sir Francis Bacon letter to king James touch the chancellor place it may  please your most excellent majesty your worthy chancellor I fear go his last  day God have hitherto use to weed out such servant as grow not fit for your  majesty but now he have gather to himself one of the choice plant in your  majesty garden but your majesty service must not be mortal upon this heavy  accident I pray your majesty in all humbleness and sincerity to give I leave  to use a few word I must never forget when I move your majesty for the  attorney place that it be your own sole Act and not my lord of Somerset who  when he know your majesty have resolve it thrust himself into the business to  gain thank and therefore I have no reason to pray to saint I shall now again  make oblation to your majesty first of my heart then of my service three of my  place of attorney and fourthly of my place in the star Chamber I hope I may be  acquit of presumption if I think of it both because my father have the place  which be some civil inducement to my desire and I pray God your majesty may  have twenty no worse year than queen Elizabeth have in her model after my  father be place and chief because the chancellor place after it go to the law  be ever confer upon some of the learned counsel and never upon a judge for  Audley be raise from king sergeant my father from attorney of the ward bromly  from solicitor puckering from queen sergeant Egerton from master of the roll  have new leave the attorney place for my self I can only present your majesty  with glory in servility yet I dare promise that if I sit in that place your  business shall not make such short turn upon you as it do but when a direction  be once give it shall be pursue and perform and your majesty shall only be  trouble with the true care of a king which be to think what you will have do  in chief and not how for the passage I do presume also in respect of my father  be memory and that I have be always gracious in the low house I have some  interest in the gentleman of England and shall be able to do some good effect  in rectify that body of parliament which be Cardo a thing for let I tell your  majesty that that part of the chancellor place which be to judge in equity  between party and party that same kingdom judicial which since my father be  time be but too much enlarge concern your majesty least more than the acquit  of your conscience for justice but it be the other part of a moderator among  your Council of a overseer over your judge of a planter of fit justice and  governor in the country that import your affair and these time most I will add  likewise that I hope by my care the inventive part of your Council will be  strengthen who now common do exercise rather their judgement than their  invention and the inventive part come from projector and private man which can  be so well in which kind my lord of Salisbury have a good method to conclude  if I be the man I will be I shall hope that as your majesty of late have win  heart by depress you shall in this lose no heart by advance for I see your  people can better skill of hardness than abstractum and that the wave of their  affection flow rather after person than thing so that act of this nature if  this be one do more good than twenty bill of grace if God call my lord  chancellor the warrant and commission which be requisite for the take of the  seal and for work with it and for revive of warrant under his hand which die  with he and the like shall be in readiness and in this time press more because  it be the end of a term and almost the beginning of the circuit so that the  seal can stand still but this may be do as heretofore by Commission till your  majesty have resolve on a officer God ever preserve your majesty your majesty  most humble subject and bind servant