198 LETTER ON IRELAND. 



the man. I hear my Lord of Canterbury, and Sir 



Thomas Laque, should name one Sir John Beare, 

 and some other mean men. This man I commend 



upon my credit, for the good of his majesty s service. 

 God ever preserve and prosper you. I rest 

 Your most devoted 



and most bounden servant, 



FR. BACON. 

 2 July, 1616.* 



TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS, ABOUT IRISH AFFAIRS. 

 SIR. 



BECAUSE I am uncertain whether his majesty will 

 put to a point some resolutions touching Ireland, 

 now at Windsor ; I thought it my duty to attend his 

 majesty by my letter, and thereby to supply my ab 

 sence, for the renewing of some former commissions 

 for Ireland, and the framing of a new commission 

 for the wards and the alienations, which appertain 

 properly to me as his majesty s attorney, and have 

 been accordingly referred by the lords. I will un 

 dertake that they are prepared with a greater care, 

 and better application to his majesty s service in that 

 kingdom, than heretofore they have been ; and there 

 fore of that I say no more. And for the instructions 

 of the new deputy, they have been set down by the 

 two secretaries, and read to the board ; and being 

 things of an ordinary nature, I do not see but they 

 may pass. 



* Stephens s Second Collection, p. 5. 



