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Majesty were as I humbly conceive your Grace s resolu 

 tion not to trouble the King for money business even 

 in your own behalf, much less in another s ; and secondly 

 that as for Creations you had absolutely promised his 

 Majesty you would not importune him again. To the 

 first I answer that this is to save the King s coffers, 

 since certainly if either honour or conscience should 

 take place his Majesty ought to save me harmless from 

 the six thousand pound confessed and proved to be the 

 Crown s debt ; so happily now upon his head by your 

 Grace s no less prudent and valorous, than dutiful en 

 deavours, blest by Divine Providence, never intending 

 the ruin of his best deserving subjects, and the only 

 promoting of his rebels, which the child unborn may 

 rue if not timely prevented ; and as a wise Privy-Coun 

 cillor your Grace s part is to mind his Majesty so of, as 

 not totally to dishearten, I will not say disgust his 

 good subjects well deserving, yet that as far as loyalty 

 and religion will give them leave ; and I am sorry his 

 Majesty should bid adieu to works of supererogation 

 and love in his subjects, and most certainly they are 

 not his best counsellors who advise him to it ; and your 

 Grace will be most commendable in doing the contrary, 

 and at long running the King will love you best for 

 it, so that this objection of your Grace I humbly con 

 ceive to be totally solved. 



&quot; As for the second, your Grace s promise not to speak 

 for any more Creations, be pleased to understand it 

 rightly, and you are no motioner of this ; you do but 

 lay before him my reasonable petition therein, such as 

 my Lord Chancellor was pleased to think so fitting as 

 he once undertook it for me, and I am confident will 

 thank your Grace for reviving of it, and in my con 

 science so will the King too in granting of it ; for I 

 cannot have so mean a thought of his Majesty but that 



