74 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1644. 



upon your recommendation, to the end no obstacle or 

 delay may be in the execution of your desires in order 

 to our service, and our commands in that behalf. 



44 At your return you shall have the command of 

 South Wales, Herefordshire, and Gloucestershire of the 

 Welsh side returned to you in as ample manner as 

 before. 



14 In your absence we will not give credit or counte 

 nance to anything which may be prejudicial to your 

 father, you, or yours. 



44 C. R.&quot; 



Next month his Majesty wrote the following letter :* 

 44 GLAMORGAN, 



44 1 herewith send you the rest of my dispatches 

 for Ireland, whither I pray hasten, time being most 

 considerable. I am sensible of the dangers you will 

 undergo, and the great trouble and expenses you must 

 be at, not being able to assist you, who have already 

 spent a million of crowns [250,000] in my service ; 

 neither can I say more than I well remember to have 

 spoke and written to you that already words could not 

 express your merits, nor my gratitude : and that next 

 to my wife and children I was most bound to take care 

 of you, whereof I have, besides others, particularly 

 assured your Cousin Byron, as a person dear unto you. 

 4 What I can further think at this point is to send 

 you the Blue Ribbon, and a Warrant for the Title of 

 Duke of Somerset, both which accept, and make use of 

 at your discretion ; and if you should defer the pub 

 lishing of either for a while to avoid envy, and my 



* From MSS. Badminton. 



