430 LETTERS RELATING TO 



TO THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM. 



MY VERY GOOD LORD, 



IT may please your lordship to let his majesty 

 understand, that I have spoken with all the judges, 

 signifying to them his majesty s pleasure touching 

 the commendams. They all &quot; una voce&quot; did re 

 affirm, that his majesty s powers, neither the power 

 of the crown, nor the practised power by the arch 

 bishop, as well in the cornmendam &quot; ad recipiendum,&quot; 

 as the com mend am &quot; ad retinendum,&quot; are intended 

 to be touched ; but that the judgment is built upon 

 the particular defects and informalities of this com- 

 mendam now before them. They received with 

 much comfort, that his majesty took so well at their 

 hands the former stay, and were very well content 

 and desirous, that when judgment is given, there be 

 a faithful report made of the reason thereof. 



The accounts of the summer-circuits, as well as 

 that of the lent-circuit, shall be ready against his 

 majesty s coming. They will also be ready with 

 some account of their labours concerning Sir Ed 

 ward Coke s Reports : wherein I told them his ma 

 jesty s meaning was, not to disgrace the person, but 

 to rectify the work, having in his royal contempla 

 tion rather posterity than the present. 



The two points touching the peace of the middle 

 shires, I have put to a consult with some selected 

 judges. 



The cause of the Egertons I have put off, and 



