Rinuccini said that Glamorgan's treaty was worthless because its confirmation depended on the will of another, and that the Roman treaty was every way preferable. Both were really waste paper, and everyone at Kilkenny knew it except the clergy and the clericals. Ormonde reminded Glamorgan that the chief object of the peace was to relieve Chester, and that could not be done unless troops were sent at once. To this the poor man answered that the Queen's powerful hand effaced the 'clandestine hopes' of his own endeavours. A burnt child, he said, dreads the fire, and he would most willingly leave treaty-making to the Lord Lieutenant, who could not as 'a great and public minister of State and real Protestant' appear publicly, but who might give a hint to his friends at Kilkenny to deal with the nuncio. For himself he proposed to raise 100,000_l._ in Catholic countries, which was impossible if the Pope were 'irritated,' or the nuncio 'disgusted.' Rinuccini, he added, had agreed to let 3000 men go at once for the relief of Chester, and he believed shipping could be readily had. When this was written Chester had fallen, and a rumour had reached Ormonde when he penned an answer in his best manner. 'My Lord,' he said, 'my affections and interests are so tied to his Majesty's cause that it were madness in me to disgust any man that hath power and inclination to relieve him, in the sad condition he is in, and therefore your Lordship may securely go on in the ways you have proposed to yourself to serve the King without fear of interruption from me, or so much as inquiring into the means you work by.' For himself he had a commission to treat with the Confederates, and he intended to do so without venturing 'upon any new negotiation foreign to the powers he had received.' In the meantime the proposed succours were likely to be too late.[86] [Sidenote: Glamorgan's oath of fealty.] [Sidenote: Conclusion of peace.]