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either of the parents ; wherein I do not doubt but as the 

 beams of your favour have often dissolved the coldness of 

 my fortune, so in this argument your lordship will do the 

 like with your pen. My desire is also that your lordship 

 would vouchsafe unto me, as out of your care, a general 

 letter to my Lord Keeper for his lordship s holding me, from 

 you recommended, both in the course of my practice, and in 

 the course of my employment in her majesty s service. 

 Wherein, if your lordship shall in any antithesis or relation, 

 affirm that his lordship shall have no less hope of me than of 

 any other whom he may cherish, I hope your lordship shall 

 engage yourself for no impossibility. Lastly and chiefly, I 

 know not whether I shall attain to see your lordship before 

 your noble journey ; for ceremonies are things infinitely 

 inferior to my love and to my zeal ; this let me, with your 

 allowance, say unto you by pen. It is true that in my well 

 meaning advices, out of my love to your lordship, and per 

 haps out of the state of mine own mind, I have sometimes 

 persuaded a course differing : &quot; ac tibi pro tutis insignia 

 facta placebunt:&quot; be it so, yet remember, that the sign 

 ing of your name is nothing unless it be to some good 

 patent or charter, whereby your country may be endowed 

 with good and benefit ; which I speak both to move you to 

 preserve your person, for further merit and service of her 

 majesty and your country, and likewise to refer this action 

 to the same end. And so, in most true and fervent prayers 

 I commend your lordship, and your work in hand, to the 

 preservation and conduct of the Divine Majesty ; so much 

 the more watchful, as these actions do more manifestly in 

 shew, though alike in truth, depend upon his Divine Pro 

 vidence. 



To my Lord of Canterbury. 



It may please your Grace, 

 I have considered the objections, perused the statutes, 



