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your Excellency longer in these parts, and more advan 

 tageously than what I am now going about, you may 

 be confident to receive such a return from me as may 

 best stand with my duty to his Majesty and my affec 

 tion to your person, to whom my professions have been 

 ever real ; and had my ambition and only thoughts 

 taken place, I dare boldly say, I should have vied with 

 the nearest person in blood or affection you have in 

 Ireland, in the reality of being ever, 



&quot; Your Excellency s most really 

 &quot; affectionate kinsman and 

 &quot; devoted servant, 



u GLAMORGAN. 



&quot;Limerick, the llth of September, 1646.&quot; 



Among the Carte MSS. in the Bodleian Library, from 

 which the foregoing letter is taken, there occurs a 

 curious undated letter written in cipher, which it is just 

 possible may be the writing above named u sent by so 

 trusty a person as Mr. Joyner.&quot; The annexed engrav 

 ing is a facsimile of an endorsement at the back of it 



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