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jesty s honour and power for want of a little money, 

 since 20,000, with what you have, would further your 

 Majesty s designs to a most hopeful condition ; for want 

 whereof, your Majesty is enforced to dally (though 

 you will never yield), and at this present you offer that 

 which is worth 100,000 for 50,000, besides my Lord 

 Capell, Sir William Savill and others of good estates 

 do offer also theirs for security 5 yet no want nor 

 occasion can make your Majesty to press my Lord, who 

 hath already done so much, but if he and his friends 

 could procure 10,000, your Majesty would suddenly 

 (if it please God to restore you) see it repaid, and would 

 presently in token of thankfulness send my father the 

 Garter, to be put on when he pleased, and also having 

 the Great Seal in your Majesty s own custody you 

 would pass a patent of Marquis of what title my father 

 should desire, and keep it private as long as he thought 

 fitting 5 and to show that this proposition is far from 

 urging him to his inconvenience, and so much doth 

 your Majesty acknowledge yourself already beholding 

 to him, as that even without procuring his Majesty 

 this unspeakable advantage, your Majesty is graciously 

 pleased that if he desire either or both these, your Ma 

 jesty, at my return unto you, will vouchsafe them 5 but 

 if this could be possibly performed, then the Crown, 

 which hitherto your Majesty confesseth to stay upon 

 your head by his assistance, will be then confirmed by 

 him, and your Majesty ; and your Majesty esteemeth 

 so much of his understanding, as well as passionate 

 zeal to your service, that if he will send your Majesty 

 his advice (upon the relation of the state of business 

 which your Majesty hath commanded me to make unto 

 him) your Majesty will as soon follow it as any man s, 

 and the power you give, or intend to give me is, as I am 

 subordinate, and most dutiful unto him to whom your 



