138 LIFE, TIMES, AND SCIENTIFIC LABOURS [1046. 



word with mine, I will promise you at my return, to 

 bring for the King s service and the good of this king 

 dom, ten, if not twenty thousand pounds sterling 

 which, if managed by you, I conceive will be better than 

 60,000, as hitherto moneys have been disposed. And 

 of this business, if you please, you may acquaint my 

 Lord Digby, to whom I have intimated something 

 thereof in my letter. But your Excellency, nor my 

 Lord Digby, need not be told with what secrecy my 

 intended journey ought to be kept, though I fear not 

 the Parliament, since I have bought a gallant ship at 

 Galway, with 16 pieces of ordnance, and victualled 

 for two months, manned with 34 good seamen, an ex 

 cellent captain, and good pilots, of 300 tons, English 

 built, and a good sailer. And for my return, I intend 

 (God willing) it shall be with a fleet, which how it is 

 to be left under your Excellency s command, I hope 

 you are already well assured, as you may be of any 

 thing within my power, who am, 



44 Your Excellency s, &c. &c. 



44 GLAMORGAN. 



&quot;Kilkenny, llth of March, 1645-6.&quot; 



Ormond wrote from Dublin Castle, 4th March, 1645, 

 naming 44 the sad certainty of the loss of Chester,&quot; the 

 men, long expected, he hopes will arrive 44 seasonably for 

 some other service ;&quot; and says, 44 there are many reasons 

 against the prolonging of the cessation till the midst 

 of June,&quot; but especially u the inevitable ruin that must 

 in the meantime come upon all his Majesty s true ser 

 vants,&quot; promising in his next to send the 44 authority to 

 engage me for such money as you shall be able, upon 

 so small an assurance as mine, to get.&quot; 



On the 29th of September, 1645-6, the Earl addressed 

 a letter of explanations to the Lord Lieutenant. 



