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always make my particular a cypher, when there is 

 question of your majesty s honour and service, I think 

 myself honoured for being brought into so good 

 company. And as, without flattery, I think your 

 majesty the best of kings, and my noble lord of 

 Buckingham the best of persons favoured ; so I hope, 

 without presumption, for my honest and true inten 

 tions to state and justice, and my love to my master, 

 I am not the worst of chancellors. 



God ever preserve your majesty. 



Your Majesty s most obliged 



and most obedient servant, 



February 10, 1619. FR. VfiRULAM, Cane. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS, CONTAINING THE LORD CHAN 

 CELLOR ELLESMERE S EXCEPTIONS TO SIR EDWARD 



COKE S &quot; REPORTS,&quot; AND SIR EDWARD S ANSWERS, 

 HAVING NEVER BEEN PRINTED, THOUGH MR.STEPHENS, 

 WHO HAD COPIED THEM FROM THE ORIGINALS, DE 

 SIGNED TO HAVE GIVEN THEM TO THE PUBLIC, THEY 

 ARE SUBJOINED HERE IN JUSTICE TO THE MEMORY OF 

 THAT GREAT LAWYER AND JUDGE; ESPECIALLY AS 

 THE OFFENCE TAKEN AT HIS &quot; REPORTS&quot; BY KING 

 JAMES, IS MENTIONED ABOVE IN THE LETTER OF THE 

 LORD CHANCELLOR AND SIR FRANCIS BACON, OF OCTO 

 BER 16, 1616, TO THAT KING. 



TO THE KING S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 



IT MAY PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 



ACCORDING to your majesty s directions signified 



