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mingled feelings of gratification and sorrow, the King s 

 circumstances being so desperate ; while at the same 

 time his determination to favour the Irish and English 

 Roman Catholics in all their demands was, to all appear 

 ance, proportionably increased. The Earl of Glamorgan, 

 on his part, sent his suggestions and devised a plan for 

 his Majesty s safe conduct to Ireland ; but the scheme 

 either failed or was abandoned. 



On the 30th of August, the Earl addressed a long 

 letter to the Lord Lieutenant,* when he must have been 

 unaware of the fate of Eaglan Castle : 



&quot; MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, 



&quot; I have this long time expected your commands, 

 which to receive, having sent two expresses, I verily 

 believed would have come ere this into my hands; 

 trusting likewise to Mr. Walsingham s solicitations ; but 

 as yet I have neither heard from him nor your Excel 

 lency, one word since his departure, and receiving an 

 earnest desire from the Nuncio to speak with me; as 

 understanding likewise how prejudicial it might be to 

 me, and especially to my brother who is in Italy, if the 

 dean whom he hath sent thither, should depart without 

 satisfaction from me of so pressing an occasion, as was 

 by my Lord Nuncio pretended unto me. I repaired 

 thither on Saturday last, with so much the more content 

 ment as that I persuaded myself that your Excellency 

 would be at Kilkenny, and I so much the nearer to kiss 

 your hands ; but I now return to the county of Clare, 

 there to expect your commands. Yet let me not forget 

 to give you an account of the business I was sent for. 

 The rumour being spread that the Concessions (which 

 some call mine) were to be printed and published at 



Bod Lib. &quot; Carte Papers, 1634 1637. Ireland, 63.&quot; No. 202. 



