122 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1645-6. 



Marquis of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, or any 

 other or others authorised by his Majesty, should not 

 disturb the professors of the Eoman Catholic religion 

 in their present possession and continuance of the pos 

 session of their churches, lands, tenements, tithes, and 

 hereditaments, jurisdiction, or any other of the matters 

 aforesaid, until his Majesty s pleasure were signified for 

 confirming and publishing the said grants ? Or, did 

 your Lordship make any agreement to that or the like 

 effect?&quot; 



Answer. &quot; That (for aught he knows), he did not 

 agree for, &c. ; but saith that he promised to use his 

 best endeavours therein with the Lord Lieutenant.&quot; 



(And so on to the 15th Interrogatory.) 



16. &quot; Did your Lordship take an oath in these follow 

 ing words, viz. : I, Edward Earl of Glamorgan, do pro 

 test and swear faithfully to acquaint the King s most 

 excellent Majesty, with the proceedings of this king 

 dom, &c.&quot;* ^ 



Answer. &quot; He remembers something to this effect, 

 but refers to original or copy, which he will produce.&quot; 



The proceedings involved by this affair, the Earl s 

 examination before the Council, the documents in evi 

 dence against him, his own counter-statements, the cor 

 respondence between parties, and especially Charles the 

 First, who entirely repudiated and ignored the acts of 

 his duped agent ; together with the proceedings in 

 Parliament, and opinions expressed there, with others 

 published in the political tracts of those agitated times, 

 have been handled by every eminent historian, and still 

 afford abundant matter for dispute. Those who take 

 up the cause of the King, censure the Earl of Glamor 

 gan in most unmeasured terms : Hume assails his intel- 



* See page 124. 



