My Lord.
YOur Lordships of this date I re••ieved, it being in pur∣suance of your former of the 20th instant, Therein I finde a large recollection of what had been once and againe forme••ly offered and urged by the Lord of Ormonde, endeavouring the diverting mee from my course by laying before mee the late proceedings in England.
The cunto and to your Lordship is the Answer the same sum∣marily, which was formerly given on the like occasion. That in all that, the service heere is noe way concerned: only as to a Christi∣an fellow feeling of each others suffering, And in what this service hath suffered by those unhappy differencies obstructing those supplies, whereby the worke heere had been before now finished, otherwise I see not how from those distractions in England is to bee concluded (either in Honour or Reason) what you intend my giving up to the Rebells and their adherents this place and Charge committed mee: which by Gods grace I shall never doe.
Your Lordship now againe press••th that Conference defined in your former. And particularly, you except to my saying, That is