had been a patient hearing at the High Commission, where many of their lordships' House sat, who found Adair 'guilty of favouring that wicked Covenant which all the House detests,' and the writ was unanimously refused. The Court wind changed when Strafford was dead and Laud a prisoner, and Adair was made Bishop of Waterford. Maxwell succeeding him at Killala was stripped, wounded, and left for dead by the rebels during the massacre at Shrule, but escaped ultimately to England. Corbet was not so fortunate, being 'hewn in pieces by two swineherds in the very arms of his poor wife.'[208] [Sidenote: The Scots hate Wentworth.] [Sidenote: English, Scotch, and Irish in Ulster.] Clarendon, who hated the Scots and did not love Strafford, says 'he had an enemy more terrible than all the others and like to be more fatal, the whole Scotch nation, provoked by the declaration he had procured of Ireland and some high carriage and expressions of his against them in that kingdom.' The Ulster colony had been injured by the Londonderry forfeiture, and he had done what he could to discourage further immigration, but it was not until the summer of 1638 that the attitude of the Scotch settlers began to give him serious uneasiness. Antrim, who was at Court and in communication both with Hamilton and Laud, believed or professed to believe that Lorne, who became Earl of Argyll soon after, intended to attack his estates, and suggested that the King should provide him with plenty of arms 'to be kept in a store-house in Coleraine, because it would be too far for me and my tenants to send to Knockfergus, if there were any sudden invasion.' Lorne knew what was going on at Court, and announced in Scotland that Antrim intended to invade him. It appears from his late letters that Strafford thought Lorne not unlikely to come, but he knew well that his Council would advise nothing that might strengthen Tyrone's grandson. And in case the troubles of Scotland were to extend to Ulster, he thought it very likely that the settlers there would borrow the arms to help their countrymen. 'They are,' he added 'shrewd children, not much won by courtship, especially from a Roman Catholic.' He had but 2,000 foot and 600 horse, none of which could be spared for Scotland, but it might be possible to raise double that force of English and Irish. The latter disliked the Scots and their religion, but might be a source of danger in other ways. In the meantime he told Northumberland, the best part of the Irish army might be drawn down into Ulster, close upon Scotland, 'as well to amuse those upon that side as to contain their countrymen among us in due obedience.'[209] [Sidenote: The Scottish Covenant, 1638.] [Sidenote: Wentworth's plan to bridle Scotland.] [Sidenote: Case of Robert Adair.] [Sidenote: An inquisitorial policy.]