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LORD CHANCELLOR BACON TO THE MARQUIS OF 

 BUCKINGHAM. 



MY VERY GOOD LORD, 



YESTERNIGHT we made an end of Sir Henry Yel- 

 verton s cause. I have almost killed myself with 

 sitting almost eight hours. But I was resolved to 

 sit it through. He is sentenced to imprisonment in 

 the Tower during the king s pleasure. The fine of 

 40001. and discharge of his place, by way of opinion 

 of the court, referring it to the king s pleasure. 

 How I stirred the court, I leave it to others to 

 speak ; but things passed to his majesty s great 

 honour. I would not for any thing but he had 

 made his defence ; for many chief points of the 

 charge were deeper printed by the defence. But 

 yet I like it not in him ; the less because he re 

 tained Holt, who is ever retained but to play the 

 fool. God ever prosper you. 



Your Lordship s most obliged friend, 

 and faithful servant, 

 11, Nov. 1620. FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



TO THE KING. 



IT MAY PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



IN performance of your royal pleasure, signified by 

 Sir John Suckling*, we have at several times con- 



* He was afterwards comptroller of the household to king 

 Charles I. and father of the poet of the same name. 

 VOL VII. G G 



