TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 197 



I am wonderful desirous to see that kingdom 

 flourish, because it is the proper work and glory of 

 his majesty and his times. And his majesty may be 

 pleased to call to mind, that a good while since, 

 when the great rent and divisions were in the parlia 

 ment of Ireland, I was no unfortunate remembrancer 

 to his majesty s princely wisdom in that business. 

 God ever keep you and prosper you. 

 Your true and most devoted 



and bounden servant, 



FR. BACON. 



1 July, 1616.* 



TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 

 SIR, 



I THINK I cannot do better service towards the 

 good estate of the kingdom of Ireland than to pro* 

 cure the king to be well served in the eminent places 

 of law and justice ; I shall therefore name unto you 

 for the attorney s place there, or for the solicitor s 

 place, if the new solicitor shall go up, a gentleman 

 of mine own breeding and framing, Mr. Edward 

 Wyrthington of Gray s-Inn ; he is born to eight 

 hundred pounds a year ; he is the eldest son of a 

 most severe justicer, amongst the recusants of Lan 

 cashire, and a man most able for law and speech, 

 and by me trained in the king s causes. My lord 

 deputy, by my description, is much in love with 



* Stephens s Second Collection, p. 3. 



