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Now whether your majesty will be pleased to 

 rest in our opinions, and so to pass the patents ; or 

 give us leave to assist ourselves with the opinion of 

 some principal judges now in town, whereby the law 

 may be the better resolved, to avoid farther question 

 hereafter ; we leave it to your majesty s royal plea 

 sure. This we represent the rather, because we 

 discern such a confidence in the proctors, and those 

 upon whom they depend, a&, it is not unlike, they 

 will bring it to a legal question. 



And so we humbly kiss your majesty s hands, 

 praying for your preservation. 



Your Majesty s most humble 

 and obedient servants, 



Fit. VERULAM, Cane. 

 HENRY MONTAGU, 

 ROBERT NAUNTON. 

 York-house, December 12, 1620. 



NOTES UPON MICHAEL DE LA POLE S CASE*. 



10 Rich. 2. The offences were of three natures : 



1. Deceits to the king. 



2. Misgovernance in point of estate, whereby the 

 ordinances made by ten commissioners for reforma 

 tion of the state were frustrated, and the city of 

 Ghent, in foreign parts, lost. 



* This paper was probably drawn up on occasion of the pro 

 ceedings and judgment passed upon the lord viscount St. Alban 

 by the house of lords, May 3, 1621. 



