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not your Majesty s service herein to proceed with that 

 advantage it might do, I conceive not so fit to commit 

 to paper ; but I will shortly send my brother, who shall 

 fully inform your Majesty with all particulars, and 

 thereby rectify your opinion, and give you true know 

 ledge, who are your faithful servants. I hope long 

 ere this Captain Bacon hath arrived with you since 

 my enlargement ; and, therefore, I need only tell your 

 Majesty that, my further services intended for you will, 

 I hope, without further crosses, be suffered to go on ; 

 though strange is the industry used by many seeming 

 friends to hinder me therein. But I am confident it 

 shall not lie in their power, your Majesty remaining still 

 constant, as I doubt not but you will, to your favour 

 able opinion, and right interpretation of my poor en 

 deavours ; which, if they may take place, will procure 

 you to be a gracious and happy prince, I having no 

 other ends, but to approve myself, 

 u Sir, your sacred Majesty s 



&quot; Most dutiful, obedient subject, 

 &quot; and passionately devoted servant, 



&quot; GLAMORGAN. 



&quot;Waterford, Feb. 23, 1645-6.&quot; 



The same month, however, Chester surrendered to the 

 Parliamentary forces, after a stubborn siege ; while in 

 March following news arrived at Kilkenny of his Ma 

 jesty s message of the 29th of January, addressed to 

 the Parliament, denying any participation in and 

 unreservedly disavowing all knowledge of the Earl s 

 treaty of the 25th of August, 1645. The Eoman Catho 

 lics were astounded ; all their labour and expense, 

 all their negociations at once appeared worse than vain, 

 being only calculated to arouse public indignation. 



But the Parliamentary party appeared pretty well 

 satisfied that the Earl s imprisonment was a merely 



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