352 LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 



Your conjunction and good understanding with the de 

 puty I approve and commend ; for I ever loved intire and 

 good compositions, which was the old physic, better than 

 fine separations. 



Your friendly attributes I take as effects of affection; 

 which must be causes of any good offices, wherewith I can 

 requite you. 



We conceive that kingdom is in growth. God send 

 soundness to the increase; wherein I doubt not but your 

 lordship will do your part. God keep you. 

 York House, April 15, Your Lordship s very loving Friend, 



1618. FR. BACON, Cane. 



To the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.* 

 My Lord Chief Justice, 



I thank you for your letter, and assure you, that you are 

 not deceived, neither in the care I have of the public in 

 that state, nor in my good wishes, and the effects thereof, 

 when it shall lie in my power towards yourself. 



I am glad to receive your testimony of my Lord Deputy, 

 both because I esteem your judgment, and because it con- 

 curreth with my own. 



The materials of that kingdom, which is trade and wealth, 

 grow on apace. I hope the form, which giveth the best 

 living of religion and justice, will not be behind, the rather 

 by you, as a good instrument. I rest 



Your Lordship s assured Friend, 

 York House * * of April, 1618. FR. BACON, Cane. 



To the Lord Chancellor-! 

 My honourable Lord, 



Understanding that there is a suit depending before your 

 lordship between Sir Rowland Cotton, J plaintiff, and Sir 

 John Gawen, defendant, which is shortly to come to a 

 hearing ; and having been likewise informed that Sir 

 Rowland Cotton hath undertaken it in behalf of certain 



* Sir William Jones, to whom, upon his being called to that post, the Lord 

 Keeper made a speech, printed in his works. 



t Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006, 



| A gentleman eminent for his learning, especially in the Hebrew language, 

 in which he had been instructed by the famous Hugh Broughton, who died in 

 1612. He was son of Mr. William Cotton, citizen and draper of London, and 

 had an estate at Bellaport in Shropshire, where he resided till he came to live at 

 London at the request of Sir Allen Cotton, his father s younger brother, who 

 was Lord Mayor of that city in 1625. Sir Rowland was the first patron of the 

 learned Dr. Lightfoot, and encouraged him in the prosecution of his studies of 

 the Hebrew language and antiquities. 



