a letter to the lord treasurer burghley in excuse of his speech in parliament  against the triple subsidy it may please your lordship I be sorry to find by  your lordship speech yesterday that my last speech in parliament deliver in  discharge of my conscience and duty to God her majesty and my country be  offensive if it be misreport I will be glad to attend your lordship to disavow  any thing I say not if it be misconstrue I will be glad to expound my self to  exclude any sense I mean not if my heart be misjudge by imputation of  popularity or opposition by any envious or officious informer I have great  wrong and the great because the manner of my speech do most evident show that  I speak simple and only to satisfy my conscience and not with any advantage or  policy to sway the Cause and my term carry all signification of duty and zeal  towards her majesty and her service it be true that from the beginning  whatsoever be above a double subsidy I do wish may for precedent sake appear  to be extraordinary and for discontent sake may not have be levy upon the poor  sort though otherwise I wish it as rise as I think this will prove and more  this be my mind I confess it and therefore I most humble pray your good  lordship first to continue I in your own good opinion and then to perform the  part of a honourable friend towards your poor servant and alliance in draw her  majesty to accept of the sincerity and simplicity of my heart and to bear with  the rest and restore I to her majesty favour a letter to the lord treasurer  Burghley recommend his first suit touch the solicitor place after the  remembrance of my most humble duty though I know by late experience how  mindful your lordship vouchsafe to be of I and my poor fortune since it please  your lordship during your indisposition when her majesty come to visit your  lordship to make mention of I for my employment and preferment yet be now in  the country I do presume that your lordship who of your self have so  honourable care of the matter will not think it a trouble to be solicit  therein my hope be that whereas your lordship tell I her majesty be somewhat  gravel upon the offence she take at my speech in parliament your lordship  favourable and good word who have assure I that for your own part you construe  that I speak to the best will be as a good tide to remove her from that shelf  and it be not unknown to your lordship that I be the first of the ordinary  sort of the low house of parliament that speak for the subsidy and hat which I  after speak in difference be but in circumstance of time and manner which  methinks shall be no great matter since there be variety allow in counsel as a  discord in music to make it more perfect but I may just doubt not so much her  majesty impression upon this particular as her conceit otherwise of my  insufficiency which though I acknowledge to be great yet it will be the less  because I purpose not to divide my self between her majesty and the cause of  other man as other have do but to attend her business only hope that a whole  man mean able may do as well as half a man better able and if her majesty  think that she shall make a adventure in use one that be rather a man of study  than of practice and experience sure I may remember to have hear that my  father a example I confess rather ready than like be make solicitor of the  augmentation a court of much business when he have never practice and be but  year old and mr Brograve be now in my time call to be attorney of the duchy  when he have practice little or nothing and yet discharge his place with great  sufficiency but these thing and the like be as her majesty shall be make  capable of they wherein know what authority your lordship commendation have  with her majesty I conclude with my self that the substance of strength which  I may receive will be from your lordship it be true my life have be so private  as I have have no mean to do your lordship service but yet as your lordship  know I have make offer of such as I can yield for as God have give I a mind to  love the public so incidently I have ever have your lordship in singular  admiration who happy ability her majesty have so long use to her great honour  and you beside that amendment of state or countenance which I have receive  have be from your lordship and therefore if your lordship shall stand a good  friend to your pooAllie you shall but to look at opus proprium which you have  begin and your lordship shall bestow your benefit upon one that have more  sense of obligation than of self love thus humble desire pardon of so long a  letter I wish your lordship all happiness this that of June a letter to queen  Elizabeth upon the send of a new year gift it may please your majesty accord  to the ceremony of the time I will not forget in all humbleness to present  your majesty with a small new year gift nothing to my mind and therefore to  supply it I can but pray to God to give your majesty his new year gift that be  a new year that shall be as no year to your body and as a year with harvest to  your coffer and every other way prosperous and gladsome and so I remain a  letter to queen Elizabeth upon the send of a new year gift most excellent  sovereign mistress the only new year gift which I can give your majesty be  that which God have give to I which be a mind in all humbleness to wait upon  your commandment and business wherein I will to God that I be hood that I see  less or that I can perform more for now I be like a hawk that bear when I see  occasion of service but can fly because I be tie to another fist but mean  while I continue my presumption of make to your majesty my poor oblation of a  garment as unworthy the wear as his service that send it but the approach to  your excellent person may give worth to both which be all the happiness I  aspire unto