The veteran diplomatist Sir Thomas Roe was so much struck by Wentworth's success that he advised the unfortunate Queen of Bohemia to make him her friend. 'He is severe abroad and in business, and sweet in private conversation, retired in his friendships but very firm, a terrible judge, and a strong enemy; a servant violently zealous in his master's ends, and not negligent of his own; one that will have what he will, and though of great reason, he can make his will greater when it may serve him; affecting glory by a seeming contempt; one that cannot stay long in the middle region of fortune, but _entreprenant_; but will either be the greatest man in England or much less than he is; lastly one that may--and his nature lies fit for it, for he is ambitious to do what others will not--do your Majesty very great service if you can make him.' Laud had been misrepresented, and he also might be very useful. Elizabeth took Roe's advice, and afterwards corresponded pretty often with the Lord Deputy, whom she had never seen. Her great object was to get some provision made for the poor ministers who were driven out of the Palatinate. 'As for Laud,' she said, 'I am glad you commend him so much, for there are but a few who do it.'[205] FOOTNOTES: [189] Wentworth to Charles I., January 22, 1633-34, enclosing his opinion concerning a Parliament, with the King's answers dated April 12; Wentworth to the Lord Marshal (Arundel), March 22, 1633-34--all in _Strafford Letters_. [190] The King to Wentworth, April 17, 1634; Wentworth to Coke, April 29 and May 13; Laud to Wentworth, May 14, all in _Strafford Letters_. [191] Wentworth to Coke, May 13, 1634, _Strafford Letters_. [192] Earl of Cork's Diary at May 30, 1634, in vol. iv. of _Lismore Papers_, 1st series. Wentworth to Coke, June 24, _Strafford Letters_. [193] The primacy of Armagh was practically settled on this occasion, but the Roman Catholics still agitated the question for some time. The controversy is exhausted in Archbishop Hugh MacMahon's _Jus Primatiale Armachanum_, published in 1728. Carte's _Ormonde_, i. 64. Wentworth to Coke, May 13, June 24, August 18, 1634. The order of proceeding, with the roll of the Lords, is given in the _Strafford Letters_ after the last date, and in the journals. [194] _Irish Lords Journals._ July 14 and 15, 1634. [195] Wentworth to Coke, August 18, 1634. The Lord Deputy's speech in _Strafford Letters_, i. 286, is not entered in the Journals of Parliament. Wentworth to Cottington, _ib._ August 22; to Laud, _ib._ August 23, State Papers, _Ireland_, February 23, 1641. [196] Wentworth to Coke, August 18, 1634. _Irish Statutes_, 10 Car. I., session 2. Parliament was prorogued on August 2, on account of the harvest and circuits. The Subsidy Bill was read a third time and sent to the Lords on July 26, _Irish Commons Journals_. [197] Wentworth's letter to the King is dated September 20, and the answer October 23, _Strafford Letters_.