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cipal persons, that it may be carried with election and dis 

 cretion, whom to admit to denization, and whom not. God 

 ever bless and prosper you. 



Your Lordship s most faithful 

 December 8, 1618. and obliged Friend and Servant, 



FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



To the Lord Chancellor.* 

 My honourable Lord, 



I thank your lordship for the favour, which I understand 

 Sir Francis Englefyld hath received from your lordship 

 upon my last letter, whereunto I desire your lordship to 

 add this one favour more (which is the same that I under 

 stand your lordship granted him at Christinas last) to give 

 him liberty for the space of a fortnight, to follow his busi 

 ness in his own person ; whereby he may bring it to the 

 more speedy end, putting in security according to the ordi 

 nary course, to render himself prisoner again as soon as that 

 time is expired : which is all that I desire for him, and in 

 which I will acknowledge your lordship s favour towards 

 him ; and ever rest Your Lordship s 



Newmarket, the 10th faithful Friend and Servant, 



of December, 1618. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



I send you herewith the copy of a letter which we, the 

 commissioners for Ormonde s cause, have written to the 

 deputy of Ireland, according to his majesty s pleasure sig 

 nified by Sir Francis Blundell; which I humbly desire his 

 majesty would peruse, that if it do not attain his meaning, 

 as we conveyed it, we may second it with a new letter. 



We have appointed Monday morning for these mint 

 businesses, referred by his majesty to certain commis 

 sioners, and we will carry it sine strepitu. 



The patent touching Guinea and Bynny for the trade of 

 gold, stayed first by myself, and after by his majesty s com 

 mandment, we have now settled by consent of all parties. 



Mr. Attorney, by my direction hath made, upon his infor 

 mation exhibited into the Star-chamber, a thundering 

 motion against the transportation of gold by the Dutch ; 

 which all the town is glad of; and I have granted divers 

 writs of ne exeat regnum, according to his majesty s warrant. 



* Had. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



