NOTE 7. Z. 



as you shall find it in reason to deserve ; which I shall take as a courtesy from 

 vour lordship, and ever rest your Lordship s faithful friend and servant, 



G. BUCKINGHAM. 



I thank your lordship for your favour to Sir John Wentworth, in the dispatch 

 &quot; his business. 



Newmarket, March 15, 1618. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



My honourable Lord, Understanding that there is a suit depending before 

 r our lordship between Sir Rowland Cotton, plaintiff, and Sir John Gawen, 

 defendant, which is shortly to come to a hearing ; and having been likewise 

 informed that Sir Rowland Cotton hath undertaken it in hehalf of certain poor 

 people ; which charitable endeavour of his, I assure myself, will find so good 

 acceptation with your lordship, that there shall be no other use of recommenda 

 tion ; yet at the earnest request of some friends of mine, I have thought fit to 

 write to your lordship in his behalf, desiring you to shew him what favour you 

 lawfully may, and the cause may bear, in the speedy dispatch of his business ; 

 which I shall be ever ready to acknowledge, and rest your Lordship s most 

 devoted to serve you, G. BUCKINGHAM. 



Whitehall, April 20, 1618. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



My honorable Lord, Understanding that the cause depending in the Chan 

 cery between the Lady Vernon and the officers of his majesty s household is 

 now ready for a decree, though I doubt not but as his majesty hath been satis 

 fied of the equity of the cause on his officers behalf, who have undergone the 

 business by his majesty s command, your lordship will also find their cause 

 worthy of your favour, yet I have thought fit once again to recommend it to 

 your lordship, desiring you to give them a speedy end of it, that both his majesty 

 may be freed from farther importunity, and they from the charge and trouble of 

 following it; which I will be ever ready to acknowledge as a favour done unto 

 myself, and always rest your Lordship s faithful friend and servant, 



Greenwich, June 15, 1618. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



My honourable Lord, I wrote unto your lordship lately in the behalf of Sir 

 Rowland Cotton, that then had a suit in dependance before your lordship and 

 the rest of my lords in the Star-Chamber. The cause, I understand, hath gone 

 contrary to his expectation ; yet he acknowledges himself much bound to your 

 lordship for the noble and patient hearing he did then receive ; and he rests 

 satisfied, and I much beholden to your lordship, for any favour it pleased your 

 lordship to afford him for my cause. It now rests only in your lordship s power 

 for the assessing of costs ; which, because, I am certainly informed, Sir Row 

 land Cotton had just cause of complaint, I hope your lordship will not give any 

 against him. And I do the rather move your lordship to respect him in it, be 

 cause it concerns him in his reputation, which I know he tenders, and not the 

 money, which might be imposed upon him ; whicli can be but a trifle. Thus 

 presuming of your lordship s favour herein, which I shall be ready ever to 

 account to your lordship for, I rest your Lordship s most devoted to serve you, 

 June 19, 1618. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



My honourable Lord, I have been desired by some friends of mine, in the 

 behalf of Sir Francis Englefyld, to recommend his cause so far unto your lord 

 ship, that a peremptory day being given by your lordship s order for the perfect 

 ing of his account, and for the assignment of the trust, your lordship would take 

 such course therein, that the gentleman s estate may be redeemed from farther 

 trouble, and secured from all danger, by engaging those to whom the trust is 



