34 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book VII. 



of that of his successor, but the latter monarch, soon after his 

 accession, elevated Sir Thomas to the peerage by letters 

 patent, dated July 22, 1628, as Baron Wentworth of Went- 

 worth Wooclhouse, and further advanced him, on December 10 

 ensuing, to the degree of Viscount Wentworth. The next year 

 he was sworn of the Privy Council, made Lord Lieutenant of 

 the county of York, and president of the North. In February, 

 1632—3, he was nominated Lord Deputy of Ireland ; from 

 which government he was afterwards recalled to command as 

 Lieutenant-General in the army raised against the Scots. In 

 1640 he was created Baron Raby and Earl OF STRAFFORD. 

 Soon after he was made a Knight of the Garter, and con- 

 stituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. About this period the 

 Republicans and Puritanical party prevailing in Parliament, 

 Strafford became an object of their greatest distrust. An im- 

 peachment against him was voted by the House of Commons, 

 when Pym was deputed to carry it to the House of Lords. 

 Strafford was arrested, brought to trial, and finally condemned 

 to the block. By signing the Earl's death-warrant the king 

 paved the way to his own fate, and thus the firmest prop of the 

 monarchy was, in the forty-ninth year of his age, consigned to 

 the scaffold. He suffered death with his characteristic firmness 

 upon Tower Hill, May 12, 1641. The Earl married, ist, Lady 

 Margaret Clifford, daughter of Francis, Earl of Cumberland, by 

 whom he had no issue ; 2ndly, Lady Arabella Holies, daughter 

 of John, Earl of Clare, by whom he had a son and two 

 daughters ; and, 3rdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Godfrey 

 Rodes, Knight, of Great Houghton, county York, by whom he 

 had a son and daughter, both of whom died unmarried. 



^*'' Thomas, 4th Viscount Dillon, of Costello-Gallen, county 

 Sligo. He married Frances, daughter of Nicholas White, Esq., 

 of DeixHp. 



148 "Thomas Comber, nominated D.D., October i, 1631, 

 was born in Sussex, January i, 1575 ; admitted Scholar, May, 

 1593 ; Fellow, October, 1597 ; Dean of Carlisle, August, 1630 ; 

 in 1642 was imprisoned, plundered, and deprived of all his 



