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tion could ever make other than a trusty, and honest, and 

 Christ-loving friend to your lordship; and howsoever I 

 acknowledge the sentence just, and for reformation sake 

 fit, the justest Chancellor that hath been in the five changes 

 since Sir Nicholas Bacon s time. God bless and prosper 

 your lordship, whatsoever become of me. 



&quot; Your Lordship s true friend, living and dying, 

 Tower, 51st May, 1621. &quot; FR. ST. ALB AN.&quot; (a) 



After two days imprisonment he was liberated : (b) and, Liberation 

 the sentence not permitting him to come within the verge 

 of the court, he retired, with the King s permission, to Sir 

 John Vaughan s house at Parson s Green, (c) from whence, 



(a) That he wrote to the King is clear, from a letter dated June 22, 

 1621, which concludes thus: &quot; I submit myself, desiring his majesty and 

 your lordship to take my letters from the Tower as written de profundis, 

 and those I continue to write to be ex aquisfalsis&quot; 



(b} The following is the notice in Camden. It is placed as after May 

 15, and before June 1, 1621 . &quot;Ex cancellarius in arcem traditur, post 

 biduum deliberatus.&quot; 



(c) In a letter to the Prince of Wales, dated June 1, he says : &quot; I am 

 much beholden to your highness s worthy servant, Sir John Vaughan, the 

 sweet air and loving usage of whose house hath already much revived my 

 languishing spirits, 1 beseech your highness, thank him for me. God 

 ever preserve and prosper your highness. Your Highness s most humble 

 and most bounden servant, FR. ST. ALBAN.&quot; 



Upon his arrival at Sir John s, he wrote to express his obligations both 

 to the King and to Buckingham. 



To the King. It may please your most excellent Majesty, I humbly 

 thank your majesty for my liberty, without which timely grant any farther 

 grace would have come too late. But your majesty, that did shed tears in 

 the beginning of my trouble, will, I hope, shed the dew of your grace and 

 goodness upon me in the end. Let me live to serve you, else life is but 

 the shadow of death to your Majesty s most devoted servant, 



June 4, 1621. FR. ST. ALBAN. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. My very good Lord, I heartily thank 

 your lordship for getting me out of prison, and now my body is out, my 



