LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 317 



I shewed his majesty your letter, who taketh very well 

 your care and desire to hear of his health. So I commit 

 you to God, and rest 



Your Lordship s most assured Friend 



Aukknd, the 18th to do you service, 



of April, 1617. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



Since the writing of this letter I have had some farther 

 speech with his majesty, touching my Lord Brackley; and 

 find, that if, in your lordship s information in the course, 

 you write any thing that may tend to the furthering of the 

 dispatch of it in that kind, he desireth it may be done. 



To the Lord Keeper.* 



My honourable Lord, 



I send your lordship the warrant for the queen, f signed 

 by his majesty, to whom I have likewise delivered your 

 lordship s letter. And touching the matter of the pirates, 

 his majesty cannot yet resolve; but within a day or two 

 your lordship shall see a dispatch, which he purposeth to 

 send to the lords of his council in general, what his opinion 

 and pleasure is in that point. 



I would not omit this opportunity to let your lordship 



know, that his majesty, God be thanked, is in very good 



health, and so well pleased with his journey, that I never 



saw him better nor merrier. So I rest 



From Newcastle, the Your Lordship s ever at command, 



23d of April, 1617. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Lord Keeper. 

 My honourable Lord, 



I understand that Sir Lewis Tresham hath a suit de 

 pending in the Chancery before your lordship ; and there 

 fore, out of my love and respect toward him, I have 

 thought fit to recommend him unto your favour so far only 

 as may stand with justice and equity, which is all he de 

 sireth, having to encounter a strong party. And because 

 he is shortly to go into Spain about some other business of 

 his own, I farther desire your lordship to give him what 

 expedition you can, that he may receive no prejudice by 

 his journey. 



Your Lordship s ever at command, 



Indorsed. May 6, 1616. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



t Relating to her house. See the Lord Keeper s letter of April 7, 1G17, 

 printed in his works. 



