338 LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 



His majesty takes very well the pains you have taken in 

 sending to Sir Lionel Cranfield ; and desireth you to send 

 to him again, and to quicken him in the business. 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 



His Majesty liketh well the course taken about his 

 household, wherewith he would have your lordship, and 

 the rest of his council, to go forward. 



Newmarket, the 17th 

 November, 1617. 



Indorsed My Lord of Buckingham showing his Majesty s 

 approbation of the courses held touching the 

 household. 



To the Lord Keeper. 5 * 

 My honourable Lord, 



Understanding that Thomas Hukeley, a merchant of 

 London, of whom I have heard a good report, intendeth to 

 bring before your lordship in Chancery a cause depending 

 between him, in the right of his wife, daughter of William 

 Austen, and one John Horsemendon, who married another 

 daughter of the said Austen ; I have thought fit to desire 

 your lordship to give the said Thomas Hukeley a favourable 

 hearing, when his cause shall come before you ; and so far 

 to respect him for my sake, as your lordship shall see him 

 grounded upon equity and reason ; which is no more than 

 I assure myself your lordship will grant readily, as it is 

 desired by 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 

 Indorsed November 17, 1617. 



To the Earl of Buckingham, f 

 My very good Lord, 



The last letter of my lords, whereof the conclusion indeed 

 is a little blunt, as the king calleth it, was concluded in my 

 absence, which hath been but once since I came to this 

 town ; and brought me by the clerk of the council, as I sat 

 in Chancery. Whereupon I retired to a little closet I have 

 there, and signed it, not thinking fit to sever. 



For my opinion, I dispatched it the morrow following. 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



t In answer to his lordship s letter from Newmarket, November 19, 1617, 

 printed in Lord Bacon s Works. 



