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benefits. The reversion of the office which your lordship 

 only procured unto me, and carried through great and 

 vehement opposition, though it yet bear no fruit, yet it is 

 one of the fairest flowers of my poor estate ; your lordship s 

 constant and serious endeavours to have me Solicitor : your 

 late honourable wishes, for the place of the wards. To 

 gether with your lordship s attempt to give me way by the 

 remove of Mr. Solicitor; they be matters of singular obliga 

 tion; besides many other favours, as well by your lordship s 

 grants from yourself, as by your commendation to others, 

 which I have had for my help; and may justly persuade 

 myself out of the few denials I have received, that fewer 

 might have been, if mine own industry and good hap had 

 been answerable to your lordship s goodness. But on the 

 other side, 1 most humbly pray your lordship s pardon if I 

 speak it ; the time is yet to come, that your lordship did 

 ever use or command, or employ me in my profession in any 

 services or occasion of your lordship s own, or such as are 

 near unto your lordship ; which hath made me fear some 

 times that your lordship doth more honourably affect me 

 than throughly discern of my most humble and dutiful affec 

 tion to your lordship again. Which if it were not in me, I 

 know not whether I were unnatural, unthankful, or unwise. 

 This causeth me, most humbly to pray your lordship, (and 

 I know mine own case too well to speak it as weening I 

 can do your lordship service, but as willing to do it, as) to 

 believe that your lordship is upon just title a principal 

 owner and proprietor of that I cannot call talent but mite 

 that God hath given me ; which I ever do and shall devote 

 to your service. And in like humble manner I pray your 

 lordship to pardon mine errors and not to impute unto me 

 the errors of any other ; (which I know also, themselves 

 have by this time left and forethought) : but to conceive of 

 me to be a man that daily profiteth in duty. It is true, I 

 do in part comfort myself, supposing that it is my weakness 



