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post of Lord Lieutenant. 13 The document derives con 

 siderable interest from its conveying to us the sentiments 

 of the Marquis of Worcester, in his reflections on the 

 King s conduct affecting himself and his son. It was 

 on no light grounds he charged Charles the First with 

 being &quot; wavering and fickle;&quot; declaring his son to have 

 been u unjustly imprisoned;&quot; and bitterly lamenting 

 that the King should, in print, &quot;protest against his 

 [son s] proceedings;&quot; being no doubt well satisfied 

 through his Majesty s own discourse and his after written 

 instructions, that the Earl of Glamorgan had, in every 

 sense, been most unworthily used from first to last by 

 his royal master. The upright old Marquis, touched in 

 a tender part, was not disposed to overlook the injury 

 done to his family, although coming from so high a 

 quarter, for he must have felt it as nothing short of a 

 gratuitous maligning and blackening of his son s cha 

 racter from the most sordid, selfish motives, reckless of 

 all risks and hazards. No considerations swayed him 

 to conceal his utmost anger at the indignity put on 

 himself and his house, rendered perhaps all the keener 

 by the presence of the unsuspecting messenger from 

 that prince who had so utterly deceived him, and that 

 peer who had aided in his dishonour. The blunt Bote- 

 ler adds, in a marginal notification, &quot; That message I 

 well remember, and so will his Majesty; I having 

 set it down, as soon as I went out of the bed cham 

 ber.&quot;* 



The Marquis, a shrewd, observant man, appears to 

 have expressed his wrath not only by words but acts ; 

 not caring that the messenger should return with any 

 favourable account of his reception or dismissal, for 



13 Birch, p. 262. 

 It is generally believed that this chamber was over the south-west gate. 



