Series 1 > Letters and papers illustrating the relations between Charles the Second and Scotland in 1650

THE KING ON HIS DEFENCE
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Tell my Lord of Ormond I would by no meanes have him
come here, for they love him not, but if he come into Fraunce
or Holland, he shall heare often from me. His Majesty here
pawseing, I said : I humbly offer it unto your Majestic, to
write also unto my Lord of Clanrickard, for it is reported that
the Lord of Ormond hath left the Kingdome. His Majestic
replyed : That needs not, for if he hath left the Kingdome, he
hath left my Lord of Clanrickard his Deputy, and your lettre
unto the Lord of Ormond will secure the tume unto him, and
what I direct you to speake to my Lord of Ormond say to him :
Robin Long will tell you at large what I have beene forced to
doe concerneing Ireland, and if I be not rightly understood, it
may much prejudice my affaires. I resolve when God shall put
power into my hands, I will hreake in nothing with my good
subjects of Ireland : Remember me unto my Lord of Ormond,
Lord of Clanrickard, Lord Incequin, Lord Castle Haven, Lord
Dillon, Lord Muscree,1 Lord Ardes, and tell them that I pre-
ferre their particuler safetyes unto any interest of myne owne
in that Kingdome, and that I accompt it not onely an errour
but a misfortune, that I came not thither when my Lord of
Ormond invited me.
The day following I left Court (S1 Johnstons) and came unto
St. Andrewes, where Secretary Long lay, who tould me he
would dispatch me by Friday Evening; upon Satterday Morn¬
ing I came unto him, and delivered unto me two packquetts,
the one was Mr. Weston’s dispatch; the other by the hand
I knew to be from my Lord of Deny.2 He bid me, in case I
could not safely carry them to destroy them, and onely carrie
my lettre of credence. I tould Mr. Secretary that his Majestic
had referred me unto him, for the relation of the force put
upon his Majestic, concemeing the breach of the peace, made by
my Lord of Ormond with the Irish.
Then the Secretary replyed :
I will breifely acquaint you with the whole carriage of that
businesse. Upon the Treaty at Breda, for the 3d Article in
the Agreement, betwixt his Majestic and the Scotts, the
Scotts with much violence insisted upon the breach of the peace
Muskerry.
2 Bishop Bramhall.