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ther than is cause. And so I commend your lordship to 

 God s preservation, 



That beareth your Lordship all humble respect, 



From Gray s Inn, Fit. BACON. 



the 28th of July, 1595. 



Indorsed, in Lord Keeper s hand Mr. Bacon wronging me. 



To the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper, c.* 

 It may please your Lordship, 



I thought it became me to write to your lordship, upon 

 that which I have understood from my Lord of Essex, who 

 vouchsafed, as I perceive, to deal with your lordship of him 

 self to join with him in the concluding of my business, and 

 findeth your lordship hath conceived offence, as well upon 

 my manner when I saw your lordship at Temple last, as 

 upon a letter, which I did write to your lordship some time 

 before. Surely, my lord, for my behaviour, I am well 

 assured, I omitted no point of duty or ceremony towards 

 your lordship. But I know too much of the court to beg 

 a countenance in public place, where I make account I shall 

 not receive it. And for my letter, the principal point of it 

 was, that which I hope God will give me grace to perform, 

 which is, that if any idol may be offered to her majesty, 

 since it is mixed with my particular, to inform her majesty 

 truly, which I must do, as long as I have a tongue to 

 speak, or a pen to write, or a friend to use. And farther I 

 remember not of my letter, except it were that I writ, I 

 hoped your lordship would do me no wrong, which hope I 

 do still continue. For if it please your lordship but to call 

 to mind from whom I am descended, and by whom, next to 

 God, her majesty, and your own virtue, your lordship is 

 ascended ; I know you will have a compunction of mind to 

 do me any wrong. And therefore, good my lord, when your 

 lordship Favoureth others before me, do not lay the separa 

 tion of your love and favour upon myself. For I will give 

 no cause, neither can I acknowledge any, where none is ; 

 but humbly pray your lordship to understand things as they 

 are. Thus sorry to write to your lordship in an argument 

 which is to me unpleasant, though necessary, I commend 

 your Lordship to God s good preservation. 



Your Lordship s, in all humble respect, 



From Twickenham Park, |7j{ BACON 



this 10th of August, 1595. 



Marl. MSS. vol. 6997, No. 44. 



