MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 105 



The Lord Chancellor and two Chief Justices* to the 

 Marquis of Buckingham. 



Our very good Lord, 



It may please his majesty to call to mind, that when we 

 gave his majesty our last account of parliament business in 

 his presence, we went over the grievances of the last par 

 liament in 7mo,f with our opinion by way of probable con 

 jecture, which of them are like to fall off, and which may 

 perchance stick and be renewed. And we did also then 

 acquaint his majesty, that we thought it no less fit to take 

 into consideration grievances of like nature, which have 

 sprung up since the said last session, which are the more 

 like to be called upon, by how much they are the more 

 fresh, signifying withal, that they were of two kinds ; some 

 proclamations and commissions, and many patents ; which, 

 nevertheless, we did not trouble his majesty withal in par 

 ticular; partly, for that we were not then fully prepared 

 (as being a work of some length), and partly, for that we 

 then desired and obtained leave of his majesty to commu 

 nicate them with the council-table. But now since, I, the 

 Chancellor, received his majesty s pleasure by Secretary 

 Calvert, that we should first present them to his majesty 

 with some advice thereupon provisionally, and as we are 

 capable, and thereupon know his majesty s pleasure before 

 they be brought to the table, which is the work of this 

 dispatch. 



And hereupon his majesty may be likewise pleased to 

 call to mind, that we then said, and do now also humbly 

 make remonstrance to his majesty, that in this we do not 

 so much express the sense of our own minds or judgments 

 upon the particulars, as we do personate the lower house, 

 and cast with ourselves what is like to be stirred there. 

 And therefore if there be any thing, either in respect of the 

 matter, or the persons, that stands not so well with his ma 

 jesty s good liking, that his majesty would be graciously 

 pleased not to impute it unto us ; and withal to consider, 

 that it is to this good end, that his majesty may either re 

 move such of them, as in his own princely judgment, or 



* Sir Henry Montagu of the King s Bench, and Sir Henry Hobart of the 

 Common Pleas. 



t That which began February 9, 1609, and was prorogued July 23, 1610. 



