May it please yr Ma=ty= Having sent over Sir Cyrill Wyche to attend yr Majesties service in Parlm=t= who being sufficiently instructed to give yr Mat=y= a full account of all ye affairs in this Kingdom $'T $will {TEXT:T'will} be unnecessary by this Letter to trouble yr Mat=y= with ye particulars . Two things have principally employd my time here since my last kissing yr Mat=y's= hands ; The {COM:sic} ascertaining ye Quit rents by reducing those wch are upon barren lands , and the {COM:sic} settling ye province of Conaght , both wch will I doubt not turne to acct for your Mat=y's= service : (CAPEL-E3-H,88.3) For ye first of them will render that Revenue for ever after solvent , (CAPEL-E3-H,88.4) And ye latter as it is a work of great Justice and Charity , and will relieve many poor familys , who have for divers years bin kept out of their estate , so will it also in some proportion improve yr Mat=ey's= Revenue by bringing many Quitt Rents into charge , wch could not be done till ye lands were passt in patent : (CAPEL-E3-H,88.5) In both these as also in all other matters Sir Cyrill Wyche , when yr Mat=y= shall please to allow him ye opportunity will give yr Mat=y= a relacon of ye methods of my proceedings , and ye measures I take in all , wherein I hope yr Mat=y= will receive that satisfaction as may bee a further confirmation of ye truth and reallity , wherein I desire to appear in all humility Yr Mat=ys= , etc. , etc. (CAPEL-E3-H,88.6) May it please yr Mat=y= . I doe with all humility acknowledge ye favour yr Mat=y= was pleased to doe mee in signifying by a letter written with yr owne hand yr intention of my returning home , and that yr Mat=ey= has also therein given mee such an undeniable testimony of yr satisfaction in my management of those affairs wch yr Mat=ey= hath for almost five years committed to my care wth ye assurance yt you will be pleased to retain in yr princely memory ye endeavors I have used justly and honestly to discharge my Trust wch truly I can justify to all ye world I have performed with an upright conscience (CAPEL-E3-H,126.9) and if any cavills have arisen agnst my proceedings here it may bee they have bin founded upon my insisting strictly on yr Mat=y's= Right and not admitting some persons to take that as due wch if allowed they ought to accept as Grace from yr Majestie : (CAPEL-E3-H,126.10) And as it hath ever bin my practice in these Employments wherewith yr Mat=y= hath thought fitt to honour mee strenuously to assert and maintaine ye prerogative to wch you were borne so I hope yr Mat=y= will be pleased to believe yt in all capacitys yr Mat=y= shall at any time place mee I will continue steady and firme to ye same cause as being with all devotion , etc. , etc. (CAPEL-E3-H,126.11) To Ye King (CAPEL-E3-H,126.12) Dublin Castle (CAPEL-E3-H,126.13) April 28 , 1677 . (CAPEL-E3-H,126.14)