1646.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 145 



That message i well inforced to say that the King was waver- 

 remember and so will i n g anc [ fickle, and that at his Majesty s 



^l^Tsoton^went last bein g there &amp;gt; he lent Mm a book* to 



out of the bed chamber, read in his chamber, the beginning of 

 which he knows he read, but if he had ended, it would 

 have showed him what it was to be a fickle prince ; for 

 was it not enough, said his Lordship, to suffer him, the 

 Lord Glamorgan to be unjustly imprisoned by the Lord 

 Marquis of Ormond for what he had his Majesty s au 

 thority for ; but that the King must in print protest 

 against his proceedings and his own allowance, and 

 not yet recall it. But I will pray for him, and that he 

 may be more constant to his friends, saitli my Lord; and 

 so soon as my other employments will give leave, you 

 shall have a convoy to fetch securely your despatches ; 

 that I daily pressed and expected, sometimes it was 

 delayed with fair language and sometimes with such 

 as was very unwelcome to me, both from the father 

 and the son ; it being invectives against his Majesty and 

 the Lord Marquis of Ormond, and after fourteen days 

 delay,| I advised with Colonel Eatcliffe Jarrard, Colonel 

 Thomas Butler, Major Hugh Butler, and William 

 Watkins, Eeceiver General for South Wales, being all 

 Protestants, and of the Council of War, who agreed in 

 opinion that the delay was of purpose, and caused by 

 jealousy, conceiving that if I got over before Captain 

 Bacon who was then attending for a despatch to his 

 Lord the Lord Glamorgan, my despatch might tend to 

 the prejudice of his said Lord. On this I took occasion 

 to wait on my Lady Glamorgan, and remembering her 

 of the King s gracious intentions towards her Lord, I 



* See page 107. 



J- Note opposite sentence commencing &quot; after fourteen days delay.&quot;&quot; After myself, 

 Colonel Butler and the rest were gone, Lord Charles threatened to take from Mr. 

 Watkins 800 which was in the Castle (his Majesty s money) or siding with us, as 

 he now present is ready to testify.&quot; 



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