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me to a place in the scale of favour, not unbefitting my 

 former elevation. Fourthly, because I learn from the let 

 ters you have lately written to my intimate friend, Sir 

 Toby Matthew, that you cherish a lively and warm remem 

 brance of me, which has neither been overwhelmed nor ex 

 tinguished, under the weight of those high and sublime 

 interests which rest on your lordship. Lastly, too, there 

 is this circumstance that since by the friendship of the ex 

 cellent lord Marquis, I have been admitted to see and 

 converse with my king, I feel as if I were once more esta 

 blished in favour. The king did not speak to me as a 

 guilty man, but as a man thrown down by a tempest ; and 

 withal in his address to me he acknowledged at great 

 length, and, as it seemed, with singular tenderness, my 

 steady and invariable course of industry and integrity. 

 Whence the greater hope springs up within me, that by 

 the continuance of my sovereign s regard, and the ex 

 tinction of odium by the lapse of time, your Excellency s 

 efforts for me will not be made in vain. Meanwhile I 

 have neither sunk into indolence, nor impertinently mixed 

 myself with affairs, but I live and am absorbed in labours 

 not at all derogatory to the honours I have borne, and 

 which shall perhaps leave no unpleasing memory of my 

 name to posterity. I hope therefore that I am no un 

 worthy object, on which to display and signalize at once 

 the influence of your power and friendship; so that it 

 shall be apparent, that you have no less control over the 

 fortunes of a private man, than over public measures. 

 May God preserve your Excellency, and crown you with 

 all happiness. 



Indorsed My Lord St. Alban s Jirst Letter to Gondomur 

 into Spain. 



March 28th, 1623. 



