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THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD (1593-1641)

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THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD (1593-1641)
Letter, signed 'Wentworth' with autograph subscription and date 'yor very very affectionate faithful friend Wentworth, Dublin, this 4 of Novemb. 1633', 2½pp, small folio, to Sir Arthur Ingram, thanking him for help concerning 'the Allomes' and asks for his assistance in bringing the Earls of Middlesex and Mulgrave to agreement, agreeing to pay him a thousand pounds a year out of the recusants' revenue if he is successful. He discusses various other items of business including supply of 'pypestaves', 'I must needes improve the same (as it behoves me) to His Majesty's best advantage'. Regarding 'the recusant's business...I did and doe still with a very circumspect care to be had, being a tender poynt to handle'. Ending by urging him to be present at a hearing concerning a case between himself and Sir David Fowlis to be heard on the 20th of the month and to ask 'any of my noble friends' to do the same (creased on folds, some small tears to creases).
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Arthur Ingram (d.1642) was a successful Yorkshire merchant and wealthy courtier. In 1612 he undertook to carry on the royal alum works in Yorkshire and in 1624 was cleared of accusations of discrepancies in the alum account. A member of the Council of the North, he became High Sherriff of Yorkshire in 1620. It is evident from this letter that he had business dealings over alum supplies with Wentworth who was President of the Council of the North at this time. Wentworth also refers in this letter to the case against Sir David Foulis. Foulis had urged Ingram, as High Sherriff, to refuse to attend the Council on the grounds that it had been erected by the King rather than by Act of Parliament. Wentworth supported the King's prerogative and Foulis was later fined and imprisonned. He writes the letter from Dublin, having been made Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1632 where he sought to increase revenue by setting high fines for recusancy.