346 LETTERS RELATING TO 



TO THE KING. 



IT MAY PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



WE have considered of the letters, which we received 

 from your majesty, as well that written to us both, 

 as that other written by my lord Villiers to me, the 

 attorney, which I thought good to acquaint my lord 

 chancellor withal, the better to give your majesty 

 satisfaction. And we most humbly desire your ma 

 jesty to think, that we are, and ever shall be, ready 

 to perform and obey your majesty s directions ; to 

 wards which the first degree is to understand them 

 well. 



In answer therefore to both the said letters, as 

 well concerning matter as concerning time, we shall 

 in all humbleness offer to your majesty s high wis 

 dom the considerations following : 



First, we did conceive, that after my lord Coke 

 was sequestered from the table and his circuits *, 

 when your majesty laid upon him your command 

 ment for the expurging of his &quot; Reports,&quot; and* com 

 manded also our service to look into them, and into 

 other novelties introduced into the government, your 

 majesty had in this your doing two principal ends : 



The one to see, if upon so fair an occasion he 



* On the 30th of June, 1616. Camdeni Annales Regis Ja- 

 cobi I. p. 19; and Peck, Desiderata Curiosa, Vol. I. Lib. VI. 

 p. 18. 



