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shadows of fears, concerning so rare an accident ; yet never 

 theless, I believe well, that this your lordship s absence will 

 rather be a glass unto you, to shew you many things, where 

 of you may make use hereafter, than otherwise any hurt or 

 hazard to your fortunes, which God grant. For myself, I 

 am but a man desolate till your return, and have taken a 

 course accordingly. Vouchsafe, of your nobleness, to re 

 member my most humble duty to his highness. And so 

 God, and his holy angels guard you, both going and coining. 



Indorsed March 10, 1622. 



To Sir Francis Cottington, Secretary to the Prince. 



Good Mr. Secretary, 



Though I wrote so lately unto you, by my Lord Roch- 

 ford ; yet, upon the going of my Lord Vaughan,* the 

 prince s worthy and trusty servant, and my approved 

 friend, and your so near ally, I could not but put this let 

 ter into his hand, commending myself and my fortunes 

 unto you. You know the difference of obliging men in 

 prosperity and adversity, as much as the sowing upon a 

 pavement and upon a furrow new made. Myself for quiet, 

 and the better to hold out, am retired to Grey s Inn :f for 

 when my chief friends were gone so far off, it was time for 

 me to go to a cell. God send us a good return of you all. 

 I ever rest, &c. 



My humble service to my Lord Marquis, to whom I have 

 written twice. I would not cloy him My service also to 

 the Count Gondomar, and Lord of Bristol. 



Indorsed To Mr. Secretary, Sir Francis Cottington, 

 March 22, 1622. 



* He was son and heir of Walter Vaughan, of Golden Grove, in Caermar- 

 thenshire, Esq. ; and was created Lord Vaughan in the year 1620. The Lord 

 St. Alban, after he was delivered from his confinement in the Tower, was per 

 mitted to stay at Sir John Vaughan s house at Parson s Green, near Fulham. 



t In a MS; letter of Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, dated at Lon 

 don, March 8, 1622-3, is the following passage : &quot; The Lord of St. Alban is in 

 his old remitter, and came to lie in his old lodgings in Grey s Inn : which is 

 the fulfilling of a prophecy of one Locke, a familiar of his, of the same house, 

 that knew him intus et in cute; who, seeing him go thence in pomp, with the 

 great seal before him, said to divers of his friends, we shall live to have him here 

 again.&quot; 



