LETTERS RELATING TO 



withstanding we, in all humbleness, submit to your 

 majesty s better judgment. For his liberty, and the 

 manner of his delivery, he having so many notes of 

 a dangerous man, we leave it to your princely wis 

 dom. And so commending your majesty to God s 

 precious custody, we rest 

 Your Majesty s most humble and bounden servants, 



FR. BACON. 



H. MONTAGU. 



H. YELVERTON. 

 22 Jan. 1613. 



TO JOHN MURRAY * OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO THE 

 KING f . 



MR. MURRAY, 



I KEEP the same measure in a proportion with my 

 master and with my friend ; which is, that I will 

 never deceive them in any thing, which is in my power; 

 and when my power faileth my will, I am sorry. 



Monday is the day appointed for performing his 

 majesty s commandment. Till then I cannot tell 

 what to advise you farther, except it should be this, 

 that in case the judges should refuse to take order 

 in it themselves, then you must think of some war- 



*He was created Viscount of Annan in Scotland, in August, 

 1622. Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe, in his embassy to the Ot 

 toman Porte, p. 93. In April, 1624, the lord Annan was cre 

 ated earl of Annandale in Scotland. Ittid. p. 250. 



f This, and the three following letters, are printed from 

 Harl. MSS. Vol. 6986. 



