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of my studying his service uprightly and carefully. If you 

 be pleased to call for the paper which is with Mr. John 

 Murray, and to find a fit time, that his majesty may cast an 

 eye upon it, I think it will do no hurt: and I have written 

 to Mr. Murray to deliver the paper if you call for it. 

 God keep you in all happiness. 



Your truest servant. 



A Letter to the King, concerning the Premunire, in 

 the King s Bench, against the Chancery. Fe 

 bruary 21, 1615. 



[Inserted in this Vol. p. 36.] 



A Letter to the King of Advice, upon the Breach of 

 the New Company, Feb. 25, 1615. 



It may please your most excellent Majesty, 

 Your privy council have wisely and truly discerned of 

 the orders and demands of the New Company that they 

 are unlawful and unjust, and themselves have now acknow 

 ledged the work impossible without them by their petition in 

 writing now registered in the Council Book : so as this 

 conclusion (of their own making) is become peremptory and 

 final to themselves ; and the impossibility confessed the 

 practice and abuse, reserved to the judgment the state 

 shall make of it. 



This breach then of this great contract is wholly on their 

 part ; which could not have been, if your majesty had 

 broken upon the patent : for the patent was your majesty s 

 act, the orders are their act ; and in the former case they 

 had not been liable to further question, now they are. 



There rest two things to be considered : the one, if 

 they (like Proteus when he is hard held) shall yet again vary 

 their shape and shall quit their orders convinced of injus 

 tice, and lay their imposition only upon the Trade of 

 Whites, whether your majesty shall further expect? The 



