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A Letter from the Qtyht Honourable Arthur Earl of
Anglefey, &c.
MyLORD,
Y Our Graces of the i2tbof I received to¬
wards the end of that Month, and was not a little
furprized, after being threatned above a year
with your Graces Anfwer to the Ob[er)>ations and ^efleSli-
ms on my Lord Caftle-Haven'r Memoiresy which your
Grace takes notice you had feen above a year be-
rore •, to find them only moft fatyrically burlefqued, and
ny intentions in the writing of them moft unnaturally
nifinterpreted and misjudged, without giving inftance
)f any one particular, which could fo much tranfport
'our Grace, or intereftyou to judge ofa Letter of mine
0 another, with fo inve&ive heat and miftake.
Your Graces Letter therefore confifting only of Gene-
als, I can nootherwife adapt my Anfwer, (after a moft
erious revifion of my Book upon this occafion) but by
;iving the reverfe of your Graces ftrain'd and erroneous
Vfitrmatives by my plain and true Negatives, till your
}race shall adminifter occafion, by communicating the
articular Animadverfions your Grace hath been (as I
ear) fo long about.
The Rcafons leading your Grace to believe it impoffi-
le I could be the Author of that Difcourfe, I cannot ad-
lit, though they import a fair Opinion of me; and that
1 the beginning of your Letter your Grace had better
loughts than when your Hand was in and heated.
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I do therefore abfolutely deny that I affirm any Mat¬
ters ofFaft pofitively in that Book, which are eafily or
authentically (or at all) to be difproved. (
Or that from thofe Matters of Fa&, grofly miftaken,
it deduces Confequences, raifes Inferences, and fcatters
Glances injurious to the memory of the dead, and the
Honour of fome living; among which your Grace finds
yourfelf worft treated.
This being fo, your Graces unjuft Inferences from the
time of its Writing, and the misjudging the defign of the
Author, give no countenance oroccafion to your Graces
Rhetorical Chara&er of the Times, though I joyn in all,
but the Opinion your Grace feerns to have taken up that
there is a Plot, (other than that of the Papifts) to deftroy
the Crown and Church j a Difcovery worthy the mak¬
ing, if your Grace knows, and believes what you write;
but how I am concerned to have it mentioned to me, I
know not, your Grace can beft tell what you intend to
infinuate thereby.
Thefe are your Graces Reafons why you were not wil¬
ling to believe that Book to be of my Compofing,- yet
you cannot leave me without a fting, in your exprelfing
the hopes which fucceeded them,V/^. That fome of the
fuborned Libellers of the Age had endeavoured to imi¬
tate me, and not I them.
Whether I should imitate fuborned Libellers, or they
me, would be all one for my Reputation,- becaufelwere ,
grofly criminal in the firft, and muft have been fo be-
fore in your Graces Opinion, or they could not imitate


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me in the fecond: Your Grace will want Inftances in
both, except this of your own making; and therefore
there muft be fome other reafon why your Grace did not
believe (if really you did not) that Difcourfc to be of my
compofure.
But this admitted for truth (as it is undoubtedly) your
Grace in the next place calls the World to judge whether
Pen, Ink and Paper are not dangerous Tools in my hands.
I remember the Times, when they were ferviceable to
theKings Reftoration,and conftant Service of the Crown,
or craved in aid by your Grace, that you did not accoui
them fo j and it is much to my fafety that they are not fa
in your Graces Hands, though I find them as sharp there
asin anymans alive.
Your Grace being at length affured I was the Author,
your next care was tofpend fome thoughts to vindicate
Truth, the late King, your felf, your Actions and Family,
all refle&cd upon, and traduced (as your Grace is pleafed
to fancy) by that Pamphlet.
ButyourGrace had nocaufe to trouble your thoughts-
with fuch Vindications, utilefs you could shew where in
that Book they are refle&ed upon and traduced, no fuch
thing occurring to me (upon the ftri&efi: reviial) nor ever
shall be obje&ed tome with Jufbce and Truth.
After your Grace hath brought it to the
(where I believe it never was till your Grace prefcred it to
that Office) and where you have doomed it to expire, as-
Writings of that nature an d force ufe (you fay) to do (for
which 1 shall not be at all concerned) you refted without
troubling;


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tiality shall appearand your unjuft fufpicion will,I doubt
nor, ceafe, if Truth may be welcome to you, and not ac¬
counted one of the dangerous Inftruments in my Hand ;
by which having incurred your Anger and Enmity in the
firfl Effay; I have (lender hopes to be more acceptable in
the fecond j though I refolve to hold to the firft approved
Law of a good and faithful Hiftorian, whichis,Thathe
should not dare to fay any thing that is falfe; and that he
dare not but fay any thing that is true, that there be not
fo much as fufpicion of favour or hatred in his Writing.
And this might give a Super to your Graces un-
feafonable Appeal, before a Gravamen; though I never
intended, by relating the truth of things paft, to become
a Judge of your Graces or any other mans a&ions, but
barely (Resgeftevsnarrare, for the information, corre&ion,
and inftru&ion of this Age and Poflerity.
Your Grace defiring to know to what particular parts
ofmyHiftoryl would have Information, 1 shall atpre-
fentonly mention thefe.
The Intrigues of the Ceflation, and Commiflions for
them and the two Peaces of 1646. and 1648. forced
upon the King by the Rebellious Irish.
The grounds and tranfaciions about depriving Sir Wil¬
li am Tar fans from being one of the Lords JuRices,and then
difmiffing him, Sir Adam LoftmVice-Treafurer, Sir J
Temple Mafter of the Rolls, Sir R Meredith Chancellor
of the Exchequer, &c. from the Council-Table.
The Myftery of Glamorgan's Peace, and his Punish¬
ment.
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The feveral ungrateful Expulfions of your Grace by
the Confederate (Roman Catholicks.
The naifagcs concerning the Parliaments Prefent of a
Jewel to your Ji ace.
The Battel , <. reliefs, Sieges, and chief Encounters in
your Graces tirne
The Proceedings between your Grace and the Qfoman
CatholickAffetnb.lv of the Clergy in i 666. with the Com-
miffion for their Sitting-
The Plot for furprizxhg the Caftle of Dublin, in which
Warren and others were, with the Examinations,and what
Offenders were executed, &c.
And any thing elfe your Grace judgeth of import to
have conveyed to Pofterity.
Other parts of the Hiftory shall be propofed to your
Grace in my Progrefs, and before I put my laft Hand to
it, with a resolution, that though I may have been fome-
times miftaken in Judgment: yet as 1 never did promote
the report of a Matter of Fa& which I knew to be faife,
fo I never would.
Which I am induced the rather to mention, becaufe
your Grace faith, you had rather help to prevent, than to
4ete& Errors.
My Lord,
Your Graces moft
humble Servant
JKGLESET.











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