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much the more I take myself to have more propriety in the 

 principal motive thereof. And for the equality you write 

 of, I shall, by the grace of God, far as may concern me, 

 hold the balance as equally between the two universities, 

 as I shall hold the balance of other justice between party 

 and party. And yet in both cases I must meet with some 

 inclinations of affection, which nevertheless shall not carry 

 me aside. And so I commend you to God s goodness. 

 Your most loving and assured Friend, 



FR. BACON. 



Gorhambury, April 12, 1617. 



Lord Keeper Bacon to Mr. Maxey, Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge.* 



After my hearty commendations, I having heard of you, 

 as a man well deserving, and of able gifts to become profi 

 table in the church, and there bein^ fallen within my gift 

 the rectory of Frome St. Quintin, with the chapel of Ever- 

 shot, in Dorsetshire, which seems to be a thing of good 

 value, eighteen pounds in the King s books, and in a good 

 country, I have thought good to make offer of it to you ; 

 the rather for that you are of Trinity College, whereof my 

 self was some time : and my purpose is to make choice of 

 men rather by care and inquiry, than by their own suits 

 and commendatory letters. So I bid you farewell. 



From your loving Friend, 



From Dorset House, FR. BACON, C. S. 



April 23, 1617. 



To the Lord Keeper Bacon.f 

 My Lord, 



If your man had been addressed only to me, I should 

 have been careful to have procured him a more speedy dis 

 patch : but now you have found another way of address, I 

 am excused ; and since you are grown weary of employing 

 me, I can be no otherwise in being employed. In this busi 

 ness of my brother s, that you overtrouble yourself with, 

 I understand from London, by some of my friends, that you 

 have carried yourself with much scorn and neglect both to 

 ward myself and friends ; which, if it prove true, I blame 

 not you, but myself, who was ever 



Your Lordship s assured Friend, 

 [July, 1617.] G. BUCKINGHAM. 



* From the collections of the late Robert Stephens, Esq. t Ibid. 



