[262] _Irish Lords Journal_, February 18, 1640-41; _Irish Commons Journal_, November 7, 11, 12, 19, 1640, February 10, 1640-1. The Remonstrance is printed in the Journal and also in _Rushworth_, viii. Lords Justices and Council to Vane, February 13, 1640-1, in Cal. of State Papers, _Ireland_. On January 26, 1640-1, the Irish Commons voted 5,086_l._ for the expenses of the London Committee, which consisted of Sir Donough MacCarthy, Sir Hardress Waller, Sir Roebuck Lynch, Sir James Montgomery, John Walsh, N. Plunkett, N. Barnewall, Richard Fitzgerald, Simon Digby, Geoffrey Brown, and Edward Rowley. [263] Wandesford's _Book of Instructions_ to his son George, Cambridge, 1727. _Autobiography_ of Mrs. Alice Thornton, Surtees Society, 1875. Wandesford's letters have not been collected, but seventeen are printed in the Cal. of _Ormonde MSS._, Hist. MSS. Comm., 1902. [264] Strafford's trial occupies Rushworth's eighth volume. The report in Howell's _State Trials_ is founded upon _A Brief and Perfect Relation of the answers and replies of Thomas Earl of Strafford_, London, 1647. A third contemporary account is in _Baillie's Letters_, i. 313-353. These three are the reports of eye-witnesses. The historian May was probably also present; his book was licensed May 7, 1647, and has some touches not found elsewhere. Nalson was an infant when Strafford died, and his account, which was published after Rushworth's, has no independent value. Madame de Motteville (_Mémoires_, chap. ix.), reporting Henrietta Maria's conversation, says Strafford 'était laid, mais assez agréable de sa personne; et la Reine, me contant toutes ces choses, s'arrêta pour me dire qu'il avait les plus belles mains du monde.' May says many thought of Ovid's lines: 'Non formosus erat, sed erat facundus Ulysses, et tamen æquoreas torsit amore deas'--Earl of Cork's Diary in _Lismore Papers_, v. 164, 170, 176. 'The natural pity and consideration of women, sympathising with his afflictions, with sadness of his aspect, their facility with his complacences, their lenity with his pathetical oratory'--Earl of Strafford characterised, 1641, _Somers Tracts_, iv. 231. [265] _Lords' Journals_, May 6, 1641: 'In equity Lord Strafford deserves to die' as a subverter of fundamental laws--'Ingeniosissime nequam et in malo publico facundus,' Falkland's minute book in Lady Theresa Lewis's _Friends of Clarendon_, i. 207. [266] _Lords' Journals_, May 10, 1641. 'The Primate of Ireland, who is no complimenter, reported afterwards to the King that he had then first learned to make supplications aright to Godward, and withal told his Majesty that he had seen many die, but never such a white soul (this was his own expression) return to his maker. At which words the King was pleased to turn himself about and offer a tear to his memory--tantorum mercede bonorum'--_Brief and Perfect Relation_, p. 97.