CCCXCH LIFE OF BACOX. 



by Buckingham to obey the King s order. In October 

 the pardon was sealed. () 



The Lord Keeper to the Duke. 



My most noble Lord, I humbly thank your Lordship for your most 

 sweet and loving letter, &c. I humbly beseech your lordship to meddle 

 with no pardon for the Lord of St. Albans, until I shall have the happiness 

 to confer with your lordship; the pardoning of his fine is much spoken 

 against, not for the matter (for no man objects to that) but for the manner, 

 which is full of knavery, and a wicked precedent. For by this assignation 

 of his fine, he is protected from all his creditors, which, I dare say, was 

 neither his majesty s nor your lordship s meaning. Let all our greatness 

 depend, as it ought, upon yours, the true original. Let the King be 

 Pharaoh, yourself Joseph, and let us come after you as your half brethren, 

 God bless you, &c. 



To the Lord Keeper. 



My very good Lord, I know the reasons must appear to your lordship 

 many and weighty which should move you to stop the King s grace, or to 

 dissuade it; and somewhat the more in respect of my person being, I hope, 

 no unfit subject for noble dealing. I send Mr. Meautys to your lordship, 

 that I might reap so much your fruit of your lordship s professed good 

 affection, as to know in some more particular fashion what it is that your 

 lordship doubteth or disliketh, that I may the better endeavour your satis 

 faction or acquiescence, if there be cause. So I rest, 



Oct. 18, 1621, Your Lordship s to do you service, FR. ST. ALBA N. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 



My very good Lord, An unexpected accident maketh me hasten this 

 letter to your lordship, before I could dispatch Mr. Meautys ; it is that my 

 Lord Keeper hath staid my pardon at the seal. I ever rest your Lordship s 

 most obliged friend and faithful servant, Fit. ST. ALBAN. 



Oct. 18, 1621. 



() The Lord Keeper to the Duke, concerning the Lord of St. Alban. 



My most noble Lord, I have received your lordship s expression con 

 cerning the pause I made upon the patent for my Lord of St. Alban s 

 pardon. The latter I have not yet sealed, but do represent, in all lowliness 

 and humility, these few considerations by your lordship to his sacred 

 majesty, wherein let your lordship make no question but I have advised 

 with the best lawyers in the kingdom ; and after this representation I will 

 perform whatsoever your lordship shall direct. 



1 . His majesty and your lordship do conceive that my Lord of St. Alban s 

 pardon and grant of his fine came both together to my hands, and so your 

 lordship directs me to pass the one and the other. But his lordship was 



