MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 53 



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



It may please your good Lordship, 



As your lordship hath at divers times helped me to pass 

 over contrary times, so I humbly pray you not to omit this 

 favourable time. I cannot bear myself as I should till I be 

 settled. And thus desiring pardon, I leave your lordship 

 to God s preservation. 



Your lordship s, most humbly at commandment, 



From Gray s Inn, pR. BACON. 



this 25th of August, 1594. 



To the Right Honourable his very good Lord, the 

 Lord Keeper, c-t 



It may please your good Lordship, 



I was minded, according to the place of employment, 

 though not of office, wherein I serve, for my better direc 

 tion and the advancement of the service, to have acquainted 

 your lordship, now before the term, with such her majesty s 

 causes as are in my hands. Which course, intended out of 

 duty, I do now find by that I hear from my Lord of Essex, 

 your lordship of your favour is willing to use for my good, 

 upon that satisfaction you may find in my travel^. And I 

 now send to your lordship, together with my humble thanks, 

 to understand of your lordship s being at leisure, what part 

 of to-morrow, to the end I may attend your lordship, which 

 this afternoon I cannot, in regard of some conference I 

 have appointed with Mr. Attorney General. And so I 

 commend your honourable lordship to God s good preser 

 vation. 



Your good Lordship s, 



Humbly at your honourable commandments, 



From Gray s Inn, FR.. BACON, 



the 25th oi September, Fnday. 



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

 It may please your Lordship, 



I thought good to step aside for nine days, which is the 

 durance of a wonder, and not for any dislike in the world ; 

 for I think her majesty hath done me as great a favour in 

 making an end of this matter, as if she had enlarged me 



Harl. MSS. vol. 6996, No. 103. t Ibid. No. 109. 



Ibid. vol. 6697. No 14. 



