[2] The Parliament was called by the Earl of Strafford, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, because of King Charles I's need to raise funds and men to fight against the Scots in the Second Bishops' War.
[3][4] On that same day the parliament elected Sir Maurice Eustace, one of the two members for County Kildare, as speaker.
[3] The parliament then unanimously voted four subsidies of £45,000[6] (about £10,100,000 in 2023[7]) to raise an Irish army of 9,000[8] for use by the king against the Scots in the Second Bishops' War.
[20] A delegation of 13 MPs,[21] headed by Audley Mervyn, travelled to London to submit the remonstrance to the King, arriving on 21 November.
His son, Charles MacCarty, one of the two MPs of County Cork, succeeded his father at the Lords.
[36] In June 1642 Sir Robert Lynch[43] and Redmond Roche (on the 22nd)[44] were expelled from parliament for having joined the rebels.
William H. Grattan Flood in his ‘History of Enniscorthy’ (1898) says on 22 June 1642, nine MPs from Co. Wexford, described as “rotten and unprofitable members, fit to be cut off,” were formally expelled.
Sir Thomas Esmonde, MP for Enniscorthy; Christopher Hollywood and Gerald Cheevers for the Borough of Bannow; John Furlong and Patrick French MPs for Wexford; Nicholas Dormer and Christopher Brooke for New Ross; Hugh Rochford and Nicholas Stafford for Fethard.