74 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



remembrance of me ; the former whereof though you men 

 tion not in your letter, yet I straight presumed well of it, 

 because your mention was so fresh to make such a flourish. 

 And it was afterwards accordingly confirmed by your man, 

 Roger, who made me a particular relation of the former 

 negotiation between your ague and you. Of the latter, 

 though you profess largely, yet I make more doubt, be 

 cause your coming is turned into a sending ; which when 

 I thought would have been repaired by some promise or 

 intention of yourself, your man Roger entered into a very 

 subtle distinction to this purpose, that you could not come 

 except you heard I was attorney ; but I ascribe that to your 

 man s invention, who had his reward in laughing; for I 

 hope you are not so stately, but that I shall be one to you 

 stylo vetere or stylo novo. For my fortune (to speak court) 

 it is very slow, if any thing can be slow to him that is secure 

 of the event. In short nothing is done in it ; but I propose 

 to remain here at Twickenham till Michaelmas term, then 

 to St. Albans, and after the term to court. Advise you, 

 whether you will play the honest man or no. In the mean 

 time I think long to see you, and pray to be remembered 

 to your father and mother. 



Yours, in loving affection, 



From Twickenham Park, p R &quot;R A r n M 



this 4th of Nov. 1593. 



Mr. Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex.* 

 My Lord, 



I thought it not amiss to inform your lordship of that, 

 which I gather partly by conjecture, and partly by adver 

 tisement of the late recovered man, that is so much at your 

 devotion, of whom I have some cause to think, that hef 

 worketh for the Huddler J underhand. And though it may 

 seem strange, considering how much it importeth him to 

 join straight with your lordship, in regard both of his ene 

 mies and of his ends ; yet I do the less rest secure upon the 

 conceit, because he is a man likely to trust so much to his 

 art and finesse (as he, that is an excellent wherryman, who, 

 you know, looketh towards the bridge, when he pulleth to 

 wards Westminster) that he will hope to serve his turn, and 

 yet to preserve your lordship s good opinion. This I write 



* Among the papers of Antony Bacon, Esq. vol. iii. lol. 283, in the Lam 

 beth Library. 



t Probably Lord Keeper Puckering. 

 T Mr. Edward Coke. 



