service or to your Highness's satisfaction; being joyed of nothing so much in this world as of the assurance of your favour, and that it will not be in the power of the devil to lessen your goodness to me, or to alter the quality I have of being your Highness's most humble, faithful, and obedient servant."[91] Wilmot, Lieutenant-General of the Horse, was a less fascinating but a less unprincipled person than Goring. That is to say that, while Goring would betray any friend, or violate any promise, "out of humour or for wit's sake," Wilmot would not do either, except "for some great benefit or convenience to himself."[92] He is described by Clarendon as "a man of a haughty and ambitious nature, of a pleasant wit, and an ill understanding."[93] Like Goring, he drank hard, {84} but not, like Goring, to the neglect of his military duties. With the dissolute wits of the army he was exceedingly popular, but Rupert, always so temperate himself, had no sympathy with the failings of Wilmot. As early as November 1642 he had conceived "an irreconcilable prejudice"[94] against his lieutenant-general. Possibly the seed of this prejudice had been sown at Edgehill, where Wilmot refused to make a second charge, saying: "We have won the day; let us live to enjoy the fruits thereof."[95] And justly or unjustly, the combined hatred of Rupert, Digby, and Goring accomplished Wilmot's overthrow in 1644. [1] Warburton. Vol. I. pp. 460-462. [2] Lansdowne MSS. 817. [3] Warburton. I. p. 462. [4] Rupert Transcripts. Instruction to the Prince. 1642. [5] _I.e._ in the Scottish wars. [6] Memoirs of Sir Philip Warwick, pp. 226-228. [7] Lansdowne MSS. 817. [8] A Looking Glass etc. Civil War Tract. Brit. Mus. [9] Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion. Ed. 1849. Bk. VI. p. 46. [10] Ibid. Bk. VI. p. 109. [11] Mr. Firth's Transcripts. Geo. Porter to Rupert, March 24, 1644. [12] Warburton. II. p. 250. Journal of Siege of Bristol. [13] Pythouse Papers. Ed. Day. 1879. p. 46. 16 Nov, 1642. [14] Rupertismus. Cleveland's Poems. Ed. 1687. p. 51. [15] May. Hist. of Long Parliament. Ed. 1854. p. 249. [16] May. Hist. of Long Parliament. Ed. 1854. p. 243-4. [17] Rupertismus. [18] Webb. Civil War in Herefordshire. Vol. I. p. 129. [19] May. p. 244. [20] Prince Rupert: His Reply. Brit. Mus. [21] Webb. Civil War in Hereford. I. p. 149. [22] Gardiner's Civil War, I. p. 15. [23] Sydney Papers. Spencer to Lady Spencer. II. p. 667. [23] Rupert Correspondence. Warburton. II. p. 191. [25] Ibid. p. 193. [26] Rupert Transcripts, Colonel Blagge to the Prince, 2 March, 1643. [27] Verney Memoirs, Vol. II. p. 115. [28] Dom. State Papers. Nicholas to King, Sept. 18, 1645. [29] Warburton. II. 262. [30] Warburton. II. 267. [31] Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Ed. Morris. 1872. Sir Edward Southcote's Narrative, 1st Series, p. 392. [32] Gardiner's Civil War, I. p. 2.