“Your Ladyship’s still faithful servant
“and kinsman,
“Roger Brereton.”
Mr. Brereton likewise wrote, as follows, to Colonel Pigot:—
“Worthy Cousin,
“I have here enclosed sent two letters to the Countess of Glamorgan at Raglan, her Lord being lately confined here to the Castle of Dublin; and lest her Ladyship may take things too much to heart, these letters are sent to add some comfort. Both my Lord and I shall acknowledge our thankfulness unto you, if you be pleased to use the best and speediest course you may, for conveying them to my Lady.***
“Yours, &c.,
“Roger Brereton.
“Dublin, January 5, 1645–6.”
The King in his message of the 29th of January, 1645–6, to Parliament, as Sir Thomas Fairfax and others believed, and as Vittorio Siri declares,—“thundered against the Earl in his Declaration only in appearance, that he might be thought not to have been privy to the obnoxious concessions made by the Earl in his Majesty’s name to the Irish Roman Catholics.”[13]