120 LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 



A Letter of like Argument, to the Lord Chancellor. 

 [Inserted in this Vol. p. 106.J 



A Letter to the King touching the Solicitor s Place. 

 [Inserted in this Vol. p. 95 and 107.] 



A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesy upon a 



New Year s Tide. 

 It may please your good Lordship, 



Having no gift to present you with, in any degree pro 

 portionable to my mind, I desire nevertheless to take the 

 advantage of a ceremony to express myself to your lord 

 ship ; it being the first time I could make the like acknow 

 ledgment when I stood out of the person of a suitor; 

 wherefore I most humbly pray your lordship to think of me, 

 that now it hath pleased you, by many effectual and great 

 benefits, to add the assurance and comfort of your love and 

 favour to that precedent disposition which was in me to 

 admire your virtue and merit; I do esteem whatsoever I 

 have or may have in this world but as trash in comparison 

 of having the honour and happiness to be a near and well 

 accepted kinsman to so rare and worthy a counsellor, go 

 vernor, and patriot. For having been a studious, if not a 

 curious observer of antiquities of virtue, as of late pieces, I 

 forbear to say to your lordship what I find and conceive ; 

 but to any other I would think to make myself believed. 

 But not to be tedious in that which may have the shew of a 

 compliment, I can but wish your lordship many happy 

 years ; many more than your father had ; even so many 

 more as we may need you more. So I remain. 



