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may be by writing. My Lord your uncle is in health 

 at Bunraly, and with him there the Earl of P. my Lord 

 John and my Lady Honora. I wish your honour all 

 health and happiness, and am, 



44 Your Ladyship s still faithful servant 

 44 and kinsman, 



44 EOGER BRERETON.&quot; 



Mr. Brereton likewise wrote, as follows, to Colonel 

 Pigot:- 



44 WORTHY COUSIN, 



44 1 have here enclosed sent two letters to the 

 Countess of Glamorgan at Eaglan, her Lord being 

 lately confined here to the Castle of Dublin ; and lest 

 her Ladyship may take things too much to heart, 

 these letters are sent to add some comfort. Both my 

 Lord and I shall acknowledge our thankfulness unto 

 you, if you be pleased to use the best and speediest 

 course you may, for conveying them to my Lady. * * * 



44 Yours, &c, 



44 EOGER BRERETON. 



&quot; Dublin, January 5, 1645-6. 



The King in his message of the 29th of January, 

 1645-6, to Parliament, as Sir Thomas Fairfax and 

 others believed, and as Vittorio Siri declares, 44 thun 

 dered against the Earl in his Declaration only in 

 appearance, that he might be thought not to have been 

 privy to the obnoxious concessions made by the Earl in 

 his Majesty s name to the Irish Roman Catholics.&quot; 13 



The next day the King addressed a private letter to 

 the Lord Lieutenant, affording sufficient evidence of the 

 shifts to which he had recourse to uphold his miserable 

 policy, which no experience of ensuing hazards and 

 vexations could induce him to abandon. 



13 Birch, p. 121, and p. 124-5. 



