Cabala sive Scrinia sacra; mysteries of state and government: in letters of illustrious persons and great ministers of state. As well forreign as domestick, in the reigns of King Henry the Eight, Q: Elizabeth, K: James, and K: Charles: wherein such secrets of empire, and publick affairs, as were then in agitation, are clearly represented... To which is added several choice letters and negotiations, no where else published.

Date:
1663
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Credit: Cabala sive Scrinia sacra; mysteries of state and government: in letters of illustrious persons and great ministers of state. As well forreign as domestick, in the reigns of King Henry the Eight, Q: Elizabeth, K: James, and K: Charles: wherein such secrets of empire, and publick affairs, as were then in agitation, are clearly represented... To which is added several choice letters and negotiations, no where else published. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wife loyal, and feafonable endeavour and induftry for redintegration to her Ma jellies favour, in comparifon whereof, all other circumftances are but as Atcmi, or rather as a Vacuum^ ’AgaTnSdsopirionfkmay pleafe your Lordfhip toconfider of thefe reafons, which I havecolle&ed • and to make judgment of them,neither out ol the melancholy ot your prefent fortune nor out of the infufion of that which cometh to you by others relation, which is fubjed to much tindture but ex rebus ipfis, out of the nature of the perfons and a&ions themfelves, as the trueft, and lefs deceiving, ground of opinion. For, though I am fo unfortunate as to be a ftranger to her Majefties eye, much more to her nature and manners, yet by that which is extant 1 do manifeftly difcern, that fhe hath that charader of the Divine nature and good- nefs as quo* amavit, amavit ufque ad fwemand where fhe hath a creature, fhe doth not deface nor defeat it; infomuchas, if 1 obferve rightly, in thofe perfons jvhom heretofore fhe hath honoured with her fpecial favour, fhe hath covered and remitted^not onely defedi- ons and ingratitudes in affedion, but errors in State and fervice. # 2 If I can Scholar-like, fpell and put together the parts of her Ma jellies proceedings now towards yourYordfhip, I cannot but make this conftrudion ■ ' That her Majefty ,in her Royal intention never purpofed to call your doings into publick queftion, but onely to have ufed a cloud without a fhower, and cenfuring them by fome reftraint of liberty, and debarring from her prefence. For both the handling the caufein the Star-Chamber was inforced by the vio¬ lence of libelling and rumours, wherein the Queen thought to have fatisfied the world, and yet fpared your appearance: And then after, when that means, which was intend¬ ed for the quenching of malicious bruits, turned to kindle them, becaufe it was faid vour Lordfhip was condemned unheard, and your Lordfliips Sifter wrote that private Letter then her Majefty faw plainly, that thefe winds of rumours could not be com¬ manded down, without a handling of the Caufe, by making you party, and admitting your defence And to this purpofe, I do affore your Lordfhip, that my Brother Francis Bacon, who is too wife to be abufed, though he be both referved in all particulars more then is need- full yet in generality he hath ever conftantly, and with affeveration, affirmed to me. That both thofe dayes, that of the Star-Chamber, and that at my Lord Keepers, were won of the Queen meerly upon neceffity and point of Honour, againft her own inclination. 3 In the laft proceeding, I note three points, which are dire&ly fignificsnt, that her Ma¬ jefty did exprefly forbear any point which wasirrecuperable, or might make your Lordfhip in any degree uncapable of the return of her favour, or might fix any chara&er indelible of difgrace upon you: For fhe fpared the publick places, which fpared ignominy • fhe limited the Charge precifely, not to touch difloyalty, and no Record remaineth to memory of the 4 The very diftin&ion which was made in the fentence of Sequeftration, from the places of fervice in State and leaving to your Lordfhip the place of Mafter of the Horfe, doth, in my underftanding, point at this, that her Majefty meant to ufe your Lordfhips attendance in Court while the exercifes of other places flood fufpended. <.I have heard, and your Lordfhip knoweth better, that now fince you were in your own cuftody, her Majefty, inverboRegio, and by his mouth to whom fhe committed her Royal Grants and Decrees, hath allured your Lordfhip, fhe will forbid, and not fuffer your ruine. 6 As I have heard her Majefty to be a Prince of that magnanimity, that fhe will (pare the fervice of the ableft Subjed or Peer, where fhe fhall be thought not to ftand in need oi it; fo fhe is of that policy, as fhe will not blaze the fervice of a meaner then your Lordfhip, where it fhall depend meerly upon her choice and will. . 7. I held it for a principle, That thofe difeafes are hardeft to cure, whereof the caufe is ob- fcure • and thofe eafteft, whereof the caufe is manifeft. • Whereupon I conclude, that fince it hath been your errours in your lownefs towards her Majefty which have prejudiced you, that your reforming and conformity will reftore you, fo as you may be Faber fortune propria. re A Laftly, Confidering your Lordfhip is removed from dealing in Caufes of State, and I eft onely to a place of Attendance, methinks the Ambition of any which can endure no Partners in State-matters may be fo quenched, as they fhould not laborioufty oppofe themlelves to your being in Court. So as upon the whole matter, I cannot find, neither in her Ma¬ jefties Perfon, nor in your own perfon, nor in any third perfon, neither in former p en¬ dents, nor in your own cafe, any caufe of peremptory defpair. Neither do I fpeak this, but that if her Majefty out of her refolution fhould defign you to a private life, you fhould be as willing, upon the appointment, to go into the Wildernefs, as into the Land of Promife •