XIV PREFACE. 



&quot; long. God evermore preserve and prosper you. 

 &quot; Your majesty s poor beadsman most devoted, 



&quot; FR. ST. ALBAN. 

 Gorhambury, 20 Mar. 1621.&quot; 



&quot; To the Right Honourable his very good Lord^ 



&quot; the Lord Marquiss of Buckingham, High- 



&quot; Admiral of England. 

 &quot; My very good Lord, 



&quot; These main and real favours which I have 

 &quot; lately received from your good lordship, in pro- 

 &quot; curing my liberty, and a reference of the consi- 

 &quot; deration of my release, are such, as I now find 

 &quot; that in building upon your lordship s noble nature 

 &quot; and friendship, I have built upon the rock, where 

 &quot; neither winds nor waves can cause overthrow. I 

 &quot; humbly pray your lordship to accept from me 

 &quot; such thanks as ought to come from him whom you 

 &quot; have much comforted in fortune, and much more 

 &quot; comforted in shewing your love and affection to 

 &quot; him ; of which also I have heard by my Lord Falk- 

 &quot; land, Sir Edward Sackville, Mr. Matthews, and 

 &quot; otherways. 



&quot; I have written, as my duty was, to his majesty 

 &quot; thanks touching the same, by the letter here put 

 &quot; into your noble hands. 



&quot; I have made also, in that letter, an offer to his 

 &quot; majesty of my service, for bringing into better 

 &quot; order and frame the laws of England : the decla- 

 &quot; ration whereof I have left with Sir Edward Sack- 

 &quot; ville, because it were no good manners to clog his 

 &quot; majesty, at this time of triumph and recreation, 

 &quot; with a business of this nature ; so as your lordship 



