CC1V LIFE OF BACON. 



cellor, (a) and to the Judges. In the time of Henry the 

 Sixth the practice existed, (a) In the time of Sir Thomas 



presentlie voyde, either fitt for me to offer your lordship, or sure for your 

 L. to receive at my hande, I have presumed in lieu thereof to present your 

 good lordship with an hundred pounds in golde, which this bringer will 

 deliver to your L. Tt is no recompense any waie proportionable, I con- 

 fesse, to your lordship s great goodnesse towards me, but onely a sclender 

 token of my dutie most bounden to your L. and a pledge of my service 

 alwaies to be at your L. commandment afore and above any man alive, 

 which I beseech your lordship to accept in such part as is simply and 

 faithfully meant. And so desyring the continuance and encrease of your 

 L. honorable opinion and favour, of the which I shall endeavour, by God s 

 grace, your L. shall never repent yourselfe. I most humblie betake your 

 good L. to the blessed tuition of the Almighty. Your Lordship s most 

 humble and bounden, TOBIAS DUNELM.&quot; 



A mode of address, which about the same period, was adopted by the 

 Duke of Wirtemberg: &quot; Monsieur, Je ne double que vous ne soyez 

 aduertij de ce que j ay par cij deuant, comme mesmes auec ceste com- 

 modite, escrit et demande humblement a La Serenissime Royne d Angle- 

 terre et de me laisser passer environ 1000 pieces de trap hors le renomme 

 royaulme d Icelle, librement et sans aulcun peage, et pource que je scay, 

 que vous pourrez beaucoup en cest affaire. Je vous prye bien fort, vous ij 

 employer. Affin que je puisse auoir vne bonne et brefue respounce, telle 

 comme je le desire et demande, dont mon commis le present porteur a 

 charge, vous je present de ma part vne chaine d or pov. vos peines. La- 

 quelle accepterez : s il vous plaist de bon cueur. En tous lieux la on 

 j auray moyen de recognoistre cela en vre endroict j en suis content de vous 

 grattiffier a vre contentement, de telle volunte, comme apres mes affec- 

 tionnees recommendatione. Prye Dieu vous avoir, Monsieur, en sa sainte 

 digne garde. De Stuctgart ce 12me de Decembre, 1594. Vre bien 

 aflfectionne, FRIDERICH.&quot; 



See note Z Z at the end, where various instances will be found. 



(a) Receiving presents was a practice neither uncommon among his 

 predecessors in that court, nor, I believe, imputed to them for unrighteous 

 ness. This will appear plainly by the curious anecdote that follows; 

 which I myself copied from the original manuscript, in the possession of 

 Henry Wise, Esq. of Hampton Court. 



&quot; Declarant etiam executores predicti quod ipsi ad speciale rogatum 

 prosdicti domini Henrici fili docti Domini nuper comitis, quod erat eis ad 

 preceptum, dederunt Domino Cancellario Anglise, 1 shaving bacyn argenti, 

 quae erat predicti domini patris sui, viz. Ad excitandum dictum Dominum 



