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In the top left corner is a depiction of the Round Tower of <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Castle" title="Windsor Castle">Windsor Castle</a> with the dates 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, marked. He was confined here until 1651 with five other distinguished prisoners, when all were dispersed as a precautionary measure<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png/200px-ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png/300px-ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png/400px-ClotworthyArmsInkscape.png 2x" data-file-width="813" data-file-height="936" /></a><figcaption>Arms of Clotworthy: <i>Azure, a chevron ermine between three chaplets or</i></figcaption></figure> <p><b>John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene</b> (died September 1665) was a prominent Anglo-Irish <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politician</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was the son and heir of Sir Hugh Clotworthy (died 1630), <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Antrim" title="High Sheriff of Antrim">High Sheriff of Antrim</a> (who first came to Ireland as a soldier in the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War_(Ireland)" title="Nine Years' War (Ireland)">Nine Years' War</a>), by his wife Mary Langford, daughter of Roger Langford of West Downe in the parish of <a href="/wiki/Broadwoodwidger" title="Broadwoodwidger">Broadwoodwidger</a> in Devon.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A sculpted escutcheon showing the arms of Clotworthy <a href="/wiki/Impalement_(heraldry)" title="Impalement (heraldry)">impaling</a> Langford of Kilmackedret was displayed on the facade of <a href="/wiki/Antrim_Castle" title="Antrim Castle">Antrim Castle</a>, now demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sir Hugh Clotworthy was the second son of Thomas Clotworthy (born 1530) of Clotworthy<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the parish of <a href="/wiki/Wembworthy" title="Wembworthy">Wembworthy</a> in Devon, by his third wife Dorothy Parker, a daughter of John Parker (ancestor of the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Morley" title="Earl of Morley">Earl of Morley</a> (1815)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) of <a href="/wiki/North_Molton" title="North Molton">North Molton</a> in Devon. Sir Hugh's paternal grandmother was Ivota Rashleigh, heiress of <a href="/wiki/Rashleigh,_Wembworthy" title="Rashleigh, Wembworthy">Rashleigh</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Wembworthy" title="Wembworthy">Wembworthy</a>, Devon, to which seat at some time before 1640, the senior line of the Clotworthy family eventually moved their residence from the nearby ancestral seat of Clotworthy.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene" title="Special:EditPage/John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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Clotworthy was a vehement opponent of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford" title="Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford">Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford</a>, in whose <a href="/wiki/Impeachment" title="Impeachment">impeachment</a> he took an active share.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also took part in the prosecution of <a href="/wiki/William_Laud" title="William Laud">Archbishop Laud</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He seems to have felt a deep personal hatred for both Strafford and Laud, springing perhaps from profound religious differences. He was criticised for his conduct at Laud's execution, where he thrust himself forward and harangued that elderly man, who was trying to prepare himself for death, on his alleged religious errors.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1646, during the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Confederate_Wars" title="Irish Confederate Wars">Irish Confederate Wars</a> he unsuccessfully negotiated with the Royalist commander <a href="/wiki/James_Butler,_1st_Duke_of_Ormonde" class="mw-redirect" title="James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde">James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde</a> for the surrender of <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> to the Parliamentary forces. In 1647, during the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a> he was accused of having betrayed the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliamentarian</a> cause, and also of <a href="/wiki/Embezzlement" title="Embezzlement">embezzlement</a>, in consequence of which charges he fled to the Continent, but returned to parliament in June 1648.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 December 1648, he was arrested and remained in prison (including at <a href="/wiki/Wallingford_Castle" title="Wallingford Castle">Wallingford Castle</a>) for nearly three years. Having taken an active part in forwarding the <a href="/wiki/Restoration_of_Charles_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoration of Charles II">Restoration of Charles II</a>, he was employed in Ireland in arranging the affairs of the soldiers and other adventurers who had settled in Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Clotworthy in no way abated his old animosity against <a href="/wiki/Papist" class="mw-redirect" title="Papist">Papists</a> and High Anglicans, despite the King's well-known leaning towards the Roman Catholic faith, and championed the cause of the Irish <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterians</a>. Notwithstanding, being personally agreeable to King <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>, his religious views were overlooked, and on 21 November 1660 he was created Baron Lough Neagh and <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Massereene" title="Viscount Massereene">Viscount Massereene</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_peerage" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish peerage">Irish peerage</a>, with the remainder in default of male heirs to his son-in-law, <a href="/wiki/John_Skeffington,_2nd_Viscount_Massereene" title="John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene">Sir John Skeffington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_children">Marriage and children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marriage and children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1626 he married Margaret Jones, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Roger_Jones,_1st_Viscount_Ranelagh" title="Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh">Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh</a> and his first wife Frances Moore, by whom he had a single daughter: </p> <ul><li>Mary Clotworthy, wife of <a href="/wiki/John_Skeffington,_2nd_Viscount_Massereene" title="John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene">Sir John Skeffington</a>, later <a href="/wiki/John_Skeffington,_2nd_Viscount_Massereene" title="John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene">2nd Viscount Massereene</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_succession">Death and succession</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death and succession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He died without male issue and as provided for in the special remainder, his title devolved onto his son-in-law Sir John Skeffington (husband of his daughter Mary Clotworthy), who became the <a href="/wiki/John_Skeffington,_2nd_Viscount_Massereene" title="John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene">2nd Viscount Massereene</a> and whose great-grandson, the 5th Viscount Massereene, was created <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Massereene" class="mw-redirect" title="Earl of Massereene">Earl of Massereene</a> in 1756. The earldom became extinct on the death of the 4th Earl without male issue in 1816, the viscounty and barony of Lough Neagh descending to his daughter Harriet Skeffington, whose husband, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Foster,_later_Skeffington,_2nd_Viscount_Ferrard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Foster, later Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard (page does not exist)">Thomas Foster</a>, adopted the surname of Skeffington, and in 1824 inherited from his mother the titles of <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Ferrard" class="mw-redirect" title="Viscount Ferrard">Viscount Ferrard</a> and Baron Oriel of Collon in the Irish peerage, and from his father in 1828 that of Baron Oriel of Ferrard in the peerage of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Character">Character</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Character"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Historians, especially Strafford's biographer <a href="/wiki/Veronica_Wedgwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Veronica Wedgwood">Veronica Wedgwood</a>, have dealt very harshly with Clotworthy as a human being. Wedgwood called him: "a heartless, dour and repellent man who throughout his life showed a consistent inhumanity towards his fellow men".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wedgwood does however concede that, unlike others who conspired to bring Strafford down, Clotworthy was motivated less by self-interest than by genuine <a href="/wiki/Religious_fanaticism" title="Religious fanaticism">religious fanaticism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laud's biographer <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper" title="Hugh Trevor-Roper">Hugh Trevor-Roper</a> also criticises him for his unpleasant behaviour at Laud's <a href="/wiki/Execution" class="mw-redirect" title="Execution">execution</a>, where he engaged him in religious controversy while Laud was trying to prepare himself for death.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Clotworthys_today">Clotworthys today</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Clotworthys today"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many Clotworthys since then have emigrated to other countries around the world, many to America. There are very few known to survive in Northern Ireland. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Clotworthy,_1st_Viscount_Massereene&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Godwin, William, <i>History of the Commonwealth of England</i>, Vol.3, <i>From the Death of Charles I. to the Protectorate</i>, London, 1827, p. 250 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vF80AAAAIAAJ&dq=John+Clotworthy+windsor+castle&pg=PA250">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Lambrick_Vivian" title="John Lambrick Vivian">Vivian, Lt. Col. J.L.</a>, (Ed.) <i>The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the <a href="/wiki/Heraldic_visitation" title="Heraldic visitation">Heralds' Visitations</a> of 1531, 1564 & 1620</i>, Exeter, 1895, p. 204, pedigree of Clotworthy</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burke's General Armory, 1884, p. 582; Arms of Langford referred to same as those of Langford of Bratton Clovelly, Devon, per Vivian, p. 521</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wedgwood, C.V. <i>Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1593-1641 - a revaluation</i>, Phoenix Press reissue 2000 p. 248</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vivian, pp. 587-588, pedigree of Parker</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vivian, pp. 203-204; <a href="/wiki/Tristram_Risdon" title="Tristram Risdon">Risdon, Tristram</a> (d. 1640), <i>Survey of Devon</i>, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p. 295.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Risdon, p. 295</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wedgwood p. 312</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EB1911_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. 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Cambridge University Press. p. 866.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Massereene%2C+John+Clotworthy%2C+1st+Viscount&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=866&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Clotworthy%2C+1st+Viscount+Massereene" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper" title="Hugh Trevor-Roper">Hugh Trevor-Roper</a> <i>Archbishop Laud</i> Phoenix Press reissue 2000, p. 428</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wedgwood p. 312</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span 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