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yet I hope you will be satisfied with the answer you 

 will receive by your cousin Sir John Byron, to whom, 

 referring myself for many things I have not time to 

 write. I rest, 



&quot; Your most assured constant friend, 



44 CHARLES E. 



&quot;Royston, 6 March, [1641-2.]&quot; 



And again he addressed him a few lines, shortly 

 before being refused admittance to Hull : 



44 HERBERT, 



44 1 entrusted your cousin Byron with the 

 particular answers to your letter, reserving only to 

 myself to answer you, that I esteem your services 

 such as my words cannot express them but by show 

 ing myself at all occasions to be 



44 Your most assured constant friend, 



44 CHARLES R. 



&quot;York, 9 May, 1642.&quot; 



We have here the earliest communications on record 

 between these two remarkable individuals, whose per 

 sonal histories have alike perplexed all political, polemi 

 cal, and philosophical writers. 



Before setting out for Scotland, the King appears to 

 have desired a personal interview with his Lordship, 

 who seems to have been prevented from complying by 

 some severe indisposition in July, 1641 ; his Majesty, 

 therefore, conveys to him in writing, his u favour and 

 inclination to reward the good service of you and 

 yours.&quot; His Lordship s father had already made to the 

 needy monarch some of those munificent advances, 

 which, as long as he could obtain them, he was in the 

 habit of repaying with ample promises and abundant 

 flattery. 



