TWO LETTERS OF The Lord DIGBY TO The Lord Taaff, the Rebel's General in MUNSTER:  
Taken in the said General's Cabinet, in the late Battle between him and the Lord Inchiquine;  
SHOWING The Lord Digbies Activeness there, to uphold a Party among the Rebels for the King, against the Parliaments Forces in that Kingdom.  
ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That these Letters be forthwith Printed and Published.  
H: Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.  
London, Printed for Edward Husband, Printer to the Honourable House of Commons, Decem. 4. 1647.   

To the Right Honourable, The Lord Viscount Taaff.  
My LORD,  
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My Lord, Your Lordship's affectionate humble Servant, G. Digby. Kilkenny, 20 Aug. 1647.   

To the Lord Viscount Taaff.  
My dear Lord,  
RElying upon your constancy to what you have promised, I shall go on boldly and industriously in the ways of ferving you; and I make no question, but I shall either succeed in drawing the party you are now engaged with, under His Majesty's power, in which case the chief Military Command of this Kingdom will be in your hands, as I could wish; or else in case it be fit, you in Duty and Loyalty to His Majesty to quit this country, I shall settle you such conditions of Honour and advantage abroad, as you shall confess I have been no ill manager of your Interests. Two things only I have to recommend unto your care, the one, That you endeavour to draw to you into Munster, such Leinster and Ulster Forces as you are sure are possessed with the same resolutions that you are; the other, that you will not let any appearing advantage, or the height of your spirit transport ye to hazard a fight with your Forces this Summer, but to stand unalterably upon the wariest defensive you can; carrying always in your mind, That both all our hopes for His Majesty's service in this Kingdom, and in case those fail, those of our own being considerable abroad, depend upon your preserving that Army. One thing more I shall beg of you, That since our Duty to His Majesty's Interests, and to our own Honour, having already received Moneys, oblige us to tender our service in the first place to France; that you will not make yourself so familiar with Don Diego, as to draw suspicion from the French Agents of your dealing doubly; which will be ruinous to all our undertake, if once our Honours should be in that kind disparaged. This is all I have to say at present, more than to conjure you to rely upon this truth, That you could not in the world have fixed upon a friend so careful of your Interests, as you shall find  
My Lord, Your faithfullest humble Servant, G. DIGBY. Wexford this last of Aug. 1647.  
I conjure you to be as good as your word, in sending me over the sweet youth your Son; and by my care of him, judge of the rest.  
FINIS.