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Strict Control by the Government To Established Church

The Established Church the Deputy regarded as a State Department, to be strictly controlled by the Government, but at the same time to be maintained in such a position of dignity and honour as would command the respect of the people. 

Anything likely to conflict with this  aim, such as absenteeism or neglect of their duties on the part of the clergy ; the alienation of episcopal lands ;   carelessness regarding the conduct of church ceremonies or the condition of the churches themselves, met with severe rebuke, and at times sharp punishment, at his hands.   Like his friend   Laud,   then   Archbishop   of   Canterbury,   he   desired   general uniformity.   

In   order   to   attain   it,   he   summoned   a   meeting   of Convocation, and directed it to supersede the ” Confession of Faith,” passed   in   1615,   and   to   substitute   the English   Articles   of   1562 (see Chap. IV).   When the bishops and clergy hesitated to comply with this order, he called certain of them before him, and so violently rated and threatened them that in terror they submitted, as did the whole body of Convocation subsequently, so that the desired Articles were passed (1634).

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The Established Church Deputy

The Deputy regarded as a State Department, to be strictly controlled by the Government, but at the same time to be maintained in such a position of dignity and honour as would command the respect of the people. Anything likely to conflict with this aim, such as absenteeism or neglect of their duties on the part of the clergy ; the alienation of episcopal lands ; carelessness regarding the conduct of church ceremonies or the condition of the churches themselves, met with severe rebuke, and at times sharp punishment, at his hands.

Like his friend Laud, then Archbishop of Canterbury, he desired general uniformity. In order to attain it, he summoned a meeting of Convocation, and directed it to supersede the ” Confession of Faith,” passed in 1615, and to substitute the English Articles of 1562 (see Chap. IV). When the bishops and clergy hesitated to comply with this order, he called certain of them before him, and so violently rated and threatened them that in terror they submitted, as did the whole body of Convocation subsequently, so that the desired Articles were passed (1634).

To maintain what he conceived to be proper discipline amongst the clergy, he erected on the king’s order alone, and therefore illegally, a Court of High Commission to deal with ecclesiastical offences. The Connacht Plantation Scheme.—In spite of all Wentworth’« efforts, the Irish revenue was far from yielding the sums which he desired, and he began to consider other methods for obtaining from the country money for the royal Treasury.
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The Reorganisation of the Army : Trade Policy

s been already mentioned that one of the ways in which the Lord Deputy had hoped to render Ireland useful to the English Crown was by supplying Charles with a body of efficient troops, who would be wholly under his control, and could be used, if necessary, to crush the pretensions of the English Parliamentary party. At the time of his arrival in Ireland the army was in a most unsatisfactory state. Almost from the beginning of the preceding reign, the complaints contained in the correspondence of the Irish authorities, of the quality, discipline, and treatment of the troops had been almost incessant.

Wentworth at once took the matter in hand. His grasp of detail was marvellous, his industry untiring, and within a short time, he had brought about a surprising improvement. He himself declares that, of the £90,000 of arrears which he found, all had, in 1636, been paid. The soldiers, who before had been constantly robbing the people, now did not dare to take a chicken without paying for it.

He had in reserve £4,000′ worth of arms and horses. The ,000 foot and 600 horse were so well drilled that they could act as officers to a force of 20,000. In all this there may have been a certain amount of boastful exaggeration, but everything shows that the statements made were substantially true. The seas surrounding Ireland were infested at this time with pirates.
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