LETTERS FROM BIRCIT. 383 



To the Lord Chancellor.* 

 My honourable Lord, 



I have acquainted his majesty with your letter, who is 

 very well pleased therewith, finding in you a continual care 

 of his service. In that point of the Star-chamber business, 

 his majesty saith there is a mistaking; for he meant not 

 the Dutchmen s business, but that motion which your lord 

 ship made unto him, of sitting in the Star-chamber about 

 the commissions, which you had not leisure to read till he 

 came down to Royston, and hath reason to give you thanks 

 for it, desiring you to prepare it, and study the point (of 

 which he will speak more with you at his return to Lon 

 don,) being a matter worthy your thinking on, and his 

 majesty s practice. v 



For the last point of your letter, his majesty saith it 

 cannot but proceed of malice, that there should be any such 

 plot, which he will not endure, but he will account those 

 that whisper of it in that sort, enemies of his service ; and 

 will put them out of their places that practise it. And so 

 I rest Your lordship s faithful 



Newmarket, Friend and Servant, 



January 22, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To Mr. Secretary Calvert. 

 Mr. Secretary, 



I have received your letter of the 3d of this present, sig 

 nifying his majesty s pleasure touching Peacock s *f ex 

 aminations, of which I will have special care. 



My Lord Coke is come to town, and hath sent me word, 

 he will be with me on Monday, though he be somewhat 

 lame. Howsoever, the service shall be done. 



I was made acquainted by your letter to Secretary Naun- 

 ton, with his majesty s dislike of the sending to him of the 

 jolly letter from Zealand. I will now speak for myself, that 

 when it was received, I turned to the Master of the WardsJ 

 and said, &quot; Well, I think you and I shall ever advise the 

 king to do more for a Burlamachi, when he seeketh to his 

 majesty by supplication and supplying the king at the 

 first word, than for all the rest upon any bravados from 

 the Burgomasters of Holland and Zealand :&quot; who answered 

 very honestly, that it was in the king s power to make them 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



t He was a minister of the University of Cambridge. He was committed to 

 the Tower for pretending that he had by sorcery infatuated the king s judgment 

 in the cause of Sir Thomas Lake. Camd. Annal. Regis Jacobi I. p. 54. 



t Sir Lionel Cranfield. 



