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A28370	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.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.; Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. Characteristicks of a believing Christian.	1648 (1648)	Wing B318; ESTC R17427	72,058	110

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 i● 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 cer●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 chastis●d I went wrong Now then he knows the right way and will look better to his footing Cardans●… 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

a strength And I am sure her Majesty and my Lords of the Councell do not think their care dissolved when they have chosen whom to employ But that they will proceed in a Spirit of State and not leave the main point to discretion Then if a resolution be taken a consultation must be governed upon information to be had from such as know the place and matters in Fact And in the taking of information I have alwayes noted there is a skill and a wisdom For I cannot tell what an account or enquiry hath been taken of Sir William Russel and of Sir R. Bingham of the Earl of Thomond of Mr. Wilbraham But J am of opinion much more would be had of them if your Lordship shall be pleased severally to confer not Obliter but expresly and upon Caveat given them to think of it before For bene docet qui prudenter interrogat For the points of opposing them J am too much a stranger to the businesse to deduce them but in a Topique me thinks the pertinent interrogatories must be either of the possibilities and means of accord or of the nature of the War or of the reformation of the particular abuses or of the joyning of practise with force in the division of the Rebels If your Lordship doubt to put your sickle in others Harvest First time being fit to you in Mr. Secretaries absence Next Vnita fortior Thirdly being mixt with matter of War it is fittest for you Lastly I know your Lordship will carry it with that modesty and respect towards aged Dignity and that good correspondence towards my dear Ally and your good friend now abroad as no inconvenience may grow that way Thus have I played the ignorant Statesman which I do to no body but your Lordship except J do it to the Queen sometimes when she trains me on But your Lordship will accept my duty and good meaning and secure me touching the privatnesse of that I write Your Lordships to be commanded FRAN. BACON A Letter of advise to my Lord of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598. before my Lord was nominated for the Charge of Ireland My Lord THese Advertisements which your Lordship imparted to me and the like J hold to be no more certain to make judgment upon then a Patients water to a Physitian Therefore for me upon one water to make a judgment were indeed like a foolish bold Mountebank or Doctor Birket yet for willing duties sake I will set down to your Lordship what opinion sprung in my mind upon that I read The Letter from the Councell there leaning to mistrust J do not much rely upon for three Causes First because it is always both the grace and the safety from blame of such a Councell to erre in causion whereunto add that it may be they or some of them are not without envy towards the person who is used in treating the Accord Next because the time of this treaty hath no shew of dissimulation For that Tyron is now in no straight But he is not now like a Gamester that will give over because he is a Winner then because he hath no more money in his purse Lastly I do not see but those Articles whereupon they ground their Supposition may as well proceed out of fear as out of fals●ood For the retaining of the dependance of the porracting the admission of a Sher●ff the refusing to give his Son for Hostage the holding off from present repair to Dublin the refusing to go presently to accord without including Odonell and others his Assistants may very well come of a guilty reservation in case he should receive hard measure and not out of treachery So as if the great person be faithfull and that you have not here some present intelligence of present Succours from Spain for the expectation whereof Tyron would gain time J see no deep cause of distrusting the cause if it be good And for the question her Majesty seemeth to me a Winner three ways First her purse shall have some rest Next it will divert the forrain designs upon that place Thirdly though her Majesty is like for a time but to govern Precario on the North and be not in true command in better state there then before yet besides the two respects of ease of charge and advantage of opinion abroad before mentioned she shal have a time to use her Princely Policy in two points to weaken them the one by division and disunion of the heads the other by recovering and winning the people from them by justice which of all other causes is the best Now for the Athenian question you discourse well quid igitur agendum est I will shoot my fools bolt since you will have it so● The Earl of Ormond to be encouraged and comforted above all things the Garisons to be instantly provided for upportunity makes a thief And if he should mean never so well now yet such an advantage as the breaking of her Majesties Garrisons might tempt a true man And because he may aswell waver upon his own inconstancy as upon occasion And wanton variablenesse is never restrained but with fear I hold it necessary he be menaced with a strong war not by words but by musters and preparation of Forces here in case the Accord proceed not but none to be sent over least it disturb the Treaty and make him look to be over-run as soon as he hath laid Way Arms And but that your Lordship is too easie to passe in such cases from dissimulation to verity J think if your Lordship lent your reputation in this case it is to pretend that if a defensive War as in times past but a wofull reconquest of those parts in the Countrey you would accept the charge J think it would help to settle him and win you a great deal of honour gratis And that which most properly concerneth this action if it prove a peace J think her Majesty shall do well to cure the Root of the Disease and to professe by a Commission of peaceable men chiefly of respect and countenance and reformation of abuses extortions and injustices there and to plant a stronger and surer Government then heretofore for the ease and protection of the Subject for removing of the Sword or Government in Arms from the Earl of Ormond or the sending of a Deputy which will eclipse it if peace follow J think unseasonable Lastly I hold still my opinion both for your better information and your fuller declaration of your care and medling in this urging and meriting service that your Lordship have a set conference with the persons I named in my former Writing I rest My Lord At your Lordships service FRAN. BACON A Letter of advice to my Lord of Essex immediate before his going into Ireland My singular good Lord YOur late Note of my silence on your occasions hath made me set down these few wandring lines as one that would say somwhat and can say nothing

that as it is most fit for you to desire convenient liberty of instruction So is it no lesse fit for you to observe the due limits of them remembring that the exceeding of them may not only procure in case of adverse accidents a dangerous disadvow But also in case of prosperous successe to be subject to interpretation as if all were not referred to the right end Thus I have presumed to write these few lines unto your Lordship in methodo ignorantiae which is when a man speaketh of a Subject not according to the parts of the matter but according to the modell of his own knowledge And most humbly desire your Lordship that the weaknesse thereof may be supplyed in your Lordship by a benigne acceptation as it is in me by my best wishing F. BACON A Letter to the Earl of Essex of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex house My Lord NO man can expound my doings better then you Lordship which makes me need to say the lesse only J pray you to believe that I aspire unto the Conscience and commendation of Bonus civis and Bonus vir and that J love something J confess better then J love your Lordship yet J love few persons better both for gratitudes sake and for your vertues which cannot hurt but by accident of which my good affection it may please your Lordship to assure your self of all the true effects and offices J can yeeld For as I was ever sorry your Lordship should fly with many Wings doubting Iearus fortune So for the growing up of your own Feathers be they Ostriges or other kind no man shall be more glad And this is the Axeltree whereupon I have turned and shall turn which having already signified to you by some near means having so fit a messenger for mine own Letter J thought good to redouble also by Writing And so commend you to Gods goodnesse My Lord Yours in all humblenesse FRAN. BACON From Grays Inne c. Two Letters framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earl of Essex the other as the Earls Answer thereunto delivered with the advise of Mr. Anthony Bacon and tho privity of the Earl to be shewed the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance My singular good Lord THis standing at a stay doth make me in my love towards your Lordship zealous least you do somewhat or omit somewhat that amounteth to a new errour For I suppose of all former matters there is a full expectation wherein for any thing that your Lordship doth I for my part who am remote cannot cast nor devise wherein any errour should be except in one point which I dare not censure nor disswade which is that as the Prophet saith in this affliction you look up ad manum percutientem and so make your peace with God And yet I have heard it noted that my Lord of Liecester who could ●…ver get to be taken for a Saint yet in the Queens disfavour waxed seeming Religious which may be thought by some and used by others as a case of resembling yours if men do not see or will not see the differences between your two dispositions But to be plain with your Lordship my fear rather is because I hear some of your good and wise friends not unpractised in the Court and supposing themselvs not to be unseen in that deep and unscrutable Center of the Court which is her Majesties mind do not only tole the Bell but even ring out peales as if your fortune were dead and buried and as if there were no possibility of recovering her Majesties favour and as if the best of your condition were to live a private and retyred life out of want out of perill and out of manifest disgrace and so in this perswasion of theirs include a perswasion to your Lordship wards to frame and accommodate your actions and mind to that end I fear I say that this untimely dispair may in time bring forth a just dispair by causing your Lordship to slack and break off your wise loyall and seasonable endeavour and industry for reintegration into her Majesties favour in comparison whereof all other circumstances are but as Attomi or rather as vacuum without any substance at all Against this opinion it may please your Lordship to consider of these reasons which I have collected and to make judgment of them neither out of the melancholly of your patient fortune nor out of the insusion of that which cometh to you by others relation which is subject to much tincture But ex rebus opis but of the nature of the persons and actions themselves as the truest and lesse deceiving grounded of opinion For though I am so unfortunate as to be a stranger to her Majesties eye much more to her nature and manners yet by that which is extant I do manifestly discern that she hath that Character of the divine nature and goodnesse as quos amavit amavit usque ad finem And where she hath a creature she doth not deface it nor defeat it insomuch as if I observe rightly in these persons whom she hath heretofore honoured with her speciall favour she hath covered and remitted not only defections and ingratitudes in affections but errour in State and service Secondly if I can Scholar-like spell and put together the parts of her Majesties proceedings now towards your Lordship I cannot but make this construction that her Majesty in her Royall intention never purposed to call your Lordships doings into publick question but only to have used a Cloud without a showr and censuring them by some restraint of liberty and debarring from her presence For both the handling the cause in the Star-Chamber was inforced by the violence of libelling and Rumours wherein the Queen thought to have satisfied the World and yet spared your appearance And then after when that means which was intended to quench Malicious Bruites turned to kindle them Because it was said your Lordship was condemned unheard and your Lordships sister wrote that private Letter Then her Majestie plainly saw that these winds of rumours could not be commanded downe without a handling of the cause by making your party and admitting your defence and to this purpose I do assure your Lordship that my brother Francis Bacon who is to wise to be abused though he be both reserved more then is needfull yet in generality he hath ever constantly and with Asseveration assirmed unto me that both those dayes that at the Star-chamber and that at my Lord keepers were won from the Queene meerly upon necessity and point of honour against her own inclination Thirdly in the last proceedings I note three points which are directly significant that her Majestie did expresly forbear any point which was errecuperable or might make your Lordship many degree uncapable of the returne of her favour or might fixe any character indeleble of

disgrace upon you for she spared the publick places which spared ignomine she limited the charge precisely not to touch disloyalty no record remaineth to memory of the charge or sentence Fourthly the very distinction that was made of sequestration from the places of service in State and leaving your Lordship the place of the Mr. of the Horse do they in my understanding point at this that her Majestie meant to use your Lordships attendence in Court while the exercise of other places stood suspended Fifthly I have heard your Lordship knoweth better that now since you were in your own custody her Maiesty in verboregio and by his mouth to whom she counteth her royall grants and decrees hath assured your Lordship she wi●… forbid and not suffer your ruine Sixtly as I have heard her Majestie to be a Prince of that mainanimity that she will spare the service of a meaner then your Lordship where it shall depend meerly upon her Choice and will Seventhly I hold it for a principle that those diseases are hardest to cure whereof the cause is obscure and these rafiest whereof the cause is manifest whereupon I conclude that sine 〈◊〉 hath beene your errour in your lownesse towards her Majestie which have preiudiced you that your reforming and conformity may restore you may be faber fortunae propriae Lastly considering your Lordship is removed from dealing in causes of State and left only to a place of attendance Me thinks the ambition of any which can endure no Partners in State-matters may be so quenched as they should not laboriously oppose themselves to your being in Court So as upon the whole matter I cannot find neither in her Majesties Person nor in your own Person nor in any third Person neither in former Presidents nor in your own case any cause of peremptory dispair Neither do I speak this but that if her Majesty out of her resolution should design you to a private life you should vpon the appointment be as willing to go in the Wildernesse as into the Land of Promise Only I wish that your Lordship will not preoccupate dispaire but put trust next to God in her Majesties grace and not be wanting to your self I know your Lordship may justly interpret that this which I perswade may have some reference to my particular because I may truly say testante non virebo for I am withered in my self But manebo or terebo I shall in some sort be or hold out But though your Lordships years and health may expect return of grace and fortune yet your eclipse for 〈◊〉 while is an ultimum vale to my fortune and were it not that I desired hope to see my Brother established by her Majesty as I think him well worthy for that he hath done and suffered it were time J did take that course from which J disswa●ed your Lordship Now in the mean time I cannot chuse but perform those honest duties unto you to whom I have been so deeply bound unto c. My Lord of Essex his Answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter Mr. Bacon I Thank you for your kind and carefull Letter it perswadeth that which I wish strongly and hope for weakly that is possibility of restitution to her Majesties favour your Arguments that would cherish hope turn into despair You say the Queen never meant to call me to publick Censure which sheweth her goodness But you see I passed it which sheweth others power I believe most stedfastly her Majesty never intended to bring my cause to a publick Sentence and I believe as verily that since the Sentence She meant to restore me to attend upon her Majesties Person But they that could use occasions which it was not in me to let and amplifie occasions and practise occasions to represent to her Majesty a necessity to bring me to the one can and will do the like to stop me from the other You say my errours were my prejudice and therefore I can mend my self It is true But they that know I can mend my self and that if I ever recover the Queen that I will never lose her again will never suffer to obtain interest in her favour And you say the Queen never forsook utterly where she inwardly favoured But I know not whether the Hour glass of Time hath altered her But sure I am the false Glass of others information must alter her when I want access to plead mine own cause I know I ought double infinitly to be her Majesties both jure creationis for I am her Creature and jure redemptionis for I know she hath saved me from overthrow But for her first love and for her last protection and all her great benefits I can but pray for her Majesty and my endeavours is now to make my prayers for her and for my self better heard For thanks be to God they that can make her Majesty believe I counterfeit with her cannot make God believe I counterfeit with him And they which can let me from coming neer unto her cannot let me from drawing neer to him as I hope I do daily For your Brother I hold him an honest Gentleman and wish him all good much rather for your sake your self I know hath suffered more for me and with me then any friend I have But I can but lament freely as you see I do and advise you not to do as I do that is dispair you know Letters what hurt they have done me and therefore make sure of this And yet I could not as having no other pledge of my love but communicate openly to you the ease of my heart and yours Your loving friend ROBERT ESSEX A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland inciting him to embrace the cares of reducing that Kingdom to civility with some Reasons sent enclosed IT may please your Lordship as one that wisheth you all increase of honour and as one that cannot leave to love the State what interest soever I have or may come to have in it and as one that now this dead vacation time have some leisure ad aliud agendum I wil presume to propound unto you that which though you cannot but see yet I know not whether you apprehend and esteem it in so high a degree that is for the best action of importation to your self of sound honour and merit of her Majesty And this Crown without ventosity or popularity that the riches of any occasion or the tyde of any opportunity can possible minister or offer and that is the causes of Ireland if they be taken by the right handle For if the wound be not ripped up again c. I think no Physitian will go on with much letting of bloud in declanatione morbi but will intend to purge and corroborate to which purpose I send you mine opinion without labour of words in the inclosed And sure I am that if you shall enter into the matter according to the