354 LETTERS RELATING TO 



TO THE KING. 



IT MAY PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



I SEND your majesty, according to your command 

 ment, the warrant for the review of Sir Edward 

 Coke s &quot; Reports.&quot; I had prepared it before I re 

 ceived your majesty s pleasure: but I was glad to see 

 it was in your mind, as well as in my hands. In the 

 nomination, which your majesty made of the judges, 

 to whom it should be directed, your majesty could 

 not name the lord chief justice, that now is/* because 

 he was not then declared : but you could not leave 

 him out now, without discountenance. 



I send your majesty the state of lord Darcy s 

 cause f in the star-chamber, set down by Mr. Soli- 



* Sir Henry Montagu. 



f This is just mentioned in a letter of Sir Francis Bacon to 

 the lord viscount Villiers, printed in his works ; but is more 

 particularly stated in the&quot; Reports&quot; of Sir Henry Hobart, lord 

 chief justice of the Common Pleas, p. 120, 121, Edit. London, 

 1658, fol. as follows. The lord Darcy of the North sued Ger- 

 vase Markham, Esq.; in the Star-Chamber, in 1616, on this 

 occasion. They had hunted together, and the defendant and a 

 servant of the plaintiff, one Beckwith, fell together by the ears 

 in the field ; and Beckwith threw him down, and was upon him 

 cuffing him, when the lord Darcy took his servant off, and re 

 proved him. However, Mr. Markham expressing some anger 

 against his lordship, and charging him with maintaining his 

 man, lord Darcy answered, that he had used Mr. Markham 

 kindly ; for if he had not rescued him from his man, the latter 

 would have beaten him to rags. Mr. Markham, upon this, 



