LETTERS FROM STEPHENS. 19 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



My honourable Lord, 



The news of this victory hath so well pleased his majesty, 

 that he giveth thanks to all ; and I, among the rest, who 

 had no other part but the delivering of your letter, had my 

 part of his good acceptation, which he would have rewarded 

 after the Roman fashion with every man a garland, if it 

 had been now in use ; but after the fashion of his gracious 

 goodness, he giveth your lordship thanks ; and would have 

 you deliver the like, in his majesty s name, to Sir Edward 

 Coke and the judges. Your news, which came the first, 

 gave his majesty a very good breakfast, and I hope his 

 health will be the better after it. 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 



October 14th, 1619. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



Indorsed Thanks on the Success in the Ore Tenus against 

 the Dutch. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 



My very good Lord, 



I send the submission of Sir Thomas Laque, drawn in 

 such form as, upon a meeting with me of the chief justices 

 and the learned counsel, was conceived agreeable to his 

 majesty s meaning and directions; yet, lest we should err, 

 we thought good to send it to his majesty, It is to be 

 returned with speed, or else there will be no day in court 

 to make it. God bless and prosper you. I rest 



Your Lordship s most obliged Friend 



and faithful Servant, 

 November 28th, 1619. FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



My honourable Lord, 



I have acquainted his majesty with your lordship s letter, 

 and with the submission you sent drawn for Sir Thomas 

 Lake, which his majesty liketh well, and, because he served 

 him in so honourable a place, is graciously pleased that he 

 maketh submission in writing, so that my Lady of Exeter 

 be contented and the lords, whom his majesty would have 

 you acquaint therewith. And so I rest 



Your Lordship s faithful Friend and Servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 



Newmarket, 29th Nov. 1619. 



