everything, and 'not to permit the army entrusted to his charge to adventure itself, or any considerable part thereof, until conditions from his Majesty and by his Majesty be performed.' In the meantime the treaty was kept secret, and the negotiations between Ormonde and the commissioners of the Confederates went on pretty much as before.[72] [Sidenote: Copies of the treaty are secretly circulated,] [Sidenote: and thus becomes public.] [Sidenote: Charles writes to the Pope.] Glamorgan soon returned to Dublin, leaving the original of his treaty in the hands of the Confederates, but Archbishop Walsh ordered copies to be given to several ecclesiastics, and the secret was not very long kept. Meanwhile the negotiations with Ormonde dragged their slow length along, and the arrival of Lord Digby, who in those days was an Anglican champion, did not make concessions on ecclesiastical matters more probable. The appearance of a papal nuncio at this stage was the one thing needful to make the situation hopeless. After Rinuccini landed in Kerry, but before he reached Kilkenny, Archbishop Queely was killed in a skirmish before Sligo, and a certified copy of the Glamorgan treaty was found upon his person. As early as the previous April Charles had written two letters, one to the nuncio and one to the Pope, and had entrusted them to Glamorgan for delivery. He promised Rinuccini to perform all that he should agree upon with Glamorgan, whom he praises in exaggerated language. 'This,' he concludes, 'is the first letter that we have ever written directly to any minister of the Pope, hoping that it will not be the last, but that after you and the said Earl have done your business, we shall openly show ourselves, as we have assured him, your friend.' When the King wrote this dangerous letter, Rinuccini was already at Genoa on his way to Ireland.[73] FOOTNOTES: [60] Castlehaven to Ormonde, November 7, 1643, in _Confederation and War_, iii. 40; La Boulaye Le Gouz, _Tour in Ireland_ (1644), p. 35. [61] Husband's _Collection_, p. 576; Gardiner's _Great Civil War_, i. 396; La Boulaye Le Gouz, _Tour_, pp. 2, 135. [62] For the expulsion of the Cork citizens see _Confederation and War_, iii. 221-230 and 235-247; for Broghill's proceedings Caulfield's _Youghal Council Book_, p. 545; Calendar of _Clarendon S.P._, July 31-November 27, 1644. For the Protestant oath and for Henrietta Maria's opinions, as reported by the Jesuit O'Hartegan, see _Confederation and War_, iv. 49, 84; Muskerry to Ormonde, February 2, 1644-5, in appendix to Carte's _Ormonde_. [63] Ormonde to Digby, October 1644, in _Confederation and War_, iii. 29, with the documents referred to at foot; and see _ib._ v. 296; Brabazon, Tichborne, and Ware to Ormonde, January 5, 1644-5, _ib._ iv. 116, and Swanley's letter, 121; Tichborne's letter to his wife, appended to _Temple_, pp. 327, 330. [64] _Bellings_, iv. 1-6, and Monnerie to Mazarin, February 20, 1644-5, in the same volume.