Convocation met at the same time as Parliament, Ussher presiding in the Upper and Henry Leslie Dean, and afterwards Bishop, of Down in the Lower House. Wentworth's 'thorough' extended to Church as well as to State, and his great object was to have the Thirty-nine Articles established. Ussher and others were attached to the Irish Articles of 1615, and the Lord Deputy thought it prudent to leave them unrepealed while superseding them in practice, a course in which Laud acquiesced. 'I was,' says Bramhall, now Bishop of Derry, 'the only man employed from him to the Convocation, and from the Convocation to him.' Wentworth had, however, private discussions with Ussher, and of these Bramhall may have known nothing. The 'dovelike simplicity' of the Primate, to use Bramhall's phrase, was easily borne down by the imperious viceroy, and the House of Bishops adopted the English Articles readily enough, as well as the canon which directed their use. The Lower House appointed a Committee, over which George Andrews, Dean of Limerick, presided, whose draft report excited Wentworth's wrath, for it provided among other things that the Articles of 1615 should be received on pain of excommunication. The Lord Deputy sent for Andrews and called him Ananias, impounded his papers, and forbade him to report anything to the House. He then wrote to the prolocutor Leslie, enclosing a form of canon drawn up by himself, after rejecting one composed by Ussher, and ordered him to put it to the House 'without admitting any debate or other discourse.' The Articles of the Church of England were not to be disputed, and the names of those who voted aye and no were to be sent to him. This drastic procedure succeeded, and there was but one dissentient. As a formal concession to the independence of the Irish Church, the canons agreed upon were not quite identical with those of England, but the first, which established the Thirty-nine Articles, effected all that Wentworth wanted. It provided that 'if any hereafter shall affirm that any of those Articles are in any part superstitious or erroneous, or such as he may not with a good conscience subscribe unto, let him be excommunicated, and not absolved before he make a public revocation of his error.' Ussher and Bramhall are agreed that the Articles of 1615 were not abrogated, but the latter informs us that any bishop 'would have been called to an account' who had required subscription to them after the English Articles were authorised under the Great Seal of Ireland.[204] [Sidenote: Wentworth and the Queen of Bohemia.] [Sidenote: Unpopularity of Laud.]