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His majesty had also written to lord Ormond as follows : ` And albeit I have too just cause , for the clearing of my honour , to prosecute Glamorgan in a legal way , yet I will have you suspend the execution , ' & c . At the same time his secretary wrote thus to Ormond and the council : ` And since the warrant is not ' ` sealed with the signet , ' & c. , & c. , ` your lordships can not but judge it to be at least surreptitiously gotten , if not worse ; for his majesty saith he remembers it not ; ' and thus again privately to Ormond : ` The king hath commanded me to advertise your lordship that the patent for making the said lord Herbert of Raglan earl of Glamorgan is not passed the great seal here , so as he is no peer of this kingdom ; notwithstanding he styles himself , and hath treated with the rebels in Ireland , by the name of earl of Glamorgan , which is as vainly taken upon him as his pretended warrant -LRB- if any such be -RRB- was surreptitiously gotten . ' The title had , meanwhile , been used by the king himself in many communications with the earl . These letters never came , I presume , to the marquis 's knowledge , but they go far to show that his feeling , even were it a little embittered by the memory of their midnight conference and his hopes therefrom , went no farther than the conduct of his majesty justified . It was no wonder that the straight-forward old man , walking erect to ruin for his king , should fret and fume , yea , yield to downright wrath and enforced contempt . Of the king 's behaviour in the matter , Dorothy , however , knew nothing yet . One day towards the end of February , a messenger from the king arrived at Raglan , on his way to Ireland to lord Ormond .