[Sidenote: and condemned to death.] Mountnorris had a relation of his own name who was a subaltern in the Lord Deputy's troop of horse. He was checked by Wentworth at a review for some irregularity, and replied by an insolent gesture or grimace. Wentworth laid his cane against the young man's shoulders, but without striking him, and threatened to 'lay him over the pate' if he offended so again. Annesley doubtless deserved punishment, but it was scarcely a Lord Deputy's business to chastise offenders with his own hand. On April 18, 1635, Annesley, who was a gentleman-usher at the Castle, dropped a stool upon Wentworth's gouty foot, and this became the subject of conversation at a dinner at the Lord Chancellor's some three or four days later. Mountnorris said: 'Perhaps it was done in revenge of that public affront which my Lord Deputy had done him formerly; but he has a brother that would not take such a revenge.' Something of the kind was said, but the exact words must be very doubtful, for it is not pretended that any one took them down at the time, and they were not sworn to until nearly eight months later. In any case Wentworth should have remembered his own _dictum_ that every word must not rise up in judgment against a man. Annesley had a brother in Mountnorris's company of foot, and it was suggested that this was a hint to him from his superior officer 'to have taken up resolutions of dangerous consequence.' It seems much more probable that Mountnorris was praising his own subaltern at the expense of the Lord Deputy's gentleman-usher. Late on the evening of December 11 he was warned by a pursuivant to attend a council of war at eight o'clock next morning. Shortly after the appointed hour Wentworth came in, said he had called the court to do himself right and reparation against Lord Mountnorris, read the alleged words from a paper which had been subscribed by Lord Moore and by the Chancellor's eldest son, Sir Robert Loftus, and called upon the Vice-Treasurer to confess or deny them. The accused asked for counsel and to have the charge in writing, but he was told that councils of war allowed neither. To aggravate the case, Wentworth read the King's letter of July 31 in which he had ordered the sixpenny fees to be stopped. Mountnorris said the letter was obtained 'by misinformation.' Wentworth said it was not his habit to misrepresent anyone, 'and rebuked me,' says Mountnorris, 'with worse language than was fit to be used to a meaner man and not a peer.' Moore and Loftus swore to the truth of what they had signed, and Wentworth then ordered Moore to take his seat as a judge in a case where he had already given evidence for the prosecution. The Lord Deputy took no actual part in the sentence, but he was present during the whole proceedings, and all men dreaded his frown. According to the account forwarded by Wentworth at the time, Mountnorris submitted to the court, 'protesting that what