LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 121 



A Letter of Thanks to the King, upon Mr. Attor 

 ney s sickness. 



It may please your most excellent Majesty, 

 I do understand, by some of my good friends, to my 

 great comfort, that your majesty hath in mind your majesty s 

 royal promise (which to me is &quot; anchora spei ^ touching the 

 Attorney s place. I hope Mr. Attorney shall do well. I 

 thank God I wish no man s death, nor much mine own life, 

 more than to do your majesty service. For I account my 

 life the accident, and my duty the substance. But this 

 I will be bold to say. If it please God that ever I serve 

 your majesty in the Attorney s place I have known an Attor- 

 Dey Cooke, and an attorney Hobert; both worthy men, 

 and far above myself; but if I should not find a middle way 

 between their two dispositions and carriages, I should not 

 satisfy myself. But these things are far or near, as it shall 

 please God. Meanwhile I most humbly pray your majesty 

 to accept my sacrifice of thanksgiving for your gracious 

 favour. God preserve your majesty. I ever remain. 



A Letter to the King, of suit to succeed in the 



Attorney s Place. 

 [Inserted in this Vol. p. 97.] 



A Letter to Sir George Carey in France, upon 

 sending him his writing, (( In Felicem Memoriam 

 Elizabethan&quot; 



[Inserted in this Vol. p. 99.] 



A Letter to my Lord Mayor, upon a proceeding in 



a private cause. 

 My very good Lord, 

 I did little expect when I left your lordship last, that 



