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your letter, which is to me, an infallible argument of hearts 

 ease which doth so well with you, as I must intreat you to 

 help me to some of the same. And therefore I will adjourn 

 our conference to your return to the Strand, on Monday, 

 where I will find you, if it chance right. And this day 

 would I have come to your Friary, * but that I am com 

 manded to attend the indictments at Westminster. And 

 so I leave to perceive your good deposition. 



I remain your s assured, 



Jan. 17, 1605. FR. BACON. 



Sir To Sir Michael Hickes.f 



I pray try the concension I spoke to you of out of hand. 

 For it is a mind I shall not continue in, if it pass this very 

 tide. So I rest 



Yours, 



October, 1606. FR. BACON, 



gir To Sir Michael Hickes.* 



There is a commission, touching the king s service, to be 

 executed at your house, on Tuesday next ; the commissioners 

 are Mr. Recorder of London, Sir John Bennett, Sir Thomas 

 Bodley, and myself. There are blanks left for other names, 

 such as you in your wisdom shall think fit to fill. Mr. Hor- 

 den is wished, for the better countenance of the service, and 

 Sir Thomas Lowe is spoken of, but these and others are 

 wholly left unto you. It will take up a whole afternoon, 

 and therefore no remedy but we must dine with you ; but 

 for that you are not so little in grace with Mr. Chancellor 

 but you may have allowance, the Exchequer being first 

 full ; hereof I thought most necessary to give you notice. 

 So I remain 



This Sunday at Afternoon, Your assured Guest and Friend, 



August 6, 1609. FR. BACON. 



To Sir Robert Cotton. 

 feir, 



You may think the occasion was great and present, that 

 made me defer a thing I took much to heart so long; I 

 have in the blank leaf supplied some clauses, which, war 

 ranted by your kind respect and liberty, I wish were 

 inserted for my father s honour, as a son I confess; but yet 

 no farther than I have the two great champions, both truth 



* Augustine Friars. t Lansd. MS. Ixxxix. art. 105. Orig. 



t Lansd. MS. xci. art. 40. Orig. $ Cotton MS. Julius, c. iii. fol. 71. b. Orig. 



