Glamorgan soon returned to Dublin, leaving the original of his treaty in the hands of the Confederates, but Archbishop Walsh ordered copies to be given to several ecclesiastics, and the secret was not very long kept. Meanwhile the negotiations with Ormonde dragged their slow length along, and the arrival of Lord Digby, who in those days was an Anglican champion, did not make concessions on ecclesiastical matters more probable. The appearance of a papal nuncio at this stage was the one thing needful to make the situation hopeless. After Rinuccini landed in Kerry, but before he reached Kilkenny, Archbishop Queely was killed in a skirmish before Sligo, and a certified copy of the Glamorgan treaty was found upon his person. As early as the previous April Charles had written two letters, one to the nuncio and one to the Pope, and had entrusted them to Glamorgan for delivery. He promised Rinuccini to perform all that he should agree upon with Glamorgan, whom he praises in exaggerated language. ‘This,’ he concludes, ‘is the first letter that we have ever written directly to any minister of the Pope, hoping that it will not be the last, but that after you and the said Earl have done your business, we shall openly show ourselves, as we have assured him, your friend.’ When the King wrote this dangerous letter, Rinuccini was already at Genoa on his way to Ireland.[73]
FOOTNOTES:
[60] Castlehaven to Ormonde, November 7, 1643, in Confederation and War, iii. 40; La Boulaye Le Gouz, Tour in Ireland (1644), p. 35.
[61] Husband’s Collection, p. 576; Gardiner’s Great Civil War, i. 396; La Boulaye Le Gouz, Tour, pp. 2, 135.
[62] For the expulsion of the Cork citizens see Confederation and War, iii. 221-230 and 235-247; for Broghill’s proceedings Caulfield’s Youghal Council Book, p. 545; Calendar of Clarendon S.P., July 31-November 27, 1644. For the Protestant oath and for Henrietta Maria’s opinions, as reported by the Jesuit O’Hartegan, see Confederation and War, iv. 49, 84; Muskerry to Ormonde, February 2, 1644-5, in appendix to Carte’s Ormonde.
[63] Ormonde to Digby, October 1644, in Confederation and War, iii. 29, with the documents referred to at foot; and see ib. v. 296; Brabazon, Tichborne, and Ware to Ormonde, January 5, 1644-5, ib. iv. 116, and Swanley’s letter, 121; Tichborne’s letter to his wife, appended to Temple, pp. 327, 330.
[64] Bellings, iv. 1-6, and Monnerie to Mazarin, February 20, 1644-5, in the same volume.
[65] Receptions of Foisset and Monnerie, February 1643-4, in Confederation and War, iii. 102, 106; Monnerie to Mazarin, February 20, 1644-5, ib. iv. 147.
[66] Aphorismical Discovery, i. 32, 49; Bellings, iii. 8, and the receipt to Talbot for the Spanish money in the same vol., p. 273. For Bourke’s mission, ib. 126 and iv. 90; Rinuccini’s Embassy, 106, 307.
[67] Bodley to Salisbury, October 15, 1611, in State Papers, Ireland, and to Carew, in Carew Cal. 123; preface to Confederation and War, iv. xxvii-xl, and in the same vol. 381-2; Captain Thomas Aston’s Brief Relation of passages at Duncannon since June 8, July 22, 1642, written very shortly before the writer was killed.