PFxEFACE. XV11 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 

 My very good lord, 



I send now only to give his majesty thanks for 

 the singular comfort, which I received by his majes 

 ty s letter of his own hand, touching my book. And 

 I must also give your lordship of my best thanks, 

 for your letter so kindly and affectionately written. 



I did even now receive your lordship s letter 

 touching the proclamation, and do approve his ma 

 jesty s judgment and foresight about mine own. 

 Neither would I have thought of inserting matter of 

 state for the vulgar, but that now-a-days there is no 

 vulgar, but all statesmen. But, as his majesty doth 

 excellently consider, the time of it is not yet proper, 

 I ever rest 



Your lordship s most obliged friend, 

 and faithful servant, 



FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



Indorsed, in answer to his majesty s directions touch 

 ing the proclamation for a parliament. 



A Letter from the Lord Chancellor Verulam to the 

 University of Cambridge upon sending to their 

 public library his Novum Organum, to which 

 this letter written with his own hand is affixed. 



Almas Matri Academiae Cantabrigiensi 

 Cum vester films sim et alumnus, voluptati mihi 

 erit, partum meum nuper editum vobis in gremium 

 dare : Aliter enim velut pro exposito eum haberem. 

 Nee vos moveat, quod via nova sit. Necesse est 

 enim talia per aetatum et seculorum circuitus evenire. 



