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were land-winds, as there be sea-winds, to bind men 

 in, I could wish he were a little wind-bound, to keep 

 him in the south. 



But while your majesty passeth the accounts of 

 judges in circuits, your majesty will give me leave to 

 think of the judges here in their upper region. And 

 because Tacitus saith well, &quot; opportuni magnis cona- 

 tibus transitus rerum ;&quot; now upon this change, when 

 he, that letteth, is gone, I shall endeavour, to the 

 best of my power and skill, that there may be a con 

 sent and united mind in your judges to serve you, 

 and strengthen your business. For I am persuaded 

 there cannot be a sacrifice, from which there may 

 come up to you a sweeter odour of rest, than this 

 effect, whereof I speak. 



For this wretched murderer, Bertram,* now gone 

 to his place, I have, perceiving your majesty s good 

 liking of what I propounded, taken order, that there 

 shall be a declaration concerning the cause in the 

 king s bench, by occasion of punishment of the offence 

 of his keeper ; and another in chancery, upon the 

 occasion of moving for an order, according to his just 

 and righteous report. And yet withal, I have set 

 on work a good pen,f and myself will overlook it, 



* John Bertram, a grave man, above seventy years of age, 

 and of a clear reputation, according to Camden, Annales Regis 

 Jacobi I. p. 21. He killed with a pistol, in Lincoln s Inn, on 

 the 12th of November, 1616, Sir John Tyndal, a master in 

 Chancery, for having made a report against him in a cause, 

 wherein tjie sum contended for did not exceed 200/. He 

 hanged himself in prison on the 17th of that month. 



f Mr. Trott. 



