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being importuned by others, yet I promise your anti 

 quity for the one, and your Patent for the other shall 

 bear date with the Warrants. 



u And rest assured, if God should cross me with your 

 miscarrying, I will treat your son as my own, and that 

 you labour for a dear friend as well as a thankful 

 master, when time shall afford means to acknowledge, 

 how much I am 



u Your most assured, real, constant 



u and thankful friend, 

 &quot; CHARLES E, 



&quot;Oxford, Feb. 12th, 1644.&quot; 



The Earl being from some cause detained at home, 

 his Majesty wrote in March, as follows : * 



&quot; HERBERT, 



u I wonder, you are not yet gone for Ireland ; 

 but since you have stayed all this time, I hope these 

 will overtake you, whereby you will the more see the 

 great trust and confidence I repose in your integrity, of 

 which I have had so long and so good experience ; com 

 manding you to deal with all ingenuity and freedom 

 with our Lieutenant of Ireland the Marquis of Ormond, 

 and on the word of a King and a Christian I will make 

 good anything, which our Lieutenant shall be induced 

 unto upon your persuasion ; and if you find it fitting, 

 you may privately show him these, which I intend not 

 as obligatory to him, but to myself; and for both your 

 encouragements and warrantise, in whom I repose my 

 chiefest hopes, not having in all my kingdoms two 

 such subjects; whose endeavours joining, I am confi 

 dent to be soon drawn out of the mire, I am now 



* From MSS. Badminton. 



