376 LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 

 My honourable Lord, 



I have acquainted his majesty with your letter, who 

 commanded me to give your lordship thanks for your speed 

 in advertising those things that pass, and for the great care 

 he seeth you ever have of his service. 



I send your lordship back the bill of sheriffs for Sussex, 

 wherein his majesty hath pricked the first, as your lordship 

 wished. 



His majesty would not have you omit this opportunity 

 of so gross an oversight in the judges, to admonish them 

 of their negligence in suffering such a thing to come to his 

 majesty, which needed his amending afterward; and withal, 

 to let them know that his majesty observeth that every 

 year they grow more and more careless of presenting fit 

 men unto him for that place ; and that you advise them to 

 be more wary hereafter, that they may give his majesty 

 better satisfaction. And so I rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 



Royston, November 14, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 



My very good Lord, 



This day afternoon, upon our meeting in council, we 

 have planed those rubs and knots which were mentioned 

 in my last, whereof I thought good presently to advertise 

 his majesty. The days hold without all question, and all 

 delays diverted and quieted. 



Sir Edward Coke was at Friday s hearing, but in his 

 nightcap; and complained to me he was ambulent, and not 

 current. I would be sorry he should fail us in this cause. 

 Therefore I desire his majesty to signify to him by your 

 lordship (taking knowledge of some light indisposition of 

 his) how much he should think his service disadvantaged 

 in this cause, if he should be at any day away ; for then 

 he cannot sentence. 



By my next I will give his majesty some account of the 

 tobacco and the currants. I ever rest 



Your Lordship s most obliged Friend 



and faithful Servant, 



November 20, at evening, 1619. FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



