“MY LORD,--Since it is not in my power to make you nor your son
believe anything concerning the surrender of those garrisons, by
his Majesty’s order, that comes from me or any of our party: once
more, and the last before I send your answer to his Excellency Sir
Tho. Fairfax, I shall give your lordship way to send an officer,
with another of mine, to those lords in Oxford to whom his
Majesty’s letters were directed, for your better satisfaction. This
I do, my Lord, to prevent your utter ruin, and that of this poor
country, so much occasioned by your lordship’s obstinacy. I expect
your present answer, and rest your servant,
“THO. MORGAN.
“June 28th.”