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your lordship, and to request you, as I touched in my last, 

 that if my Lord Treasurer be absent, your lordship would 

 forbear to fall into my business with her majesty, lest it 

 might receive some foil before the time when it should be 

 resolutely dealt in. And so commending myself to your 

 good favour, I most humbly take my leave. 



Your Lordship s, in all humble duty and service, 



From Gray s Inn, Fit. BACON. 



this 8th of April, 1594. 



Earl of Essex to Lord Keeper Puckering.* 



My Lord, 



My short stay at the court made me fail of speaking with 

 your lordship, therefore I must write that which myself 

 had told you ; that is, that your lordship will be pleased to 

 forbear pressing for a solicitor, since there is no cause 

 towards the end of a term to call for it ; and because the 

 absence of Mr. Bacon s friends may be much to his disad 

 vantage. I wish your lordship all happiness, and rest 



Your Lordship s very assured to be commanded, 



Wanstead, ESSEX. 



this 4th of May, 1594. 



To the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper, &c. 



It may please your good Lordship, 



I understand of some business like enough to detain the 

 Queen to-morrow, which maketh me earnestly to pray your 

 good lordship, as one that I have found to take my fortune 

 to heart, to take some time to remember her majesty of a 

 solicitor this present day. 



Our Tower employment stayeth, and hath done these 

 three days, because one of the principal offenders being 

 brought to confess, and the other persisting in denial, her 

 majesty, in her wisdom, thought best some time were given 

 to him that is obstinate, to bethink himself ; which indeed 

 is singular good in such cases. Thus desiring your lord 

 ship s pardon, in haste I commend my fortune and duty to 

 your favour. 



Your Lordship s most humbly 



to receive your commandments, 



From Gray s Inn, p R TU rr&amp;gt; N 



this 13th of August, 1594. 



Hail. MSS. vol. 6996, No. 72. 



