100 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



The five following letters, wanting both date and cir 

 cumstances to determine such dates, are placed here 

 together. 



To the Lord Treasurer.* 



It may please your honourable Lordship, 

 I account myself much bound to your lordship for your 

 favour shown to Mr. Higgins upon my commendations 

 about Pawlet s wardship ; the effect of which your lord 

 ship s favour, though it hath been intercepted by my Lord 

 Deputy s suit, yet the signification remains : and I must in 

 all reason consent and acknowledge, that your lordship 

 had as just and good cause to satisfy my Lord Deputy s 

 request, as I did think it unlikely, that my lord would have 

 been suitor for so mean a matter. 



So this being to none other end but to give your lordship 

 humble thanks for your intended favour, I commend your 

 lordship to the preservation of the divine majesty. 



From Gray s Inn. 



To Sir Francis Vere.t 

 Sir, 



I am to recommend to your favour one Mr. John Ashe, 

 as to serve under you, as agent of your company : whose 

 desire how much I do affect, you may perceive if it be but 

 in this, that myself being no further interested in you, by 

 acquaintance or deserving, yet have intruded myself into 

 this commendation : which, if it shall take place, I shall by 

 so much the more find cause to take it kindly, by how much 

 I find less cause in myself to take upon me the part of a 

 mover or commender towards you, whom nevertheless I will 

 not so far estrange myself from, but that in a general or 

 mutual respect, incident to persons of our qualities and 

 service, and not without particular inducements of friend 

 ship, I might, without breaking decorum, offer to you a 

 request of this nature, the rather honouring you so much 

 for your virtues, I -would gladly take occasion to be be 

 holden to you ; yet no more gladly than to have occasion 

 to do you any good office. And so this being to no other 

 end, I commend you to God s goodness. 



From my chamber at the 



* From the original draught in the library of Queen s College, Oxford. 

 Arch. D. 2. 

 t Id. ib. 



