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conditions agreed upon between them, which, now that the 

 patent is under the great seal, they utterly refuse to perform. 

 My desire therefore to your lordship is, that you would 

 call the said Lewis and Williams before you, with the other 

 parties, or some of them, who shall be ready at all times to 

 attend your lordship ; and out of your consideration of the 

 matter, according to equity, to take such course therein 

 that either the said agreement may be performed ; or that 

 they which refuse it, may receive no benefit of the patent ; 

 which upon reason thereof was passed in their names. And 

 herein 1 desire your lordship to make what expedition you 

 can ; because now is the season to make provision of the 

 butter, that for this year is to be transported, whereof they 

 take advantage to stand out. And so I rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 

 Greenwich, May 14, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



Though it be nothing, and all is but duty ; yet I pray 

 shew his majesty the paper inclosed, that his majesty may 

 see how careful his poor servant is upon every emergent 

 occasion to do him what honour he can. The motion made 

 in court by the king s serjeant, Crew,* that the declaration 

 might be made parcel of the record, and that I hear other 

 wise of the great satisfaction abroad, encourageth me to let 

 his majesty know what passed. 



God ever preserve and prosper you both. 



Your Lordship s obliged Friend 



and faithful Servant, 



FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



Indorsed June 29, 1619. My Lord to my Lord Marquis, 

 inclosing the form of a declaration used in 

 point of acknowledgment in the Lady Exeter s^ 

 cause. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



I purposed to have seen you to-day, and receive your 

 commandments before the progress ; but I came not to 

 London till it was late, and found you were gone before I 



* Sir Randolph Crew, made Chief Justice of the King s Bench, January 

 26, 1624. 



t Countess of Exeter, accused of incest and other crimes by the Lady Lake, 

 wife of Secretary Lake, and their daughter the Lady Roos. 



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