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magnificum prorsus frontispieium historian natural! extrux- 

 eris, et optime de scientiarum instauratione merueris, niihi- 

 que gratissimum feceris. 



Li bruin meum de progressu scientiarum traducendum 

 commisi. Ilia translatio, volente Deo, sub finem sestatis 

 perficietur : earn ad te mittam. 



Opera tua, quae publici juris sunt, inspexi ; magnse certe 

 subtilitatis et diligentiea in via vestra. Novatores, quos 

 nominas, Patricium, Telesium, etiam alios, quos preeter- 

 mittis, legi. Possint esse tales innumeri velut etiam anti- 

 quis temporibus fuerunt Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Democri- 

 tus, Parmenides, et alii (nam Pythagoram ut superstitiosum 

 omitto). Inter istos tarn antiques quam modernos differen- 

 tiam facultatis agnosco maximam, veritatis preparvam. 

 Summa rei est, si homines se rebus submittere velint, 

 aliquid confiet ; sin minus, ingenia ista redibunt in orbem. 



Stabilita jam sit inter nos notitia; meque, ut coepisti, 

 maxime autem veritatem ama. Vale. 



Tui amantissimus, 



Apud ^Edes meas, S. ALBANS. 



Londinii, Junii ultimo, 1622. 



By King James.* 



To our trusty and well beloved Thomas Coventry our 

 Attorney General. 



Trusty and well beloved, we greet you well : 

 Whereas our right trusty and right well beloved cousin, 

 the Viscount of St. Alban, upon a sentence given in the 

 upper house of parliament full three years since, and more, 

 hath endured loss of his place, imprisonment, and confine 

 ment *f- also for a great time, which may suffice for the satis 

 faction of justice, and example to others: we being always 

 graciously inclined to temper mercy with justice, and calling 

 to mind his former good services, and how well and profit 

 ably he hath spent his time since his trouble, are pleased 

 to remove from him that blot of ignominy which yet re- 

 maineth upon him, of incapacity and disablement ; and to 

 remit to him all penalties whatsoever inflicted by that sen 

 tence. Having therefore formerly pardoned his fine, and 

 released his confinement, these are to will and require you 

 to prepare, for our signature, a bill containing a pardon, in 



* Cabala, 270. Edw. 1663. 



t His sentence forbid his coming within the verge of the court. [In conse 

 quence of this letter, my Lord Bacon was summoned to parliament in the first 

 year of King Charles]. 



