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peace, to be made with the Lord Lieutenant, should be 

 published at once ; but other articles, affecting the 

 Roman Catholic religion, concluded with the Earl of 

 Glamorgan, were meanwhile to be kept secret, until 

 ratified by his Majesty himself. The Lord Lieutenant 

 was disposed to act liberally ; but the Earl of Glamor 

 gan, from his political and religious bias, combined with 

 his warm, enthusiastic disposition, was fully disposed 

 to approve and support demands in which he saw no 

 extravagance, but, on the contrary, anticipated much 

 real benefit to his own party. 



All his Lordship s negotiations, treaties, plans, pro 

 mises, all his well laid schemes, and all the plottings of 

 his party broke down through delays and repeated 

 disasters, further promoted by the pertinacity with 

 which the clergy held out to the last for the entire ac 

 ceptance and complete settlement of their every demand ; 

 indeed the Nuncio went so far as to insist on the neces 

 sity of having a Roman Catholic Lord Lieutenant. 



On the 24th of December, 1645, the Earl of Glamor 

 gan went from Kilkenny to Dublin to confer with the 

 Marquis of Ormond. On the 25th he was received by 

 the Lord Lieutenant with the greatest possible civility, 

 and every assurance of regard for his Lordship. But 

 on the 27th, the whole course of events had changed, 

 causing his Excellency to adopt a totally different line 

 of conduct ; an unexpected circumstance having mean 

 while brought to light transactions of which he was not 

 previously cognisant, which naturally aroused his worst 

 suspicions, at so critical a period. 



Dr. Birch has very lucidly narrated the particulars. 

 The Popish Archbishop of Tuam, President of Con- 

 naught, and one of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny, 

 going into Ulster to visit his diocese, and put into exe 

 cution an order for arrears of his Bishopric, granted to 



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