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from some restraint. And I humbly pray your lordship, if 

 it so please you, to deliver to her majesty from me, that I 

 would have been glad to have done her majesty service now 

 in the best of my years, and the same mind remains in me 

 still; and that it may be, when her majesty hath tried 

 others, she will think of him that she hath cast aside. For 

 I will take it upon that which her majesty hath often said, 

 that she doth reserve me, and not reject me. And so 1 

 leaye your good lordship to God s good preservation. 

 Your Lordship s much bounden 



From Twickenham Park, F K.BACON. 



this 20th of May, 1595. 



Indorsed Mr. Fr. Bacon, his Contentation to leave the 

 Solicitorship. 



To Sir George Villiers.* 

 Sir, 



I think I cannot do better service towards the good 

 estate of the kingdom of Ireland than to procure the king 

 to be well served in the eminent places of law and justice ; 

 I shall therefore name unto you for the attorney s place 

 there, or for the solicitor s place if the new solicitor shall 

 go up, a gentleman of mine own breeding and framing, 

 Mr. Edward Wyrthington, of Gray s Inn : he is born to 

 eight hundred pounds a year; he is the eldest son of a 

 most severe justicer amongst the recusants of Lancashire, 

 and a man most able for law and speech, and by me trained 

 in the King s causes. My Lord Deputy, by my descrip 

 tion, is much in love with the man. I hear my Lord of 

 Canterbury and Sir Thomas Laque should name one Sir 

 John Beare, and some other mean men. This man I com 

 mend upon my credit, for the good of his majesty s service. 

 God ever preserve and prosper you. I rest 



Your most devoted and most bounden Servant, 



FR. BACON. 



July 2, 1616. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. t 



My very good Lord, 



I write now only, rather in a kind of continuance and 

 fresh suit, upon the King s business, than that the same is 

 yet ripe either for advertisement or advice. 



* Stephens s second collection p. 4. t Ibid. 



