374 LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 



army of Ireland, and the money of the cautionary towns ; 

 and the two Chief Justices are firm in it. 



I did also in this cause, by the assent of my lords, remove 

 a part; for Mr. Attorney had laid it upon Serjeant Davies* 

 to open the information, which is that which gives much 

 life or coldness to the cause. But I will have none but 

 trained men in this cause ; and I cannot forget that the 

 allotting of the opening of the information in this cause of 

 the Dutch (I mean the main cause) to a mean fellow, one 

 Hughes, did hurt, and was never well recovered. 



By my next I will write of the king s estate: and I ever rest 

 Your Lordship s most obliged Friend 



and faithful Servant, 



October 14, 1619. FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



This morning the dukef came to me, and told me the 

 king s cause was yesterday left fair ; and if ever there were 

 a time for my Lord of Suffolk s submission, it was now; 

 and that if my Lord of Suffolk should come into the court 

 and openly acknowledge his delinquency, he thought it 

 was a thing considerable. My answer was, I would not 

 meddle in it ; and, if I did, it must be to dissuade any such 

 course ; for that all would be but a play upon the stage, if 

 justice went not on in the right course. This I thought it 

 my duty to let the king know by your lordship. 



I cannot express the care I have had of this cause in a 

 number of circumstances and discretions, which, though 

 they may seem but small matters, yet they do the business, 

 and guide it right. 



God ever keep your lordship. 



Your Lordship s most obliged Friend 



and faithful Servant, 



October 21, 1619. FR. VERULAM, CailC. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



I am doubly bounden to the king for his majesty s trust 

 and acceptation; whereof the one I will never deceive; the 

 other, though I cannot deserve, yet I will do my best, and 

 perhaps as much as another man. 



* Sir John Davies, author of Nosce teipsum, knighted in February, 1607-8, 

 and made serjeant at law in 1612. He had been attorney-general of Ireland. 



t Lodowick, Duke of Lennox. He was created Duke of Richmond, May 

 17, 1623 j and died February 11, 1623-4. 



