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any thing is always understood to perform it by lawful 

 means ; so, as they have plainly abused the state if that 

 which they have undertaken be either impossible or unjust. 

 I am bold to present this consideration to that excellent 

 faculty of your majesty s judgment, because I think it im- 

 porteth that future good which may grow to your majesty 

 in the close of this business ; that the falling off be without 

 all exception. God have you in his precious custody. 

 Your majesty s most humble and bounden 

 subject and servant. 



A Letter to the King touching the Lord Chancellor s 

 sickness. February 9, 1615. 



It may please your most excellent Majesty, 

 I am glad to understand by Mr. Murray that your ma 

 jesty accepteth well of my poor endeavours in opening 

 unto you the passages of your service ; that business may 

 come the less crude, and the more prepared to your royal 

 judgment, the perfection whereof, as I cannot expect they 

 should satisfy in every particular, so 1 hope, through my 

 assiduity, there will result a good total. 



My lord chancellor s sickness falleth out &quot; duro tern- 

 pore.&quot; 1 have always known him a wise man, and of just 

 elevation for monarchy, but your majesty s service must not 

 be mortal ; and if you lose him, as your majesty hath now of 

 late purchased many hearts by depressing the wicked, so 

 God doth minister unto you a counterpart to do the like 

 by raising the honest. God evermore preserve your ma 

 jesty. 



Your majesty s most humble subject f 

 and bounden servant. 



A Letter to the King of my Lord Chancellor*! 



merit, and the difference begun between the 

 Chancery and King s Bench. Feb. 15, 1615. 

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