upon the like Argument May it please your Lordship I Have finished an argument touching the advancement of Learning which I have dedicated to his Majesty the most learned of a Soveraign temporall Prince that time hath known and upon reason not unlike I humbly present one of them Books to your Lordship not only as a Chancellour of the University but as one that was excellently bred in all learning which I have ever noted to shine in all your speeches and behaviour and therefore your Lordship will yeeld a gratious aspect to your first lover and take pleasu ein the adorning of that wherewith your selfe is so much adorned and so humbly desiring your favourable acceptation thereof with signification of humble Duty to remaine c. Yours c. A Letter of the like argument to the Lord Chauncellour Egerton May it please your good Lordship I Humbly present your Lordship with a worke wherein as you have much commandement over the Author so your Lordship hath also great interest in the argument for to speak without flattery few have the like use of Learning or like judgement in Learning as I have observed in your Lordship hath beene a gteat planter of learning not onely in these places in the Church which have been in your own guift but also in your commendatory vote no man hath more constantly held detur digniori and therefore both your Lordship is beholding to learning and your Lordship which maketh me presume with good assurance that your Lordship will accept well of these my labours the rather because your Lordship in private speech hath often begun to me in expressing your admiration of His Majesties learning to whom I have dedicated this work and whose vertue and perfection in that kind did chiefly move me to a work of this nature and so with signification of my humble duty and affection towards your Lordship I remaine A Letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook Mr. Attourney I Thought best once for all to let you know in plainesse what J finde of you and what you shall find of me to take to your selfe a liberty to disgrace and disable my law my experience my discretion what it please you I pray think of me I am one that know both my own wants and other mens and it may be perchance that mine may amend when others stand at a stay and surely I may not endure in publique place to be wronged without repelling the same to my best advantage to right my self you are great therefore have the more enviours which would be glad to have you paid at anothers Cost since the time I missed the Sollicitours place the rather I think because your meanes I cannot expect that you or I shall evâ—r serve as Attourney 〈◊〉 Soll citor but either to serve with another upon your remove or to step into some other course so as I am more free then ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming my self more then generall good means or our perricular goâ—… usage shall provoke if you had not beene short sighted in your owne fortune as I thinke you might have had more use of me out that tide is past I write not this to shew my friends what a brave letter I have writ to Mr. Attorney I have none of those humours but that I have written is to a good end that is to the more decent carriage of my Mrs. service and to a perticular better understanding out of another This Letter if it shall be answered by you in deed not in word I suppose it will not be worse for us both else it is but a few lines lost which for a much smaller matter I would adventure So this being to your self I for my part rest A Letter to my Lord of Salisbury touching the Sollicitours place It may please your good Lordship I Am not ignorant how mean a thing I stand for desiring to come into the Sollicitours place for I know well it is not the thing it hath been time having wrought alteration both in the profession and in the speciall place yet because I thinke it would encrease my practise that it may satisfie my friends because I have beene voiced to it I would be glad it were done wherein I may say to your Lordship in the confidence of your poor Kinsman and of a man by you advanced Tuidem fer opem qui spem dedisti for I am sure it was not possible for a man living to have received from any other more significant comfortable words of hope your Lordship being pleased to tell me during the course of my last service that you would raise me that when you were resolved to raise a man you were more carefull of him then himself that what you had done for me in my marriage was a benefit to me but ofâ—…â—…nse to your Lordship therefore I might assure my self you would not leave me there with many like speeches which I know well my duty then to take any other hold of then the hold of a thankfull remembrance I know all the world knoweth that your Loâ—dship is no deâ—…er of holy-water but noble reall on my part I am on a sure ground that I have committed nâ—thing that may deserve any alteration and if I cannot observe you as I would yâ—ur Lordship will impute it to my want of experience which I shall gather better when I am once setled and therefore my hope is your Lordship wiâ—… finish a good work and consider that â—ime groweth precious and tha I am now vergentibus annis and although I know your for une is not to need an hundred such as I am yet I shall ever be ready to give you my best and first fruits and to suppâ—y as much as in me â—yeth a worthinesse by thankfulnesse A Letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument It May please your good Lordship AS I conceived it to be a resolution both with his Majesty and among your Lordships of his Councell that I shnuld be placed Sollicitour and the Sollicitour removed to be the Kings Sergeant so I most humblie thank your Lordships furtherance and forwardnesse therein your Lordship being the man that first devised the mean wherefore my humble request unto your Lordship is that you would set in with some strength to finish this your work which assure your Lordship I desire the rather because being placed I hope by for many favours to be able to do y a some better service for as I am your Lordship cannot use mee nor scarcely indeed know me not that I think I shall be ablâ— to do any greater matters but certainely it will frame me to use a more industrious observance and application to such as I honour so much as I do your Lordship and not I hope without some good offices which may deserve your thanks And herewithall good my Lord I humbly pray
lover and take pleasuâ—e in the adorning of that wherewith your selfe is so much adorned and so humbly desiring your favourable acceptation thereof with signification of humble Duty to remaine Yours c. Another Letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former Argument My Lord AS I conceived it to be a resolution both with his Majesty and among your Lordships of his Councell that I should be placed Sollicitour and the Solliciâ—our removed to be the Kings Sergeant so I most humblie thank your Lordships furtnerance and forwâ—rdnesse therein your Lordship being the man that first devised the mean wherefore my humble request unto your Lordship is that you would set in with some strength to finish this your work which assure your Lordship I desire the rather because being placed I hope by for many favours to be able to do you some better service for as I am your Lordship cannot use mee nor scarceâ—y indeed know me no that I think I shall be able to do any greater matters but certainely it will frame me to use a more industrious observance and application to such as I honour so much as I do your Lordship and not I hope without some good offices which may deserve your thanks And here withall good my Lord I humbly pray your Lordship to consider that time groweth precious with me and that a married man is seven yeares elder in his thoughts the first day and therefore what a discomfortable thing it is for me to be unsettled still for surely were it not that I think my self born to do my Soveraign service and therefore in that station I will live and dy otherwise for my own private comfort it were better for me that the King did blot me out of his Book or that I should turne to endeavour to serve him in some other kind then for me to stand thus at a stop and to have that little reputation which by my industry I gather to be scattered â—nd taken away by continuall disgraces every new man comming above me and sure I am J shall never have fair promises and hope from all your Lordships For J know not what service saving that your Lordships all told me were good and J would believe you in a much greater matter and if it were nothiâ—g else J hope the modesty of my 〈◊〉 deserveth somewhat For J know well the Sollicitours place is not as your Lordship lest it tâ—me working alteration somewhat in the profession much more in that speciall place and were it not to satisfie my wives friends and to get my self out of being a Common gaze and a speech J protest before God I wâ—uâ—d never â—peak word for it But to concluâ—e as my honourable Lady was a mean to make me to change the name of another So if it please you to help me as you said to change my owne nâ—me I cannot be but more and more bounden to you and I am much deceived if your Lordship find not the King well inclined So remaining Yours c. An expostulatory Letter to Sir Vincent Skinner SIR I See that by your need esse delayes this matter is growne to a new question wherein for the matter it self if it had beene stayed at the begâ—nning my Lord Treasurer and Mr. Chancellour I should not sâ— mucâ— have â—tood upon it For the great and dayly travails which I take in his Majesties service either are rewarded in themselvs 〈◊〉 â—hat they aâ—e but my duty or else may deserve a much greater matter Neither can I think amisse of any man that in furtherance of the Kings benefit moved the doubt that knew not what warrant you had But my wrong is that you having had my Lord Treasurers and Mr. Chancellours Warrant for payment of above a moneth since you I say making your payments be like upon such differences as are better known to your selfe then agreeable to due respect of his Majesties service have declared it all this time otherwise then I might have expected either from our ancient acquaintance or from that regard which one in your place may owe to one in mine by occasion whereof there ensueth unto me a great inconvenience That now my name in a sort must be in question amongst you as if I were a man likely either to demand that which were unreasonable or to be denyed that which is reasonable and this must be because you can pleasure men at pleasure But this J leave with this that it is the first matter wherein J had occasion to discern of your Lordship which I see to fall to this That whereas Mr. Chancellour the last time in my mans hearing very honourably said that he would not discontent any in my place it seems you have no such occasion But my writing to you now is to know of you where the stay now is without being any more beholding to you to whom indeed no man ought to be beholding in those cases in a right course and so I bid you farewell Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Davies His Majesties Attourney in Ireland Mr. Attourney I Thank you for the Letter and the discourse of this new accident you sent me as things then appeared I see manifestly the beginning of better or worse but me thinks it is first a tender of the better and worse following But upon refusall or difficult I would have been glad to have seen you here but I hope occasion reserveth our meeâ—ing for a vacation I would have more fruit of conference to requite your Proclamation which in my judgment is wisely and seriously penned I send you another with us which happened to be in my hands when yours came I would be glad to hear often from you and be advertized how things passe whereby to have some occasion to think â—…me good thought though I can do little at least it will be a continuance in exercize of friendship which on my part remaine 〈◊〉 reased by that I hear of your service and the good respect I find towards my self And so I continue Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Pierce I Am glad to hear of you as I do and for my part you shall find me ready to take any occasion to further your credit and preferment and I dare assure you though I am no undertaker to prepare your way with my Lord of Salisbury for any good fortune which may befall you You teach me to compâ—aâ—n of business whereby I write more briefly yet I am so unjust as that which I alleadge for my own excuse I cannot admit for yours For I must by expecting exact your Letters with this fruâ—t of your sufficiency as to understand â—ow things passe in that Kingdome and therefore having begun I pray continue This is not meerly curiosity for I have ever I know not by what instinct wished well to that un olished part of this Crown And so with my very loving commendations I remain Yours
THE REMAINES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS Lord VERULAM Viscount of St. Albanes sometimes Lord Chancellour of England BEING Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published A Table whereof for the Readers more ease is adjoyned LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his Shop neer the Savoy in the Strand 1648. THE TABLE AN Essay of a King pag. 1. An Explanation what manner of persons they should be that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative pag. 3. Short Notes of civill conversation pag. 6. An Essay on Death pag. 7. His Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered to King James pag. 13. A Letter of advice written to Sir Edward Cooke Lord chief justice of the Kings Bench pag. 20. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer in excuse of his speech in Parliament agrinst the treble subsedy pag. 28. A Letter to my Lord Treasurer recommending his first suite tonching the Sollitours place pag. 29. A Letter of Ceremony to Queene Elizabeth upon the sending of a new years guift pag. 31. Another to the Queen upon the like Ceremony pag. 31. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex to take upon him the Care of the Irish businesse when Mr. Secretary Cecill was in France pag. 32. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598 before my Lord was nominated for the charge of Ireland pag. 34. Another Letter of advice to my Lord immediatly before his going into Ireland pag. 37. A Letter to the said Earle of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex-house pag. 41. Two Letters to be framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earle of Essex the other as the Earles answer thereunto delivered with the advice of Mr. Anthony Bacon and the privity of the Earle to be shewed to the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance pag. 42. My Lord of Essex his answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter pag. 46. A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland pag. 47. Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland pag. 48. A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few days before Queen Elizabeths death pag. 54. A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in pag. 55. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Sco land upon the entrance of his Majesties Raign pag. 56. A letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance pag. 58 A letter commending his love and occasions to Sir Thomas Challenor in Scotland upon his Majesties entrance pag. 59. A letter to Mr. Davies then gone to the King at his first entrance pag. 62. A letter to Mr. Fauls 28 March 1603. pag. 62. A letter to Dr. Morrison a Scottish Physitian upon his Majesties coming in pag. 63. A Letter to Mr. Robert Kenny upon the death of Queen Elizabeth pag. 61. A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation for the King c. pag. 62. A letter to my Lord 〈◊〉 Southampton upon the Kings coming in pag. 66. A letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King pag. 66 A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place pag. 67. A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the advancement of learning pag. 68. A letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the like Argument pag. 69 A letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook pag. 69. A letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument pag. 72 A letter to the King concerning the Sollicitour place pag. 73 Aletter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon New yeers guift pag. 73 A Secaod letter to the Lord Chancellour pag. 73. Another letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former argument pag. 74 An expostulatory Letter 〈◊〉 Vincent Skinner pag. 75. A Letter to Mr. Davis his Majesties attourney in Ireland pag. 76 A letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland pag. 77 A letter to Mr. Murrey pag. 78 A Letter to my Lady Packington pag. 78. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Religion pag. 79 Sir Tho. Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogitata visa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same pag. 80. The Characters of a believing Christian in Paradoxes and seeming contradictions pag. 88 A Confession of the Faith written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soveraign Lord King James pag. 95. A Prayer made and used by the Lord Bacon pag. 101. BACONS REMAINES 1. AKING is a mortall God on earth unto whom the Living GOD hath lent his own Name as a great honor but withall told film he should die like a man least he should be proud and flatter himself that GOD hath with his Name imparted unto him his Nature also 2. Of all kind of men GOD is the least beholding unto them for he doth most for them and they doe ordinarily least for him 3. A King that would not feel his Crown too heavie for him must weare it every day but if he think it too light he knoweth not of what metall it is made of 4. He must make Religion the Rule of Government and not to Ballance the Scale for he that casteth in Religion onely to make the Scales even his own weight is couteined in these Characters Tekel uprasin he is found too light his Kingdom shall be taken from him 5. And that King that holds not Religion the best reason of of State is void of all Piety and Justice the supporters of a King 6. He must be able to give Counsell himself but not to rely thereupon for though happy events justifie their Counsells yet it is better that the evill event of good advice be rather imputed to a Subject then a Soveraigne 7. Hee is the fountaine of Honor which should not run with a waste pipe lest the Courtiers sell the waters and then as Papists say of their holy wells to loose the vertue 8. Hee is the life of the Law not onely as he is Lex loquens himselfe but because he animateth the dead letter making it active towards all his subjects premio poena 9. A wise King must doe lesse in altering his Laws then he may for new government is even dangerous it being true in the body politick as in the corporall that omnis subditi imitatio est periculosa and though it be for the better yet it is not without a fearfull apprehension for he that changeth the fundamentall Lawes of a Kingdome thinketh there is no good title to a Crown but by conquest 10. A King that setteth to sale seates
encounter the main Battell the Wings are yet unbroken they may charge you at an instant as Death therefore walk circumspectly And if at length by the means of our good Masters and Governours you recover the favour you have lost give God the glory in actions not in words only and remember us with some of your past misfortune whose estate and undoings hath doth and may hereafterly in the power of your breath There is great mercy in dispatch delayes are tortures where-with by degrees we are rent out of our estates Do not you if you be restored as some others do fly from the service of vertue to serve the time as if they repented their goodnesse or meant not to make a second hazard in Gods house But rather let this crosse make you more zealons in Gods cause sensible in ours and more sensible in all that expresse thus You have been a great enemy of the Papists if you love God be so still but more indeed then heretofore for much of your zeal before was wasted in words call to remembrance they were the Persons that thus prophesied of this Crosse of yours long before it hapned they saw the storm coming being the principall contrivers and furtherers of the Plot these men blew the coals heat the irons and make all things ready they owe you a good turn and will if they can pay it you you see their hearts by their deeds prove you your Faith so to the best good work you can do is to do the best you can against them that is to see the Laws severely justly and diligently executed And now we beseech you My Lord seem sensible both of the stroke and hand that strikes you learn of David to leave Shemy and look upon God he hath some great work to do and he prepares you for iâ— he would not have you faint nor yet bear this Crosse with a Stoicall resolution there is a Christian mediocritie worthy your greatnesse I must be plain perhaps rash had every note you had taken at Sermons bin written in your heart to practise this work had been done long since without the errour of your enemies but when we will not mend our selves God if we belong to him takes us in hand and because he sees maius nitus dolem us per hoc quod foris patimur He therefore sends us outward Crosses which while they cause us to mourn they do comfort us being assured testimonies of his love that sends them To humble our selves therefore to God is the part of a Christian but for the World and our Enemies that councell of the Poet is apt Rebus angustus animosus atque forte apparere sapienter item contrahes vento in nostrum secundo turgida vela The last part of this you forgot yet none need to be ashamed to make use of it and so being armed against casualties you may stand firm against the assaults on the right hand and on the left for this is cerâ—ain the mind that is most prone to be puffed up with prosperity is most weak and apt to be dejected with the least touch of adversity indeed she is able to stagger a strong man striking terrible blowes especially Immerito veniens paena dolonda venit but true Christian wisdom gives us armour of proof against all these assaults and teacheth us in all estates to be contented for though she cause our trencher friends to declare themselves our enemies though she give heart to the most coward to strike us though an hours continuance countervails an Age of prosperity though she cast in our dishes all the evils that ever we have done yet hath she no power to hurt the humble and wise but only to break such as too much prosperity hath made stift in their own thoughts but weak indeed and fit for ruine when the wise from thence rather gather profit and wisdom by the example of David who saith Before I was chastisâ—d I went wrong Now then he knows the right way and will look better to his footing Cardansâ—… saith that weeping fasting and sighing are three great purges of grief Indeed naturally they help to assway Sorrow but God in this Case is the best and only Physician the means he hath ordained are the advice of friends the amendment of our selves for amendment is both the Physick and the Cure For friends though your Lordship be scanted yet I hope you are not altogether destitute if you be look on good books they are true friends that will neither slatter nor dissemble be you betwixt your self applying what they teach to the party grieved and you shall need no other comfort nor Counsellours To them and to Gods holy spirit directing you in the reading of them I commit your Lordship beseeching him to send a good issue of these your troubles and from henceforth to work a Reformation in what hath been amiss and a resolute perseverance proceeding and growth in all that is good and that for his glory the benefit of your self this Church and Common-wealth whose faithfull Servant while you remain I remain a faithfull Servant to you Suppose this boldnesse occasioned by something I hear which I dare not write be not so secure though you see some Clouds break up all crosses and damages may be compared to a Woolf which coming upon a man suddenly causeth his voice and heart to fail but the danger that is expected is toothlesse and half prevented A Letter to my Lord Treasurer in excuse of his Speech in Parliament against the Treble Subsidie It may please your good Lordship I Was sorry to find by your Lordships Speech yesterday that my hastie Speech in Parliament delivered in discharge of my Conscience my duty to God her Majesty and my Countrey was offensive If it were misreported I would be glad to attend your Lordship to disavow any thing I said not If it were misconstrued I would be glad to expound my words to exclude any sense I meant not if my heart be mis-judged by imputation of popularity or opposition I have great wrong and the greater because the manner of my Speech did most evidently shew that I spake simply and only to satisfie my conscience and not with any advantage or policie to sway the cause And my terms carryed all signification of duty zeal towards her Majesty and her service It is very true that from the beginning whatsoever was a double Subsidie J did wish might for presidents sake appear to be extraordinary and for discontents sake might not have been levyed upon the poverty though otherwise J wished it as rising as J think this will prove and more this was my mind J confesse it And therefore J do most humbly pray your good Lordship First to continue me in your own good opinion and then to perform the part of an Honourable friend towards your poor humble and obedient Servant and Allyance in drawing Her MAJESTIE to accept of the sinceritie and simplicitie of my zeal and
and then that the Pattenties be tyed to build on those places only and to fortifie as shall be thought convenient And lastly it followeth of course in Countries of new Populations to invite and provoke inhabitants by ample Liberties and Charter A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few dayes before Queen Elizabeths death May it please your good Lordship AS the time of the sowing of a Seed is known but the time of coming up and disclosing is casuall or according to the Season So I am witnesse to my self that there hath been covered in my mind a long time a Seed of affection and zeal towards your Lordâ—… sown by the estimation of your vertues and your particulaâ—â—â—our and favour to my Brother deceased and to my self which Seed still springing now bursteth forth into this possession And to be plâ—in in with your Lordship it is very true and no winds not noises of evill matters can blow this out of my head and heâ—rt that your great capacity and love towards Studies and contemplations of an higher and worthier nature then popular a matter raâ—e in the World and in a person of your I ordships quality a most singular is to me a great and chief motive to draw my affection and admiration towards you And therefore good my Lord if I may be of any use to your Lordship by my hand tongue pen means or friends I humbly pray your Lordship to hold me your own and there withall not to do so much disadvantage to my good mind as to conceive this my commendation of my humble service proceedeth out of any straights of my occasions but meerly out of an election and indeed the fulnesse of my heart and so wishing your Lordship all prosperity I continue A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in May it please your most excellent Majesty IT is observed upon a place in the Canticles by some Ego sum Flos Campi Lillium Convalium it is not said Ego sum Flos horti Lillium Montinum because the Majesty of that person is not inclosed for a few nor appropriated to the great And yet notwithstanding this Royall vertue of accesse which nature and judgment have planted in your Majesties mind as â—ortall of all the rest could not of it self my imperfections considered have animated me to have made oblation of my self immediatly to your Majesty had it not been joyned with a habite of like liberty which I enjoyed with my late dear Soveraign Mistresse a Prince happy in all things but most happy in such a Successour And yet further and more nearly I was not a little encouraged not only upon a supposall that unto your Majesties cares open to the Ayr of all Vertues there might have come some small breath of the good memory of my Father so long a principall Councellour in your Kingdom but also by the particular knowledge of the infinite devotion and incessant endeavours beyond the strength of his body and the nature of the times which appeared in my good Brother towards your Majesties service and near on your Maâ—esties part through your singular benignity by many most gracious and lively significations and favours accepted and acknowledged beyond the merit of any thing he could effect All which endeavours and duties for the most part were common to my self with him though by design between Brethren dissembled And therefore most high and mighty King my most deare and dread Soveraign Lord since now the corner stone is laid of the mightiest Monarch in Europe and that God above who is noted to have a mighty hand in bridling the Flouds and Fluctuations of the Seas and of Peoples hearts hath by the miraculous and universall consent the more strange because it proceedeth from such diversity of causes in your coming in giving a sign and token what he intendeth in the continuance I think there is no Subject of your Majesties who leaveth this Islaâ—â— and is not hollow and unworthy whose heart is not set on fire nâ—… only to bring you Peace-offerings to make you propitious but to sacrifice himselfe a burnt offering to your Majesties service amoâ—â—st which number no mans fire shall be more pure and fervent But how farre forth it shall blaze out that resteth in your Majesties employment For since your fortune in the greatnesse thereof hath for a time debarred your Majesty of the fruitly vertue which one calleth the principall Principiâ—s est voritus maxima c. Because your Majesty hath many of yours which are unknown unto you I must leave all to the tryall of further time and thirsting after the happinesse of kissing your Royall hand continue ever c. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Scotland upon the entrance of his Majesties Reign SIR THe occasion awaketh in me a remembrance of the constant and mutuall good offices which passed between my good Brother and your self whereunto as you know I was not altogether a stranger though the nature of the time and design betweene us Brethren made me more reserved But well do I bear in mind the great opinion which my Brother whose judgment I much reverence would often expresse to me of your extraordinary sufficiency dexterity and temper which he found in you in the business and service of the King our Soveraign Lord This latter bred in mâ— an election as the former gave an inducement forme to make this signification of my desire of a mutuall entertainment of my good affection and correspondence between us hoping both that some good effect may result of it towards the Kings service and that for our particulars though occasion give you the precedency of furthering my being known by good note to the King So wee shall have some means given to requite your savours and verifie your commendations And so with my loving recommendation good Mr. Foules I leave you to Gods goodnesse From Grays-Inne this 25 of March A Letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance My Lord THe present occasion awaketh in me a remembrance of the constant amity and mutuall good offices which passed between my Brother deceased and your Lordship whereunto I was lesse strange then in respect of the time I had reason to pretend and withall I call to mind the great opinion which my Brother who seldom failed in judgment of person would often expresse to me of your Lordships great wisdom and soundnesse both in head and heart towards the service of our Lord the Soveraigne King The one of those hath bred in me an election and the other a confidence to addresse my good wâ—ll and sincere affection to your Lordship not doubting in regard that my course of life hath wrought me not to be altogether unseene in the matters of the Kingdom that I may be in some use both in point of service to the King and in your Lordships particular And on the other side
your Lordship to consider that time groweth precious with me and that a married man is seven yeares elder in his thoughts the first day and therefore what a discomfortable thing it is for me to be unsettled still for surely were it not that I think my self born to do my Soveraign service and therefore in that station I will live and dy otherwise for my own private comfort it were better for me that the King did blot me out of his Book or that I should turne to endeavour to serve him in some other kind then for me to stand thus at a stop and to have that little reputation which by my industry I gather to be scattered and taken away by continuall disgraces every new man comming above me and sure I am J shall never have fair promises and hope from all your Lordships For J know not what service saving that your Lordships all told me were good and J would believe you in a much greater matter and if it were nothing else J hope the modesty of my suit deserveth somewhat For J know well the Sollicitours place is not as your Lordship lest it time working alteration somewhat in the profession much more in that speciall place and were it not to satisfie my wives friends and to get my self out of being a Common gaze and a speech J protest before God I would never speak word for it But to conclude as my honourable Lady was a mean to make me to change the name of another So if it please you to help me as you said to change my owne name I cannot be but more and more bounden to you and I am much deceived if your Lordship find not the King well inclined as for my Lord of Salisbury forward and affectionate A Letter to the King touching the Sollicitours place It may please your excellent Majesty HOw honestly ready I have beene most gratious Soveraign to do your Majesty humble service to the best of my power and in manner beyond my power as I now stand I am not so unfortunate but your Majesty knoweth for both in the Commission of union the labour whereof for men of my profession rested most upon my hands and this last Parliament in the Bill of the Subsidie both Body and preamble in the Bill of Attaindors both Tresham and the rest in the matter of purveiance in the Ecclesiasticall petitions in the grievances and the like as I was ever carefull and not without good successe sometimes to put forward that which was good sometimes to keep back that which was good sometimes to keep back that which was worse So your Majesty was pleased kindly to accept of my service and to say to me such conflicts were the wars of Peace and such victories the victories of Peace and therefore such servants that obtained them were by Kings that raign in peace no lesse to be esteemed the conquerours in the Wars in all which neverthelesse I can challenge to my selfe our sufliciency but that I was diligent and reasonable happy to execute those directions which I received either immediatly from your royall mouth or from my Lord of Salisbury at that time it pleased your Majesty also to assure me that upon the remove of the then Attourney I should not be forgotten but be brought into ordinary place and this was after confirmed nuto me by many of my Lords and towards the end of the last term the mannet also in perticular â—poken of that is That Mr. Sollicitour should be made your Maiesties Sergeant and I Sollicitour For so it was thought best to sort with both our gifts and faculties for the good of our service and of this resolution both Courtand Counâ—ry tooke knowledge Neither was this my invention or project of mine own but moved from my Lord I think first from my Lord Chancellour whereupon resting your Majesty well knoweth I never opened my mouth for the greater place although I am sure I had two circumstances that Mr. Attourney that now is could not all adge the one nine years service of the Crown the other being couzen Germain to the Lord of Salisbury for of my Fathers service I will not speak but for the lesse place I conceive c. But after this Mr. Attorney Habbard was placed I heard no more oâ— my preferment but it seemed to be at a stop to my great disgrace and discontentment For Gracious Soveraign if still when the matters are stirred another shall put in before me your Majesty had need to work a miracle or else I shall be a â—ame man to do you services And therefore my most humble suit unto your Majesty is That this which seemed to me intended may speedily be performed and I hope my former service shall be but as beginnings to better when I am better strengthened For sure I am no mans heart is suller I say not but many may have greater hearts but I say not fuller of love and duty towards your Majesty and your children as I hope time will manifest against envie and detraction if any be To conclude I humbly câ—ave pardon for my boldnesse A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon a New-yeers guift It may please your good Lordship HAving no guift to present you within my degree proportionable to my mind I desire neverthelesse to take the advantage of a Ceremony to expresse my self to your Lordship it being the first time I could make the like acknowledgment out of the person of a Suitor wherefore I most humbly pray your Lordship to think of me that now it hath pleased you by many effectuall and great benefits to add the assurance and comfort of your love and savour to the precedent disposition which was in me to admire your vertue and merit I do esteem whatsoever I have or may have in this world but as trash in comparison of having the honour and happinesse to be a neer and well accepted Kinsman to so rare and worâ—hy a Councellour Governour and Patriot For having been a studious is not a curious observer as well of Antiquity of Vertue as of late Peace I forbeare to say to your Lordship what I find and conceive but to another I would thinke to make my self believed But not to be tedious in that which may have the shew of a complement I can but wish your Lordship many happy yeares many more then your Father had but even so many more as we may need you more So I remain Yours c. A second Letter to the Chancellour May it please your Lordship HAving finished an argument touching the advancement of learning which I have formerly dedicated to his Majesty I humbly presume once more to present one of them Books to your Lordship not only as a Chancellour of the University but as one that was excellently bred in all learning which I have ever noted to shine in all your speeches and behaviour and therefore your Lordship will yeeld a gratious aspect to your first