8 LETTERS FROM STEPHENS. 



fail you, hath a tender care of you, full of a fresh memory 

 of your by-past service. His majesty is but for the present, 

 he says, able to yield unto the three years advance, which 

 if you please to accept, you are not hereafter the farther off 

 from obtaining some better testimony of his favour, worthier 

 both of him and you, though it can never be answerable to 

 what my heart wishes you, as 



Your Lordship s humble Servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 



LETTERS FROM STEPHENS. 



To the King. 

 It may please your most excellent Majesty, 



According to your commandment, I send enclosed the 

 Preface to the Patent of Creation of Sir George Villiers. 

 I have not used any glaring terms, but drawn it according 

 to your majesty s instructions, and the note which there 

 upon I framed, and your majesty allowed, with some addi 

 tions, which I have inserted. But I hope your majesty 

 will be pleased to correct and perfect it. Your majesty 

 will be also pleased to remember, that if the creation shall 

 be at Roughford, your pleasure and this draught be speedily 

 returned; for it will ask a sending of the bill for your 

 majesty s signature, and a sending back of the same to pass 

 the seals, and a sending thereupon of the patent itself: so 

 it must be twice sent up and down before the day. God 

 evermore preserve your majesty. 



Your Majesty s most devoted and most bounden Servant, 



July 28, 1616. FR. BACON. 



To Sir Francis Bacon, his Majesty s Attorney 



General. 

 Sir, 



I have acquainted his majesty with your letter, and the 

 other papers enclosed, who liketh very well of the course 

 you purpose touching the manifest to be published of Ber 

 tram s fact, and will have you, according to your own mo 

 tion, advise with my Lord Chancellor of the manner of it. 



