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thought not so : for my course will not give me any ordinary 

 occasion to use your favour, whereof nevertheless I shall 

 ever be glad. So I commend your good lordship to God s 

 holy preservation. 



Your Lordship s humble, &c. 



FR. BACON. 



This llth of October, 1595. 



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



It may please your good Lordship, 



1 conceive the end already made, which will, I trust, be 

 to me a beginning of good fortune, or at least of content. 

 Her majesty, by God s grace, shall live and reign long, she 

 is not running away, I may trust her. Or whether she 

 look towards me or no, I remain the same, not altered in 

 my intention. If I had been an ambitious man, it would 

 have overthrown me, but minded as I am, Revertet be.ne- 

 dictio mea in sinum meum. If I had made any reckoning 

 of any thing to be stirred, I would have waited on your 

 lordship, and will be at any time ready to wait on you to 

 do you service. So I commend your good lordship to God s 

 holy preservation. 



Your Lordship s most humble, 



at your honourable commandment, 



From Twickenham Park, FR. BACON. 



this 14th of October. 



Indorsed. 14 October, 95. 



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



My very good Lord, 



I received a letter from a very friend of mine, requesting 

 me to move your lordship, to put into the commission for 

 the subsidy, Mr. Richard Kempe, a reader of Gray s Inn, 

 and besides born to good estate, being also my friend and 

 familiar acquaintance. And because I conceive the gen 

 tleman to be every way sortable with the service, I am bold 

 to commend him to your lordship s good favour. And 

 even so, with remembrance of my most humble duty, I 

 rest, 



Your Lordship s affectionate to do you humble service, 



Twickenham Park, pjj BACON 



July3, 1595. 



* Hail. MS*, vol. 6997, No. 61. t Ibid. No. 29. 



