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&quot; For to endear myself to some, the better to 

 do his Majesty service, it is true I did declare a promise 

 from the King of the assent that after your Excellency s 

 time he would make me Lord Lieutenant. But it is no 

 meaning of mine but to keep your Excellency in during 

 your life, and not really to pretend unto it, or anything 

 in discrimination of your Excellency s honour or profit 5 

 or derogating from the true amity and real service 

 which I have professed, and will ever make good to 

 wards your Excellency. And my intention was ever 

 to acquaint your honour herewith, and I once intended 

 to do it before my going to Kilkenny, but never to conceal 

 it totally from you, though for some reasons it being 

 hitherto omitted, I think it not necessary for the pre 

 sent but as an obligation upon me thereunto. And in 

 witness of my true intent and meaning, I leave this 

 sealed in your Excellency s hands this 29th of Septem 

 ber, 1645, at Dublin. 



&quot; GLAMORGAN.&quot; 



The Earl being thus bound to continue his residence 

 in Ireland, notwithstanding the unpromising aspect of 

 affairs, we shall proceed, in order of date, to consider 

 the position of his father, at Eaglan Castle. 



