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it is not fit for your Excellency to appear in it yourself; 

 but if you please to interest myself and some others of 

 your chief assured friends and servants here (even with 

 whom your Excellency must give me leave to vie in 

 reality and zeal to serve you), to deal with the Nuncio, 

 I am most confident in a few days (if not in a few 

 hours), we shall bring him so far to comply in order to 

 his Majesty s service, as may give your Excellency 

 satisfaction. And for the present I alone have dealt 

 with him so efficaciously, as that he hath not only given 

 his consent and approbation for the 3000 men to go 

 for Chester (for the transporting whereof I shall find 

 shipping sufficient ready) ; and if that will not serve, 

 he means to-morrow or the next day to make it his abso 

 lute business. And I beseech your Excellency to take 

 what I have said here into your serious and speedy 

 consideration, as proceeding from me, who am not only 

 transported with zeal to the King my master s service 

 herein, but also to manifest myself how much I am 



&quot; Your Excellency s, &c. 



&quot; GLAMORGAN. 



&quot; Kilkenny, the 8th of February, 1645.&quot; 



To which the Marquis replied from Dublin Castle 

 on the llth of February : 25 



u I hope the supplies your Lordship labours for 

 with so much diligence will yet come seasonably for 

 the relief of Chester, notwithstanding the rumours 

 raised here of the taking of it ; but of this and the rest 

 of the 10,000 men I can say no more than I lately 

 have done, in a letter commended to Mr. Browne s 



coiivevance.&quot; 



a3 Carte, vol. vi. p. 353. 



