1639
Charles I`s Irish parliament in 1639
Dingle`s representatives in Charles I`s Irish parliament as engineered by Lord Deputy Thomas Wentworth in 1639
Christopher Roper and George Blundel, a baronet, represented Dingle in parliament. They were not members of the local patriciate and it seems that they were foisted upon the corporation as `official candidates` by Lord Deputy Sir Thomas Wentworth, who worked to pack the Irish parliament with a loyalist party upon whose guaranteed support he could depend to force through absolutist policies. It was part of his long term strategy, dating back to 1633, to `bow and govern the native by the planter and the planter by the native` in the Irish parliament.
