488 LETTERS FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A Letter to my Lord Buckingham.* 

 My very good Lord, 



Your lordship s former letter was honourable, but this 

 your latter letter was both honourable and comfortable ; for 

 which I yield your lordship humble thanks. And for my 

 liberty, as your lordship hath, in your letter, vouchsafed to 

 shew a great deal of tenderness concerning the same, so you 

 will be nobly pleased to take some opportune time to move 

 it ; the rather, for that the season corneth on now fit for 

 physic, which at this time of the year I have ever used ; 

 and my health never so much required. I ever humbly 

 rest 



Your Lordship s most obliged Friend 



and faithful Servant. 4 

 5th March, 1621. 



To my very loving Friends the Mayor, &c. of 



Cambridge f. 



Whereas I am given to understand that there are some 

 differences lately risen between the now mayor and alder 

 men, and other the members of that corporation, touching 

 the election of the mayor next to succeed ; wherein all par 

 ties have, according to charter, appealed to me as their 

 high steward : forasmuch as I have but even newly reco 

 vered some degree of health, after a sharp sickness of some 

 weeks, I am constrained to put off the hearing till Monday 

 the 20th of this instant, at my lodging at Gray s Inn, &c. 



From Gray s Inn, Your ver Y 1( &amp;gt; vin g friend , 



this 8th September, 1624. FR. ST. ALBAN. 



A Letter from Mr. Francis Bacon to the Lord Presi 

 dent of York, in favour of Mr. Johns, for the 

 Secretary s Place at York.J 



It may please your good Lordship, 



I have been moved to recommend a person and suit to 

 your lordship, which I assure myself, if it may take place 

 with you, I shall not lose credit with you by ; for both I 

 know perfectly the honesty and sufficiency of the man, and 

 that which is the next point, I am so well acquainted with 

 his dutiful affection to your lordship, as I dare undertake 

 no servant of yours shall be more observantly and faithfully 



Addit. MS. 5503. fol. 105. 1. t MS. Cole, Mus. Brit. vol. xx. fol. 229. 

 i MS. Lansd. Mus. Brit. vol. ccxxxviii. fol. 126. 



