436 LETTERS RELATING TO 



TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR*. 



MY HONOURABLE LORD, 



UNDERSTANDING, that there is a suit depending be 

 fore your lordship, between Sir Rowland Cotton f , 

 plaintiff, and Sir John Gawen, defendant, which is 

 shortly to come to a hearing; and having been like 

 wise informed, that Sir Rowland Cotton hath under 

 taken it in the behalf of certain poor people; which 

 charitable endeavour of his, I assure myself, will find 

 so good acceptation with your lordship, that there 

 shall be no other use of recommendation: yet, at 

 the earnest request of some friends of mine, I have 

 thought fit to write to your lordship in his behalf, 

 desiring you to shew him what favour you lawfully 

 may, and the cause may bear, in the speedy dispatch 

 of his business; which I shall be ever ready to ac 

 knowledge, and rest 



Your Lordship s most devoted to serve you, 

 Whitehall, April 20, 1618. G. BUCKINGHAM. 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 7006. 



t A gentleman eminent for his learning, especially in the 

 Hebrew language, in which he had been instructed by the famous 

 Hugh Broughton, who died in 1612. He was son of Mr. Wil 

 liam Cotton, citizen and draper of London, and had an estate 

 at Bellaport in Shropshire, where he resided, till he came to live 

 at London at the request of Sir Allen Cotton , his father s younger 

 brother, who was Lord Mayor of that city in 1625. Sir Rowland 

 was the first patron of the learned Dr. Lightfoot, and encouraged 

 him in the prosecution of his studies of the Hebrew language and 

 antiquities. 



