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Latin: and he desired my advice, and any assistance I 

 could give him by manuscripts or translations, to the end 

 that, as far as possible, those works might come abroad 

 with advantage, which have been long received with the 

 kindest eulogies, and with the most attested applause of the 

 learned world. If you have anything in your mind, or your 

 hands, whence we may hope for assistance in so famous a 

 design, and conducing so much to the honour of those who 

 are instrumental in it, pray let me know it, and reckon me 

 henceforth amongst the devout honourers of the name of the 

 Lord Bacon, and of your own virtues. 



Farewell. 



I expect from you what you know about the ances 

 tors of the Lord Bacon, especially concerning his father, 

 Nicholas Bacon, concerning his youth, his studies in Cam 

 bridge, his travels, his honours, his office of Chancellor, and 

 his deposal from it by sentence of parliament. The former 

 I will undertake in a more florid and free style, expatiating 

 in his just praises ; the latter, with a wary pen, lest out of 

 my commentary of the Life of this most learned man, 

 matter be offered of pernicious prating, to slanderers and 

 men of dishonest tempers. 



From the Hague, 



May 29, 1652. 



The second Letter of Mr. Isaac Gruter, to Dr. 

 Rawley, concerning the writings of the Lord 

 Bacon. 



V. R. Gulielmo Rawleio, S. S. Theologise Doctor! 

 S. P. D. Isaacus Gruterus. 



Vir Reverende, 



De responsi tui tarditate queri non licet, cum et diffi- 

 cultas trajectus facile moram injiciat ex anno in hiemem 



