1646-7.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 159 



turned from the King by means of my brother, who 

 shall be sent to his Majesty in the name of your Lord 

 ship and myself. During which interval, though there 

 be only a cessation of arms, yet our peace will be secure, 

 and depend only on such conditions, as shall be accepta 

 ble to his Holiness ; for it will not be such a peace, as the 

 Pope disapproves of in his letters, but the same which 

 your Lordship desires. But while the articles are agreed 

 upon and concluded between your Lordship and me, 

 and no change is made in the government, or in any other 

 respect, till the peace shall be published, and the rati 

 fication transmitted hither by the King from England, 

 no danger will arise either on your Lordship s or my 

 part, since the seven thousand soldiers will not pass 

 over into England, till the peace be concluded and pub 

 lished, nor ever depart, till I shall return from Italy, 

 and there shall be a certainty concerning his Holiness 

 pleasure.&quot; 



He proceeds to suggest the conclusion of the peace 

 at the end of three ^months 5 the signing of the articles 

 by the Nuncio and himself, on the part of the Pope 

 and the King respectively; thus satisfying the Irish, 

 while affording the King security, the articles not being 

 published ; the safety of the kingdom ensured, and the 

 Nuncio at ease in having thus conformed to the Pope s 

 instructions. 



He afterwards signed, on the 18th February, 1646, an 

 engagement to the Nuncio ; and the next day took the 

 following oath. 13 



&quot; I, Edward Earl of Glamorgan, promise and swear 

 to your most illustrious and most reverend Lordship, 

 that I will adhere to your party, not only against the 

 Marquis of Oraiond, and all his relations and favourers, 



1U Birch, p. 182 ; Nuncio s Memoirs ; andSiri, Mercuric, Vol. viii. 



