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until Cranfield hath it ; and so I wish too, for your good, 

 yet would not it were absolutely passed, until my Lord 

 Marquis did send, or write, unto you, to let him have it; for 

 then, his so disposing of it were but the next degree re 

 moved from the immediate acceptance of it, and your lord 

 ship freed from doing it otherwise than to please him, and 

 to comply with his own will and way. 



I have no more to say, but that I am, and ever will be 

 Your Lordship s most affectionate Friend 



and humble Servant, 



E. SACKVILLE. 



Indorsed Received the llth of May, 1622. 



To the Lord Keeper, Dr. Williams, Bishop of 



Lincoln. 



My very good Lord, 



I understand there is. an extent prayed against me, and a 

 surety of mine, by the executors of one Harrys, a goldsmith. 

 The statute is twelve years old, and falleth to an executor, 

 or an executor of an executor, I know not whether. And 

 it was sure a statute collected out of a shop-debt, and much 

 of it paid. I humbly pray your lordship, according to jus 

 tice and equity, to stay the extent, being likewise upon a 

 double penalty, till I may better inform myself touching a 

 matter so long past ; and if it be requisite, put in a bill, 

 that the truth of the account appearing, such satisfaction 

 may be made as shall be fit. So I rest 



Your Lordship s affectionate 



to do you faithful service, 



May 30, 1622. F R - ST. ALBAN. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



I thought it appertained to my duty, both as a subject 

 and as he that took once the oath of counsellor, to make 

 known to your lordship an advertisement which came to 

 me this morning. A gentleman, a dear friend of mine, 

 whom your lordship cannot but imagine, though I name 

 him not, told me thus much, that some English priests that 

 negotiated at Rome to facilitate the dispensation, did their 

 own business (that was his phrase) ; for they negotiated 

 with the pope to erect some titulary bishops for England, 

 that might ordain, and have other spiritual faculties ; say 

 ing withal most honestly, that he thought himself bound to 



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