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lection as I seem to do : and yet I dare not take too much 

 from it, because I have chosen to dedicate it to you. To 

 be short, it is the honour I can do to you at this time. 

 And so I commend me to your love and honourable friend 

 ship. 



To the Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Mandeville, 

 Lord Treasurer of England.* 



My honourable Lords, 



His majesty is pleased, according to your lordships cer 

 tificate, to rely upon your judgments, and hath made choice 

 of Sir Robert Lloyd, knight, to be Patentee and Master of 

 the Office of ingrossing the transcripts of all wills and in 

 ventories in the Prerogative Courts, during his highnesses 

 pleasure, and to be accountable unto his majesty for such 

 profits as shall arise out of the same office. And his ma 

 jesty s farther pleasure is, that your lordship forthwith pro 

 portion and set down, as well, a reasonable rate of fees for 

 the subject to pay for ingrossing the said transcripts, as 

 also such fees as your lordship shall conceive fit to be al 

 lowed to the said patentee for the charge of clerks and 

 ministers for execution of the said office. And to this 

 effect his majesty hath commanded me to signify his plea 

 sure to his Solicitor General,~j- to prepare a book for his 

 majesty s signature. And so I bid your lordship heartily 

 well to fare, and remain 



Your Lordship s very loving Friend, 

 Royston, G. BUCKINGHAM. 



December 17, 1620. 



To the Reverend University of Oxford. J 



Amongst the gratulations I have received, none are more 

 welcome and agreeable to me than your letters, wherein the 

 less I acknowledge of those attributes you give me, the more 

 I must acknowledge of your affection, which bindeth me no 

 less to you, that are professors of learning, than mine own 

 dedication doth to learning itself. And therefore you have 

 no need to doubt, but I will emulate (as much as in me is) 

 towards you the merits of him that is gone, by how much 

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

 cipal motive thereof. And for the equality you write of, I 

 shall by the grace of God (far as may concern me) hold 



* Harl. MSS. vol. 7000. t Sir Thomas Coventry. 



J This and the following letter are from the collections of the late Robert 

 Stephens, Esq. historiographer royal, and John Locker, Esq. deceased, now in 

 possession of the Editor. 



