Note 265 — RAGLAN CASTLE, Monmouthshire. (continued 2)

The Marquess, like many other royalists, considered that the King was under restraint; and that it was his duty to disobey the royal orders for surrender. In fact, Charles himself had written to the Queen that he was in durance in the hands of the barbarous and perfidious Scots; and that she, his son, and all his faithful counsellors, were to regard every order from him, C. R., as forced or surreptitious. The Marquess, therefore, regarded the document with well-grounded suspicion, and took exception to his Majesty’s warrant, because, while it specified others, it did not name him or his Castle.—Hist. of Engl., Civ. and Milit. Transact. p. 356.