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granting no better expedition in a suit which I have fol 

 lowed so long, and so affectionately. And though I find 

 that she makes some difficulty, to have the more thanks, 

 yet I do assure myself she is resolved to make him. I do 

 write this not to solicit your lordship to stand firm in assist 

 ing me, because, I know, you hold yourself already tied by 

 your affection to Mr. Bacon, and by your promise to me ; 

 but to acquaint your lordship of my resolution to set np 

 my rest, and employ my uttermost strength to get him 

 placed before the term : so as I beseech your lordship think 

 of no temporising course, for I shall think the Queen 

 deals unkindly with me, if she do not both give him the 

 place, and give it with favour and some extraordinary ad 

 vantage. I wish your lordship all honour and happiness, 

 and rest 



Your Lordship s very assured, 



Greenwich, EsSFV 



this 14th of January, [1594]. 



Indorsed. My Lord of Essex for Mr. Fran. Bacon to be 

 Solicitor. 



To the Right Honourable his very good Lord, the 



Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.* 

 My very good Lord, 

 Sir Thomas Egerton failing of your lordship, being newly 



fone, sent his letter to me to see conveyed unto you, which 

 send inclosed ; desiring your lordship, according to your 

 kind affection, to make the best use thereof for my further 

 ance. And I pray your lordship to call to remembrance 

 my Lord Treasurer s kind course, who affirmed directly all 

 the rest to be unfit. And because vis unita fortior f I pray 

 your lordship to take a time with the Queen when my Lord 

 Treasurer is present. Thus in hope to-morrow will bring 

 forth some good effect, I rest 



Your Lordship s, in all humble duty and service, 



FR. BACON. 



To the Right Honourable, &c. the Lord Keeper, &c.f 



My very good Lord, 



Because I understand your lordship remaineth at court 

 till this day, and that my Lord of Essex writeth to me, that 

 his lordship cometh to London, I thought good to remember 



* Harl. MSS. vol. 6996, No. 52. t Ibid. No. 50. 



