Quaecumque vero ab ipso certo statuta fuerint, ea munire
et confirmare pollicemur. In cujus testimonium brevissimas has scripsimus,
manu et sigillo nostro munitas, qui nihil (potius) habemus in votis, quam
ut fevore vestro in eum statum redigamur, quo palam profiteamur nos.
"Sanctitatis Vestrae
"Humilimum et obedientissimum servum,
"Apud Curiam nostram, CHARLES R.
Oxoniae, Oct. 20, 1645."
_Superscription_--
"Beatissimo Patri Innocentio decimo Pontifici Maximo."
"Eminentissime Domine, Pauca scripsimus Beatissimo Patri, de fide adhibenda
consanguineo nostro comiti Glamorganiae, et cuilibet ab eo delegato, quem
ut Eminentia vestra pariter omni favore prosequatur, rogamus; certoque
credat nos ratum habituros quicquid a praedicte comite, vel suo delegato,
cum Sanctissimo Patre vel Eminentia vestra transactum fuerit.
"Eminentiae Vestrae,
"Apud Curiam nostram, Fidelisimus Amicus,
Oxoniae, Oct. 20, 1645." CHARLES R.
_Superscription_--
"Eminentissimo Domino et Consanguineo nostro, Dno Cardinali Spada."
After the discovery of the whole proceeding, the king, on January 29th,
1646, sent a message to the two houses in England, in which he declares
(with what truth the reader may judge) that Glamorgan had a commission to
raise men, and "to that purpose only;" that he had no commission to treat
of any thing else without the privity and directions of Ormond; that he
had never sent any information of his having made any treaty with the
Catholics, and that he (the king) disavowed him in his proceedings, and
had ordered the Irish council to proceed against him by due course of
law.
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