58 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



To the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper, c.* 



It may please your good Lordship, 



I am sorry the opportunity permitteth me not to attend 

 your lordship as I minded. But I hope your lordship will 

 not be the less sparing in using the argument of my being 

 studied and prepared in the Queen s causes, for my fur 

 therance upon belief that I had imparted to your lordship 

 my travels, which some time next week I mean to do. 

 Neither have I been able to confer with Mr. Attorney, as I 

 desired, because he was removing from one building to 

 another. Arid besides, he alleged his note-book was in the 



country, at , and so we respited it to some time next week. 



I think he will rather do me good offices than otherwise, 

 except it be for the township your lordship remembereth by 

 the verse. Thus I commend your honourable lordship to 

 God s good preservation. 



Your Lordship s most humble 



at your honourable commandment, 



From Gray s Inn, FR. BACON. 



this 25th of September, 1595. 



To the Right Honourable my good Lord, the Lord 

 Keeper of the Great Seal of England. f 



It may please your good Lordship, 



My not acquainting your lordship hath proceeded of my 

 not knowing any thing, and of my not knowing of my ab 

 sence at Byssam with my Lady Russel, upon some impor 

 tant cause of her son s. And as I have heard nothing, so 

 I look for nothing, though my Lord of Essex sent me word, 

 he would not write till his lordship had good news. But 

 his lordship may go on in his affection, which nevertheless 

 myself have desired him to limit. But I do assure your 

 lordship, I can take no farther care for the matter. I am 

 now at Twickenham Park, where I think to stay : for her 

 majesty placing a solicitor, my travel shall not need in her 

 causes, though whensoever her majesty shall like to employ 

 me in any particular, I shall be ready to do her willing ser 

 vice. This I write lest your lordship might think my silence 

 came of any conceit towards your lordship, which I do 

 assure you, I have not. And this needed I not to do, if I 



Harl. MSS. vol. 6997, No. 59. t Ibid. No. 60. 



