The Irish Parliament 1640–1649 was the second parliament of Charles I in Ireland. On 2 March 1640, Sir Donough was re-elected for Cork County. The parliamentary records list him as a knight, despite his having become a baronet in the meantime, probably because his baronetcy was not Irish. Parliament was opened on 16 March 1640 by Christopher Wandesford, whom Strafford, as Wentworth was now called, had appointed Lord Deputy. Strafford arrived two days later. In its first session the parliament unanimously voted four subsidies of £45,000 (about £ in ) to raise an Irish army of 9,000 for use by the King against the Scots in the Second Bishops' War. On 31 March Strafford prorogued parliament until the first week of June.