IV.
That Richard Earl of Cork having sued out Pro∣cess in * 1.1 course of Law for recovery of his possessi∣ons, from which he was put by colour of an Or∣der made by the said Earl of Strafford, and the Council Table of the said Realm of Ireland. The said Earl of Strafford upon a paper Petition, with∣out legal proceedings, did Feb. 20. in the Ele∣venth year of his now Majesties Reign, threaten the said Earl of Cork (being then a Peer of the said Realm) to imprison him, unless he would surcease his suit, and said, That he would have nei∣ther Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his orders. And the 20 of March in the said Eleventh year, the said Earl of Strafford speaking of an Order of the said Council-Table of that Realm, made in the time of King James, which concerned a Lease which the said Earl of Cork claimed in certain Rectories or Tithes which the said Earl of Cork alledged to be of no force, said, That he would make the said Earl and all Ireland know, so long as he had the Government there, any act of State, there made, or to be made, should be as binding to the subjects of that Kingdom, as an Act of Parliament: And did question the said Earl of Cork in the Castle Chamber, upon pretence of breach of the said Order of Council Table, and did sundry other times, and upon sundry other occasions, by his words and Speeches arrogate to himself a power above the fundamental Laws, and established Go∣vernment of that Kingdom, and scorned the said Laws and established Government.