472 LETTERS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



manner, I take my leave of your ladyship, committing you, 

 as daily in my prayers, so, likewise, at this present, to the 

 merciful providence of the Almighty. 



Your Ladyship s most dutiful and bounden Nephew, 



From Grey s Inn, B, FRA. 



this 16th September, 1580, 



To Lord Burghley, to recommend him to the Queen.* 



My singular good Lord, 



My humble duty remembered, and my humble thanks 

 presented for your lordship s favour and countenance, which 

 it pleased your lordship, at my being with you, to vouch 

 safe me, above my degree and desert. My letter hath no 

 further errand but to commend unto your lordship the 

 remembrance of my suit, which then I moved unto you; 

 whereof it also pleased your lordship to give me good 

 hearing, so far forth as to promise to tender it unto her 

 majesty, and withal to add, in the behalf of it, that which 

 I may better deliver by letter than by speech; which is, that 

 although it must be confessed that the request is rare and 

 unaccustomed, yet if it be observed how few there be which 

 fall in with the study of the common laws, either being- 

 well left or friended, or at their own free election, or for 

 saking likely success in other studies of more delight, and 

 no less preferment, or setting hand thereunto early, without 

 waste of years upon such survey made, it may be my 

 case may not seem ordinary, no more than my suit, and so 

 more beseeming unto it. As I force myself to say this in 

 excuse of my motion, lest it should appear unto your lord 

 ship altogether indiscreet and unadvised, so my hope to 

 obtain it resteth only upon your lordship s good affection 

 toward me, and grace with her majesty, who, methinks, 

 needeth never to call for the experience of the thing, where 

 she hath so great and so good of the person which recom- 

 mendeth it. According to which trust of mine, if it may 

 please your lordship both herein and elsewhere to be my 

 patron, and to make account of me, as one in whose well 

 doing your lordship hath interest, albeit, indeed, your lord 

 ship hath had place to benefit many, and wisdom to make 

 due choice of lighting places for your goodness, yet do I 

 not fear any of your lordship s former experiences for staying 

 my thankfulness borne in heart, howsoever God s good 

 pleasure shall enable me or disable me, outwardly, to make 



* Lansd. MS. xxxi. art. 14. 



