62 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



A Letter to Mr. Murray, of the King s Bed Chamber. 



Mr. Murray, 



It is very true that his majesty most graciously, at my 

 humble request, knighted the last Sunday my brother-in- 

 law, a towardly young gentleman;* for which favour I 

 think myself more bound to his majesty, than for the bene 

 fit of ten knights : and to tell you truly, my meaning was 

 not that the suit of this other gentleman, Mr. Temple,f 

 should have been moved in my name. For I should have 

 been unwilling to have moved his majesty for more than 

 one at once, though many times in his majesty s courts of 

 justice, if we move once for our friends, we are allowed to 

 move again for our fee. 



But indeed my purpose was, that you might have been 

 pleased to have moved it as for myself. 



Nevertheless, since it is so far gone, and that the gentle 

 man s friends are in some expectation of success, I leave it 

 to your kind regard what is farther to be done, as willing to 

 give satisfaction to those which have put me in trust, and 

 loth on the other side to press above good manners. And 

 so with my loving commendations I remain 



Yours, &c. 



1603. 



To Mr. Matthew.J 

 Sir, 



I perceive you have some time when you can be content 

 to think of your friends ; from whom, since you have bor 

 rowed yourself, you do well, not paying the principal, to 

 send the interest at six months day. The relation, which 

 here I send you enclosed, carries the truth of that which is 

 public : and though my little leisure might have required 

 a briefer, yet the matter would have endured and asked a 

 larger. 



I have now, at last, taught that child to go, at the swad 

 dling whereof you were. My work touching the Profi 

 ciency and Advancement of Learning I have put into two 



* To this Sir John Constable, Sir Francis Bacon dedicated the second edition 

 of his Essays, published at London 1612, in octavo. 



t Probably Mr. William Temple, who had been educated in King s College, 

 Cambridge, then master of the free school at Lincoln, next successively secre 

 tary to Sir Philip Sidney, Secretary Davison, and the Earl of Essex, made 

 provost of Dublin College in 1609, and at last knighted, and appointed one of 

 the Masters in Chancery in Ireland. He died about 1626, at the age of 72. 



t Sir Tobie Matthew s Collection of Letters, p. 11. 



