72 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



Lord Treasurer Burghley to Mr. Francis Bacon.* 



Nephew, 



I have no leisure to write much ; but for answer I have 

 attempted to place you : but her majesty hath required the 

 Lord Keeper t to give to her the names of divers lawyers 

 to be preferred, wherewith he made me acquainted, and I 

 did name you as a meet man, whom his lordship allowed 

 in way of friendship, for your father s sake : but he made 

 scruple to equal you with certain, whom he named, as 

 BrograveJ and Branthwayt, whom he specially commend- 

 eth. But I will continue the remembrance of you to her 

 majesty, and implore my Lord of Essex s help. 



Your loving Uncle, 



Sept. 27, 1593. N. BuRGHLEY. 



Sir Robert Cecil to Mr. Francis Bacon. 



Cousin, 



Assure yourself that the solicitor s || coming gave no 

 cause of speech ; for it was concerning a book to be drawn, 

 concerning the bargain of wines. If there had been you 

 should have known, or when there shall. To satisfy your 

 request of making my lord know, how recommended your 

 desires are to me, I have spoken with his lordship, who 

 answereth he hath done and will do his best, I think 

 your absence longer than for my good aunt s comfort will 

 do you no good : for, as I ever told you, it is not likely to 

 find the Queen apt to give an office, when the scruple is 

 not removed of her forbearance to speak with you. This 

 being not yet perfected may stop good, when the hour 

 comes of conclusion, though it be but a trifle, and ques 

 tionless would be straight dispatched, if it were luckily 

 handled. But herein do I, out of my desire to satisfy 

 you, use this my opinion, leaving you to your own better 

 knowledge what hath been done for you, or in what terms 



* Among the papers of Antony Bacon, Esq. vol.iii. fol. 197, in the Lambeth 

 Library. 



t Puckering. 



t John Brograve, attorney of the duchy of Lancaster, and afterwards knighted. 

 He is mentioned by Mr Francis Bacon, in his letter to the Lord Treasurer of 

 7th June, 1595, from Gray s Inn, as having discharged his post of attorney of 

 the duchy with great sufficiency. There is extant of his, in print, a reading 

 upon the statute of 27 Henry VIII. concerning jointures. 



Among the papers of Antony Bacon, Esq. vol. iii. fol. 197, verso, in the 

 Lambeth Library. 



|| Mr. Edwaid Coke. 



