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with the true care of a king; which is to think what you 

 would have done in chief; and not how for the passages. 



I do presume also, in respect of my father s memory, 

 and that I have been always gracious in the lower-house, 

 I have some interest in the gentlemen of England, and 

 shall be able to do some good effect in rectifying that body 

 of parliament, which is &quot; Cardo Rerum.&quot; For, let me tell 

 your majesty, that that part of the chancellor s place, which 

 is to judge in equity between party and party, that same 

 &quot; Regnum Judiciale&quot; (which since my father s time is but 

 too much enlarged) concerneth your majesty least, more 

 than the acquitting of your conscience for justice. But it is 

 the other parts of a moderator amongst your council ; of an 

 overseer over your judges; of a planter of fit justices and 

 governors in the country, that importeth your affairs, and 

 these times, most. 



I will add likewise, that I hope, by my care, the inven 

 tive part of your council will be strengthened ; who, now 

 commonly, do exercise rather their judgments than their 

 inventions ; and the Inventive Part cometh from projectors 

 and private men ; which cannot be so well : In which kind 

 my Lord of Salisbury had a good method. 



To conclude ; if I were the man I would be, I should 

 hope, that as your majesty of late hath won hearts by 

 depressing, you should in this lose no hearts by advancing. 

 For I see your people can better skill of Concretum than 

 Abstractum; and that the waves of their affection flow 

 rather after persons than things. So that acts of this 

 nature (if this were one) do more good than twenty bills of 

 grace. 



If God call my Lord Chancellor, the warrants and com 

 missions which are requisite for the taking of the seal, and 

 for working with it, and for reviving of warrants under his 

 hand, which die with him, and the like, shall be in readi 

 ness. And in this time presseth more, because it is the end 



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