LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 345 



do acknowledge, that your lordship hath dealt very honour 

 ably and nobly with me. 



I send inclosed a letter, whereby your lordship signifieth 

 his majesty s pleasure to me ; and I shall make the warrant 

 to Mr. Attorney. I desire it may be carried in privateness. 

 I ever rest Your Lordship s true Friend 



and devoted Servant, 



This New Year s eve, 1617. F R - BACON. 



To Sir James Fullerton.* 



I presume to send his highness this pair of small candle 

 sticks, that his light, and the light of his posterity upon 

 the church and commonwealth may never fail. I pray you 

 do me the favour to present it to his highness, with rny best 

 and humblest service. 



Your most affectionate and assured Friend, 



FR. BACON, C. S. 



To the Lord Chancellor.! 

 My honourable Lord, 



I have heretofore recommended unto your lordship the 

 determination of the cause between Sir Rowland Egerton 

 and Edward Egerton,J who I understand, did both agree, 

 being before your lordship, upon the values of the whole 

 lands. And as your lordship hath already made so good 

 an entrance into the business, I doubt not but you will be 

 as noble in furthering the full agreement between the par 

 ties : whereunto I am informed, Sir Rowland Egerton is 

 very forward, offering on his part, that which to me seemeth 

 very reasonable, either to divide the lands, and his adverse 

 party to choose ; or the other to divide, and he to choose. 

 Whereupon my desire to your lordship is, that you would 

 accordingly make a final end between them, in making a 

 division, and setting forth the lands according to the values 

 agreed upon by the parties themselves. Wherein, besides 



* He had been surveyor of the lands to Prince Charles, when Duke of 

 York ; and was groom of the stole to him when King. He died in J anuary, 

 1630-1. 



t Sir Francis Bacon had that title given him January 4. 



J This was one of the causes mentioned in the charge of the house of com 

 mons against the Lord Bacon ; in his answer to which, he acknowledged that 

 some days after perfecting his award, which was done with the advice and con 

 sent of the Lord Chief Justice Hobart, and publishing it to the parties, he 

 received three hundred pounds of Mr. Edward Egerton, by whom, soon after his 

 coming to the seal, he had likewise been presented with four hundred pounds in 

 a purse. 



