seene, as myne haue now beene; howsoeuer, so that one clause be rightly understood, I care not much though the rest take theire fortunes; it is, concerning the Mungrill Parlament: the trewth is, that Sussex' factiousness, at that tyme, put me somewhat out of patience, wch made me freely vent my displeasure against those of his party to my Wyfe, & the intention of that phrase was, that his faction did what they could to make it come to that, by theire raising and fomenting of basse propositions: this is cleerely euidenced by my following excuse to her for suffring those people to trouble her, the reason being, to eschew those greater inconueniences wch they had & wer more lykly to cause heere, then there. I am going to supper, so I rest Your most asseured frend, I haue reaued (received) your new cyfer as for example, 224 : 302 : 181 : 176 : 276 : 14 : 54 : 11 : 308 216 17: 1: 181 : 72: 232: 18 : 35: 2:50: 151: 51: 60: 316: 110: 168: Husbands 346: 398: 316: 98: 290: 295 : 86: 70: according 290 the nature of the thing. 277: 225: 19: 43: 3: 37: 80: 231: 277 : 280: Indorsed, Cardiff 4° Aug: 1645. R. 10. The King to me concerning the Mungrill P'liam't. The King to Sir Edward Nicholas. BRIDGENORTHE, 9 Aug: 1645. Nicholas, this morning I receaued yours of the 30: July, we requyres no answer but thankes for your often aduertisments: & particularly for those wch ar of most freedome, in answer to wch I shall desyre you, Digby's (with the like freeness) to take heed that 358:51: ' Thomas Lord Saville, recently created Earl of Sussex. 376: 53: 210: 229: 17: 50: 220: 231:277:511: against 401 : 147: 174: 111: 229: 18: 115: ceale: 148: 316: 276: 358:39:31:19:35:53:1 perfectly 453 96 94: 276: 98: 104: 202 : 83: 290: 104: his friends that there 170: particular 376: 52: & I asseur you 276: 277 : 1: 36: 60: 181 : 229: 124 : 72 : 32: 17: 61:41: 315: 116: 290: 213: 148: 401 : For newes, I refer you to your frends, only I must tell you that to morrow I intend to march to 403 : 96: 266 : 290 : next day; but if ye Irish Newarke ye 437277: 227: 524 : 109 : 175: 277: 78:2:79: be come then 51: 42: 104: 116: of wch I haue good hope 277: I : 27: 174 shall 17: 43: 3: 28: 37:290: 340. My last was from Cardife, wch was written in such haste that I forgot to bid you send me word (wch now I earnestly desyre you not to forget to doe) how my printed letters ar, & haue been, sensured at Oxford, by the seuerall sorts of people, according to theire dyuerse humors; this is all at this tyme from Your most asseured frend, CHARLES R. In the voide place of your last cyfer at the end of the W of the hindermost alfabet I haue filled it, with the word want: lykewais the two others at the end of the Y with yesternight & yonder. 9o Aug: 1645. R. 16°. The King to me from Bridgenorth. 'These figures are decyphered by Sir Edward Nicholas, but erased with a pen; yet may in part be restored. The King to Sir Edward Nicholas. DONCASTER, 18 Aug: 1645. Nicholas, I haue sent this bearer expressly to giue you a particular account of my present condition, wch considering what it was at the beginning of this monthe, is now (I thanke God) miraculously good; and indeed the gentlemen in thease partes showes themselfes really affectionat & harty in my service : acting cherfully (without any grumbling) what I desyre. Now I expect, not only that (lyke ants) you haue plentifully prouyded your selfes for winter, but lykewais that you so recrute your selfes in men & armes, that it may be a lusty stocke for a next years army: So I rest, Your asseured frend, CHARLES R. As I haue com'aded my Sone to comend me to all the Laydis, so you must to all the Lords my friends, & particularly to Vulpone, & tell the Gouernor that he has forgotten that he sent me a cyfer. DONCASTER 18° Aug. 1645. R. 23. The King to me. The King to Sir Edward Nicholas. HUNTINGTOUNE 25 Aug: 1645. Nicholas, I haue this morning receaued yours of the 13: Aug: with fower printed Oxford Papers concerning my published Letters, & am glad to fynde that you there make so faire (indeed just, as concerning my religion, kingdomes & frends) an interpretation of them, & particularly that you haue so great a confidence in my constancy to my just cause and now me thinkes I wer too blame if I did not justifie the trewth of your opinions concerning me, by my owen declaration, wch is this, that let my condition be neuer so low, my successes neuer so ill, I resolue (by the grace of God) neuer to yeald up this Church to the gouernement of Papists, Presbiterians, or Independants, nor to injure my successors, by lesening the Crowen of that ecclesiasticall & military power wch my predecessors left me, nor forsake my frends, much lesse to lett them suffer when I doe not, for theire faithfulnesse to me, resoluing sooner to liue as miserable as the violent rage of successful insulting Rebells can make me (wch I esteme far worse than death) rather then not to be exactly constant to thease grounds; from wch, whosoeuer, upon whatsoeuer occasion, shall persuade me to receade in the least title, I shall esteeme him ether a foole or a knaue; but you will aske me, Quorsum hoc? Yes, for without this warning, the tender personall affection of some might giue me troblesome aduyce, & yet not blameable, considering the present condition of my affaires, & not knowing this my resolution, wch I comand you to publishe to all whom their quality or judgement makes fitt for such discourses, & so I rest, Your most asseured frend, You may say confidently, & giue me for author, that the peace of Irland is concluded, not yet knowing the particular conditions. 25 Aug: 1645. The King to me from Huntington, containing his resoluc'on never to quit ye Church Gouernement, his friends, or to diminishe the Crowne of that military or eccl'all power wch was left him by his pedecessors. The King to Sir Edward Nicholas. RAGLAND' 9 Sep. 1645. Nicholas, I receaued yesterday bothe of your letters (for I perceaue by their markes, that you haue yet written no more) with the advertisments from London, wch as you say is worthy my notice, but without considering make this answer, that the just contrary, concerning the new discouery of my Com'ission in a letter to the two Queenes about the Irishe Papists, is trew: for indeed that roag Hartogen made such a foolishe proposition, but it was flatly denyed by me, & (if my memory much faile me not) my Wyfe tooke occasion upon some clause in my answer, wherby it semed to her (in wch she was mistaken) as if I thought she had lyke the proposition, to disclaime any parte in it (so far from aprobation) but only the transmitting of it to me, wch certainly was not fitt for her to refuse : & this (with many other ansome expressions of her affection to me, euen to the ventring of being thought a Protestant in condemning the Irish proceedings) was, as I beliue, in that letter wch Tom Elliot deliuered me from her, as I was marching over Broadway Hills the 9 of May last; for I am sure the most of that letter was concerning the Irish business, & I know the reason why the Rebelles haue not printed it is, because it cleers that point more then any of those betweene vs, wch are published: That all this is trew, & that the Rebelles haue all this under my Wyfes hand & myne, I comand you to affirme positiuely in my name upon all occasions of this subject: but it is possible that all I mention to be, is not in the letter Tom Elliot brought me (though I am sure most is), but then it is in some other. So 1 The King's adventures at this old castle are too well known to require illustration. 2 Queen Henrietta Maria, and her mother the Queen of France, the widow of Henry IV. VOL. IV. M |