“MY LORD,--I have perused your letter of this 11th of August. As to
your scruple, wherein you desire to be satisfied, (so far as I
understand it,) I can only give you this resolution, that what I
grant I will undertake shall be made good. As to the instance you
give in my Lord of Shrewsbury’s case, the actors in that breach
(who were none of my army) have received their censure, and by this
time I believe the execution. But here, if any conclusion be made
while I stay, I dare undertake there shall be no such thing; or, if
any, there shall be reparation.
“THO. FAIRFAX.
“August 11, 1646.”