... civil war, and was executed by the King on 12 May 1641. (Somerset Fry, History). With Wentworth's absence there was a visible lack of strength in the government, providing for another set of rising tensions and climate of instability. Therefore, Scotland's "successful resistance of royal authority in the defence of national and religious claims" influenced Irish sentiment to form a religious uprising from ... they had been wrongly deprived of land and offices under the crown on grounds of religion. However, a reversal of the plantation and a return to the lost Gaelic order did not serve...

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