102 LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



Sir Francis Bacon, to the Earl of Northumberland, 

 concerning a Proclamation upon the King s Entry. 



It may please your Lordship, 



I do hold it a thing formal and necessary, for the king 

 to fore-run his coming, be it never so speedy, with some 

 gracious declaration for the cherishing, entertaining, and 

 preparing of men s affections. For which purpose I have 

 conceived a draught, it being a thing to me familiar, in my 

 mistress her times, to have used my pen in politic writings 

 of satisfaction. The use of this may be in two sorts: First 

 properly, if your lordship think convenient to shew the king 

 any such draught, because the veins and pulses of this state 

 cannot but be known here ; which if your lordship should, 

 then I would desire your lordship to withdraw my name, 

 and only signify that you gave some heads of direction of 

 such a matter to one of whose style and pen you had some 

 opinion. The other collateral, that though your lordship 

 make no other use of it, yet it is a kind of portraiture of 

 that which I think worthy to be advised by your lordship to 

 the king, to express himself according to those points which 

 are therein conceived, and perhaps more compendious and 

 significant than if I had set them down in articles. I would 

 have attended your lordship, but for some little physic I 

 took. To morrow morning I will wait on you. So I ever 

 continue, etc. 



FR. BACON. 



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Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Edward Coke, 

 Expostulatory. 



f n i j.it.-t u 

 Mr. Attorney, 



I thought best once for all, to let you know in plain 

 ness, what I find of you, and what you shall find of me, you 

 take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, 



