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upon any, except it be the prince s case, which also 

 yet seemeth to stand but upon the grammatical, of 

 French and Latin. 



My lord did also give his promise, which your 

 majesty shall find in the end of his writing, thus far 

 in a kind of common place or thesis, that it was sin 

 for a man to go against his own conscience, though 

 erroneous, except his conscience be first informed 

 and satisfied. 



The lord chancellor in the conclusion signified 

 to my lord Coke your majesty s commandment, that 

 until report made, and your pleasure thereupon 

 known, he shall forbear his sitting at Westminster, 

 etc. not restraining nevertheless any other exercise 

 of his place of chief justice in private. 



Thus having performed, to the best of our under 

 standing, your royal commandment, we rest ever 

 Your Majesty s most faithful, 



and most bounden servants, etc. 



THE LORD VISCOUNT VILLIERS TO SIR FRANCIS BACON, 

 ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



SIR, 



I have acquainted his majesty with my lord chan 

 cellor s and your report, touching my lord Coke ; as 

 also with your opinion therein ; which his majesty 

 doth dislike for these three reasons : first, because, 

 that by this course you propound, the process cannot 

 have a beginning, till after his majesty s return ; 

 which, how long it may last after, no man knoweth. 



