January 12.  He received another warrant of a most extraordinary description, which I shall transcribe from a MS. copy in my possession, attested with the earl’s signature, and probably the very same which he gave to Ormond after his arrest and imprisonment.

“CHARLES REX

“Charles by the grace of God king of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Fayth, &c.  To our Right trusty and Right well beloved Cossin Edward Earle of Glamorgan greetinge.  Whereas wee haue had sufficient and ample testimony of y’r approued wisdome and fideliti.  Soe great is the confidence we repose in yo’w as that whatsoeuer yo’w shall perform as warranted only under our signe manuall pockett signett or private marke or even by woorde of mouthe w’thout further cerimonii, wee doo in the worde of a kinge and a cristian promis to make good to all intents and purposes as effectually as if your authoriti from us had binne under our great seale of England w’th this advantage that wee shall esteem our self farr the moore obliged to yo’w for y’r gallantry in not standing upon such nice tearms to doe us service w’h we shall God willing rewarde.  And althoughe yo’w exceed what law can warrant or any power of ours reach unto, as not knowinge what yo’w may have need of, yet it being for our service, wee oblige ourself not only to give yo’w our pardon, but to mantayne the same w’th all our might and power, and though, either by accident yo’w loose or by any other occasion yo’w shall deem necessary to deposit any of our warrants and so wante them at yo’r returne, wee faythfully promise to make them good at your returne, and to supply any thinge wheerin they shall be founde defective, it not being convenient for us at this time to dispute upon them, for of what wee haue heer sett downe yo’w may rest confident, if theer be fayth or truth in man; proceed theerfor cheerfully, spedelj, and bouldly, and for your so doinge this shal be yo’r sufficient warrant.  Given at our Court at Oxford under our signe manuall and privat signet this 12 of January 1644.

  “GLAMORGAN.

  “To our Right trustj and Right well beloved cosin
  Edward Earle of Glamorgan.” 
  Indorsed, “The Earle of Glamorgan’s further authoritj.”

Feb. 12.  Glamorgan had left Oxford, and was raising money in Wales, when Charles sent him other despatches, and with them a letter desiring him to hasten to Ireland.  In it he acknowledges the danger of the undertaking, that Glamorgan had already spent above a million of crowns in his service, and that he was bound in gratitude to take care of him next to his own wife and children.  “What I can further thinke at this point is to send y’w the blue ribben, and a warrant for the title of duke of Somerset, both w’ch accept and make vse of at your discretion, and if you should deferre y’e publishing of either for a whyle to avoyde envye, and my being importuned by others,