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lest you should hear hereafter, that Mr. Attorney 

 hath omitted divers material parts of the evidence. 



Indorsed, 



Somerset s business and charge, with his Majesty s 

 post iles. 



TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 



SIR, 



Your man made good haste ; for he was with me 

 yesterday about ten of the clock in the forenoon. 

 Since I held him. 



The reason, why I set so small a distance of time 

 between the use of the little charm, or, as his ma 

 jesty better terms it, &quot; the evangile*,&quot; and the day of 

 his trialf notwithstanding his majesty s being so far 

 off, as advertisement of success and order thereupon 

 could not go and come between, was chiefly, for 

 that his majesty, from whom the overture of that 

 first moved, did write but a few hours, that this 

 should be done, which I turned into days. Secondly, 

 because the hope I had of effect by that mean, was 

 rather of attempting him at his arraingment, than 

 of confession before his arraignment. But I submit 

 it to his majesty s better judgment. 



The person, by your first description, which was 

 without name, I thought had been meant of Packer J : 



* Cicero, Epist. ad Atticum, Lib. XIII. Ep. 40. uses this 

 word, evayye Ma ; which signifies both good news, and the re 

 ward given to him who brings good news. See Lib. II. Epist. 3. 



f The earl of Somerset s. 



I John, of whom there are several letters in Winwood s Me 

 morials, Vol. II. 



