68 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



For Roper s place,* I would have it by all means des 

 patched ; and therefore I marvel it lingereth. It were no 

 good manners to take the business out of my Lord Trea 

 surer s hands ; and therefore I purpose to write to his lord 

 ship, if I hear not from him first by Mr. Deccomb. But 

 if I hear of any delay, you will give me leave, especially 

 since the King named me, to deal with Sir John Roper 

 myself; for neither I nor my Lord Treasurer can deserve any 

 great thanks of you in this business, considering the King 

 hath spoken to Sir John Roper, and he hath promised ; 

 and, besides, the thing itself is so reasonable as it ought to 

 be as soon done as said. I am, now gotten into the country 

 to my house, where I have some little liberty to think of 

 that I would think of, and not of that which other men 

 hourly break my head withal, as it was at London. Upon 

 this you may conclude, that most of my thoughts are of 

 his majesty; and then you cannot be far off. God ever 

 keep you, and prosper you. I rest always 



Your true and most devoted Servant, 



Aug. 5, one of the happiest FR. BACON 



days, 1616. 



t To Father Redempt. Baranzan.J 

 Domine Baranzane, 



Literas tuas legi libenter: cumque inter veritatis ama- 

 tores ardor etiam candorem generet, ad ea, quae ingenue 

 petiisti, ingenue respond ebo. 



Non est meum abdicare in totum syllogismum. Res est 



* Sir John Roper, who had for many years enjoyed the place of the chief 

 clerk for enrolling of pleas in the court of King s Bench, esteemed to be worth 

 about four thousand pounds per annum, being grown old, was prevailed with to 

 surrender it upon being created Lord Teynham, with a reservation of the profits 

 thereof to himself during life. Upon which surrender Sir George Villiers was 

 to have the office granted to two of his trustees for their lives, as Carr, Earl of 

 Somerset, was to have had before. But the Lord Chief Justice Coke not being 

 very forward to accept of the surrender, or make a new grant of it upon those 

 terms, he was, upon the 3d of October, 1616, commanded to desist from the 

 service of this place, and at last removed from it upon the 15th of November 

 following. His successor Sir Henry Montagu, third son of Sir Edward Mon 

 tagu, of Boughton in Northamptonshire, recorder of London, and king s serjeant, 

 being more complaisant, Sir John Roper resigned towards the latter end of the 

 same month ; and Mr. Shute, and Mr. Heath, who was afterwards the king s 

 solicitor general, being the deputies and trustees of Sir George Villiers, were 

 admitted. Stephens s Introduct. p. 37. 



t From Niceron, torn. iii. p. 45. 



t He was a Barnabite monk at Annecy in Savoy, who in his Lectures on 

 Philosophy, began to discard the authority of Aristotle. He died the 23d of 

 December, 1622, at the age of 33. 



