152 LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 



A Letter to the King touching Sir George Villiers 

 Patent for Baron of Bletchley and Viscount Vil 

 liers. August 12, 1616. 



It may please your most excellent Majesty, 

 I have sent Sir George Villiers patent, drawn again, 

 containing also a barony ; the name Bletchley is his own, 

 and to- my thinking soundeth better than Whaddon. I have 

 included both in one patent to avoid a double preface, and 

 as hath been used in the patents of earls of like nature ; 

 nevertheless, the ceremony of robing, and otherwise, is to 

 be double, as is alsa used in like case of earls. 



It resteth that I express unto your majesty my great 

 joy in your honouring and advancing this gentleman ; whom 

 to describe, not with colours, but with true lines, I may say 

 this ; your majesty certainly hath found out and chosen a 

 safe nature, a capable man, an honest will, generous and 

 noble affections, and a courage well lodged ; and one, that I 

 know, loveth your majesty unfeignedly ; and admireth you 

 as much as is in a man to admire his sovereign upon earth. 

 Only your majesty s school (wherein he hath already so well 

 profited as in this entrance upon the stage, being the time of 

 greatest danger, he hath not committed any manifest error ;) 

 will add perfection to your majesty s comfort, and the great 

 contentment of your people. God ever preserve and pros 

 per your majesty. I rest in all humbleness 



Your majesty s most bounden and most 

 devoted subject and servant. 



A Letter to Sir George Villiers upon the sending of 

 his Patent for the creation of Viscount, sealed 

 August 20, 1616. 



Sir, 

 I took much contentment in that I perceive by your 



