388 LETTERS FROM BIRCH. 



My Lady Suffolk is so ill of the small-pox, as she is not 

 yet fit to make any answer. 



Bingley s* answer is come in, a long one ; and as I per 

 ceive, with some things impertinent, yea, and unfit. Of 

 that I confer with Mr. Solicitor f to-morrow; and then I 

 will farther advertise your lordship. God ever preserve and 

 prosper you. 



Your Lordship s most obliged Friend 



York House, this 23d of Febr. 1619, and Faithful Servant 



at 9 of the clock, 1619-20. rR. VERULAM, CanC. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 

 Most honourable Lord, 



I do even now receive this letter from the Conde de 

 Gondomar, with direction I should send it (since I am not 

 there to deliver it) to Mr. Wyche, that so he may present 

 it to your lordship s hand at such time, as it may be of 

 most use to him. He commands me besides, that for his 

 sake I should become an humble solicitor to your lordship 

 for this friend of his ; which I presume to do the more 

 willingly, because this party is a great friend of mine, and 

 so are also many of his friends my friends. Besides, he 

 wills me to represent his great thanks to your lordship, for 

 the just favours you have been pleased to vouchsafe to Mr. 

 Wyche already, the rather in contemplation of the Conde, 

 as he hath been informed. And if in the company, or 

 rather in the attendance of so great an intercessor, it be not 

 an unpardonable kind of ill manners to intrude myself, I 

 presume to cast myself at your lordship s feet, with pro 

 testation that I shall be very particularly bound to your 

 lordship s goodness for any favour, with justice, that he 

 shall obtain. 



I beseech Jesus keep your lordship ever intirely happy ; 

 and so doing all humble reverence, I take leave. 

 Your Lordship s most humble 



Brussels, this 26th of and most k% ed Servant, 



February, 1619. ToBIE MATTHEW. 



To the Lord Chancellor.^ 

 My honourable Lord, 



Understanding that there hath been a long and tedious 

 suit depending in the Chancery between Robert D Oyley 

 and his wife, plaintiffs, and Leonard Lovace, defendant; 



* Sir John Bingley s. t Sir Thomas Coventry. 



Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



