The main purpose was to raise money by taxation and to ratify the Graces, a bundle of concessions to Irish Catholic landowners.
In this parliament James I had created more than 30 pocket boroughs under Protestant control.
[5][6] In 1632 Charles I had appointed Thomas Wentworth (the future Earl of Strafford) as his lord deputy of Ireland.
Parliament was opened on 14 July 1634[9] at Dublin Castle[10] by the lord deputy.
[19] At Whitehall in 1628[20] the King and a delegation of Irish noblemen had agreed on 51 articles.
[citation needed] The Catholic MPs expressed their anger by voting against any law later proposed by Wentworth and due to absenteeism among the Protestant MPs, the Catholics were able to vote several laws down.