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such vital importance for the success of his own mea 

 sures, that we at once detect the sophistry of such 

 language. 



The Earl of Glamorgan, it would appear, went to 

 Ireland at the end of 1644 or commencement of 1645, as 

 his Majesty addressed the following letters to him in 

 1645 ;* the first in February : 



44 HERBERT, 



44 I am confident that this honest trusty bearer 

 will give you good satisfaction why I have not in every 

 thing done as you desired, the want of confidence in 

 you being so far from being the cause thereof that I 

 am every day more and more confirmed in the trust 

 that I have of you, for believe me it is not in the power 

 of any to make you suffer in my opinion by ill offices, 

 but of this and divers other things I have given so full 

 instructions that I will say no more, but that I am 



44 Your most assured constant friend, 



44 CHARLES R. 



&quot; Oxford, 26th Feb. 1645.&quot; f 



The next in June following : 



44 GLAMORGAN, 



44 1 am glad to hear that you are gone to Ireland, 

 and assure you that as myself is no wise disheartened 

 by our late misfortune so neither this country ; for I 

 could not have expected more from them, than they 

 have now freely undertaken, though I had come hither 

 absolute victorious,&quot; which makes me hope well of the 

 neighbouring Shires. So that (by the grace of God) I 

 hope shortly to recover my late loss with advantage, if 



* From MSS. Badminton. 



f Birch, p. 359, gives the date 28 Feb. 1645. 



