166 LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 



To the Queen. 



It may please your sacred Majesty, 

 I would not fail to give your majesty my most humble 

 and due thanks for your royal choice of such commissioners 

 in the great Star-chamber cause ; being persons besides 

 their honour of such science and integrity. By whose 

 report I doubt not but your majesty will find that which you 

 have been heretofore informed (both by my Lord Keeper, 

 and by some much meaner person) touching the nature of 

 that cause to be true. This preparatory hearing doth 

 already assail me with new and enlarged offers of composi 

 tion ; which if I had borne a mind to have hearkened unto, 

 this matter had been quenched long ago without any benefit 

 to your majesty. But your majesty s benefit is to me in 

 greater regard than mine own particular : trusting to your 

 majesty s gracious disposition and royal word, that your 

 majesty will include me in any extraordinary course of your 

 sovereign pleasure, which your majesty shall like to take in 

 this cause. The other man I spoke to your majesty of, may 

 within these two terms be in the same straits between 

 your majesty s justice and mercy, that this man now is, if your 

 majesty be so pleased. So most humbly craving pardon for 

 my presuming to seek access for these few lines, I recom 

 mend your majesty to the most precious custody, and best 

 preservation of the Divine Majesty. 



Your majesty s, most humble, and entirely 



obedient servant and subject. 



To the Queen.* 



It may please your Majesty, 



It were great simplicity in me to look for better than 

 that your majesty should cast away my letter as you have 

 done me ; were it not that it is possible your majesty will 



* Written by Mr, Bacon for my Lord of Essex. 



