His letters to his third wife are affectionate enough, but he did not consider her his equal in any way, and the want of intelligent female friendship was supplied by Lady Carlisle in England and by Lady Loftus in Ireland. The first famous lady is described by her friend, Sir Toby Matthew, as having no passion at all, and the latter must have been constantly under the eyes of Radcliffe, who declares his belief that there was nothing wrong; but Strafford was so much hated that every hostile report was long accepted as fact. Perhaps his unpopularity is sufficiently accounted for by Sir Philip Warwick, who knew him and who was one of the fifty-nine members of the House of Commons who voted against the Bill of Attainder. All his powers and acquirements, says that staunch royalist, were 'lodged in a sour and haughty temper; so as it may probably be believed, he expected to have more observance paid to him than he was willing to pay to others, though they were of his own quality; and then he was not like to conciliate the good will of men of the lesser station.' But he had a few friends who loved him, and his relations to his own family leave nothing to be desired.[267] FOOTNOTES: [257] Strafford to the King, April 15, 1640, _Strafford Letters_, ii. 411; Gardiner's _Hist. of England_, chap. xci.; Lady Essex Cheeke to Lord Mandeville, May 16; Eighth Report of _Hist. MSS. Comm.,_ appx. ii. 56 _b._ [258] Wandesford to Radcliffe, June 12, 1640, in Whitaker's _Life of Radcliffe_. Writing to Ormonde in March, 1664-5, Sir W. Domville estimated a subsidy at 15,000_l._, _Carte MSS._ vol. xxxiv. [259] Wandesford to Ormonde, May 26 and 29, June 7, 12, and 30, 1640, _Carte transcripts_; Strafford to Radcliffe, July 3 to September 1 in Whitaker's _Life of Radcliffe_, p. 202. [260] Minutes of York Council in _Hardwicke State Papers_, ii. 241, 284, September 29 and October 18, 1640; Answer of the Scots Commissioners, October 8, in _Rushworth_, iii. 1292; Whitaker's _Life of Radcliffe_; _Baillie's Letters_, October 1, i. 257; Clarendon's _Hist. of the Rebellion_, ii. 107; Ulick Earl of St. Albans and Clanricarde to Windebank, York, October 26, 1640. _Hardwicke State Papers_, ii. 207. [261] 'His Lordship was called into the House as a delinquent, and brought to the bar upon his knees, I sitting in my place covered'--Cork's Diary, November 11, 1640, in _Lismore Papers_, 1st series, v. 164; _Rushworth_, viii. 1-15, from November 6 to 30, 1640; _Baillie's Letters_, i. 276, December 2; and 282, December 12, _Strafford Letters_; and November 5 in Whitaker's _Life of Radcliffe_, p. 218.