378 LETTERS RELATING TO 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP, 



ABOVE a year past, in my late lord chancellor s 

 time, information was given to his majesty, that I 

 having published in eleven works or books of re 

 ports, containing above 600 cases one with another, 

 had written many things against his majesty s prero 

 gative. And I being by his majesty s gracious 

 favour called thereunto, all the exceptions, that 

 could be taken to so many cases in so many books, 

 fell to five, and the most of them too were by pas 

 sages in general words ; all which I offered to explain 

 in such sort, as no shadow should remain against his 

 majesty s prerogative, as in truth there did not ; 

 which whether it were related to his majesty, I 

 know not. But thereupon the matter hath slept 

 all this time ; and now the matter, after this ever 

 blessed marriage, is revived, and two judges are 

 called by my lord keeper to the former, that were 

 named. My humble suit to your lordship is, that if 

 his majesty shall not be satisfied with my former 

 offer, viz. by advice of the judges to explain and 

 publish as is aforesaid those five points, so as no 

 shadow may remain against his prerogative ; that 

 then all the judges of England may be called here 

 unto. 2. That they may certify also what cases I 

 have published for his majesty s prerogative and 

 benefit, for the good of the Church, and quieting of 

 men s inheritances, and good of the commonwealth ; 

 for which purpose I have drawn a minute of a let 

 ter to the judges, which I assure myself your lord- 



