LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 337 



To the Lord Keeper.* 



My honourable Lord, 



Though I had resolved to give your lordship no more 

 trouble in matters of controversy depending before you, with 

 what importance soever my letters had been, yet the respect 

 I bear unto this gentleman hath so far forced my resolution, 

 as to recommend unto your lordship the suit, which, I am 

 informed by him, is to receive a hearing before you on 

 Monday next, between Barneby Leigh and Sir Edward 

 Dyer, plaintiffs, and Sir Thomas Thynne,f defendant; 

 wherein I desire your lordship s favour on the plaintiffs so 

 far only as the justice of their cause shall require. And 

 so I rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Servant, 



Newmarket, the 15th of Nov. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



Indorsed 1617. 



To the Lord Keeper. 

 My honourable Lord, 



The certificate being returned upon the commission touch 

 ing Sir Richard Haughton s alum mines, I have thought fit 

 to desire your lordship s furtherance in the business, which 

 his majesty (as your lordship will see by his letter) much 

 affecteth as a bargain for his advantage, and for the present 

 relief of Sir Richard Haughton. What favour your lordship 

 shall do him therein I will not fail to acknowledge, and will 

 ever rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 

 Indorsed Received November 16, 1617. 



To the Lord Keeper. 

 My honourable Lord, 



I have acquainted his majesty with your lordship s letter, 

 who liketh well of the judges opinion you sent unto him, 

 and hath pricked the sheriff of Buckinghamshire in the 

 roll you sent, which I returned signed unto your Lordship. 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



t Eldest son of Sir John Thynne, knight, who died November 21, 1604. 

 This Sir Thomas s younger son by his first wife, Mary, daughter of George, Lord 

 Audley, was father of Thomas Thynne, Esq. ; assassinated by the followers of 

 Count Coningsmark, Februaiy 12, 1682-3. 



t Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



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