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attorney should be heard to speak, and then stay to 

 be made of farther proceedings, till my lord had 

 spoken with your majesty. 



Nevertheless, hearing that the day appointed for 

 the judges argument held, contrary to my expecta 

 tion, I sent on Thursday in the evening, having re 

 ceived your majesty s commandment but the day 

 before in the afternoon, a letter to my lord Coke ; 

 whereby I let him know, that upon some report of 

 my lord of Winchester, who by your commandment 

 was present at my argument of that which passed, 

 it was your majesty s express pleasure, that no farther 

 proceedings should be, until you had conferred with 

 your judges : which your majesty thought to have 

 done at your being now last in town ; but by reason 

 of your many and weighty occasions, your princely 

 times would not serve ; and that it was your pleasure 

 he should signify so much to the rest of the judges, 

 whereof his lordship might not fail. His answer by 

 word to my man was, that it were good the rest of 

 the judges understood so much from myself: where 

 upon I, that cannot skill of scruples in matter of 

 service, did write on Friday three several letters of 

 like content to the judges of the common pleas, and 

 the barons of the exchequer, and the other three 

 judges of the king s bench, mentioning in that last 

 my particular letter to my lord chief justice. 



This was all I did, and thought all had been 

 sure ; in so much as the same day being appointed 

 in chancery for your majesty s great cause, followed 

 by my lord Hunsden. I writ two other letters to 

 both the chief justices, to put them in mind of assist- 



