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have no other author but himself. I must observe to you that this 

 letter, being directed to the Nuncio, is the only original of the King s 

 writing among his papers (for Glamorgan only gave him copies 

 translated of the others) ; and whatever commission, or other power, 

 instructions, or letters, Glamorgan pretended to the Nuncio to have 

 from the King, must be in a hand agreeable to that which the 

 Nuncio had as an original.&quot; 



The Editor properly notes here : &quot; If Glamorgan only gave copies 

 translated of the other commissions, it is no great wonder that they 

 should be written in his secretary s hand.&quot; 



In the same work is the following inquiry from a correspondent : 

 &quot; I never met with anybody but Mr. Thomas Carte who talked of 

 Impartiality and Mr. Thomas Carte in the same breath. But, 

 waiving that question, I cannot help asking If the Irish Eebellion, 

 and all the mischiefs of that period, are to be attributed to com 

 missions and powers forged by the soi-disant Earl of Glamorgan, 

 what pretence is there for laying all the load and odium thereof 

 upon the Parliament ?&quot; 



A thin quarto volume of MSS., in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 

 entitled &quot; Notes on Carte s History,&quot; contains a note from Mr. Birch, 

 dated 2nd February, 1742-3, to Eev. Mr. Thomas Carte ; also, &quot; The 

 full answer to the Bystander, compared with the History of the Life 

 of James Duke of Ormonde, written by the same author, September, 

 1742 ;&quot; likewise several letters from Eev. J. Boswell, Taunton ; and 

 lastly, the following MS. letter : 



&quot; Sir, I am very much concerned to find by your last letter that 

 you have received such a message from Mrs. Carte. I persuade 

 myself she would think me entitled to the greatest civility from her, 

 if she was apprised of the friendship which subsisted between me 

 and her late husband. I took no small pains for several years to 

 serve poor Mr. Carte, and had the satisfaction of such a valuable 

 correspondence with him as entitled him to every good office that I 

 could do him. In 1748 I laid before him The Case of the Royal 

 Martyr considered with candour, and he was so good as to approve of 

 it, and earnestly pressed me to print it. In the course of our cor 

 respondence I mentioned some difficulties which I had met with in 

 that work, and particularly in relation to some facts which had been 

 misrepresented in a book entitled An Enquiry into the share which 

 King Charles, fyc. Mr. Carte, in a series of letters which he favoured 



72. Nichols, Vol. 2, p. 471. 72*. Nichols, Vol. 9, 1815, p. 476. 



