“MY LORD,--Touching your sending to his Majesty, it is that which
hath been denied to the most considerable garrisons of England,
further than an account to his Majesty of the thing done upon the
surrender; which I do else freely grant to your lordship. And for
that distinction which your lordship is pleased to make, that _it
is your house_, if it had not been formed into a _garrison_, I
should not have troubled your lordship with a summons; and were it
disgarrisoned, neither you nor your house should receive any
disquiet from me, or any that belong unto me.
“This I thought good to return to yours, and thereby to discharge
myself, before God and the world, of all extremities and sad
consequences that will ensue upon the refusal of the rendition of
your garrison upon my summons.--I remain yours,
“THO. FAIRFAX.
“August 8.”