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Though the loss of Bristol be a great blow to me, yet your surrendering it as you did is of so much affliction to me, that it makes me not only forget the consideration of that place, but is likewise the greatest trial of my constancy that hath yet befallen...

History of the English Revolution of 1640: Commonly Called the Great ... - Page 306
by Guizot (M., François) - 1846 - 515 pages
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George Goring (1608-1657): Caroline Courtier and Royalist General

Florene S. Memegalos - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 422 pages

...such sympathy for his nephew on this occasion. Back at Hereford on 14 September, he wrote to Rupert: "For what is to be done? After one that is so near me as your are, both in blood and friendship, submits himself to so mean an action." His conclusion...

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