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A58844	Scrinia Ceciliana, mysteries of state & government in letters of the late famous Lord Burghley, and other grand ministers of state, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James, being a further additional supplement of the Cabala.; Scrinia Ceciliana.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Throckmorton, Nicholas, Sir, 1515-1571.	1663 (1663)	Wing S2109; ESTC R10583	213,730	256

lower orb It were to be wished and is fit to be so ordered that every of them keep themselves within their proper spheres The harmony of Justice is then the sweetest when there is no jarring about the Jurisdiction of the Courts which methinks wisdom cannot much differ upon their true bounds being for the most part so clearly known 19. Having said thus much of the Judges somewhat will be fit to put you in mind concerning the principal Ministers of Justice and in the first of the High-Sheriffs of the Counties which have been very Ancient in this Kingdom I am sure before the Conquest The choice of them I commend to your care and that at fit times you put the King in mind thereof that as near as may be they be such as are fit for those places for they are of great Trust and Power the Pesse Comitatus the Power of the whole County being legally committed unto him 20. Therefore it is agreeable with the intention of the Law that the choice of them should be by the commendation of the great Officers of the Kingdom and by the Advice of the Judges who are presumed to be well read in the condition of the Gentry of the whole Kingdom And although the King may do it of himself yet the old way is the good way 21. But I utterly condemn the practice of the latter times which hath lately crept into the Court at the Back-stairs that some who are prick'd for Sheriffs and were fit should get out of the Bill and others who were neither thought upon nor worthy to be should be nominated and both for money 22. I must not omit to put you in mind of the Lords Lieutenants and deputy Lieutenants of the Counties their proper use is for ordering the military affairs in order to an invasion from abroad or a rebellion or sedition at home good choice should be made of them and prudent instructions given to them and as little of the Arbitrary power as may be left unto them and that the Muster-Masters and other Officers under them incroach not upon the Subject that will detract much from the Kings service 23. The Justices of peace are of great use Anciently there were Conservators of the peace these are the same saving that several Acts of Parliament have altered their denomination and enlarged their jurisdiction in many particulars The fitter they are for the Peace of the Kingdom the more heed ought to be taken in the choice of them 24. But negatively this I shall be bold to say that none should be put into either of those Commissions with an eye of favour to their persons to give them countenance or reputation in the places where they live but for the Kings service sake nor any put out for the dis-favour of any great man It hath been too often used and hath been no good service to the King 25. A word more if you please to give me leave for the true rules of the moderation of Justice on the Kings part The execution of Justice is committed to his Judges which seemeth tobe the severer part but the milder part which is mercy is wholly left in the Kings immediate hand And Justice and Mercy are the true supporters of his Royal Throne 26. If the King shall be wholly intent upon Justice it may appear with an over-rigid aspect but if he shall be over remiss and easie it draweth upon him contempt Examples of Justice must be made sometimes for terrour to some Examples of mercy sometimes for comfort to others the one procures fear and the other love A King must be both feared and loved else he is lost 27. The ordinary Courts of Justice I have spoken of and of their Judges and judicature I shall put you in mind of some things touching the High Court of Parliament in England which is superlative and therefore it will behove me to speak the more warily thereof 28. For the institution of it it is very antient in this Kingdom It consisteth of the two Houses of Peers and Commons as the Members and of the Kings Majesty as the head of that great body By the Kings Authority alone and by his Writs they are Assembled and by him alone are they Prorogued and Dissolved but each House may Adjourn it self 29. They being thus Assembled are more properly a Councel to the King the great Councel of the Kingdom to advise his Majesty in those things of weight and difficulty which concern both the King and People then a Court. 30. No new Laws can be made nor old Laws abrogated or altered but by common Consent in Parliament where Bills are prepared and presented to the two Houses and then delivered but nothing is concluded but by the Kings Royal assent They are but Embryos 't is he giveth life unto them 31. Yet the House of Peers hath a power of Judicature in some cases properly to examine and then to affirm or if there be cause to reverse the judgments which have been given in the Court of Kings Bench which is the Court of highest jurisdiction in the Kingdom for ordinary judicature but in these cases it must be done by Writ of Error in Parliamento And thus the rule of their proceedings is not absoluta potestas as in making new Laws in that conjuncture as before but limitata potestas according to the known Laws of the Land 32. But the House of Commons have only power to censure the Members of their own House in point of election or misdemeanors in or towards that House and have not nor ever had power so much as to administer an oath to prepare a judgment 33. The true use of Parliaments in this Kingdom is very excellent and they would be often called as the affairs of the Kingdom shall require and continued as long as is necessary and no longer for then they be but burthens to the people by reason of the priviledges justly due to the Members of the two Houses and their attendants which their just rights and priviledges are religiously to be observed and maintained but if they should be unjustly enlarged beyond their true bounds they might lessen the just power of the Crown it borders so near upon popularity 34. All this while I have spoken concerning the Common Laws of England generally and properly so called because it is most general and common to almost all cases and causes both civil and criminal But there is also another Law which is called the Civil or Ecclesiastical Law which is confined to some few heads and that is not to be neglected and although I am a professor of the Common Law yet am I so much a lover of truth and of Learning and of my native Countrey that I do heartily perswade that the professors of that Law called Civilians because the Civil Law is their guide should not be discountenanced nor discouraged else whensoever we shall have ought to do with any forreign King or State we shall be

we remember our part to be to make him Delinquent to the Peers and not odions to the People That part of the Evidence of the Ladies Exposition of the Pronoun He which was first caught hold of by me and after by His Majesties singular Wisdom and Conscience excepted to and now is by her Re-examination retracted I have given order to Serjeant Montague within whose part it falleth to leave it out of the Evidence I do yet crave pardon if I do not certifie touching the point of Law for respiting the Judgment for I have not fully advised with my Lord Chancellor concerning it but I will advertise it in time I send His Majesty the Lord Stewards Commission in two several instruments the one to remain with my Lord Chancellor which is that which is written in Secretary hand for his Warrant and is to pass the Signet the other that whereunto the great Seal is to be affixed which is in Chancery hand His Majesty is to sign them both and to transmit the former to the Signet if the Secretaries either of them be there and both of them are to be returned to me with all speed I ever rest Your true and devoted Servant May 5. 1616. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney and some great Lords Commissioners concerning the perswasion used to the Lord of Somerset to a frank Confession It may please Your Majesty WE have done our best endeavours to perform Your Majesties Commission both in matter and manner for the examination of my Lord of Somerset wherein that which passed for the general was to this effect That he was to know his own Case for that his day of Trial could not be far off but that this dayes work was that which would conduce to Your Majesties Justice little or nothing but to Your Mercy much if he did lay hold upon it and therefore might do him good but could do him no hurt For as for Your Justice there had been taken great and grave opinion not only of such Judges as he may think violent but of the most saddest and most temperate of the Kingdom who ought to understand the state of the proofs that the Evidence was full to convict him so as there needed neither Confession nor supply of Examination But for Your Majesties Mercy although he were not to expect we should make any promise we did assure him That Your Majesty was compassionate of him if he gave you some ground whereon to work that as long as he stood upon his Innocency and Tryal Your Majesty was tyed in Honour to proceed according to Justice and that he little understood being a close Prisoner how much the expectation of the World besides Your love to Justice it self engaged Your Majesty whatsoever Your inclination were but nevertheless that a frank and clear Confession might open the gate of Mercy and help to satisfie the point of Honour That his Lady as he knew and that after many Oaths and Imprecations to the contrary had nevertheless in the end been touched with remorse confessed that she that led him to offend might lead him likewise to repent of his offence That the confession of one of them could not fitly do either of them much good but the confession of both of them might work some further effect towards both And therefore in conclusion we wished him not to shut the gate of your Majesties mercy against himself by being obdurate any longer This was the effect of that which was spoken part by one of us part by another as it fell out adding further that he might well discern who spake in us in the course we held for that Commissioners of Examination might not presume so far of themselves Not to trouble Your Majesty with Circumstances of his Answers the sequel was no other but that we found him still not to come any degree further on to confess only his Behaviour was very sober and modest and mild differing apparently from other times but yet as it seem'd resolv'd to expect his Tryal Then did we proceed to examine him upon divers Questions touching the Impoysonment which indeed were very material and supplemental to the former Evidence wherein either his Affirmatives gave some light or his Negatives do greatly falsifie him in that which is apparently proved We made this further observation That when we asked him some Question that did touch the Prince or some Forrain practice which we did very sparingly at this time yet he grew a little stirred but in the Questions of the Impoysonment very cold and modest Thus not thinking it necessary to trouble Your Majesty with any further particulars we end with Prayer to God ever to preserve Your Majesty Your Majesties most Loyal and Faithful Servant c. If it seem good unto Your Majesty we think it not amiss some Preacher well chosen had access to my Lord of Somerset for his preparing and comfort although it be before his Tryal Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon some inclination of His Majesty signified to him for the Chancellors place It may please your most Excellent Majesty THe last day when it pleased Your Majesty to express your self towards me in favour far above that I can deserve or could expect I was surprised by the Princes coming in I most humbly pray Your Majesty therefore to accept these few lines of acknowledgement I never had great thoughts for my self further then to maintain those great thoughts which I confess I have for your service I know what honour is and I know what the times are but I thank God with me my service is the principal and it is far from me under honourable pretences to cover base desires which I account them to be when men refer too much to themselves especially serving such a King I am afraid of nothing but that the Master of the Horse your excellent servant and my self shall fall out about this who shall hold your Stirrup belt but were Your Majesty mounted and seated without difficulties and distastes in your business as I desire and hope to see you I should ex animo desire to spend the decline of my years in my studies wherein also I should not forget to do him honour who besides his active and politick vertues is the best pen of Kings and much more the best subject of a pen. God ever preserve Your Majesty Your Majesties most humble Subject and more and more obliged Servant April 1. 1616. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney returned with Postils of the Kings own Hand It may please Your most Excellent Majesty YOur Majesty hath put upon me a work of providence in this great Cause which is to break and distinguish future events into present Cases and so to present them to your Royal Judgement that in this action which hath been carried with so great Prudence Justice and Clemency there may be for that which remaineth as little surprize as is possible but that things duly foreseen may have their remedies

and directions in readinss wherein I cannot forget what the Poet Martial saith O! quantum est subitis casibus ingenium signifiing that accident is many times more subtil then foresight and over-reacheth expectation and besides I know very well the meanness of my own Judgment in comprehending or forecasting what may follow It was Your Majesties pleasure also that I should couple the suppositions with my opinion in every of them which is a harder taske but yet Your Majesties commandment requireth my obedience and your trust giveth me assurance I will put the case which I wish That Somerset should make a clear Confession of his offences before he be produced to Tryal In this case it seemeth your Majesty will have a new consult The points whereof will be 1 whether your Majesty will stay the Trial and so save them both from the Stage and that publique Ignominy Or 2 whether you will or may sitly by Law have the Trial proceed and stay or reprieve the Judgment which saveth the Lands from forfeiture and the blood from corruption Or 3 whether you will have both Trial and Judgment proceed and save the blood only not from corrupting but from spilling REX I say with Apollo Media tutius itur if it may stand with Law and if it cannot when I shall hear that he confesseth I am then to make choice of the first or the last   These be the depths of your Majesties mercy which I may not enter into but for honour and reputation they have these grounds   That the blood of Overbury is already revenged by divers Executions   That Confession and Penitency are the footstools of Mercy adding this circumstance likewise that the former offenders did none of them make a clear confession   That the great downfal of so great persons carrieth in it self a heavie punishment and a kind of civil death although their lives should not be taken All which may satisfie honour for sparing their lives But if your Majesties mercy should extend to the first degree which is the highest of sparing the Stage and the Trial Then three things are to be considered REX This Article cannot be mended in point thereof First that they make such a submission or deprecation as they prostrate themselves and all that they have at your Majesties feet imploring your mercy   Secondly that your Majesty in your own wisdom do advise what course you will take for the utter extinguishing of all hope of resuscitating of their fortunes and favour whereof if there should be the least conceit it will leave in men a great deal of envie and discontent   And lastly whether your Majestie will not suffer it to be thought abroad that there is cause of further examination of Somerset concerning matters of Estate after he shall begin once to be a Confessant and so make as well a Politick ground as a ground of Clemencie for further stay And for the second degree of proceeding to Trial and staying Judgment I must better inform my self by presidents and advise with my Lord Chancellor The second Case is if that fall out which is likest as things stand and which we expect which is that the Lady Confess and that Somerset himself plead not guilty and be found guilty In this Case first I suppose your Majesty will not think of any stay of judgment but that the publique process of Justice pass on REX If stay of Judgment can stand with the Law I would even wish it in this Case In all the rest this Article cannot be mended Secondly for your Mercie to be extended to both for pardon of their execution I have partly touched in the considerations applyed to the former Case whereunto may be added that as there is ground of mercy for her upon her penitency and free Confession and will be much more upon his finding guilty because the malice on his part will be thought the deeper source of the offence So there will be ground for Mercie on his part upon the nature of the proof because it rests chiefly upon Presumptions For certainly there may be an Evidence so ballanced as it may have sufficient matter for the Conscience of the Peers to convict him and yet leave sufficient matter in the Conscience of a King upon the same Evidence to pardon his life because the Peers are astringed by necessity either to acquit or condemn but Grace is free And for my part I think the evidence in this present Case will be of such a nature   Thirdly It shall be my care so to moderate the manner of charging him as it might make him not odious beyond the extent of Mercy REX That danger is well to be foreseen lest he upon the one part commit impardonable Errors and I on the other part seem to punish him in the spirit of revenge Lastly all these points of Mercy and favour are to be understood with this limitation if he do not by his contemptuous and insolent carriage at the Bar make himself uncapable and unworthy of them The third Case is if he should stand mute and will not plead whereof In this case I should think fit that as in publique both my self and chiefly my Lord Chancellor sitting then as Lord Steward of your Majesty knoweth there hath been some secret question England should dehort and deter him from that desperation so nevertheless that as much should be done for him as was done for Weston which was to adjourn the Court some dayes upon a Christian ground that he may have time to turn from that mind of destroying himself during which time your Majesties further pleasure may be known REX This Article cannot be mended   The fourth Case is that which I should be very sorry should happen but it is a future contingent that is if the Peers should acquit him and finde him not guilty In this Case the Lord Steward must be provided what to do For as it hath been never seen as I conceive it that there should be any rejecting of the Verdict or any respiting of the judgment of the acquittal so on the other side this Case requireth that because there be many high and heinous offences though not Capital for which he may be questioned in the Star-Chamber or otherwise that there be some touch of that in general at the conclusion by my Lord Steward of England And that therefore he be remanded to the Tower as close Prisoner REX This is so also   For matter of examination or other proceedings my Lord Chancellor with my advice hath set down Tomorrow being Monday For the Re-examination of the Lady Wednesday next for the meeting of the Judges concerning the Evidence Thursday for the Examination of Somerset himself according to Your Majesties Instructions Which three parts when they shall be performed I will give Your Majesty advertisement with speed and in the mean time be glad to receive from Your Majesty whom it is my part to inform truly

to mind you of which nearly concerns your self you serve a great and gracious Master and there is a most hopeful young Prince whom you must not desert it behoves you to carry your self wisely and evenly between them both adore not so the rising Son that you forget the Father who raised you to this height nor be you so obsequious to the Father that you give just cause to the Son to suspect that you neglect him But carry your self with that judgment as if it be possible may please and content them both which truly I believe will be no hard matter for you to do so may you live long beloved of both which is the hearty prayer of Your most obliged and devoted Servant Sir Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers of Advice concerning Ireland from Gorambury to Windsor SIR BEcause I am uncertain whether His Majesty will put to a point some Resolutions touching Ireland now at Windsor I thought it my Duty to attend His Majesty by my Letter and thereby to supply my Absence for the renewing of some former Commissions for Ireland and the framing of a new Commission for the Wards and the Alienations which appertain properly to me as His Majesties Attorney and have been accordingly referred by the Lords I will undertake that they are prepared with a greater care and better application to His Majesties Service in that Kingdom than heretofore they have been and therefore of that I say no more And for the Instructions of the new Deputy they have been set down by the two Secretaries and read to the Board and being things of an ordinary nature I do not see but they may pass But there have been three Propositions and Councels which have been stirred which seem to me of very great importance wherein I think my self bound to deliver to His Majesty my Advice and Opinion if they should now come in question The first is touching the Recusant Magistrates of the Towns of Ireland and the Commonalties themselves and their Electors what shall be done which Consultation ariseth from the late Advertisements from the two Lord Justices upon the instance of the two Towns Limrick and Kilkenny in which Advertisements they represent the Danger only without giving any light for the Remedy rather warily for themselves than agreeable to their duties and places In this point I humbly pray His Majesty to remember that the refusal is not of the Oath of Allegiance which is not enacted in Ireland but of the Oath of Supremacy which cutteth deeper into matter of Conscience Also that His Majesty will out of the depth of His Excellent Wisdom and providence think and as it were calculate with himself whether time will make more for the Cause of Religion in Ireland and be still more and more propitious or whether differing remedies will not make the Case more difficult For if time give His Majesty the advantage what needeth precipitation of extream remedies but if the time will make the Case more desperate then His Majesty cannot begin too soon Now in my opinion time will open and facilitate things for Reformation of Religion there and not shut up or lock out the same For first the plantations going on and being principally of Protestants cannot but mate the other party in time Also His Majesties care in placing good Bishops and good Divines in amplifying the Colledge there and looking to the education of Wards and such like as they are the most natural means so are they like to be the most effectual and happy for the weeding out of Popery without using the temporal sword so that I think I may truly conclude that the ripeness of time is not yet come Therefore my advice is in all humbleness that this hazardous course of proceeding to tender the Oath to the Magistrates of Towns proceed not but die by degrees And yet to preserve the authority and reputation of the former Councel I would have somewhat done which is that there be a proceeding to seisure of liberties but not by any act of power but by quo Warranto or Scire Facias which is a legal course and will be the work of three or four Terms by which time the matter will be somewhat cool But I would not in no case that the proceeding should be with both the Towns which stand now in contempt but with one of them only choosing that which shall be most fit For if His Majesty proceed with both then all the Towns that are in the like case will think it a common Cause and that it is but their case to day and their own to morrow But if His Majesty proceed but with one the apprehension and terror will not be so strong for they may think it may be their case to be spared as well as prosecuted And this is the best Advice that I can give to His Majesty in this strait and of this opinion seemed my Lord Chancellor to be The second Proposition is this It may be His Majesty will be moved to reduce the number of His Councel of Ireland which is now almost fifty to twenty or the like number in respect that the greatness of the number doth both imbase the Authority of the Councel and divulge the business Nevertheless I hold this Proposition to be rather specious and solemn than needful at this time for certainly it will fill the State full of discontentment which in a growing and unsetled State ought not to be This I could wish that His Majesty would appoint a select number of Councellors there which might deal in the improvement of His Revenue being a thing not to pass through too many hands and the said selected number should have dayes of sitting by themselves at which the rest of the Councel should not be present which being once setled then other principal business of State may be handled at these sittings and so the rest begin to be disused and yet retain their countenance without murmur or disgrace The third Proposition as it is moved seemeth to be pretty if it can keep promise for it is this That a means may be found to re-enforce His Majesties Army by five hundred or a thousand men and that without any Penny increase of charge And the means should be That there should be a Commandment of a local removing and transferring some Companies from one Province to another whereupon it is supposed that many that are planted in House and Lands will rather lose their entertainment then remove and thereby new men may have their Pay yet the old be mingled in the Countrey for the strength thereof In this Proposition two things may be feared the one discontent of those that shall be put off the other that the Companies shall be stuffed with Novices Tirones instead of Veterani I wish therefore that this Proposition be well debated before it be admitted Thus having performed that which Duty binds me to I commend you to Gods best preservation Your most devoted and

a Prince but in one thing as a Prisoner for he forced upon him a Promise to restore the Earl of Suffolk that was fled into Flanders and yet this I note was in the 21. year of his Reign when the King had a goodly Prince at mans estate besides his daughters nay and the whole line of Clarence nearer in title for that Earl of Suffolk was Descended of a Sister of Edward 4. so far off did that King take his aim To this action of so deep consequence it appeareth you my Lady of Shrewsbury were privy not upon Forreign suspitions or strained inferences but upon vehement presumptions now clear and particular testimony as hath been opened to you so as the King had not only Reason to examine you upon it but to have proceeded with you upon it as for a great contempt which if it be reserved for the present your Ladiship is to understand it aright that it is not defect of proof but abundance of grace that is the cause of this proceeding And your Lady-ship shall do well to see into what danger you have brought your self All offences consist of the fact which is open and the intent which is secret this fact of Conspiring in the flight of this Lady may bear a hard and gentler construction if upon over much affection to your Kinswoman gentler if upon practice or other end harder you must take heed how you enter into such actions whereof if the hidden part be drawn unto that which is open it may be your overthrow which I speak not by way of charge but by way of caution For that which you are properly charged with you must know that all subjects without distinction of degrees owe to the King tribute and service not only of their deed and hand but of their knowledge and discoverie If there be any thing that imports the Kings service they ought themselves undemanded to impart it much more if they be called and examined whether it be of their own fact or of anothers they ought to make direct answer Neither was there ever any subject brought into causes of estate to trial judicial but first he passed examination for examination is the entrance of Justice in criminal causes it is one of the eyes of the Kings politique bodie there are but two Information and Examination it may not be endured that one of the lights be put out by your example Your excuses are not worthie your own judgment rash vowes of lawful things are to be kept but unlawful vowes not your own Divines will tell you so For your examples they are some erroneous traditions My Lord of Pembrook spake somewhat that he was unlettered and it was but when he was examined by one private Councellor to whom he took exception That of my Lord Lumley is a fiction the preheminences of Nobility I would hold with to the last graine but every dayes experience is to the contrary Nay you may learn dutie of my Lady Arbella her self a Lady of the Blood of an higher Rank than your self who declining and yet that but by request neither to declare of your fact yieldeth ingenuously to be examined of her own I do not doubt but by this time you see both your own error and the Kings grace in proceeding with you in this manner Sir Nicholas Throckmorton then Ambassadour in France to Queen Elizabeth touching a free Passage for the Queen of Scots through England into Scotland IT may please your Majesty to understand that the 17 of July I received your letters at Poisey of the 14 of the same by Francisco this bearer and for that I could not according to your Majesties instructions in the same letters accomplish the contents of them until Mounsieur d' Oysell had delivered your letters to the French King the Queen of Scotland and the Queen Mother who did not arrive at this Court till the 20th of this present I did defer to treat with any of the Princes of your Majesties answer to the said Mounsieur d' Oysell Nevertheless the 18th of this moneth I required Audience of the French King which was granted me the same day in the after-noon I repaired to his Court being at Saint Germanes and there the Queen-Mother accompanied with the King of Navarre and sundry other great personages was in the place of State to hear what I had to say to the King her son who was absent unto her I declared your Majesties pleasure according to my instructions concerning your acceptation of the Hostages already received and hereafter to be received signified to me by your Majesties letters of the 17 of June and as I wrote to your Majesty lately brought to me by Mounsieur de Noailles the 16 of July for answer whereunto the Queen Mother said Mounsieur l' Ambassadour we marvail greatly how it cometh to pass that the Queen your Mistress doth not make more stay to receive the King my sons Hostages than she hath done heretofore for from the beginning since the Hostages were sent into England neither the King my late Lord and Husband nor the late King my Son did either recommend the sufficiency of their Hostages by their Letters or cause their names to be recommended unto you the Ambassador but the presentation of them by our Ambassador in England did suffice thereunto I said Madam you know they be Hostages for a matter of some moment and if they should neither have the Kings assurance for their Validity nor the Queen my Mistris Ambassadours allowance of their sufficiency some personages might be sent which were neither meet for the King to send nor for the Queen my Mistris to receive and yet Madam the Queen my Mistris doth not require the manner of recommending the sufficiency of the Hostages for any doubt she hath that unmeet persons should be sent but rather because a friendly and sincere fashion of dealing should be betwixt her good Brother and her with whom her Majesty is so desirous to have a perfect assured Amity I said also That the King her Son hath notified both to my Lord of Bedford at his being here and unto me the names of some of the Hostages as the Count of Benon before his going into England as Mounsieur de Sualt who had the charge so to do could well inform her so as this motion need not seem strange for the newness The Queen answered Mounsieur l' Ambassadour we be well-pleased seeing your Mistriss doth require it that from henceforth either the Hostages shall have the King my Sons Letters of Recommendation or else their names should be notified unto you or any other her Ambassadour here and I pray you Mounsieur l' Ambassadour quoth she give the Queen your Mistris my good Sister to understand from me That if there be any thing in this Countrey that may please her she shall have it if I may know her liking I told the said Queen That I was sure your Majesty was of the same mind