[240] Wentworth to Laud, September 27, 1637; to Conway, June 16, 1623; to Cottington, November 24, 1633; to Laud, May 23, 1638, all in _Strafford Letters_; to his wife, August 1638, in Cooper's _Life of Strafford_, ii. 39-41. The proclamation of August 3, 1637, dilates on the importance of providing sport for the Lord Deputy and Council. No licence to shoot with 'hail-shot' was to be granted unless the holder would give a bond not to use it within the bounds mentioned in the text. The privileged tract was reserved to Councillors of State for hawking. [241] Wentworth to Laud, September 27, 1637; to Lady Clare, August 10, 1639, in _Strafford Letters_; to his wife, September 12, 1637, in Cooper's _Life of Strafford_, ii. 43. Naas is twenty English miles from Dublin, a good deal more than twelve Irish, and Tinahely fifty-three miles. [242] R. Weckherlin to Sir John Coke, August 25, 1639, _Melbourne Hall Papers_; W. Raylton to same, August 13, _ib._; Wentworth to Radcliffe, September 21 and October 28 in Whitaker's _Life of Radcliffe_, 181-3. [243] Wentworth to Radcliffe, December 10, 1639, in Whitaker's _Life of Radcliffe_, 187. Speech on being made an Earl, January 12, 1639-40, _Strafford Letters_, ii. 390. Coke's dismissal from the secretaryship was decided before December 13, _Melbourne Hall Papers_, ii. 245. 'The King declared his resolution for a Parliament in case of the Scottish rebellion. The first movers to it were my Lord Deputy of Ireland, my Lord Marquis Hamilton, and myself'--Laud's Diary, December 5, 1639, _Works_, iii. 233, 283. [244] _Irish Commons Journals_; Council of Ireland to Windebank, March 19; Strafford to the King, March 23, _Strafford Letters_, ii. 394-6. [245] _Irish Commons Journals; Irish Statutes_, 15 Car. I.; _Strafford Letters_, March 16-April 3, 1639-40, ii. 394-403. The Declaration is in _Nalson_, i. 283. If further evidence were needed of Strafford's complete reconciliation with the Queen, we have Madame de Motteville's: 'Il avait été brouillé avec la Reine, mais depuis quelque temps il était lié à ses intérêts,' _Mémoires_, chap. 9. There is a useful itinerary for Strafford in the ninth volume of the _Camden Miscellany_. Cork says in his diary that Strafford left London very early 'to avoid the concourse of myself and many others that desired to wait upon him,' _Lismore Papers_, 1st series, v. 129. CHAPTER XVII STRAFFORD'S ARMY [Sidenote: Plan to reduce the Scots. Lord Antrim.] [Sidenote: Antrim's plan of invasion.] [Sidenote: Wentworth disapproves of his schemes.]