TWO LETTERS OF HIS Sacred majesty, One, In Vindication of Him, touching the IRISH affairs; The other, Concerning a late misinterpretation of one main Passage in his late LETTERS.  
OXFORD: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the university. 1645.   

TWO LETTERS Of His Sacred majesty, &c.  

My Lords and Gentlemen.  
HIS majesty having long expected a conclusion of a happy Peace within that kingdom, and his affairs having highly suffered by the failure of his expectations from thence, cannot choose but wonder what cause is of it; calling to mind those fair professions and promises which you made unto him, when you were employed here as Agents, and knowing well what powers and instructions he hath long since given my Lord Lieutenant to comply with you for your satisfaction, as far forth as with any reason or honour his majesty could in civil things, or with prudence, or conscience, in matters of Religion; and in this latter, as to the utmost of what for any worldly consideration, he will ever be induced unto: so did he conceive it nothing less, than what you declared unto him, you were persuaded the Catholics would be satisfied withal; nay, ought not in their own interests, to seek more in the present Condition His majesty was in, lest any further concessions might by confirming former scandals cast upon his majesty in matters of Religion, so alienate the hearts of his faithful and loyal Adherents, as to make them abandon him, which as yet would draw inevitable ruin upon him; so were you rightly apprehensive, that when the rebels should by that means have prevailed here, it must soon after bring a certain destruction upon yourselves; What your change of Principles, or Resolutions are, His majesty knows not: But he finds, by the not concluding of a Peace there, that your party (it seems) is not satisfied with the utmost that His majesty can grant in Matters of Religion; that is, the taking away of the penal laws against Roman Catholics within that kingdom: And his majesty hears that you insist upon the Demands of Churches, for the public Exercise of your Religion, which is the occasion that His majesty hath commanded me to Write thus Frankly unto you, and to tell you, that he cannot believe it possible, that rational and Prudent men (had there been no Propositions made to the contrary) can insist upon that, which must needs be so destructive to His majesty at the present, and to yourselves, in the consequences of His ruin; that is, inevitably to be made a prey to the rebels of these kingdoms, or to a foreign Nation. Wherefore, (my Lords and Gentlemen) to disabuse you, I am commanded by His majesty to Declare unto you, that were the condition of His affairs much more desperate than it is, he would never redeem them by any concession of so much wrong, both to His Honour, and Conscience. It is for the defence of His Religion principally, that he hath undergone the extremities of war here, and he will never redeem His crown by sacrificing of it there: so that to deal clearly with you, you may be happy yourselves, and be happy Instruments of His majesty's restoring, if you will be contented with reason, and give him that speedy assistance which you well may; and so if nothing will content you, but what must wound His Honour, and Conscience, you must expect, that how low soever his Condition is, and how detestable soever the rebels of this kingdom are to Him, he will in that point join with them, the Scots, or with any of the Protestant Profession,, rather than do the least act that may hazard that Religion, in which, and for which, he will live and die. Having said thus much by his majesty's Command, I have no more to add, but that I shall think myself very happy, if this take any such effect as may tend to the Peace of that kingdom, and make me  
Your affectionate humble Servant, 1. August, 1645.   

Cardiff, the 4. of August, 1645. NICHOLAS,  
HAving commanded your fellow Secretary to give you a full account, as well of our Proceedings here as Resolutions, I will neither trouble you nor myself with repetitions; only for myself, I must desire you to let every one know, that no distresse● of fortune whatsoever, shall make me by the grace of God, in any thing recede from those grounds I laid down to you, who were my Commissioners at Uxbridge, and which (I thank them) the rebels have published in Print: and though I could have wished that their pains had been spared, yet I will neither deny that those things are mine which they have set out in my Name (Only some words here and there mistaken, and some commas misplaced, but not much material) nor as a good Protestant or honest man, blush for any of those Papers: indeed as a discreet man I will not justify myself, and yet I would fain know him who would be willing, that the freedom of all his private Letters were publicly seen as mine have now been. However, so that one clause be rightly understood, I care not much though the rest take their Fortune; It is concerning the mongrel Parliament: the truth is, That Sussex his factiousness at that time put me somewhat out of patience, which made me freely vent my displeasure against those of his party to my wife, and the intention of that Phrase was, That his Faction did what they could to make it come to that, by their raising and fomenting of base Propositions. This is clearly evidenced by my following excuse to her for suffering those people to trouble her, the reason being to eschew those greater inconveniencies which they had, and were more likely to cause here then there. I am now going to supper, and so I rest  
Your most assured Friend, C. R.   
FINIS.