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subject may find himself in better case than he is 

 now, and not in worse. 



But however we conceive this may be convenient 

 in the two courts of prerogative, where there is 

 much business, yet in the ordinary course of the 

 bishops diocesans, we hold the same will be incon 

 venient, in regard of the small employment. 

 Your Majesty s most faithful 

 and obedient servants, 



FR. VERULAM, Cane. 

 ROBERT NAUNTON, 

 HENRY MONTAGU*. 

 November 15, 1602. 



TO THE KING. 

 IT MAY PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



ACCORDING to your commandment, we have heard 

 once more the proctors of the Prerogative-Court, 

 what they could say ; and find no reason to alter, in 

 any part, our former certificate. Thus much withal 

 we think fit to note to your majesty, that our former 

 certificate, which we now ratify, is principally 

 grounded upon a point in law, upon the statute of 

 21 Henry VIII. wherein we the chancellor and 

 treasurer, for our own opinions, do conceive the law 

 is clear ; and your solicitor-general^ concurs. 



* Lord chief justice of the King s Bench, who, on the 3d of 

 December following, was advanced to the post of lord high 

 treasurer. 



f Sir Thomas Coventry, who was made attorney-general, 

 January 14, 1620-1. 



