NOTE Z Z. 



I rest in no contempt, nor have to my knowledge broken any order made by 

 your lordship concerning the trust, either for the payment of money, or assign 

 ment of land ; yet, by reason of my close imprisonment, and the unusual 

 carriage of this cause against me, 1 can get no council, who will in open court 

 deliver my case unto your lordship. I must therefore humbly leave unto your 

 lordship s wisdom, how far your lordship will, upon my adversary s fraudulent 

 bill exhibited by the wife without her husband s privity, extend the most 

 powerful arm of your authority against me, who desire nothing but the honest 

 performance of a trust, which I know not how to leave, if I would. So, nothing 

 doubting but your lordship will do what appertaineth to justice, and the eminent 

 place of equity your lordship holdeth, I must, since I cannot understand from 

 your lordship the cause of my late close restraint, rest, during your lordship s 

 pleasure, your lordship s close prisoner in the Fleet, 



October 28, 1617. FR. ENGLEFYLD. 



To the Lord Chancellor. 



Most honourable Lord, Herewithal I presumed to send a note inclosed, 

 both of my business in Chancery, and with my Lord Roos, which it pleased 

 your lordship to demand of me, that so you might better do me good in utroque 

 genere. It may please your lordship, after having perused it, to commend it 

 over to the care of Mr. Meautys for better custody. 



At my parting last from your lordship, the grief I had to leave your lordship s 

 presence, though but for a little time, was such, as that being accompanied 

 with some small corporal indisposition that I was in, made me forgetful to say 

 that, which now for his majesty s service I thought myself bound not to silence. 

 I was credibly informed and assured, when the Spanish ambassador went away, 

 that howsoever Ralegh and the prentices should fall out to be proceeded withal, 

 no more instances would be made hereafter on the part of Spain for justice to 

 be done ever in these particulars : but that if slackness were used here, they 

 would be laid up in the deck, and would serve for materials (this was the very 

 word) of future and final discontentments. Now as the humour and design of 

 some may carry them towards troubling of the waters, so I know your lordship s 

 both nature and great place require an appeasing them at your hands. And I 

 have not presumed to say this little out of any mind at all, that I may have, to 

 meddle with matters so far above me, but out of a thought I had, that I was 

 tied in duty to lay thus much under your lordship s eye ; because I know and 

 consider of whom I heard that speech, and with how grave circumstances it was 

 delivered. 



I beseech Jesus to give continuance and increase to your lordship s happi 

 ness ; and that, if it may stand with his will, myself may one day have the 

 honour of casting some small mite into that rich treasury. So 1 humbly do 

 your lordship reverence, and continue the most obliged of your Lordship s many 

 faithful servants, TOBIE MATTHEW. 



Nottingham, Aug. 21, 1618. 



tfle time of Uortr Bacon. 



Bishop Williams. 



In part of his life Bishop Hackett says, &quot; And within the compass of this 

 time he says he dreamt the Lord Keeper was dead, and that he went by and 

 saw his grave a making. And how doth he expound this vision which he saw 

 in his sleep, but that he was dead in my Lord Buckingham s affections 1 Some 

 are like to ask what it was that did the ill office to shake the steadfastness of 

 their friendship 1 That will break out hereafter. But the quarrel began that 

 some decrees had been made in Chancery for whose better speed my lord 

 marquess had undertaken. An undertaker he was without confinement of im 

 portunity. There was not a cause of moment but as soon as it came to publi 

 cation one of the parties brought letters from this mighty peer and the lord 

 keeper s patron. For the lord marquess was of a kind nature, in courtesy more 



