Nicholas was born about 1608,[1] the eldest son of Jenico Preston and his wife Margaret St. Lawrence.

[b] Wentworth asked to vote taxes: six subsidies of £50,000[17] (equivalent to about £10,600,000 in 2023[18]) were passed unanimously by both houses.

[19][20] The parliament also belatedly and incompletely ratified the Graces[21] of 1628,[22] in which the King conceded rights for money.

[c] was opened on 16 March 1640 by Christopher Wandesford, whom Strafford, as Wentworth was now called, had appointed Lord Deputy.

[29] In its first session the parliament unanimously voted four subsidies of £45,000[30] (about £10,100,000 in 2023[18]) to raise an Irish army of 9000[31] for use by the King against the Scots in the Second Bishops' War.