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CHAPTER VIII. 



THE EARL OF GLAMORGAN S SECOND VISIT TO IRELAND. 



THE Earl of Glamorgan, actuated by private claims 

 and public business visited Ireland early in 1645, as 

 already stated. Returning to England lie again set out 

 for Ireland in March of the same year, but being 

 defeated in his intentions, he had to delay his departure 

 until some months later, arriving at length in Dublin 

 either in July or August. 



The Marquis of Ormond had been fully apprized of 

 his Lordship s mission through Charles the First s letter 

 from Oxford, dated the 27th of December, 1644, as also 

 by personal communications with his Lordship during 

 his first visit. The powers granted by the Crown to the 

 Earl of Glamorgan and the nature of his patent, dated 

 1st of April, 1644-5, are matters of history, so remark 

 able as to have been already made the subject of dis 

 tinct treatises, and their peculiar features ably discussed 

 by Dr. Birch and others. 



The dates of his Lordship s several commissions 

 and powers are: I. On the 6th of January, 1644-5, a 

 commission, of which a Latin translation is given in the 

 Nuncio s Memoirs.* II. Another commission dated the 

 12th of January, 1644-5.J III. Another wan*ant dated 

 the 12th of March, 1644-5. And IV. a patent granting 

 him, as Earl of Glamorgan, most extensive and extraor 

 dinary powers, dated the 1st of April, 1644-5. 



* Fol. 713. Also Carte, vol. i. p. 557. 

 f Nuncio s Mem. fol. 715 ; and Carle, vol. i. p. 554. 



