40 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1642 



&quot; The large expressions which you and your son have 

 made unto us of your forwardness to a service, shall 

 never be forgotten&quot; 



&quot; CHARLES R. 



&quot; Right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin, 

 We greet you well. Your son, the Lord Herbert, hath 

 excused your not writing unto us ; but where we find 

 so much royalty, there needs not ceremony, and your 

 last performance of our desires hath crowned the rest. 

 And we would have you confident that the mentioning 

 of leaving few forces at Raglan, was not out of any 

 diminution of our care of you, or meant to lessen any 

 provision fitting thereto : For we well understand that 

 there were never any of the forces raised in the county, 

 applied thereunto more than a private company under 

 servants of your own. But the Ward of Raglan was 

 given as a general ward attributive to the country, as 

 that time we understood it. The . large expressions 

 which you and your said son have made unto us of 

 your forwardness to a service, shall never be forgotten. 

 He now commands in chief in the absence of the Lord 

 Marquis [of] Hertford, and besides his dutifulness unto 

 you, our command is, that his power and yours shall 

 [be] the same, as your hearts are to our service. The 

 acceptance whereof we shall not fail to make appear on 

 all occasions, whereof you may rest assured. Given 

 under and signed at our Court at Oxford, the 5th day 

 of January, in the eighteenth year of our reign, 1642.* 



&quot; To Our Right trusty and right entirely beloved 

 Cousin, HENRY, MARQUIS OF WORCESTER.&quot; 



The earliest direct intimation we have of money 

 passing from the Marquis to the King occurs in two 



* From MSS. Badminton. 



