LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 143 



A Letter to Sir George Villiers, touching the Dif 

 ference between the Court of Chancery and the 

 King s Bench. February 19, 1615. 

 [Inserted in this Vol. p. 35.] 



A Letter to Sir George Villiers, touching a Motion, 

 to swear him Councillor. February 21, 1615. 



Sir, 



My Lord Chancellor s health growing with the days, and 

 his resignation being an uncertainty, I would be glad you 

 went on with my first motion, my swearing privy councillor. 

 This I desire, not so much to make myself more sure of the 

 other, and to put it past competition ; (for herein, I rest 

 wholly upon the king, and your excellent self) but, because 

 1 find hourly, that I need this strength in his majesty s 

 service, both for my better warrant, and satisfaction of my 

 conscience, that I deal not in things above my vocation ; 

 and for my better countenance and prevailing where his 

 majesty s service is under any pretext opposed, I would it 

 were dispatched. I remember a greater matter than this, was 

 dispatched by a letter from Royston ; which was, the 

 placing of the archbishop that now is : and I imagine, the 

 king did on purpose, that the act might appear to be his 

 own. 



My Lord Chancellor told me yesterday, in plain terms, 

 that if the king would ask his opinion touching the person 

 that he would commend to succeed him, upon death or disa 

 bility, he would name me for the fittest man. You may 

 advise whether use may not be made of this offer. 



I sent a pretty while since a paper to Mr. John Murray ; 

 which was indeed, a little remembrance of some things past ; 

 concerning rny honest and faithful services to his majesty, 

 not by way of boasting (from which I am far) but as tokens 



