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for making some little pamphlet fit to fly abroad in 

 the country. 



For your majesty s proclamation touching the 

 wearing of cloth, after I had drawn a form as near as 

 I could to your majesty s direction, I propounded it 

 to the lords, my lord chancellor being then absent ; 

 and after their lordships good approbation, and some 

 points by them altered, I obtained leave of them to 

 confer thereupon with my lord chancellor and some 

 principal judges, which I did this afternoon; so as, 

 it being now perfected, I shall offer it to the board 

 to-morrow, and so send it to your majesty. 



So humbly craving your majesty s pardon for 

 troubling you with so long a letter, specially being 

 accompanied with other papers, I ever rest 

 Your Majesty s most humble 



and bounden servant, 



FR. BACON. 



This 21st of November, at 

 ten at Night [16 16.] 



SIR EDWARD COKE TO THE KING. 



MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, 



I THINK it now my duty to inform your majesty of 

 the motives that induced the lord chancellor and 

 judges to resolve, that a murder or felony, committed 

 by one Englishman upon another in a foreign king 

 dom, shall be punished before the constable and&quot; mar 

 shal here in England. 



