LETTERS FROM MALLET. 7 



world, not for any love to place or business, for that is 

 almost gone with me, but for my love to yourself, which 

 can never cease in 

 Your Lordship s most obliged Friend and true Servant, 



FR. ST. ALBAN. 



Being now out of use, and out of sight, I recommend 

 myself to your lordship s love and favour, to maintain me 

 in his majesty s grace and good intention. 



To the Duke of Buckingham. 

 Excellent Lord, 



I have received the warrant, not for land but for the 

 money, which if it may be speedily served, is sure the bet 

 ter ; for this I humbly kiss your grace s hands. But be 

 cause the exchequer is thought to be somewhat barren, 

 although I have good affiance of Mr. Chancellor, yet I 

 hold it very essential, and therein I most humbly pray your 

 grace s favour, that you would be pleased by your letter to 

 recommend to Mr. Chancellor the speedy issuing of the 

 money by this warrant, as a business whereof your grace 

 hath an especial care; the rather for that I understand 

 from him, there be some other warrants for money to private 

 suitors at this time on foot. But your grace may be pleased 

 to remember this difference, that the other are mere gifts ; 

 this of mine is a bargain, with an advance only, 



I most humbly pray your grace likewise to present my 

 most humble thanks to his majesty. God ever guide you 

 by the hand. I always rest 



Your faithful and more and more obliged Servant, 



Gray s Inn, this 17th of FR. ST. ALBAN. 



November, 1624. 



I most humbly thank your grace for your grace s favour 

 to my honest deserving servant. 



To the Lord St. Alban. 

 My noble Lord, 



The hearty affection I have borne to your person and 

 service, hath made me ambitious to be a messenger of good 

 news to you, and an eschewer of ill ; this hath been the 

 true reason why I have been thus long in answering you, 

 not any negligence in your discreet modest servant, you 

 sent with your letter, nor his who now returns you this 

 answer, ofttimes given me by your master and mine ; who 

 though by this may seem not to satisfy your desert and 

 expectation, yet, take the word of a friend, who will never 



