1645-6.J OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 133 



To the Lord Lieutenant he wrote the same day 

 another and separate letter, viz. 25 13 



44 We are all here much amazed at the news of the 

 Lord Herbert s imprudent action (to say no more of it) 

 which hath most extremely prejudiced his Majesty and 

 his affairs here. Your Excellency, and the Council 

 there, will herewith receive a full and particular rela 

 tion from his Majesty, of all that he can call to mind 

 concerning that business, wherein as the Lord Herbert 

 hath dealt very unworthily with his Majesty, so it is 

 believed, that even the Eoman Catholics themselves 

 will condemn him for his imprudent proceeding therein. 

 For if his pretended Warrant had been authentic, yet 

 to do anything thereupon without your Excellency s 

 privity, was a madness, rather than a folly ; and the 

 concealing so long what he had done argues something 

 worse. The King hath commanded me to advertise 

 your Lordship, that the patent for making the said 

 Lord Herbert of Eaglan Earl of Glamorgan is not passed 

 the Great Seal here, so as he is no Peer of this kingdom; 

 notwithstanding he styles himself, and hath treated with 

 the rebels in Ireland, by the name of Earl of Glamor 

 gan, which is as vainly taken upon him, as his pretended 

 Warrant (if any such be) was surreptitiously gotten. 

 And I am sure, that honour cannot be conferred upon 

 him under the signet (as firmly as under the Great Seal, 

 to all intents and purposes) as his Lordship s pretended 

 warrant and power is alleged to be, though there be no 

 signet to it.&quot; 



In a letter from the King dated Oxford, March 22nd, 

 1645-6, addressed to the Queen while in France, he 

 says : 16 



44 DEAR HEART, 



* * * u I find that Sir Edw. Nicholas his gloss upon 



25 Carte, vol. iii. p. 447. I3 Birch, p. 133. 16 Bruce. 



