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cio s concurrence therein, as most advantageous super 

 totam materiam, yet are my intentions the same they 

 were when I left your Lordship ; and I hope a shorter 

 way contrived to them than I then imagined, having 

 found a probable (I may call it even a certain) way to 

 bring the Queen about to befriend this nation. In the 

 interim, I beseech your Lordship, together with the Lord 

 Bishop of Clogher and Mr. Eochfort, to be mindful of 

 your promises to me, and to be sure that General 

 Neile dissent not from the letter which you approved ; 

 the contents whereof I have not failed accordingly to 

 recommend to his Majesty : and if I should deceive 

 him therein, I must betake myself unto your Lordship s 

 advice and approbation, given thereupon. The copy of 

 the original letter, together with the Nuncio s recommen 

 dation, are to be delivered to General O Neile by Father 

 Definitor; and I have no more to say than that your 

 Lordships (as I have said before), with Mr. Eochfort are 

 the Triumvirate and the pillars upon whom I build, 

 making no question of the goodness of that foundation ; 

 and I hope none of you do of my affection, which is 

 not only devoted to yourselves, but as you shall fur 

 ther apply it to such persons as may be useful to God s 

 service, the King my master s, and the good of this 

 kingdom. And so, with my service to you all, I ever 



&quot;My Lord, 



u Your Lordship s most humble 

 u and devoted Servant, 



u WORCESTER. 



&quot; Galway, 12th Oct. 1647.&quot; 



His Lordship ultimately left Ireland in company with 

 Father George Leyburn, a Eoman Catholic priest, with 

 whom he went to France in March, 1647-8. 61 



61 Leyburn, p^ 61. 



