NOTE Z 7,. 



To the Lord Keeper. 

 My honourable Lord, His majesty hath spent some time with Sir Lionel 

 Cranfield about his own business, wherewith he acquainted his majesty. He 

 hath had some conference with your lordship, upon whose report to his majesty 

 of your zeal and care of his service, which his majesty accepteth very well at 

 your hands, he hath commanded Sir L. Cranfield to attend your lordship, to 

 signify his farther pleasure for the furtherance of his service ; unto whose rela 

 tion I refer you. His majesty s farther pleasure is, you acquaint no creature 

 living with it, he having resolved to rely upon your care and trust only. Thus, 

 wishing you all happiness, I rest your Lordship s faithful friend and servant, 

 October 26, 1617. G.BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Lord Keeper. 



My honourable Lord, I have thought good to renew my motion to your 

 lordship, in the behalf of my Lord of Huntingdon, my Lord Stanhope, and Sir 

 Thomas Gerard ; for that I am more particularly acquainted with their desires ; 

 they only seeking the true advancement of the charitable uses, unto which the 

 land, given by their grandfather, was intended ; which, as I am informed, was 

 meant by way of a corporation, and by this means, that it might be settled upon 

 the schoolmaster, usher, and poor, and the coheirs to be visitors. The tenants 

 might be conscionably dealt withal ; and so it will be out of the power of any 

 feoffees to abuse the trust ; which, it hath been lately proved, have been hitherto 

 the hindrance of this good work. These coheirs desire only the honour of their 

 ancestor s gift, and wish the money, misemployed and ordered to be paid into 

 court by Sir John Harper, may rather be bestowed by your lordship s discretion 

 for the augmentation of the foundation of their ancestors, than by the censure of 

 any other. And so I rest your Lordship servant, G. BUCKINGHAM. 

 Theobalds, Nov. 12. Indorsed, 1617. 



To the Lord Keeper. 



My honourable Lord, Though I had resolved to give your lordship no more 

 trouble in matters of controversy depending before you, with what importance 

 soever my letters had been, yet the respect I bear unto this gentleman hath so 

 far forced my resolution, as to recommend unto your lordship the suit, which, I 

 am informed by him, is to receive a hearing before you on Monday next, 

 between Barnaby Leigh and Sir Edward Dyer, plaintiffs, and Sir Thomas 

 Thynne, defendant ; wherein I desire your lordship s favour on the plaintiff s so 

 far only as the justice of their cause shall require. And so I rest your Lord 

 ship s faithful servant, G. BUCKINGHAM. 

 Newmarket, Nov. 15. Indorsed, 1617. 



To the Lord Keeper. 



My honourable Lord, The certificate being returned upon the commission 

 touching Sir Richard Haughton s alum-mines, I have thought fit to desire your 

 lordship s furtherance in the business, which his majesty, as your lordship will 

 see by this letter, much affecteth as a bargain for his advantage, and for the 

 present relief of Sir Richard Haughton. What favour your lordship shall do 

 him therein, I will not fail to acknowledge, and will ever rest your Lordship s 

 faithful servant, G. BUCKINGHAM. 



Indorsed, Received Nov. 16, 1617. 



To the Lord Keeper. 



My honourable Lord, Understanding that Thomas Hukeley, a merchant of 

 London, of whom I have heard a good report, intendeth to bring before your 

 lordship in Chancery a cause depending between him, in the right of his wife, 

 daughter of William Austen, and one John Ilorsmendon, who married another 

 daughter of the said Austen ; I have thought fit to desire your lordship to give 

 the said Thomas Hukeley a favourable hearing when his cause shall come before 



