CCXX1V LIFE OF BACON. 



So true is it, as Bacon himself had taught, that a judge 

 ought to be of a retired nature, and unconnected with 



which (being once propounded by me) all the lords and the rest una voce 

 assented. I would not so much as ask the question whether, though we 

 proceeded, I should send the letter to his majesty, because I would not 

 straiten his majesty in any thing. 



The evidence went well (I will not say I sometimes helped it as far as 

 was fit for a judge), and at the arising of the court I moved the lords 

 openly, whether they would not continue this cause from day to day till it 

 were ended, which they thought not fit in regard of the general justice, 

 which would be delayed in all courts : yet afterwards within I prevailed so 

 far, as we have appointed to sit Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and to 

 sit by eight of the clock, and so to dispatch it before the King come, if we 

 can. God preserve and prosper you. 1 ever rest your Lordship s most 

 obliged friend and faithful servant, FR. VERULAM, Cane, 



This 22nd of October, Friday, 

 at 4 of the clock, 1619. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 



My very good Lord, I think fit to let your lordship understand what 

 passed yesterday in the Star-chamber touching Suffolk s business. 



There came to me the clerk of the court in the inner chamber, and told 

 me that my Lord of Suffolk desired to be heard by his council at the * 

 sitting of the court, because it was pen * * him. 



I marvelled I heard not of it by Mr. Attorney, who should have let me 

 know as much, that I might not be taken on the sudden in a cause of that 

 weight. I called presently Mr. Attorney to me, and asked him whether he 

 knew of the motion, and what it was, and how he was provided to answer 

 it. He signified to me, that my lord would desire to have the commission 

 for examinations in Ireland to be returnable in Michaelmas term. I said 

 it might not be, and presently drew the council then present to me, and 

 made Mr. Attorney repeat to them the passages past, and settled it, that 

 the commission should be returnable the first day of the next term, and 

 then republication granted, that it might, if accidents of wind and weather 

 permit, come to hearing in the term. And upon motion in open court it 

 was ordered accordingly, 



God ever preserve and prosper you. I pray God this great easterly 

 wind agree well with his majesty. Your Lordship s most obliged friend 

 and faithful servant, FR. VEIIULAM, Cane. 



May 6, 1619. 



See also letter, October 14, 1619, vol. xiii. p. 19. 



