a expostulatory letter to sir Vincent Skinner sir I see that by your needs be  delay this matter be grow to a new question wherein for the matter it self if  it have be stay at the begnning my lord treasurer and mr chancellor I shall  not S mucus have tood upon it for the great and daily travail which I take in  his majesty service either be reward in themselves hat they a but my duty or  else may deserve a much great matter neither can I think amiss of any man that  in furtherance of the king benefit move the doubt that know not what warrant  you have but my wrong be that you have have my lord treasurer and mr  chancellor warrant for payment of above a month since you I say make your  payment be like upon such difference as be better know to your self then  agreeable to due respect of his majesty service have declare it all this time  otherwise then I may have expect either from our ancient acquaintance or from  that regard which one in your place may owe to one in I by occasion whereof  there ensue unto I a great inconvenience that now my name in a sort must be in  question among you as if I be a man likely either to demand that which be  unreasonable or to be deny that which be reasonable and this must be because  you can pleasure man at pleasure but this I leave with this that it be the  first matter wherein I have occasion to discern of your lordship which I see  to fall to this that whereas mr chancellor the last time in my man hear very  honourable say that he will not discontent any in my place it seem you have no  such occasion but my write to you now be to know of you where the stay now be  without be any more behold to you to who indeed no man ought to be behold in  those case in a right course and so I bid you farewell you c
a letter of ceremony to queen Elizabeth upon the send of a new year gift it  may please your sacred 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 two harvest to your Cofters and overy other way  prosperous and gladsome and so I remain your majesty loyal and obedient  subject a letter of ceremony to queen Elizabeth upon the send of another new  year gift most excellent sovereign mistress the only new year gift which I can  give your majesty be that which God have give unto I which be a mind in all  humbleness to wait upon the commandment and business wherein I will to God I  be hood that I see less or that I can perform more for now I be like a hawk  that bait when I see occasion of service but can fly because I be tie to  another fist but mean while I continue of make your majesty my obligation of a  garment as unworthy the wear as his service that send but the approach to your  excellent person may give worth to both which be all the happiness I aspire  unto
a letter of commend his love to the lord of Kinlosse upon his majesty entrance  my lord the present occasion awake in I a remembrance of the constant amity  and mutual good office which pass between my brother decease and your lordship  whereunto I be less strange then in respect of the time I have reason to  pretend and withal I call to mind the great opinion which my brother who  seldom fail in judgement of person will often express to I of your lordship  great wisdom and soundness both in head and heart towards the service of our  lord the sovereign king the one of those have breed in I a election and the  other a confidence to address my good will and sincere affection to your  lordship not doubt in regard that my course of life have wrought I not to be  altogether unseen in the matter of the kingdom that I may be in some use both  in point of service to the king and in your lordship particular and on the  other side I will not omit to desire humble your lordship favour in further a  good conceit and impression of my most humble duty and true zeal towards the  king to who majesty word can make I know neither I own nor other but time will  to no disadvantage of any that shall before run his majesty experience by  their humanity and commendation and so I commend your good lordship to God  providence and protection
a letter of expostulation to the attorney general sir Edward coke mr attorney  I think best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you and  what you shall find of I to take to your self a liberty to disgrace and  disable my law my experience my discretion what it please you I pray think of  I I be one that know both my own want and other man and it may be perchance  that I may amend when other stand at a stay and sure I may not endure in  public place to be wrong without repel the same to my best advantage to right  my self you be great therefore have the more enviours which will be glad to  have you pay at another cost since the time I miss he solicitor place the  rather I think because your mean I can expect that you or I shall evr serve as  attorney soll to cause to go but either to serve with another upon your remove  or to step into some other course so as I be more free then ever I be from any  occasion of unworthy conform my self more then general good mean or our  perricular go usage shall provoke if you have not be short fight in your own  fortune as I think you may have have more use of I out that tide be pass I  write not this to show my friend what a brave letter I have writ to mr  attorney I have none of those humour but that I have write be to a good end  that be to the more decent carriage of my mrs service and to a particular  better understanding out of another this letter if it shall be answer by you  in deed not in word I suppose it will not be worse for we both else it be but  a few line lose which for a much small matter I will adventure so this be to  your self I for my part rest
a letter of recommendation of his service to the earl of Northampton a few day  before queen Elizabeth death may it please your good lordship as the time of  the sow of a seed be know but the time of come up and disclose be casual or  accord to the season so I be witness to my self that there have be cover in my  mind a long time a seed of affection and zeal towards your lord sow by the  estimation of your virtue and your particulaour and favour to my brother  decease and to my self which seed still spring now burst forth into this  possession and to be plin in with your lordship it be very true and no wind  not noise of evil matter can blow this out of my head and heart that your  great capacity and love towards study and contemplation of a high and worthy  nature then popular a matter rae in the world and in a person of your I  lordship quality a most singular be to I 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 mean or friend I humble pray  your lordship to hold I your own and there withal not to do so much  disadvantage to my good mind as to conceive this my commendation of my humble  service proceed out of any straight of my occasion but mere out of a election  and indeed the fullness of my heart and so wish your lordship all prosperity I  continue
a letter of the like argument to the lord chancellor Egerton may it please  your good lordship I humble present your lordship with a work wherein as you  have much commandment over the author so your lordship have 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 observe in your lordship  have be a gteat planter of learning not only in these place in the church  which have be in your own gift but also in your commendatory vote no man have  more constant hold detur worthy and therefore both your lordship be behold to  learning and your lordship which make I presume with good assurance that your  lordship will accept well of these my labour the rather because your lordship  in private speech have often begin to I in express your admiration of his  majesty learning to who I have dedicate this work and who virtue and  perfection in that kind do chief move I to a work of this nature and so with  signification of my humble duty and affection towards your lordship I remain
a letter to doctor Morrison a Scottish physician upon his aiesties come in mr  doctor Morrison I have think good by this my letter to renew this my ancient  acquaintance which have pass between we signify my good mind to you to perform  to you any good office for your particular and my expectation and a firm  assurance on the like on your part towards I wherein I confess you may have  the start of I because occasion have give you the precedency in invest you  with opportunity to use my name well and by your love testimony to further a  good opinion of I in his majesty and the court but I hope my experience of  matter here will with the light of his majesty favour enable I speedy both to  requite your kindness and to acquire and mke good your testimony and report so  not doubt to see you here with his majesty consider that it belong to your be  to feel pulse and I assure you Galen do not set down great variety of pules  then do vent here in man heart I wish you all prosperity and remain
a letter to mr Davies his majesty attorney in Ireland mr attorney I thank you  for the letter and the discourse of this new accident you send I as thing then  appear I see manifest the beginning of better or worse but I think it be first  a tender of the better and worse follow but upon refusal or difficult I will  have be glad to have see you here but I hope occasion reserve our meeing for a  vacation I will have more fruit of conference to requite your proclamation  which in my judgement be wise and serious pen I send you another with we which  happen to be in my hand when you come I will be glad to hear often from you  and be advertise how thing pass whereby to have some occasion to think I good  think though I can do little at least it will be a continuance in exercise of  friendship which on my part remain reased by that I hear of your service and  the good respect I find towards my self and so I continue you c
a letter to mr Davies then go to the king at his first entrance mr Davies  though you go on the sudden yet you can not go before you have speak with your  self to the purpose whereof I will now write and therefore I know not but that  it be altogether needless save that I mean to show you that I be not asleep  beside I commend my self to your love and to the well use of my name as in  repose and answer for I if there be any bite or bibbling at it in that place  as in impress a good opinion of I chief in the king of who favour I make my  self comfortable assurance as otherwise in that court and not only but general  to perform to I all the good office which the vivacity of your wit can suggest  to your mind to be perform to one in who affection you have so great sympathy  and in who fortune you have so great interest so desire you to be good to  conceal poet I continue you c
a letter to mr Fauls in Scotland upon the entrance of his majesty reign sir  the occasion awake in I a remembrance of the constant and mutual good office  which pass between my good brother and your self whereunto as you know I be  not altogether a stranger though the nature of the time and design between we  brother make I more reserve but well do I bear in mind the great opinion which  my brother who judgement I much reverence will often express to I of your  extraordinary sufficiency dexterity and temper which he find in you in the  business and service of the king our sovereign lord this latter breed in m a  election as the former give a inducement from to make this signification of my  desire of a mutual entertainment of my good affection and correspondence  between we hope both that some good effect may result of it towards the king  service and that for our particular though occasion give you the precedency of  further my be know by good note to the king so we shall have some mean give to  requite your savour and verify your commendation and so with my love  recommendation good mr fool I leave you to God goodness
a letter to mr Fauls march mr fault I do write to you yesterday by mr lake who  be dispatch hence from their lordship with a letter of revivour of those spark  of acquaintance between we in my brother time and now upon the same case find  so fit a messenger I can not fail to salute you hope it will fall you so happy  as that you shall be one of the king servant which his majesty will apply here  about we where I hope to have some mean not to be barren in friendship towards  you we all thirst for the king come account all this but as the dawn of the  day before the rise of the sun till we have his presence and though his  majesty must be now Janus Bysrons to have a face to Scotland as well as to  England yet quoth num to stand upon agendum the expectation be here that he  will come in state and not in strength so for this time I commend you to God  godnesse and remain you c
a letter to mr matthew's imprison for Relgion mr matthew's do not hink I  forgetful or alter towards you but if I shall say that I shall do you any good  I shall make my power more then it be I do hear that which I be right orry for  that you grow more impatient and busy then at first which make I to fear the  issue of that which seem not oh stand at a stay I my self be out of doubt that  you have be miserable abuse when you be first seduce and that which I take in  compassion other may take in severity I pray God that understand we all better  then we understand one another continue you as I hope he will at the least  within the bind of loyalty to his majesty and natural piety towards your  country and I entreat you much to meditate sometime upon the extreme effect of  Superstiion in this last powder treason fit to be table and picture in the  table of meditation as another hell above the ground and well justify the  censure of the heathen that Superition be far worse then atheism by how much  it be less evil to have no opinion of God at all then such as be impious  towards his divine majesty and goodness good mr matthew's receive your self  back from these course of perdition and be Willing to have write a great deal  more I continue you c
a letter to mr murrey of the king bed Chamber mr murrey it be very true that  his majesty most gracious at my humble request knight the last Sunday my  brother in law a towardly young gentleman for which favour I think my self  more own to his majesty then for the benefit often knight and to tell you true  my meaning be not that the suit of this other gentleman mr temple shall have  be move in my name for I shall have be unwilling to have move his majesty for  more then one at once though many time in his majesty court of justice if we  move once for our friend we be allow to move again for our fee but indeed my  purpose be that you may have be please to have move it as for my self  nevertheless since it be so far go and that the gentleman friend be in some  expectation of success I leave it to your kind regard what be further to be do  as wall to give satisfaction to these which have put I in trust and loath on  the other side to press abve good manner and so with my love commendation I  remain you c
a letter to mr pierce secretary to the lord deputy of Ireland mr pierce I be  glad to hear of you as I do and for my part you shall find I ready to take any  occasion to further your credit and preferment and I dare assure you though I  be no undertaker to prepare your way with my lord of Salisbury for any good  fortune which may befall you you teach I to compan of business whereby I write  more brief yet I be so unjust as that which I allege for my own excuse I can  admit for you for I must by expect exact your letter with this frut of your  sufficiency as to understand owe thing pass in that kingdom and therefore have  begin I pray continue this be not mere curiosity for I have ever I know not by  what instinct wish well to that un olished part of this crown and so with my  very love commendation I remain you c
a letter to mr Robert Kenney upon the death of queen Elizabeth mr Kenney this  alteration be so great as you may just conceive some readiness of my affection  towards you if you shall hear nothing from I I live in this place it be in  vain to tell you with what wonder skill and calm this wheel be turn round  which whether it be a remnant of her felicity that be go or a fruit of his  reputation that be come I will not determine for I can but divide my self  between her memory and his name yet we account it but as a fair morning before  sunrising before his majesty presence though for my part I see not whence any  weather shall arise the papist be conceive with fear enough and hope too much  the French be think to turn his practice upon procure some disturbance in  Scotland where crown may do wonder but this day be so welcome to that nation  and the time so short as I do not fear the effect my lord of Sou hampton  expectth release by the next dispatch and be already much visit and much well  wish there be continual post by man of good quality towards the king the  rather I think because this spring time its but a kind of sport it be hope  that as the sare here have perform the part of good atorneys to deliver the  king quiet possession of his kingdom so the king will redeliver they quiet  possession of their place rather fill place void then remove man place
a letter to my lady Pagington in answer of a message by her send madam you  shall with right good will be make acquaint with any thing which concern your  daughter if you bear a mind of love and concord otherwise you must be content  to be a stranger unto we for I may not be so unwise as to suffer you to be a  author or occasion of dissension between your daughter and their husband have  see so much misery of that kind in your self and above all thing I will turn  back your kindness in which you ay you will receive my wife if she be cast off  for it be much more likely we have occasion to receive you be cast off if you  remember what be pass but it be time to make a end of those folly and you  shall at this time pardon I this one fault of write to you for I mean to do it  no more till you use I and respect I as you ought so wish you better then it  seem you will draw upon your self I rest you c
a letter to my lord of Northumberland mention a proclamation draw for the king  at his entrance it may please your good lordship do hold it a thing formal and  necessary for the king to forerun his come be it never so speedy with some  gracious declaration for the cherish entertain and prepare of man affection  for which purpose I have conceive a draught it be a thing familiar to I in my  mistress her time to have my pen use in politic write of satisfaction the use  of this may be of two sort first proper if your lordship think convenient to  show the king any such draught because the vein and pulse of this state can  but be best know here which if your lordship shall do then I will desire your  lordship to withdraw my name and only signify that you give some head of  direction of such a matter to one of who style and pen you have some opinion  the other collateral that though your lordship make no other use of it yet it  be a kind of potacture of that which I think worthy to be advice to the king  to express himself accord to those point which be therein conceive and perhaps  more Compendious and significant then if I have set they down in article I  will have attend your lordship but for some little physic I take to morrow  morning I will wait upon you so I ever continue c
a letter to my lord of Salisbury touch the solicitor place it may please your  good lordship I be not ignorant how mean a thing I stand for desire to come  into the solicitor place for I know well it be not the thing it have be time  have wrought alteration both in the profession and in the special place yet  because I think it will increase my practice that it may satisfy my friend  because I have be voice to it I will be glad it be do wherein I may say to  your lordship in the confidence of your poor kinsman and of a man by you  advance Tuidem fer power who object of hope to hand over for I be sure it be  not possible for a man live to have receive from any other more significant  comfortable word of hope your lordship be please to tell I during the course  of my last service that you will raise I that when you be resolve to raise a  man you be more careful of he then himself that what you have do for I in my  marriage be a benefit to I but ofnse to your lordship therefore I may assure  my self you will not leave I there with many like speech which I know well my  duty then to take any other hold of then the hold of a thankful remembrance I  know all the world know that your Lodship be no deer of holy water but noble  real on my part I be on a sure ground that I have commit nthing that may de  erve any alteration and if I can observe you as I will your lordship will  impute it to my want of experience which I shall gather better when I be once  settle and therefore my hope be your lordship with finish a good work and  consider that I be grow precious and than I be now to bend year  and although  I know your for d'un be not to needs a hundred such as I be yet I shall ever  be ready to give you my best and first fruit and to suppy as much as in I yes  a worthiness by thankfulness
a letter to sir George villiers touch the difference between the court of  chancery and the king bench fever sir I receive this morning from you two  letter by the same bearer the one write before the other after his majesty  have receive my last in this difference between the two court of chancery and  king bench for so I have rather take it for this time than between the perons  of my lord chancellor and my lord chief justice I marvel not if rumour get way  of true relation for I know fame have swift wing special that which have black  feather but within these two day for soon I can be ready I will write unto his  majesty both the narrative true and my opinion sincere taing much comfort that  I serve such a king as have God property in discern true of man heart I  purpose to speak with my lord chancellor this day and so to exhibit that  cordial of his majesty grace as I hope that other accident will rather rouse  and raise his spirit than deject he or incline he to relapse mean while I  commend the wit of a mean man that say this other day well the next term you  shall have a old man come with a beesom of wormwood in his hand that will  sweep away all this for it be my lord chancellor fashion special towards the  summer to carry a posy of wormwood I write this letter in haste to return your  messenger with it God keep you and long and happy may you serve his majesty  sir I thank you for your inward letter I have burn it as you command but the  fire it have kindle in I will never be extinguish
a letter to the earl of Essex of offer of his service when he be first enlarge  to Essex house my lord no man can expound my do better then you lordship which  make I needs to say the less only I pray you to believe that I aspire unto the  conscience and commendation of bone fellow citizen and bone man and that I  love something I confess better then I love your lordship yet I love few  person better both for gratitude sake and for your virtue which can hurt but  by accident of which my good affection it may please your lordship to assure  your self of all the true effect and office I can yield for as I be ever sorry  your lordship shall fly with many wing doubt Iearus fortune so for the grow up  of your own feather be they ostriges or other kind no man shall be more glad  and this be the axletree whereupon I have turn and shall turn which have  already signify to you by some near mean have so fit a messenger for I own  letter I think good to redouble also by write and so commend you to God  goodness my lord you in all humbleness
a letter to the earl of Salisbury of courtesy upon a new year gift it may  please your good lordship have no gift to present you within my degree  proportionable to my mind I desire nevertheless to take the advantage of a  ceremony to express my self to your lordship it be the first time I can make  the like acknowledgement out of the person of a suitor wherefore I most humble  pray your lordship to think of I that now it have please you by many effectual  and great benefit to add the assurance and comfort of your love and savour to  the precedent disposition which be in I to admire your virtue and merit I do  esteem whatsoever I have or may have in this world but as trash in comparison  of have the honour and happiness to be a near and well accept kinsman to so  rare and worhy a counselor governor and patriot for have be a studious be not  a curious observer as well of antiquity of virtue as of late peace I forbear  to say to your lordship what I find and conceive but to another I will think  to make my self believe but not to be tedious in that which may have the show  of a compliment I can but wish your lordship many happy year many more then  your father have but even so many more as we may needs you more so I remain  you c
a letter to the earl of Salisbury touch the solicitous place at what time he  stand but in doubtful term of favour with his lordship it may please your  lordship I be not privy to my self of any such ill deserve towards your  lordship as that I shall think it any mpudent thing to be a suitor unto your  favour in a reaoable mtter your Lordp be to I as with your good favour you can  cease to be but rather it be a simple and arrogant part in I to forbear t ts  think mr attorney shall be chief justice of the common place in case mr  solicitor rise I will be glad now at last to be solicitor chief because I  think it will increase my practice wherein God blessing I a few year I may  amend my state and so after fall to my study and ease whereof the one be  requisire for my body and the other serve to my mind wherein if I shall find  your lordship favour I shall be more happy then I have be which may make I  also more wise I have small store of mean about the king and to sue my self be  not fit and therefore I shall leave it to God his majesty and your lordship  for I must still be next the door I thank God in these transitory thing I be  well resolve so beseech your lordship not to think this letter the less humble  because it be plain I rest
a letter to the earl of Salisbury upon send he one of his book of advancemeat  of learning it may please your good lordship I present your lordship with a  work of my vacant time which if it have be more the work have be better it  appertain to your lordship beside my particular respect in some propriety in  regard you be a great governor in the province of learning and that which be  more you have add to your place affection towards Laarning and to your  affection judgement of which the last I can be content be for the time less  that you may the less exquisite censure that which I offer unto you but sure I  be the argument be good if it have light on a good author but I shall content  my self to awake better spirit like a bell ringer which be first up to call  other to church so with my humble desire of your lordship good acceptance I  remain you c
a letter to the king about a certificate of my lord cokee Feb it may please  your excellent majesty I send your majesty enclose my lord cokees answer I  will not call they rescript much less oracle they be of his own hand and offer  to I as they be in write though I be glad of it for I own discharge I think it  my duty as soon as I receive they instant to send they to your majesty and  forbear for the present to speak further of they I for my part though this  moscovia weather be a little too hard for my constitution be ready to have  wait upon your majesty this day all respect set aside but my lord treasurer in  respect of the season and much other business be Willing to save I I will only  conclude touch these paper with a text divide I can not say it is necessary  isthaec fieri but I may say Finis autem not yet God preserve your majesty
a letter to the king report the day of hear of I S his Cause in the star  Chamber April it may please your excellent majesty I S his day be pass and  well pass I hold it to be Janus twofaced it have a good aspect to that which  be pass and to the future and do both atisfie and prepare all do well my lord  chief justice deliver the law for the benevolence strong I will he have do it  timely mr chancellor of the exchequer speak fine somewhat after the manner of  my late lord privy seal not all out so sharp but as elegant sir Thomas lake  who be also new in that court do very well familiar and counselor like my lord  of Pembroke who be likewise a stranger there do extraordinary well and become  himself well and have a evident applause I mean well also and because my  information be the ground have speak out of a few head which I have gather for  I seldom do more I set down as soon as I come home cursory a frame of that I  have say though I persuade my self I speak it with more life I have send it to  mr Murray seal if your majesty have so much idle time to look upon it it may  give some light of the day work but I most humble pray your majesty to pardon  the error God preserve you ever your majesty most humble subject and devote  servant
a letter to the king touch matter of his revenue and profit April it may  please your majesty I may remember what Tacitus say by occasion that Tiberius  be often and long absent from Rome in a walled town et little et great  to carry on business emperor simul to press but say he in retreat surrender  rebus those inferior in rank moment summae a thing magnrum to greater extent  to set in violent motion this make I think it shall be no incivility to  trouble your majesty with business during your abide from London know that  your majesty meditation be the principal wheel of your estate and be warrant  from a former commandment which I receive from you I do now only send your  majesty these paper enclose because I do great desire so far forth to preserve  my credit with you as thus that whereas late perhaps out of too much desire  which induce too much belief I be bold to say that I think it as easy for your  majesty to come out of want as to go forth of your gallery your majesty will  not take I for a dreamer or a Projectour I send your majesty therefore some  ground of my hope and for that paper which I have gather of Increasments  sperate I beseech you to give I leave to think that if any of the particular  do fail it will be rather for want of workmanship in those that shall deal in  they than want of material in the thing themselves the other paper have many  discard card and I send it chief that your majesty may be the less surprise by  projector who pretend sometime great discovery and invention in thing that  have be propound and perhaps after a better fashion long since God almighty  preserve your majesty your majesty most humble and devote subject and servant
a letter to the lord of Northumberland after he have be with the king it may  please your lordship I will not have lose this journey and yet I have not that  I go for for I have have no private conference to purpose with the king no  more have almost any other English for the speech his majesty admit with some  noble man be rather matter of grace then matter of business with the attorney  he sping urge by the treasurer of Scotland but no more then needs must after I  have receive his majesty first welcome and be promise private access yet not  know what matter of service your lordship treasurer carry for see it no and  know that privinesse in adveriemnt be much I choose rather to deliver it to  sir Thomas Horeskins then to cool it in my hand upon expectation of access  your lordship shall find a prince the further from vain glory that may be and  rather like a prince of the ancient from then of the latter time his speech  swift and cursarie and in the full dialect of his nation and in speech of  business short in speech of discourse large he affect popularity by grace such  as he have hear to be popular and not by any fashion of his own he be think  somewhat general ofhis favour and his virtue of access be rather because he be  much abroad and in press then that he give easy audience he hasten to a  mixture of both Kingd ms and nation fast perhaps then policy will bear I tell  your lordship once before my opinion that we think his majesty raher ask  counsel of the time pass then of the time to come but it be yet early to be  fund in any settle opinion for other perticularities I refer conference have  in those general go further in so tender a argument then I will have do be not  the bearer hereof so assure so I continue c
a letter to the lord treasurer Buckhurst upon the like argument may it please  your lordship I have finish a argument touch the advancement of learning which  I have dedicate to his majesty the most learned of a sovereign temporal prince  that time have know and upon reason not unlike I humble present one of they  book to your lordship not only as a chancellor of the university but as one  that be excellent breed in all learning which I have ever note to shine in all  your speech and behaviour and therefore your lordship will yield a gracious  aspect to your first lover and take pleasu oh the adorn of that wherewith your  self be so much adorn and so humble desire your favourable acceptation thereof  with signification of humble duty to remain c you c
a letter unto my lord of Southampton upon the king come in it may please your  lordship I will have be very glad to have present my humble service to your  lordship by my attendance if I can have foresee that it shall not have be  unpleasing unto you and therefore because I will commit no error I choose to  write assure your lordship how credible soeve yet it be as true as a thing  that God know that this great change in I have wrought no other change towards  your lordship then this that I may safe be now that which I be true before and  so crave no other pardon then for trouble you with this letter I do not now  begin to be but continue to be your lordship humble and much devote fran bacon
a second letter to the chancellor may it please your lordship have finish a  argument touch the advancement of learning which I have former dedicate to his  majesty I humble presume once more to present one of they book to your  lordship not only as a chancellor of the university but as one that be  excellent breed in all learning which I have ever note to shine in all your  speech and behaviour and therefore your lordship will yield a gracious aspect  to your first lover and take pleasue in the adorn of that wherewith your self  be so much adorn and so humble desire your favourable acceptation thereof with  signification of humble duty to remain you c
bacon his letter TO the most ill lustrious and most excellent prince Charles  prince of Wales duke of Corn-Wal earl of Chester c it may please your highness  in part of my ac knowledgement to your highness I have endeavour to do honour  to the memory of the last king of England that be a cestor to the king your  father and your self and be that king to who both union may in a sort refer  that of the rise be in he consummate and that of the kingdom by he begin  beside his time deserve it for he be a wise man and a excellent king and yet  the time very rough and full of mutation and rare accident and it be with time  as it be with way some be more up hill and down hill and some be more flat and  plain and the one be better for the liver and the other for the writer I have  not flatter he but take he to life as well as I can sit so far of and have no  better light it be true your highness have a live pattern incompara ble of the  king your father but be not amiss for you also to see it one of these ancient  piece God preserve your highness your highness most humble and devote servant  Francis saint Alban Finis
certain sudden think experiment for profit muck of leave muck of river earth  and chalk muck of earth close both for salt Peter and muck set of wheat and  pea mend of Crops by steep of seed make pea cherry and strawberry come early  strengthen of earth for often return of radish parsnip turnip c make great  root of onion radish and other esculent root sow of seed of trefoil set of  woad set of tobacco and take away the graft upon bough of old tree make of a  hasty coppice plant of osier in wet ground make of candle to last long  building of chimney furnace and oven to give heat with less wood fix of  logwood other mean to make Yellow and green fix conserve of orange lemon  citron pomegranate c all summer recover of pearl coral Turchoise colour by a  conservatory of snow sow of fennel brew with hay haw trefoil broom Heps  bramble very woodbine wild thime instead of hop thistle multiply and dress  artichoke
clark case in a action of false imprisonment bring by clark against gape the  defendant justify the imprisonment because king Edward the six incorporate the  town of saint Alban by the name of mayor c and grant to they to make ordinance  and show that the queen appoint the term to be keep there and that they with  the assent of the plaintiff and other burgess do assess a sum on every  inhabitant for the charge in erect the court there and ordain that if any  refuse to pay it that he shall be imprison c and because the plaintiff be a  burgess c refuse to pay c he as mayor justify and it be adjudge no plea for  this ordinance be against the statute of great Charta cap nullus libre  a human being imprisonetur which Act have be confirm above time and the  plaintiff assent can alter the law in such case but it be resolve that they  may have inflict a reasonable penalty but not imprisonment which penalty they  may limit to be levy by distress or by action of debt and the plaintiff have  judgement
cutler five Dixon it be adjudge that if one exhibit article to justice of  peace against a person certain contain diverse great abuse and misdemeanour  not only concern the petitioner themselves but many other and all this to the  intent that he shall be bind to his good behaviour in this case the party  accuse shall not have for any matter contain in such article any action upon  the case for they have pursue the ordinary course of justice in such case and  if action shall be permit in such case those who have just cause for complaint  will not dare to complain for fear of infinite vexation
fortune be like the market where many time if you can stay a little the price  will fall again it be sometime like sibylla offer which at first offer the  commodity at full then consume part and part and still hold up the price for  occasion as it be in the common verse turn a bald noddle after she have  present her lock in front and no hold take or at least turn the handle of the  bottle first to be receive and after the belly which be hard to clasp there be  sure no great wisdom than well to time the beginning and onset of thing danger  be no more light if they once seem light and more danger have deceive man than  force they nay it be better to meet some danger half way though they come  nothing near than to keep too long a watch upon their approach for if a man  watch too long it be odds he will fall asleep on the other side to be deceive  with too long shadow as some have be when the moon be low and shine on their  enemy back and so to shoot off before the time or to teach danger to come on  by over early buckle towards they be another extreme the ripeness or  unripeness of the occasion as we say must ever be well weigh and general it be  good to commit the beginning of all great action to Argus with his hundred eye  and the end to Briareus with his hundred hand first to watch and then to speed  for the helmet of Pluto which make the politic man go invisible be secrecy in  the counsel and celerity in the execution for when thing be once come to the  execution there be no secrecy comparable to celerity like the motion of a  bullet in the air which fly so swift as it outrun the eye
in criminal  be sufficient general  ill will thought come facto parish gradus  all crime have their conception in a corrupt intent and have their  consummation and issue in some particular fact which though it be not the fact  at which the intention of the malefactor level yet the law give he no  advantage of that error if another particular ensue of as high a nature  therefore if a empoison apple be lie in a place to poison I S and I d come by  chance and eat it this be murder in the principal that be actor and yet the  malice in atom be not against I d so if a thief find the door open and come in  by night and rob a house and be take with the manner and break a door to  escape this be burglary yet the break of the door be without any felonious  intent but it be one entire act so if a caliver be discharge with a murderous  intent at I S and the piece break and strike into the eye of he that discharge  it and kill he he be felon de see and yet his intention be not to hurt himself  for felon de see and murder be sin parish gradus for if a man persuade another  to kill himself and be Elizabeth Edward Br maxim Elizabeth sander case come Cr  peace present when he do so he be a murderer but quaere if I S lie empoison  fruit for some other stranger his enemy and his father or mother come and eat  it whether this be petty treason because it be not altogether sin parish  gradus
inquisition concern the version transmutation multiplication and Effections of  body earth by fire be turn into brick which be of the nature of a stone and  serve for building as stone do and the like of tile naphtha which be the  bituminous mortar use in the wall of Babylon grow to a entire and very hard  matter like a stone in clay country where there be pebble and gravel you shall  find great stone where you may see the pebble or gravel and between they a  substance of stone as hard or hard than the pebble it self there be some  spring of water wherein if you put wood it will turn into the nature of stone  so as that within the water shall be stone and that above the water continue  wood the slime about the reins and bladder in man body turn into stone and  stone be likewise find often in the gall and sometime though rare in sale port  quere what time the substance of earth in Quarries ask to be turn into stone  water as it seem turn into crystal as be see in diverse cave where the crystal  hang in a trickling liquid try wood or the stalk of herb bury in quicksilver  whether it will not grow hard and stony they speak of a stone engender in a  Toad's head there be a gentleman dig in his moat find a egg turn into stone  the white and the yolk keep their colour and the shell glister like a stone  cut with corner try something put into the bottom of a well as wood or some  soft substance but let it not touch the water because it may not putrify they  speak that the white of a egg with lie long in the sun will turn stone mud in  water turn into shell of fish as in horse muscle in fresh pond old and  overgrow and the substance be a wondrous fine substance light and shine
John lamb case John lamb proctor of the ecclesiastical court exhibit a bill in  the star chamber against William march Robert Harrison and many other of the  town of Northampton and against Shuchburghe and other for publish of two libel  it be resolve that every one who shall be convict in the say case either ought  to be a contriver of the libel or a procurer of the contrive of it or a  malicious publisher of it know it to be a libel for if any read a libel the  same be not any publish of it or if he hear it read it be no publication of it  for before he read or hear it he can know it to be a libel or if he hear read  it and laugh at it it be no publish of it but if after he have read or hear it  he repeat the same or any part of it in the hear of other or after that he  know it to be a libel he read it to other the same be a unlawful publish of it  or if he write a Copy of it and do not publish it to other it be no  publication of the libel for every one who shall be convict ought to be a  contriver procurer or publisher of it know it to be a libel but it be great  evidence that he publish it when he know it to be a libel writ a Copy of it if  not that afterward he can prove that he deliver the same to a magistrate to  examine it for then the subsequent Act do explain the precedent intent see  reader bract lib tract de Corona cap foe fiat autem in an unjust manner come  quis fist buffeting to be beating cannot be injured seu staff club cutting yes  now too come ei a loud noise dictum to be well de eastern factum carman  much talked of
non to see general consensus to hold back si quis ex precept to drive  to some degree immutauit although choice and election be a badge of consent  yet if the first ground of the act be duress the law will not construe that  the duress do determine if the party duressed do make any motion or offer  Edward Fitzherbert Edward zouch light pl maxim therefore if a party menace I  except I make unto he a bind of l and I tell he that I will nor do it but I  will make unto he a bind of l the law shall not expound this bind to be  voluntary but shall rather make construction that my mind and courage be not  to enter into the great bind for any menace and yet that I enter by compulsion  notwithstanding into the lesser but if I will draw any consideration to my  self as if I have say I will enter into your bind of l if you will deliver I  that piece of plate now the duress be discharge and yet if it have be move  from the duressor who have say at the first you shall take this piece of plate  and make I a bind of l now the gift of the plate have be good and yet the bind  shall be avoid by duress
question about the lawfulness of a war for the propagate of religion question  wherein I desire opinion join with argument and authority whether a war be  lawful against infidel only for the propagation of the Christian faith without  other cause of hostility whether a war be lawful to recover to the church  country which former have be Christian though now alienate and Christian utter  extirp whether a war be lawful to free and deliver Christian that yet remain  in servitude and subjection to infidel whether a war be lawful in revenge or  vindication of blasphemy and reproach against the deity and our saviour or for  the ancient effusion of Christian blood and cruelty upon Christian whether a  war be lawful for the restore and purge of the holy land the sepulchre and  other principal place of adoration and devotion whether in the case aforesaid  it be not Obligatory to Christian prince to make such a war and not permissive  only whether the make of a war against the infidel be not first in order of  dignity and to be prefer before extirpation of heresy reconcilement of schism  reformation of manner pursuit of just temporal quarrel and the like action for  the public good except there be either a more urgent necessity or a more  evident facility in those inferior action or except they may both go on  together in some degree
section conditional estate part and therefore it will be a good sure thing for  he that will make such feoff in mortgage to appoint a especial place where the  money shall be pay and the more special that it be put the better it be for  the feoff as if a feoff b to have to he and to his heir upon such condition  that if a pay to b on the Feast of saint Michael the arch angel next come in  the cathedral church of saint Paul in London within four hour next before the  hour of noon of the same feast at the rood loft of the rood of the north door  within the same church or at the tomb of saint erkenwald or at the door of  such chapel or at such a pillar within the same church that then it shall be  lawful to the aforesaid a and his heir to enter c in this case he needs not to  seek the feoff in a other place nor to be in any other place but in the place  comprise in the indenture nor to be there long than the time specify in the  same indenture to tender or pay the money to the feoff c here be good counsel  and advice give to set down in conveyance every thing in certainty and  particularity for certainty be the mother of quietness and repose and  incertainty the cause of variance and contention and for obtain of the one and  avoid of the other the best mean be in all assurance to take counsel of  learned and well experience man and not to trust only without advice to a  precedent for as the rule be concern the state of a man body no one drug be  idem omnibus so in the state and assurance of a man land no one exemplum be  idem omnibus at the tomb of saint erkenwald this erkenwald be a young son of  Anna king of the east Saxon and be first abbot of Chersey in Surry which he  have find and after bishop of London a holy and devout man and lie bury in the  south I will above the choir in saint Paul church where the tomb yet remain  that Littleton speak of in this place he flourish about the year of our lord  the residue of this section and the c be evident
section conditional estate part the make of a indenture in the first person be  as in this from to all Christian people to who these present indent shall come  a of b send greeting in our lord God everlasting know you I to have give grant  and by this my present deed indent confirm to c of d such land c or thus know  all man present and to come that I a of b have give grant and by this my  present deed indent confirm to c of d such land c to have and to hold c upon  condition follow c in witness whereof as well I the say a of b as the  aforesaid c of d to these indenture have interchangeable put our seal or thus  in witness whereof I the aforesaid a to the one part of this indenture have  put my seal and to the other part of the same indenture the say c of d have  put his seal c here Littleton set down three from of deed indent in the first  person short catalog way per exempla long per teaching it be requisite for  every student to get Precidents and approve from not only of deed accord to  the example of Littleton but of fine and other conveyance and assurance and  especial of good and perfect plead and of the right entry and from of  judgement which will stand he in great stead both while he study and after  when he shall give counsel it be safe thing to follow approve precidents for  nothing simul invention be a finishing
section fee tail part and all these entail aforesaid be specify in the say  statute of wonder also there be diverse other estate in tail though they be  not by express word specify in the say statute but they be take by the equity  of the same statute as if land be give to a man and to his heir male of his  body beget in this case his issue male shall inherit and the issue female  shall never inherit and yet in the other entail aforesaid it be otherwise and  all these entail aforesaid be specify in the say statute of wonderful  estmister and so it appear by the say statute Auxy be diverse auters estate en  Le tail c and herewith agree Carbonels case Edward distinction tail that the  case of the statute be set down but for example of estate tail general and  special and not to exclude other estate tail Edward ass p Edward mar dyer pl  come signior Barkleys case foe for exempla place in the right light non  to bind back law equity be a construction make by the judge that case out of  the letter of a statute yet be within the same mischief or cause of the make  of the same shall be within the same remedy that the statute provide and the  reason hereof be for that the lawmaker can not possible set down all case in  express term justice be agreement a thing who all  coaequiparat who in pair  account pair jura judge want to know and again justice be to achieve quaedam  ratio who law scribe to explain nullascriptura to bind together say solum in  true ration class  justice be quasi evenness bone judge secundum level ground  good judge justice to draw tight law carry in front et law look back at  justice as if land be give to a man and to f his heir male of his body beget  in this case his issue male shall inherit and the issue female shall never  inherit c this shall be explain afterward sect
section feesimple also it be to be understand that none shall have land of  feesimple by descent as heir to any man unless he be his heir of the whole  blood for if a man have issue two son by diverse venture and the elder  purchase land in feesimple and die without issue the young brother shall not  have the land but the uncle of the elder brother of some other his next cousin  shall have the same because the young brother be but of half blood to the  elder no man can be heir to a feesimple by the commonlaw d but he that have  blood duplicate the whole blood that be both of the father and of the mother  so as the half blood be no blood inheritable by descent because that he that  be but of the half blood can be a complete heir for that he have not the whole  and complete blood and the law in descent in feesimple do respect that which  be complete and perfect and this maxim do not only hold where land whereof  Littleton here speak be claim or demand as heir e but also in case of appeal  of death for if one brother be slay the other brother of the half blood shall  never have a appeal albeit he shall recover nothing therein either in the  realty or personaltie because in the eye of the law he be not heir to he also  this rule extend to a warranty as our author himself elsewhere hold
section feesimple and if a man have issue a son and a daughter by one venture  and a son by another venture the son of the first venture purchase land in fee  and die without issue the sister shall have the land by descent as heir to her  brother not the young brother for that the sister be the whole blood of her  elder brother this be put for a example to illustrate that which have  beenesaid and needs no explanation and herewith agree Britton
section feesimple and note that a man can have a more large or great estate of  inheritance than feesimple this do extend as well to feesimples conditional  qualify as to feesimples pure and absolute for our author speak here of the  ampleness and greatness of the estate and not of the perdurableness of the  same and he that have a feesimple conditional or qualify have as ample and  great a estate as he that have a feesimple absolute so as the diversity appear  between the quantity and quality of the estate from this state in feesimple  estate in tail and all other particular estate be derive and therefore worthy  our author begin his first book with tenant in feesimple for a  principalioribus seu worthy be begins to sacrifice can have a more large or  great estate for this cause two a feesimples absolute can be of one and the  selfsame land if the king make a gift in tail and the donee be attaint of  treason in this case the king have not two simples in he videlicet the ancient  reversion in fee a feesimple determinable upon the die without issue of tenant  in tail but both of they be consolidate and conjoin together and so it be if  such a tenant in tail both convey the land to the king his heir and successor  the king have but one estate in feesimple unite in he and the king grant of  one estate be good and so be it adjudge in the court of common plea and yet in  several person by act in law a reversion may be in feesimple in one and a  feesimple determinable in another by matter ex post facto as if a gift in tail  make to a villeine and the lord enter the lord have a feesimple qualify and  the donor a reverssion in fee but if the lord feoff the donor now both  feesimples be unite and he have but one feesimple in he but one feesimple can  depend upon another by the grant of the party as if land be give to a so long  as b have heir of his body the remainder over in fee the remainder be void
section tenant at will part also if a house be let to one to hold at will by  force whereof the lessee enter into the house bring his householdstuffe into  the same and after the lessor put he out yet he shall have free entry egress  and regress into the say house by reasonable time to take away his good and  utensil as if a man seize of a mese in feesimple fee tail or for life have  certain good within the say house and make his executor and die whosoever  after his decease have the house his executor shall have free entry egress and  regress to carry out of the same house the good of their testator by  reasonable time if a house be let to one to hold at will the reason of this be  evident upon that which have be say before house or mai son call in legal  Latin messuagium contain as have be say the building Curtelage orchard and  garden cottage Cotagium be a little house without land to it a see Elizabeth  cap I and cottager in doomsday book be call Cotterelli and in ancient record  Haga signify a house if a man have a house near to my house and he suffer his  house to be so ruinous as it be like to fall upon my house b I may have a writ  de house to get again and compel he to repair his house but a praecipe lie not  de house but de messuagio by reasonable time c this reasonable time shall be  adjudge by the discretion of the justice before who the cause depend and so it  be of reasonable fine custom and service upon the true state of the case  depend before they for reasonableness in these case belong to the knowledge of  the law and therefore to be decide by the justice d how long be debet non  finish off an end the life in jure say to hang ex discretion justice and this  be say of time the like may be say of thing incertain which ought to be  reasonable for nothing that be contrary to reason be consonant to law e as if  a man seize of a mese in feesimple fee tail this be so evident as it needs no  explaination
section tenant by the verge part and so it be to be understand that in diverse  lordship and in diverse manor there be many and diverse custom in such case as  to take tenement as to plead and as to other thing and custom to be do and  whatsoever be not against reason may well be admit and allow be many and  diverse custom this be cautious set down for in respect of the variety of the  custom in most manor it be not possible to set down any certainty only this  incident inseparable every custom must have videlicet that it be consonant to  reason for how long soever it have continue if it be against reason it be of  no force in law against reason this be not to be understand of every unlearned  man reason but of artificial and legal reason warrant by authority of law law  be summa ratio
set up de Westminster Heights year  Edward and parliament post holiday hill  Paschae in the parliament roll it be entitle to cause to stand king de terris  to sell to buy it be call the statute of Westminster because two notable  parliament have be before hold at Westminster the one call Westminster and the  other call Westminster in respect whereof and of the excellency of it this  parliament be hold at Westminster be call Westminster
short note for civil conversation TO deceive man expectation general which  cautel argue a stay mind and unexpected constancy videlicet in matter of fear  anger sudden joy or grief and all thing which may effect or alter the mind in  public or sudden accident or such like it be necessary to usea steadfast  countenance not waver with action as in move the head or hand too much which  show a fantastical light and sickly operation of the spirit and cosequently  like mind as gesture only it be sufficient with leisure to use a modest action  in either in all kind of speech either pleasant grave severe or ordinary it be  convenient to speak leisurely and rather drawingly then hasty because hasty  speech confound the memory and oftentimes beside unseemliness drive a man  either to a nonplus or unseemly stammer harp upon that which shall follow  whereas a slow speech confirm the memory add a conceit of wisdom to the hearer  beside a seemliness of speech and countenance to desire in discourse to hold  all argument be ridiculous want true judgement for in all thing no man can be  exquisite to have common place to discourse and to want variety be both  tedious to the hearer and show a shallowness of conceit therefore it be good  to vary and my speech with the present occasion and to have a moderation in  all their speech especial in jest of religion state great person weighty and  important business poverty or any thing deserve pity a long continue speech  without a good speech of interlocation show slowness and a good reply without  a good set speech show shallowness and weakness to use many circumstance ere  you come to the matter be wearisome and to use none at all be but blunt  bashfulness be a great hindrance both of utter his conceit and understanding  what be propound unto he wherefore it be good to press himself forward with  discretion both in speech and company of the better sort use readiness compose
the answer of the lord Bacon then attorney general to the university of  Cambridge when he be swear of the privycouncil to the king your letter be very  acceptable to I and I give my self joy upon your congratulation the thing it  self will I suppose conduce to my honour and satisfaction if I remain in the  mind I now be in by unwearied study and perpetual watchfulness and pure  affection to promote the public good now among the part of the common wealth  there be none dear to I than the university and learning and this my manner of  life hitherto and my write do both declare if therefore any good fortune  befall I you may look upon it as a accession to your self neither be you to  believe that my patronage be either quite remove from you or so much as  diminish for that part of a advocate which concern the give of counsel in  cause remain entire also if any thing more weighty urgent fall out the very  office of plead the king leave be obtain be still allow I and whatsoever shall  be find want in my juridical patronage will be compensate by my more ample  authority my wish be that as I be translate from the business of private man  and particular client to the government of the common wealth so the latter  part of my age if my life be continue to I may from the public care be  translate to leisure and study also this think come often into my mind amid so  many business and of such moment every year to lie aside some day to think on  you that so have the great insight into your matter I may the better consult  your advantage July the that your most faithful and kind friend
the case of market Overt at the session of Newgate now last pass it be resolve  by Popham chief justice of England Anderson chief justice of the common plea  sir Thomas Egerton master of the roll the attorney general and the court that  if plate be steal and sell open in a scrivener shop on the market day as every  day be a market day in London except the Sunday that this sale shall not  change the property but the party shall have restitution for a scrivener shop  be not a market overt for plate for none will search there for such thing such  de like c but if the sale have be open in a goldsmith shop in London so that  any one that stand or pass by the shop may see it there it change the property  but if the sale be in the shop of a goldsmith or behind a hang or behind a  cupboard upon which his plate stand so that one that stand or pass by the shop  can see it it shall not change the property so if the sale be not in shop but  in the ware house or other place of the house it shall not change the property  for that be not in market overt and none will search there for his good so  every shop in London be a open market for such thing only which by the trade  of the owner be put there to sale and when I be recorder of London I certify  the custom of London accord note reader the reason of this case extend to all  open market in England
the student prayer TO God the father God the word God the spirit we pour forth  most humble and hearty supplication that he remember the calamity of mankind  and the pilgrimage of this our life in which we wear out day few and evil will  please to open to we new refreshment out of the fountain of his goodness for  the alleviate of our misery this also we humble and earnest beg that humane  thing may not prejudice such as be divine neither that from the unlock of the  gate of sense and the kindle of a great natural light any thing of incredulity  or intellectual night may arise in our mind towards divine mystery but rather  that by our mind through cleanse and purge from fancy and vanity and yet  subject and perfect give up to the divine oracle there may be give unto faith  the thing that be faith amen the writer prayer thou oh father who give the  visible light as the first bear of thy creature and do pour into man the  intellectual light as the top and consummation of thy workmanship be please to  protect and govern this work which come from thy goodness return to thy glory  thou after thou have review the work which thy hand have make behold that  every thing be very good and thou do rest with complacency in they but man  reflect on the work which he have make see that all be vanity and vexation of  spirit and can by no mean acquiesee in they wherefore if we labour in thy work  with the sweat of our brow thou will make we partaker of thy vision and thy  sabbath we humble beg that this mind may be steadfast in we and that thou by  our hand and also by the hand of other on who thou shall bestow the same  spirit will please to convey a largeness of new nourishing to thy family of  mankind these thing we commend to thy everlasting love by our jesus thy Christ  God with we amen
to cause to stand de westminst good luck  Heights year  Edward the preface of  the statute of wonder whereas of late our lord the king in the Quinzim of  saint John baptist the six year of his reign call together the prelate earl  baron and his Council at Gloucester and consider that diverse of this realm be  disherit by reason that in many case where remedy shall have be have there be  none provide by he nor his predecessor ordain certain statute right necessary  and profitable for his realm whereby the people of England and Ireland be  subject unto his power have obtain more speedy justice in their oppression  than they have before and certain case wherein the law fail do remain  undetermined and some remain to be enact that be for the reformation of the  oppression of the people our lord the king in his parliament after the Feast  of easter hold the thirteenth year of his reign at Westminster cause many  oppression of the people and default of the law for the accomplishment of the  say statute of Gloucester to be rehearse and thereupon do provide certain act  as shall appear here follow it be common call Westminster the second  Westminster because this parliament be hold at Westminster and the second in  respect of the former parliament hold at Westminster call Westminster the  first