Excerpt from Strafford and Ireland, Vol. 1: The History of His Vice-Royalty With an Account of His Trial How then is one to describe the vice-royalty of Strafford to a public deeply impregnated with these l'ugubrious theories? How can I describe his relations with the House of Commons when it is presumed that. It was an assemblage of colonists, just arrived, all venal, and all his retinue? How am I to dilate on his trade policy when the orthodox View, widely held, is that his predecessors had abolished Irish trade, and so there was none for him to develop? How am I to describe his policy towards the Irish Church, when all men believe that it was rolling in wealth, supported by the Government, attended only by Englishmen, hated by the people a Upas tree? How can I dilate on his agrarian policy when in historical theory no Irish peasant held an acre? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.