486 LETTERS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



jubeat, et cui Nestoreum pectus, annos etiam concedat 

 Nestoreos, usque et usque ad novissimam senectutis lineam, 

 imo ad famae, et aeternitatis metam feelicibus auspiciis de- 

 currentes. Parum est enim optare tantae virtuti, tantaeque 

 pietati quern longissimum habet humana vita progressum. 



Dat e Senatu frequent! nostro Honor! tuo Omni Cultu, et 



tertio Idus, Februam, 1616. obsequio Devinctissimi. 



Procancellarius reliquusque C33terus 

 Academiae Cantabrigiensis. 



A letter to my Lord of Buckingham, touching Mom- 



pesson s business of Inns.* 

 My very good Lord, 



We are left a little naked in the business of Inns, by the 

 death of Justice Nicholls ; and my Lord Chief Baron and 

 Mr. Justice Crooke having been with me, do desire the 

 number of three may be fulfilled. I have therefore sent 



Jour lordship a warrant for the king s signature, wherein 

 ustice Winch is put in Justice Nicholls s place. It is also 

 altered at my request, in that other point of the former 

 warrant, whereby the certificate was required in writing, 

 which they desire may be by attending his majesty them 

 selves, at his coming, which I do think to be the more 

 convenient and the more usual for judges. I ever rest 



Your Lordship s true and most 

 October 18, 1616. devoted Servant. 



To my Lord of Buckingham, touching Mompesson s 

 Business, the Maltsters, &c.f 



My very good Lord, 



I am much troubled in mind, for that I hear you are not 

 perfectly well, without whose health I cannot joy, and 

 without whose life, I desire not to be. I hear nothing from 

 Mr. Mompesson, save that some tell me he is knighted, 

 which I am glad of, because he may the better fight with 

 the bull and the bear, and the Saracen s head, and such 

 fearful creatures. 



For Sir Robert Killigrewe s suit of enrollment of appren 

 tices, I doubt we must part it ; but yet I suppose it may be 

 left valuable. 



Your office is dispatched, and your books in effect. I 



* Addit. MS. Mus. Brit. No. 5503. fol. 98. t Ibid. 



