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From Oxford, Aug. 1. 1643. 

 '' Clicirle« R. 



" Most Reverend Father in God, &c. We are 

 informed by our servant Orlando Bridgman, not 

 only of the good encouragement and assistance 

 you have given him in our service, but also of your 

 own personal and earnest endeavours to promote it. 

 And tho' we have had long experience of your fide- 

 lity, readiness, and zeal in what concerns us, yet it 

 cannot but be most acceptable unto us that you 

 still give unto us fresh occasions to remember it. 

 And we pray you to continue to give all possible 

 assistance to our said servant. And whereas you 

 are now resident at our town of Aberconway, 

 where there is a castle, heretofore belonging to our 

 crown, and now to the Lord Conway, which with 

 some charge is easily made defensible : but the 

 Lord Conway being imprisoned by some of our 

 rebellious subjects, and not able to furnish it, as is 

 requisite for our service, and the defence of those 

 parts: you having begun at your own charge to 

 put the same into repair. We do heartily desire 

 you to go on in that work, assuring you that what- 

 soever moneys you shall lay out upon the fortifica- 

 tion of the said castle shall be repay 'd unto you, 

 before the custody thereof shall be put into any 



