LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 31 



tend sometimes great discoveries and inventions, in things 

 that have been propounded and perhaps after a better 

 fashion, long since. God Almighty preserve your majesty. 

 Your Majesty s most humble and 



devoted servant and subject. 

 April 25, 1610. 



A Letter to the King, touching the Lord Chancellor s 



place. 

 It may please your most excellent Majesty, 



Your worthy chancellor, I fear, goeth his last day. God 

 hath hitherto used to weed out such servants as grew not 

 fit for your majesty, but now he hath gathered to himself a 

 true sage or salvia out of your garden ; but your majesty s 

 service must not be mortal. 



Upon this heavy accident, I pray your majesty, in all 

 humbleness and sincerity, to give me leave to use a few 

 words. I must never forget, when I moved your majesty 

 for the attorney s place, it was your own sole act; more 

 than that Somerset when he knew your majesty had re 

 solved ii, thrust himself into the business, for a fee. And 

 therefore I have no reason to pray to saints. 



I shall now again make obligation to your majesty, first, 

 of my heart, then, of my service, thirdly, of my place of at 

 torney, which I think is honestly worth 6000 per annum, 

 and fourthly, of my place of the Star-chamber, which is 

 worth 1600 per annum; and with the favour and counte 

 nance of a chancellor, much more. 



I hope I may be acquitted of presumption, if I think of 

 it, both because my father had the place, which is some 

 civil inducements to my desire : and I pray God your 

 majesty may have twenty no worse years in your greatness, 

 than Queen Elizabeth had in her model, (after my father s 

 placing,) and chiefly, because, if the chancellor s place went 

 to the law, it was ever conferred upon some of the learned 



