ABSTRACT
James I marked his accession to power by recalling Elizabeth’s commander, Mountjoy, from Ireland and replacing him with Sir Arthur Chichester. James had summoned the Irish parliament in 1613 in order to obtain a grant of supply, in which he was successful, but Ireland continued to be a drain on the King’s resources. Some small territories came and went in the course of the seventeenth century. In terms of the financial and military resources expended of the ambitions of the Crown and of their direct impact upon the course of events in England, for the Stuart age Ireland and Scotland loomed far larger and were much higher priorities than territorial possessions. James I marked his accession to power by recalling Elizabeth’s commander, Mountjoy, from Ireland and replacing him with Sir Arthur Chichester. Thomas Wentworth realized that the common-law courts would defend property rights in Ireland as in England.
