Lord Strafford

Traill, a man of letters, tells the story of Lord Strafford, the English statesman, who was a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. Contents: Early Life; The First Parliament of Charles; The Third Parliament of Charles-Wentworth in Opposition; Theories of Wentworth’s Apostasy; The Presidency of the North; The Appointment to Ireland; The Irish Parliament; The Church of Ireland; The Plantation of Connaught; The Mountnorris Case; General Review of Wentworth’s Irish Administration; The Loftus Case-The Scotch War; The Short Parliament and the Second Scotch War; Impeachment; and Attainder and Execution. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.