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.

A new Plantation appeared to him about the most feasible expedient to which he could resort, and Connacht the most suitable part of Ireland for such a Plantation.

The compact made by Sir John Perrott with the chief Connacht land-owners in 1585 has already been mentioned (Book IV, Chap. XIII). Most of the land-owners had agreed to the conditions, and the rent had 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).

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.

A new Plantation appeared to him about the most feasible expedient to which he could resort, and Connacht the most suitable part of Ireland for such a Plantation.

The compact made by Sir John Perrott with the chief Connacht land-owners in 1585 has already been mentioned (Book IV, Chap. XIII). Most of the land-owners had agreed to the conditions, and the rent had