Lord Mountnorris, said Wentworth, 'was prisoner in the Castle some two days, but upon his physician's certificate that the badness of his lodging might prejudice his health, I sent him upon good bond restrained only to his own house, where he is like to remain till I receive his Majesty's further pleasure concerning him.' Mountnorris makes the first confinement last six days, but the discrepancy is not of much importance. Chief Justice Shirley gave his bond for 2000_l._, and Mountnorris remained under restraint in his own house from the middle of December 1635 until the second week of April following. In February Lady Mountnorris petitioned for her husband's release on the ground that his life was in danger, and reminded the Lord Deputy that he and his prisoner were connected by marriage; but Wentworth seems to have taken no notice of the lady's letter; and Clarendon endorsed his copy as written by her to Wentworth 'when her husband was under the sentence of death by martial law, and he was so hard-hearted that he gave her no relief.' Lady Mountnorris went to London to try the King's mercy, and Wentworth made this a reason for shutting his victim up again in the Castle. After three weeks he was again released by the doctors, in whose hands he remained for some time. In the meanwhile he had been superseded, and the Vice-Treasurership conferred on Loftus. Mountnorris was frequently brought before the Council on charges of malversation, but it does not appear that any actual sentence was given against him, and he refused to sue out his pardon in consequence. He signed a submission to the King, but the Deputy's pride was not satisfied, and he was again imprisoned during the whole of February 1637. In July Lady Mountnorris obtained the King's leave for her husband's return to England, but this was not acted on for some months, and perhaps Charles did not intend it to be taken too literally. Writing from London to Wandesford, Wentworth directed that he should not be allowed to leave Ireland, claiming that the case should be decided in Dublin and by himself. It was not till the autumn of 1637 that Mountnorris got out of Ireland, 'wondrously humbled as much as Chaucer's friar'; and in a letter to his friend Conway Wentworth admitted his real motives. 'I told him I never wished ill to his estate nor person further than to remove him thence where he was as well a trouble as an offence unto me.' He had, in short, turned out an opponent and given his place to an adherent, and that seemed to him a sufficient explanation.[227] [Sidenote: The story told by Mountnorris himself, 1640.]