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unto, whose ambition is not greater to anything in this 

 world than really and entirely to appear, my Lord, 

 &quot; Your Lordship s most dutifully obedient son, 

 u and most devoted servant, 



This 13th of August, 1644.&quot; 



His military career in Wales appears to have ter 

 minated late in 1644, at which time the Parliament 

 having protested against the cessation made by the 

 Marquis of Ormond with the Irish rebels, by the King s 

 express orders, his Majesty determined not only on a 

 speedy peace in Ireland, but also on the raising of 

 troops there to be sent over to England. Difficulties, 

 however, arising consequent on the demands made by 

 the Irish Eoman Catholics, the King devised the expe 

 dient of engaging the services of the Earl of Glamor 

 gan in that hazardous negotiation. Adopting his 

 customary narrow policy, he planned and plotted alike 

 with friends and foes. Ormond was to be flattered and 

 deceived, next Glamorgan, and in succession all his 

 ministers, council and court, yea, the very Parliament 

 and the public were to be hood-winked by a master 

 stroke of double-dealing. Such a net-work of intrigue 

 had he woven, before the least of his measures could be 

 finally executed, that Charles the First s course of con 

 duct throughout this affair, has confounded early as well 

 as later and most dispassionate politicians. That the 



