LETTERS FROM MALLET. 5 



To the Earl of Buckingham. 

 My very good Lord, 



I know your lordship hath a special care of any thing 

 that concerneth the Queen. She was entered into dislike 

 of her solicitor, this bearer Mr. Lowder, and resolute in it. 

 To serve, and not to please, is no man s condition. There 

 fore upon knowledge of her pleasure he was willing to part 

 with his place, upon hopes not to be destituted, but to be 

 preferred to one of the Barons places in Ireland, I pray 

 move the King for him, and let his majesty know from me 

 that I think (howsoever he pleased not here) he is fit to do 

 his majesty service in that place ; he is grave and formal, 

 which is somewhat there, and sufficient enough for that 

 place. The Queen hath made Mr. Hackwell her solicitor, 

 who hath for a long time taken much pains in her business, 

 wherein she hath done well. He was an opposite in par 

 liament, as Jones was, that the King hath made Chief 

 Justice of Ireland. But I hold it no ill counsel to join, or 

 to remove such men. God preserve and prosper you. 



Your true and devoted Friend and Servant, 

 Whitehall, May 25, 1617. FR. BACON, C. S. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 

 My most honourable Lord, 



I acquainted his majesty with your letter, at the first 

 opportunity after I received it, who was very well pleased 

 with that account of your careful and speedy dispatch of 

 businesses, &c. 



Yours, &c. 



Greenwich, May 13, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



P.S. Your business had been done before this, but I knew 

 not whether you would have the attorney or solicitor to 

 draw it. 



To my very loving friends Sir Thomas Leigh and Sir 



Thomas Puckering, Knights and Baronets. 

 After my hearty commendations, being informed by the 

 petition of Mr. Thomas Porten, a poor Yorkshireman, of a 

 heavy accident by fire, whereby his house, his wife, and a 

 child, together with all his goods, were utterly burnt and 

 consumed ; which misfortune the petitioner suggests, with 

 much eagerness, was occasioned by the wicked practices 

 and conjurations of one John Clark son of Knowington, in 

 the county of Warwick, and his daughter, persons of a 



