340 LETTERS RELATING TO 



REASONS WHY IT SHOULD BE EXCEEDING MUCH FOR HIS 



MAJESTY S SERVICE TO REMOVE THE LORD COKE FROM 



THE PLACE HE NOW HOLDETH * TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE 

 OF ENGLAND f , AND THE ATTORNEY J TO SUCCEED 

 HIM, AND THE SOLICITOR THE ATTORNEY. 



FIRST, it will strengthen the king s causes greatly 

 amongst the judges : for both my lord Coke will 

 think himself near a privy counsellor s place, and 

 thereupon turn obsequious ; and the attorney- gene 

 ral, a new man, and a grave person, in a judge s 

 place, will come in well to the other, and hold him 

 hard to it, not without emulation between them, 

 \vho shall please the king best. 



Secondly, the attorney-general sorteth not so 

 well with his present place, being a man timid and 

 scrupulous both in parliament and other business, 

 and one, that in a word was made fit for the late 

 lord Treasurer s bent, which was to do little with 

 much formality and protestation : whereas the now 

 solicitor going more roundly to work, and being of 

 a quicker and more earnest temper, and more effec- 



* Of chief justice of the common pleas, having been ap 

 pointed to that office June 30, 1606. 



-t He was advanced to that office October 25, 1613. 



J Sir Henry Hobart, who had been appointed attorney- 

 general July 4, 1606. 



Sir Francis Bacon, who had been sworn Solicitor-general 

 June 25, 1607. 



