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go on with the rest. And though it may be said that that 

 is a thing will easily appear to the state, yet (no doubt 

 means may be devised an 4 found to draw the business in 

 length. So that I conclude that if your majesty take a 

 profit of them, in the interim (considering you refuse profit 

 from the old company) it will be both spur and bridle to them 

 to make them pace aright to your majesty s end. 



This in all humbleness, according to my avowed care 

 and fidelity, being no man s man but your majesty s, I pre 

 sent, leave, and submit to your majesty s better judgment; 

 and I could wish your majesty would speak with Sir Tho 

 mas Lake in it; who, besides his good habit which he hath 

 in business, beareth (methinksj an indifferent hand in this 

 particular ; and (if it please your majesty) it may proceed as 

 from yourself, and not as a motion or observation of mine. 



Your majesty need not in this to be straitened in time, 

 as if this must be demanded or treated, before you sign 

 their bill; for 1, foreseeing this, and foreseeing that many 

 things might fall out which I could not foresee, have 

 handled it so, as with their good contentment there is a 

 power of revocation inserted into their patent. And so 

 commending your majesty to God s blessed and precious 

 custody, I rest 



Your majesty s most humble and devoted 

 subject and servant. 



A Letter to Sir George Villiers, touching Roper s 



place. January 22, 1615. 

 Sir, 



Sending to the king upon occasion, I would not fail to 

 salute you by my letter; which, that it may be more than 

 two lines, 1 add this for news ; that as I was sitting by my 

 Lord Chief Justice upon the commission for the indicting of 

 the great person, one of the judges asked him whether 



