Walker, p. 147

**** Rush, vol. vii. p. 215, etc.

At last, after reproaching him with the blood spilt during the war, they
told him that they were preparing bills for him; and his passing them
would be the best pledge of his inclination towards peace: in other
words, he must yield at discretion.[*] He desired a personal treaty, and
offered to come to London, upon receiving a safe-conduct for himself
and his attendants: they absolutely refused him admittance, and issued
orders for the guarding, that is, the seizing of his person, in case he
should attempt to visit them.[**]

* Rush, vol. vii. p. 217, 219. Clarendon, vol. iv. p. 741.

** Rush, vol. vii. p 249. Clarendon, vol. iv. p. 741.

A new incident, which happened in Ireland, served to inflame the minds
of men, and to increase those calumnies with which his enemies had so
much loaded him, and which he ever regarded as the most grievous part of
his misfortunes. After the cessation with the Irish rebels, the king
was desirous of concluding a final peace with them, and obtaining their
assistance in England: and he gave authority to Ormond, lord lieutenant,
to promise them an abrogation of all the penal laws enacted against
Catholics; together with the suspension of Poinings's statute, with
regard to some particular bills which should be agreed on. Lord Herbert,
created earl of Glamorgan, (though his patent had not yet passed the
seals,) having occasion for his private affairs to go to Ireland, the
king considered that this nobleman, being a Catholic, and allied to the
best Irish families, might be of service: he also foresaw that further
concessions with regard to religion might probably be demanded by the
bigoted Irish; and that, as these concessions, however necessary, would
give great scandal to the Protestant zealots in his three kingdoms,
if would be requisite both to conceal them during some time, and to
preserve Ormond's character by giving private orders to Glamorgan to
conclude and sign these articles. But as he had a better opinion of
Glamorgan's zeal and affection for his service than of his capacity, he
enjoined him to communicate all his measures to Ormond; and though the
final conclusion of the treaty must be executed only in Glamorgan's
own name, he was required to be directed in the steps towards it by the
opinion of the lord lieutenant. Glamorgan, bigoted to his religion, and
passionate for the king's service, but guided in these pur