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business I now recommend, is a gentleman whom I esteem 

 in more than an ordinary degree. And therefore I desire 

 your lordship to shew him what favour you can for my 

 sake in his suit, which his majesty hath referred to your 

 lordship: which I will acknowledge as a courtesy unto 

 me, and rest Your Lordship s 



faithful Friend and Servant, 



Newmarket, January 26, 1618. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Lord Chancellor.* 

 My honourable Lord, 



I being desired by a special friend of mine to recommend 

 unto your lordship s favour the case of this petitioner, have 

 thought fit to desire you, for my sake, to shew him all the 

 favour you may in this his desire, as you shall find it in 

 reason to deserve ; which I shall take as a courtesy from 

 your lordship, and ever rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 



I thank your lordship for your favour to Sir John Went- 

 worth, in the dispatch of his business. 

 Newmarket, March 15, 1618. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 

 Most honourable Lord, 



It may please your lordship, there was with me this day 

 one Mr. Richard White, who hath spent some little time at 

 Florence, and is now gone into England. He tells me, that 

 Galileo had answered your discourse concerning the flux 

 and reflux of the sea, and was sending it unto me ; but that 

 Mr. White hindered him because his answer was grounded 

 upon a false supposition, namely, that there was in the 

 ocean a full sea but once in twenty-four hours. But now 

 I will call upon Galileo again. This Mr. White is a dis 

 creet and understanding gentleman, though he seem a little 

 soft, if not slow ; and he hath in his hands all the works, 

 as I take it, of Galileo, some printed, and some imprinted. 

 He hath his discourse of the flux and reflux of the sea, 

 which was never printed ; as also a discourse of the mixture 

 of metals. Those which are printed, in his hand are these : 

 the Nuncius sidereus ; the Macchie solari, and a third Delle 

 Cose, che stanno su Vacqua, by occasion of a disputation, 

 that was amongst learned men in Florence about that 

 which Archimedes wrote, de insidentibus humido. 



* llarl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



