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LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



100,0001. But the judges first, and most of the rest, re 

 duced it as before. I do not dislike that thing s pass mo 

 derately, and all things considered it is not amiss, and might 

 easily have been worse. There was much speaking of in 

 terceding for the king s mercy, which (in my opinion) was 

 not so proper for a sentence: I said, in conclusion, that 

 mercy was to come &quot; ex mero motu,&quot; and so left it. I took 

 some other occasion pertinent to do the king honour, by 

 shewing how happy he was in all other parts of his govern 

 ment, save only in the manage of his treasure by these 

 officers. 



I have sent the king a new bill for Sussex, for my lord 

 of Nottingham s certificate wastrue, and I told the judges 

 of it before, but they neglected it. I conceive the first man 

 (which is newly set down) is the fittest. God ever preserve 

 and keep you, etc. 



Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Buck- 

 hurst, upon the same occasion, of sending his Book 

 of Advancement of Learning. 



May it please your good Lordship, 

 I have finished a work touching the Advancement or 

 setting forward of Learning, which I have dedicated to his 

 majesty, the most learned of a sovereign, or temporal prince, 

 that time hath known. And upon reason not unlike, I humbly 

 present one of the books to your lordship, not only as a 

 chancellor of an university, but as one that was excellently 

 bred in all learning, which 1 have ever noted to shine in all 

 your speeches and behaviours. And therefore your lord 

 ship will yield a gracious aspect to your first love, and take 

 pleasure in the adorning of that wherewith yourself are so 

 much adorned. And so humbly desiring your favourable 

 acceptation thereof, with signification of my humble duty, 

 I remain. 



