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just design should not take place ; or, in taking effect, 

 that his honour should suffer. An effect, you may 

 justly say, relishing more of a passionate and blind 

 affection to his Majesty s service, than of discretion and 

 care of myself. This made me take a resolution that 

 he should have seemed angry with me at my return out 

 of Ireland, until I had brought him into a posture and 

 power to own his commands, to make good his instruc 

 tions, and to reward my faithfulness and zeal therein. 



&quot; Your Lordship may well wonder, and the King 

 too, at the amplitude of my commission. But when 

 you have understood the height of his Majesty s design 

 you will soon be satisfied that nothing less could have 

 made me capable to effect it ; being that one army of 

 ten thousand men was to have come out of Ireland 

 through North Wales; another, of a like number at 

 least, under my command-in-chief, have expected my 

 return in South Wales, which Sir Henry Gage was to 

 have commanded as Lieutenant-General ; and a third 

 should have consisted of a matter of six thousand men, 

 two thousand of which were to have been Liegois, 

 commanded by Sir Francis Edmonds, two thousand 

 Lorrainers to have been commanded by Colonel Browne, 

 and two thousand of such English, French, Scots, and 

 Irish as could be drawn out of Flanders and Holland. 

 And the six thousand were to have been, by the Prince of 

 Orange s assistance, in the associated counties ; and the 

 Governor of Lyne, cousin-german to Major Bacon, 

 major of my own regiment, was to have delivered the 

 town unto them. 



u The maintenance of this army of foreigners was to 

 have come from the Pope and such Catholic Princes 

 as he should draw into it, having engaged to afford and 

 procure 30,000 a month ; out of which the foreign 

 army was first to be provided for ; and the remainder 

 to be divided among other armies. And for this pur- 



