LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 357 



To Mr. (afterwards Sir) Isaac Wake, his Majesty s 



Agent at the Court of Savoy. 

 Mr. Wake, 



I have received some letters from you ; and hearing from 

 my Lord Cavendish* how well he affects you, and taking 

 notice also of your good abilities and services in his majesty s 

 affairs, and not forgetting the knowledge I had, when young, 

 of your good father, f I thought myself in some measure 

 tied not to keep from you my good opinion of you, and my 

 desire to give you any furtherance in your fortunes and 

 occasions, whereof you may take knowledge and liberty to 

 use me for your good. Fare you well. 



York House, this 1st Your J 1% FY IQ ^^ 



of Sept. 1618. FR. VERULAM, J Cane. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 

 My honourable Lord, 



His majesty is desirous to be satisfied of the fitness and 

 conveniency of the gold and silver thread business ; as also 

 of the profit that shall any way accrue unto him thereby. 

 Wherefore his pleasure is, that you shall, with all con 

 venient speed, call unto you the Lord Chief Justice of the 

 King s Bench, || the attorney-general,^ and the solicitor,** 

 and consider with them of every of the said particulars, 

 and return them to his majesty, that thereupon he may 

 resolve what present course to take for the advancement of 

 the execution thereof. And so I rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Servant, 



Theobalds, the 4th of Octob. 1618. G. BUCKINGHAM, 



To the Lord Chancellor.tt 

 My honourable Lord, 



I have been desired by some friends of mine, in the 

 behalf of Sir Francis Englefyld, to recommend his cause 

 so far unto your lordship, that a peremptory day being 

 given by your lordship s order for the perfecting of his 

 account, and for the assignment of the trust, your lordship 



* William Cavendish, son and heir of William, created Baron Cavendish 

 Hardwicke in Derbyshire, in May, 1605, and Earl of Devonshire, July 12, 1618. 



t Arthur Wake, rector of Billing in Northamptonshire, master of the Hos 

 pital of St. John in Northampton, and canon of Christ Church, Oxford. 



J He had been created Lord Verulam on the 12th of July, 1618. 



$ Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. || Sir Henry Montagu. 



II Sir Henry Yelverton. ** Sir Thomas Coventry. 



tt Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



