Note 134 — PART II The Eve of “1641”
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“Certainly it is my duty to witness this truth for his Majesty, that, since I had the honour to be employed in this place, he hath not been pleased that the hair of any man’s head should be touched for the free exercise of his conscience.” Wentworth to Con, May 15, 1637. (Ibid., II., 112.) Compare the charge made against him at his trial of showing favour to Catholics. Rushworth’s Trial of the Earl of Strafford.