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signed with his own hand, that, the matter itself 

 being tragical enough, bitterness and insulting be 

 forborn ; and that we remember our part to be to 

 make him delinquent to the peers, and not odious to 

 the people. That part of the evidence of the lady s 

 exposition of the pronoun, he, which was first caught 

 hold of by me, and afterwards by his majesty s sin 

 gular wisdom and conscience excepted to, and now 

 is by her re-examination retracted, I have given 

 order to serjeant Montague, within whose part it 

 falleth, to leave it out of the evidence. I do yet 

 crave pardon, if I do not certify touching the point 

 of law for respiting the judgment, for I have not 

 fully advised with my lord chancellor concerning 

 it, but I will advertise it in time. 



I send his majesty the lord steward s commission 

 in two several instruments, the one to remain with my 

 lord chancellor, which is that which is written in se 

 cretary-hand for his warrant, and is to pass the 

 signet ; the other, that whereunto the great seal is 

 to be affixed, which is in chancery-hand : his ma 

 jesty is to sign them both, and to transmit the former 

 to the signet, if the secretaries either of them be 

 there ; and both of them are to be returned to me 

 with all speed. I ever rest, 



Your true and devoted servant, 



FR. BACON, 

 May 5, 1616. 



