Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
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in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Charles I's chief minister, formerly the MP Wentworth, later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, impeached and attainted by the Long Parliament.
After a long struggle, in which he refused to accept a Bill proposed by Wentworth and brought in by Coke, with the object of preventing Edition:
On the day on which the King’s assent to Strafford’s death was given, he also consented to an Act against the dissolution of the Long Parliament without its own consent (No.
The circumstances of Strafford’s trial increased his irritation, and he had recourse to intrigues with the English army which still remained on foot in Yorkshire, hoping to engage it in his cause against the pretensions of Parliament.