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A96907	The Earl of Glamorgans negotiations and colourable commitment in Ireland demonstrated: or the Irish plot for bringing ten thousand men and arms into England, whereof three hundred to be for Prince Charls's lifeguard. Discovered in several letters taken in a packet-boat by Sir Tho: Fairfax forces at Padstow in Cornwal. Which letters were cast into the sea, and by the sea coming in, afterwards regained. And were read in the Honorable House of Commons. Together with divers other letters taken by Captain Moulton at sea near Milford-Haven coming out of Ireland, concerning the same plot and negotiation. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters be forthwith printed and published. H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3533; Thomason E328_9; ESTC R200673	21,230	35

the said Richard Lord Viscount Mountgarrer Donnog Lord Viscount Muskery Alex. Mac Donnell and Nicholas Plunket Sir Robert Talbot Dormett ô Brian Jo. Dillon Patr. Darcy and Jeffrey Browne on the behalfe of the Confederate Roman Catholiques of Ireland that two parts in three parts to be divided of all the said Lands Tithes and Hereditaments whatsoever mentioned in the precedent Article shall for three yeares next ensuing the Feast of Easter which shall bee in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred forty six bee disposed of and converted for and to the use of his Majesties Forces employed or to be employed in His service and the other third part to the use of the said Clergy respectively And so the like disposition to be renewed from three yeares to three yeares by the said Clergy during the warres Item It is accorded and agreed by the said Earle of Glamorgan for and in the behalfe of his Majestie his Heires and Successors that his Excellency the Lord Marquesse of Ormond Lord Lievtenant of Ireland or any other or others authorized or to be authorized by his Majestie shall not disturbe the Professors of the Roman Catholique Religion in the present possession and continuance of the possession of their Churches Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments Jurisdiction or any other the matters aforesaid in these Articles agreed and condescended to by the said Earle untill his Majesties pleasure bee signified for confirming and publishing the Graunts herein Articled for and condescended unto by the said Earle Item It is accorded and agreed by the sayd Earle for and in the behalfe of his Majestie his Heires and Successours that an Act shall bee passed in the next Parliament to bee held in this Kingdome according to the tenor of such agreement or concessions as herein are expressed and in the meane time the said Clergie shall enjoy the full benefit freedome and advantage of the said agreements and concessions and every of them And the Earle of Glamorgan doth hereby engage his Majesties Royall word and publike faith unto the said Lord Viscount Mountgarret and the rest of the said Commissioners for the due observation and performance of all and every the Articles Agreements and Concessions herein mentioned to be performed to the said Roman Catholique Clergie and every of them In witnesse whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably put their hands and seales the 25. of August Anno Dom. 1645. Glamorgan Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of John Summerset Jeffrey Browne and Robert Barry VVHereas in these Articles touching the Clergies livings the Right Honourable the Earle of Glamorgan is obliged in his Majesties behalfe to secure the Concessions in these Articles by Act of Parliament We holding that manner of securing these Graunts as to the Clergies livings to prove more difficult and prejudiciall to his Majestie then by doing thereof and securing these Concessions otherwise as to the said Livings the said Earle undertaking and promising in the behalfe of his Majestie his Heires and Successors as hereby he doth undertake to settle the said Concessions and secure them to the Clergie and their respective successours as another secure way other then by Parliament at present till a fit opportunity be offred for securing the same doe agree and condescend thereunto And this instrument by his Lordship signed was before the perfection thereof intended to that purpose as to the said Livings to which purpose we have mutually Signed this Endorsment And it is further intended that the Catholique Clergie shall not bee interrupted by Parliament or otherwise as to the said livings contrary to the meaning of these Articles Glamorgan Copia vera collata fideliter cum Origin Tho. Cashell F. Patricius Waterford Lismor VVHereas much time hath been spent in Meetings and Debates betwixt his Excellencie Ja. Lord Marquesse of Ormond Lord Lievtenant and Generall Governour of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland Commissioner to his most Excellent Majesty CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland c. for the Treating and Concluding of a Peace in the said Kingdome of his Majesties humble and loyall Subjects the Confederate Roman Catholiques of the said Kingdome of Ireland of the one part and the Right Honourable Donnog Lord Viscount Muskery and other Commissioners deputed and Authorized by the said Consederate Roman Catholique subjects of the other part And thereupon many difficulties did arise by occasion whereof sundry matters of great weight and consequence necessarily requisite to be condescended unto by his Majesties said Commissioner for the safety of the said Confederate Roman Catholiques were not hitherto agreed upon which retarded and doth as yet retard the Conclusion of a firme Peace and settlement in the said Kingdome And whereas the Right Honourable Edward Earle of Glamorgan is intrusted and Authorized by his most Excellent Majesty to Grant and assure to the said Confederate Roman Catholique subjects farther graces and favours which the said Lord Lievtenant did not as yet in that latitude as they expected grant unto them And the said Earle having seriously considered of all matters and due circumstances of the great Affaires now in agitation which is the peace and quiet of the said Kingdome and the importance thereof in order to his Majesties service and in relation to a Peace and settlement in his other Kingdomes and here upon the place having seene the ardent desire of the said Catholiques to assist his Majestie against all that doe or shall oppose his Royall Right or Monarchique Government and having discerned the alacrity and cheerefulnesse of the said Roman Catholiques to embrace honourable Conditions of Peace which may preserve their Religion and other just Interests In pursuance thereof in the twentieth of His Raigne granted unto the said Earle of Glamorgan the tenour whereof is as followeth viz. CHARLES R. Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. To Our Right Trusty and well-beloved Cousin Edw. Earle of Glamorgan Greeting Wee reposing great and especiall trust and confidence in your approved wisedome and fidelity doe by these as firmly as under Our Great Seale to all intents and purposes Authorize and give conclude you power to Treat and conclude with the Confederate Roman Catholiques in our Kingdome of Ireland if upon necessitie any thing be to be condescended unto wherein Our Lord Lievtenant cannot so well be seen in as not fit for us at this present publickly to owne and therefore we charge you to proceed according to this our Warrant with all possible secresie And for whatsoever yo● shall engage your selfe upon such valuable considerations as you in your judgement shall deeme fit Wee promise in the word of a King and a Christian to ratifie and performe the same that shall be granted by you and under your hand seale the said Confederate Catholiques having by their supplyes testified their zeale to Our service And this shall bee in

his Lordships where I found all things in a great forwardnesse the conclusion of which was expected within few dayes and great Forces as was pretended already in a readinesse for England under the command of the Earl of Glamorgan the Confederates great General and Favourite but his Lordship being sent for by my Lord Lieutenant and my self to confer about the wayes of disposing those Ayds most to the advantage of His Majesties service the businesses contained in the inclosed Papers brake sorth in such manner as you will finde there set down and obliged me to that part in the Kings Vindication which was thought could not so properly be performed by any as my self you will finde the whole businesse so fu●ly stated in the Transactions themselves which I send you and in my Letter to my Brother Secretary that I shall need to say no more upon the subject onely let me ask you whether according to the rules of Policy I have not carryed my body swimmingly who being before so irreconciliably hated by the Puritan party have thus seasonably made my self as odious with the Papists well my comfort is that the very few honest men that are in the world will love me the better and whil'st I do the part of a man of Integrity and Honour I am willing to trust God with the rest I must not conclude without telling you that if I had been brought hither by far greater misfortunes I could not have repined at any thing that had given me the happinesse of so particular a knowledge of and friendship with the Marques of Ormond who if I can judge at all of men is not onely the wisest yong man but the most steady generous and vertuous person that I have ever known I conjure you as you love virtue and as you love me who have so little a share of it build carefully by the diligent application upon those grounds which I have laid for a friendship between you for indeed I love him so much as I cannot be at rest till we make up the Triangle equall on all sides to that perfection wherewith I am Dublin Ian. 4. 1645. Yours George Digby Pray fail not to let my Father partake of what I write to you and General Goring also as far forth as you shall judge necessary To Secretary Nicholas My good Brother YOu will receive by this dispatch a particular accompt from my Lord Lieutenant of the state of the Treaty here and of those Conditions upon which he was hopefull suddenly to have concluded such a Peace as would have afforded His Majesty powerful and timely ayds from this Kingdom had not the unfortunate madnesse for I can give it no other name of my Lord of Glamorgan and the necessary proceeding thereupon cast all things back into a posture as uncertain and more dangerous then ever You will receive from my Lord Lieutenant and the Councel here a punctual relation of the matter of Fact and it is referred to me to convey unto you and by you to His Majesty the Circumstances and Reasons of the whole proceeding against his Lordship About ten dayes since matters of the Treaty growing near to a conclusion and in confidence thereof preparations being made by my Lord of Glamorgan and the Irish as they assured us for the speedy sending over of three thousand men for the relief of Chester which were to be made up ten thousand before the beginning of March It was thought necessary that we should confer with the said Earl of Glamorgan and some of the Irish Commissioners to the end that before my Lord Lieutenants final consent to the Articles of the Treaty the businesse of the Kings supply might be reduced from discourse to a certainty and directed in the most advantagious way for his service to which end we little suspecting then what was since discovered the said Earl of Glamorgan and some of the Irish Commissioners then at Kilkenny were earnestly invited hither both by my Lord Lieutenant and my self Upon Monday last the day before the said Earl of Glamorgan was expected in Town my Lord Lieutenant received out of the North from an honest and well affected person the copy which is sent you of my Lord of Glamorgans Articles and Oath with the Confederate Catholiques assured to have been found in the titulary Archbishop of Tuams pocket killed in October last at Sligo At first the thing appeared so impossible as that we were apt to think it a Forgery and Plot against the King of the Parliamentary Rebells till considering the circumstances formalities and punctualities thereof we grew to apprehend somewhat more in the matter and soon after a second and third copy of the same coming to other persons all with Letters to the effect of this inclosed it was then thought high time to take the businesse into most serious consideration which being done by my Lord Lieutenant and my self assisted by some of the wisest and best affected persons here we soon concluded that if these things were once published and that they could be believed to be done by His Majesties Authority they could have no lesse fatall an effect then to make all men so believing conclude all the former Scandals cast upon His Majesty of the inciting this Irish Rebellion true That he was a Papist and designed to introduce Popery even by wayes the most unkingly and perfidious And consequently that there would be a general revolt from him of all good Protestants with whom this opinion could take place Now when we considered the circumstances convincing the truth of this Transaction on my Lord of Glamorgans part and how impossible almost it was for any man to be so mad as to enter into such an Agreement without powers from His Majesty and there being some kinde of a formal Authority vouched in the Articles themselves we did also conclude That probably the greatest part of the world who had no other knowledge of His Majesty then by outward appearances would believe this true and do according to that belief unlesse His Majesty were suddenly and eminently vindicated by those who might justly pretend to know him best Upon this ground it was also concluded by us That lesse then an Arrest of the Earl of Glamorgan upon suspition of High-Treason could not be a Vindication of His Majesty eminent or loud enough and that this part could not properly nor effectually be performed by any other person then my self both in regard of my Place and Trusts near His Majestie That the businesse of Ireland had pass'd for the most part through my hands That I attended His Majesty about the time of the date of His Majesties pretended Commission That since that time I had by His Majesties command written to the Irish Commissioners a Letter whereof I send you a copy so Diamitrally opposite to the said Earls Transactions And lastly in regard that my Lord Lieutenant to whom otherwise His Majesties Vindication in this kinde might properly have belonged was

unto by the said Earle And the said Earle of Glamorgan doth hereby ingage his Majesties Royall and publique Faith unto all and singular the professors of the said Roman Catholique Religion within the said Kingdome of Ireland for the due observance and performance of all and every the Articles Grounds and Clauses herein contained and the Conscessions herein mentioned to be performed to them Item It is accorded and agreed that the publique Faith of the kingdom shal be engaged unto the said Earl by the said confederate Catholiques for sending 10000. men to serve his Majesty by order and publique Declaration of the generall assembly now sitting and the supreame Councell of the said Confederate Catholiques shall engage themselves to bring the said number of men armed the one halfe with musketts and the other halfe with Pikes unto any Port within this realme at the election of the said Earle and at such time as he shall appoint to be by him shipped and transported to serve his Majesty in England Wales or Scotland under the Command of the said Earle of Glamorgan as Lord Generall of the said army which army is to be kept together in one entire body and all other the said Officers and Commanders of the said army are to be named by the supreame Councell of the said Confederate Catholiques or by such others as the severall assembly of the said Confederate Catholiques of this Kingdome shall entrust therewith In witnes whereof the parties of these presents have hereunto enterchangeably put their hands and seales the 25. Day of August 1645. Glamorgan Copia vera collata fideliter originali Thomas Cashell F Partricius Waterford Lismore I Edward Earle of Glamorgan doe protest and sweare faithfully to acquaint the Kings most excellent Majesty with the proceedings of this Kingdome in order to his service and to the endeerement of this Nation and punctuall performance of what I have as authorized by his Majesty obliged my selfe to see performed And in default not to permit the army intrusted to my charge to adventure it selfe or any considerable part thereof untill conditions from his Majesty and by his Majesty be performed Sept. 3. 1645. Glamorgan Copia vera concordans de verbo verbis cum originali Tho Cashell To the Lord Hopton My Noble Lord IF the report of the many difficulties wherewith I have strugled in compassing my designes for his Majesties servie have not before this reached you a faithfull Relation of the whole will be made to you by the bearer hereof Captaine Allen whom I desire your Lordship to present unto the Prince His Highnes as an honest man and one that proposeth a course for Intelligence to passe between this Country and his Majesties Quarters whereof there is great need Now God be thanked the businesse is brought to that upshot that the ten thousand men are designed for his Majesties service sixe thousand whereof are ready for Transportation The means for which are wanting unlesse your Lordship will please to solicite his Highnes the Prince for transmitting what shiping those parts are furnished with that all possible expedition may be used We heare God be thanked that as yet Chester holds out to releive which the 6000. men are ready for transportation This bearer hath intimated the Princes desire for haveing ●00 men hence for his highnes Lifguard which may be transported to his highnes by the returne of such shiping as shall be sent hither for the aforesaid service By his returne I desire to learne from your Lordship the Kings present State and being that wee may shape our Designes accordingly Thereby I should be most glad to know of the Princes and your Lordships good successe and prosperity for which none can be more solicitous then I who am My Lord Waterford 28 Feb. 1645. Your L. most affectionate humble servant Glamorgan Right Honourable I Have hitherto been so farre from troubling you with many Letters that I can scarce abstain for excusing this Addresse But as I hope you will do me the favour to beleeve that those Ommissions have proceeded out of a tendernesse to molest you unnecessarily not out of any slothfulness in things essential to my duty so in my own opinion I were now too much to blame if after so long time some late hazards I should not take this occasion to repeat unto you the assurances of my most humble service proceeding from the due sence I have of your goodnesse to me which howsoever I have bin deficient in expressing as to the outward I assure your Honour I preserve the memory in a very sure Cabinet as a treasure there laid up wholly for your service when ever you shall thinke me worthy the tryall For what concernes the affaires of this Kingdome My Lord gives you so full particular an accompt thereof that I cannot adde to your knowledge of them Therefore I shall sufficiently have observed the decorum of the place and complyed with my duty too when I shall have made these few reflections upon the generall condition of these parts and especially of the English Quarters which in my judgement is very sad they being not onely reduced within a very narrow compasse of ground but totally ruinated the whole Countrie waste and unhabited Farms and Villages burnt down to the ground not a Garrison of his Majesties 36. 45. 188. 23. 27. 58. 24. 12. 66. or any wise 5. 69. 11. 13. 38. 57 61. 59. 70. 37. 71. 63. 40. 6. 5. 59. 72. just 66. 84. 45. 36. Provisions of all sorts very scant The Corporations 8. 35. 55. 16. 62. and 49. 63. 46. 68. 12. 2. 49. between 36. 4. 25. 15. 63. 6. 67. 29. 87. 4. 19. 34. 58. 42. 13. 11. 6 66. 45. the 8. 16. 35. 67. 62. 51. 67. 70. 11. 29. 40. 20. 2. 15. 70. 16. 5. 31. 36. equall to either The Army in 66. 3. 55. 40. 29. 23. 12. 2. 34. 71. 38. 10. 62. as 300. 3. 22. 11. 6. 68. 29 5. 58. 56. 37. 20. 39. above 45. 5. 35. 30. 59. 66. thousand 27 58. 46. 2. 66. 48. 19. 40. 49. 16. 69. 12. Foot and 66. 67. 28. 34. 2. 62. 69 Hundred horse Garrisons and all and those for the most part of 51. 52. 6. 4. 2. 3. 42. 2. 49. 71. 27. 39. 24. 26. 67. 68. 55. 56. 29. This place it selfe in a manner Blockt up by the Parliament Shipps riding continually without it and no lesse pincht at land by the Irish Quartered within a very few miles of it This condition of his Majesties Quarters here compared with that of the Irish contrary to i● almost in every respect may seeme unlikely upon any conditions offered hitherto to further such a Peace as must dispossesse them of great advantages gotten by the War and such a Peace as thwarts the Ambition and covetous desires of all those of the Long Robe whether they be their Clergie or Laiety and the sway and Authority of their Nobility the unlimited Liberty of the People The

speed to Lyme Neither of these will admit of delay And hasten recruits that they may meet us when we face about Bodnam March 6. 11. at night Your most humble and faithful Servant Joh. Rushworth THe Examination of Allen is sent up by this Bearer who can inform you more of the carriage of the man I hope the Bearer will come safe with the Letters he is enjoyned to have great care he comes far with such a Trust To the Prince His Highnes May it please Your Highnes SInce my coming from his Majesty on the 14 of Octo. last I have gone in such untroden paths as have not afforded me the possibilitie of making any addresse unto your Highnes untill this opportunity which hath made me live under no smal affliction least my Actions should have been misrepresented to your Highnes and lessen me in that good opinion of yours which I value as the greatest blessing of my life I shall not presume ●o to trouble your Highnesse with so tedious a Narrative as the reasons of my coming from the King and the relation of my Adventures since must needs be but I have done it at large to Sir Edward Hide and I most humbly beseech your Highnesse to give him leave to entertain you with them at such leisure times when he shall finde that you can admit of it with least trouble which that you may the more easily grant me I shall not importune you my self with any thing more at this time then this sincere Protestation That while I have the Honour to live in Your Highnesse thoughts which favour I shal think my self above all Misfortunes how miserable soever otherwise and I doubt not but your goodnesse will by preserving me so happy in your memory encourage me in that which you cannot hinder me from being Your Highnes most humble and most faithful Servant George Digby TO Sir EDWARD HIDE Chancellor of the Exchequer My dear Chancellor I Seize with much joy this occasion that flatters me with the hopes of conveying safe unto you and by you unto the rest of my Friends there an Accompt of my Adventures since you heard from me these inclosed Papers will give you a very particular relation of all matters of Fact I make no question but my unsuccessfulnesse in that imployment will give occasion to my enemies to accuse me of a great dis-service to the King in having been the losse of so many of his horse not in the conduct of them for I apprehend not malice it self in that point but in putting them upon so desperate a Design This point I desire you to cleer by letting all with whom you shall finde the Objection know That although I was of opinion that the King himself ought to have ventured when he was at Welbeck the passage into Scotland in case there had been a certainty of my Lord of Montrosses being on this side Forth yet when that was once diverted upon both my Intelligence and Advice I had afterwards the least share of any man in the Councel of adventuring any part of the Kings horse upon so hopelesse a Design as that of Scotland was while we were doubtful of my Lord of Montrosses condition but the Northern horse being disgusted with Gerrard refused absolutely to march back Southward to Welbeck and so rather then they should disband it was thought fit to try whether they would be ingaged to adventure to Montrosse who in all his Letters had seemed much to resent the neglect of him in not sending him a supply of horse assuring That with the help but of 1000. he could carry through his work The Proposition being made to Sir Marmaduke Langdale he at first point-blanck refused it as an undertaking which had by Gerrard and all the rest been declared desperate even with all the Kings Horse but upon second thoughts finding that all his Horse would disband if they were drawn Southward he and all the Northern Gentlemen came to the King and told Him That if he would lay His Commands upon me to take the charge and to go along with them they would adventure it otherwise not whereupon I having declared my obedience to whatsoever the King should impose upon me His Majesty commanded me positively to that charge using besides His pleasure this Argument to me That if I succeeded in it I should reap much Honour if not I could incur no prejudice by failing in that which was at first given for desperate and so at half an hours warning having I protest to God not dreamt of the matter before I marcht off from the Rendezvouz with an Addition onely to the Northern Horse of such as would voluntarily chuse to go with me which proved to be a matter of Three hundred with which I made that progresse which you will finde related in the inclosed Papers But here I am sure you will wonder how I holding that place I did neer the King and having the Honour of so great a part in His Trusts especially at a time when he had scarce either Counsellor or Pen-man about Him should be put upon so extravagant and desperate an imployment To this I must let you know and such onely as you shall think fit That though I had no thought of the present Action yet the King and I had long before that is ever since His Affairs were made so desperate by the losse of Bristol concluded it most for his service That I should absent my self from him for some time in case I could finde a fair and honorable pretence for it I believe the accidents since befaln at Newark with Prince Rupert and Gerrard will have given you a light of some reasons of my remove The truth Here follow many lines of Characters Over and above these urging Reasons as to the time upon the main of the Kings condition and mine I found the King likely to suffer much by my stay near him the wearinesse of the War being so universal and the despair of any approvement in His condition being so great in all about Him I found it almost every mans opinion Here come in more lines of Characters I thought it then high time to watch an opportunity of freeing His Maj●sty from an Attendant so pernicious to His Honour and Interest And this my dearest Friend is as much as I think necessary to say unto you upon this subject hoping that by your dextrous conveyance of it to His Highness the Prince of Wales it will have the same impression with him which I cannot doubt of with you Since my coming out of England I staid a moneth for a wind at the Isle of Man which time I cannot think mis-spent having there received great civilities from my Lord of Derby and had the means of a particular acquaintance with his Noble Lady whom I think one of the wisest and generousest persons that I have known of her Sex From thence I and my company were very securely conveyed hither in a light Frigot of