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LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 



I have conceived that your lordship would not be sorry 

 to see these discourses of that man ; and therefore I have 

 thought it belonging to my service to your lordship to give 

 him a letter of this date, though it will not be there so soon 

 as this. The gentleman hath no pretence or business before 

 your lordship, but is willing to do your lordship all humble 

 service ; and therefore, both for this reason, as also upon 

 my humble request, I beseech your lordship to bestow a 

 countenance of grace upon him. I am beholden to this 

 gentleman; and, if your lordship shall vouchsafe to ask 

 him of me, I shall receive honour by it. And I most humbly 

 do your lordship reverence. 



Your Lordship s most obliged Servant, 



Brussels, from my bed, TOBIE MATTHEW. 



the 14th of April, 1619. 



To the Lord Chancellor.* 

 My honourable Lord, 



His majesty hath commanded me to signify unto your 

 lordship, that it is his pleasure you put off the hearing of 

 the cause between Sir Arthur Manwaring and Gabriel 

 Dennis till toward the end of the term ; because his ma 

 jesty is graciously pleased to be at the hearing thereof him 

 self. And so I rest Your Lordship s 



Royston&amp;gt; faithful Friend and Servant, 



April 13, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Lord Chancellor, and Sir Lionel Tanfield, 



Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.* 

 My Lords, 



His majesty having been moved by the Duke of Savoy s 

 ambassador in the behalf of Philip Bernardi, whom he is 

 to send about some special employment over the seas to the 

 Duke of Savoy, that before his going, the business men 

 tioned in this petition may be ended, hath commanded me 

 to recommend the same unto your lordship s care, that with 

 all expedition the cause may be heard and ended by your 

 lordships, according to his majesty s reference; or left to 

 the determination of the Court of Chancery, where it is de 

 pending, and where the party assureth himself of a speedy 

 end. And so I rest your Lordship s 



Royston, the 19th ver y assured Friend at command, 



of April, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



