292 Mr. N E A L'S IP Vol. of the to the Difturbance of the Peace of this King- dom, in a War againft his facred Majefty.' * The King, in his Reply to the Anfwer of the two Houles, conjures them to confider the bleed- ing Condition of Ireland. -¡' And Lord Digby, in his Letter to the Irfh Commifpioners, printed with his Majefty's !aft gracious Meffhge for Peace, &c. (for Matthew Wellbanh, Feb. io. 1645. p. 8.) has the following Words : ' My Lords and Gentle- ' men, to difabufe you, I am commanded by his ' Majefty to declare unto you, that were the Con- ' dition of his Affairs much more defperate than they are, he would never redeem them, by any Conceffions of fo much wrong, both to his Ho- ' nour, and his Confcience; It is for the Defence of his Religion principally, that he hath undergone the Extremity of War here, and he would never ' redeem his Crown by ratifying that there; fo that ' to deal clearly with you, as you may be happy yourfelves, and happy Inftruments of his Maje- fty's reftoring, if you would be content with Rea- ' íon, and give him that fpeedy Affurance, which ' you well may ; fo if nothing will content, but ' what mutt wound his Honour and Confcience, you mutt expe6t, howfoever his Condition is, and ' how deteftable foever of this Kingdom are to him, he will join with them, the Scots, or with any of the Proteflant Religion, rather than do the ' leaft A& that may hazard that Religion, in which, ' and for which, he will live and die. Having faid ' thus inconteftably much, by his Majefty's Corn- ' mand, I have no more to add, but I (hall think ' myfelf very happy, if they take any Inch Effe6t, as may tend to the Peace of the Kingdom, and " make me your Affeátionate HumbleServant, Geo. Digby. * Husbands's Exact Colledions, p. 3-8+, 06. t Penes me. Dr,
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