 1615 this Convocation granted one subsidy to the King.[203] [Sidenote: The Thirty-nine Articles are adopted, 1634,] [Sidenote: but without repealing the others.] [Sidenote: How Wentworth treated Convocation.] [Sidenote: Non-subscribers to be excommunicated.]