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Show A Letter !O tbe i(iug, 14pon the fending, &c, --- fies, Nourifhing_, and .Augmel!t~ng, of Learning, and A~ts, ~nd th.e particular Achons appertau:mg unto thefe; Of wluc~ kmd, Cturo judged truly, when he fa1d to Cttfar; Qgantum OpertbuA tuzs detrahet Yetu.ff~, tantum addet laudibu~. And la iH y, I call to Illindc, that your Lordfhip, at fome times, h.ad been pleafed, to exprefs unto n1e, a great dd.ire, that fomethmg of this Nature ihould be performed; Anfwera~le, indeed,. to your otb~r noble, and worthy, Courfcs; and Achons : J oynmg, and a~dmg, unto the great Services, towards his Maje~y; (which have, m fmall Corppafs of . Time,.been -put upon your Lordfhip,) other great Dcfervings,both of the church, and Commonwealtb, and Particulars : So as the Opinion, of fo crreat, and wife a Man, doth feem to me, a good Warrant, ·bo~l ofthe-J?offibility, and Worth, of this Ma~ter. But · aU this while, I affurc my Self, I cannot be rnifiaken, by your Lordfhip, as if I fought an Oilice, or Employment for my Self: For no Man knowes better, than your Lordfhip, that if, th~re were in · me, any Faculty thereun·to, yet neither tny CourfG of Life , nor Profeffion, would permit it : But becaufe there be fo many good Painters, both for Hand,rand Colour~, it needcthbut Encouragement, and Infiru61:ions, to give· Life unto it. So, in all Humblenefs, I conclude, my prefeming unto your Lo~dfhip, of this 1vijh; which, if it perifh, it is ~uta lofs of that, w.luch ts not: . And fo craving pardon, that I have taken fo much nme, from your Lord-fhip, I. retnain. A Letter to the f\ing, upon tbe fending Anto him, a Beginning, of an Hifiory, of his Majefl:ies Times. . It may pleafe your Majefi:y, HEaring, that you are at Jeifure_, to p~rufe Stories_, a. defirc tapk )TIC; to make an Experiment, what I could doe, in your Majeflies times ; which being, but a Leaf, or·two, I pray your pardon, if I fend it, for your Recreation; Confidering, that Love mufr · creep, where it ca.nnot goe. But to this.!) I add, the[e Petitions. P ir.fr, that if your Majej'ty doe difiike any thing-, you ,vould conceive, I can amend-it, upon your leafr beck. Ne:xt, that if I have · not froken, of your Majejt)', Encomia.fiicaUy, your·MajeHy, would be 0 opleaicd, only tO afcribe it, to the Lam of an Hiftory; which doth not clutter t?gcrbcr prai[es, upon th~ firft mentioti of a Name , but rat!1er d1ipcrfeth, and wcaveth thtm,through the whole Narratzve. And as for the Proper place, of CommemoratiotJ, (which is in the Ptriod of Life,) I pray God, I may never live, to write ir. ~nirdly, that the reafon, why I prefumed to think of this Oblanon, was becaufe, whatfoever rpy Difability· be, yet I iliall have chat Advanrao-e, wh1ch, (almoft) no write'r of Hiffory, hath had; 0 In -- -- ----~- 'A Letter' to tlJe Lord Treafurer Bu ,-k-;-h~ll:·:---. ~---, ,--;-~--;;--:-~------=~-=-:' c ur ~c. \ -- In that, I i11all write of Times not 1 ----' • 3 1 ber, but ~n~e I could obfcrve. ' And ~~~f fince I ~o_uld Remcm-your Mateftus Reading. , y, that lt 1s oncly, for :-~~t: to tbe~! ~alisbuiy -~-:fi~d-:--: h~-~-- b. B 'k , .) , uron ~n tng o, •m one of ts . . 0.0 s, of 4avancemenc. ofL earnu·.~ g. l.o fT rna y pleafe your good Lardfoi . I fc ~ a work, ofmy vacant time;,. whi~h . p:eh edt Jour Lordfbip, with had ?een better. It appert~incth rot ~u a ee~ more, the work parttcular re~peCts ) in .rru;,e p X r Lordfhrp, ( belides my · ' J.v-.. ,..." · ropnctv · ltl reg d - grea•t · Governer'· in ·a p rou.n · -ceo0 t· Learnt.n • ~ A d a(r h' ·y ou a. re .a n~ote ) you have added to your Place ~ffi· .11 t at wh~ch ts nrng; And to your Affettion, Jud eU:e ccbon _t?wards Lear. .couldbecontent, were (forthet· '~ . 11~· .Qfwhlch,thelaft, r lefs exquifitely Ccnfu;e tbat wh:el) grs, that you might tbe am, the Argument is g9~d, if it had 1i 0 h;:d unto you. But fure I But I fhall cotJrcnt my fclf to awake b,g Su ~0~ ? good tA uthor. n·n g~r, w} u ·c h . ' ctter plrtts · L.k B lS firfi up to c~II h ; l .'C a ell - bl ' r- ot ers to ch h s ·. ,tny: hum e De fire ~ of your Lordfb 0 d A ur" • . o wtrh ,ma·.Ul . • .- , Jl rps goo cceptatton, Ire- ------------.:~--- --- _4 .L etter,_·t o th~ Lo,.rLd T~r eafurer ' Buckh urnu. , upon t he ' . . ''1\e A rgt4mcnt. · MAr it pie'afe your good Lordfhip ; I have finifh' d . . . chtng theAdvancement or Settin £( . a .work, tou- 1 have ·dedicated :ro his Ala;efty . the ~~J~ard 0~ Learmng5 which or TemporalPrinu, that Time hath k e~rnAe ' of a Sovtra'~ n, not un l'k I h b ' nown.. nd upon 1 c, urn ly prcfcnt, one of the Bo k rea ~n, N oc Ollel y, as a chanceUer of anY. . o s, to your Lordfhtp : ceflently bted, in·all Lear~ing. wh~h1t{' but as one, that was ex.. in.all Yc:>ur ~pe~hes~ and Beh~viou~~- ~~~e ~er foted, to thine, fhtp; wtll yteld a gracious Ail eel t ere ore your Lord;. plcafure, in theAs:{orning of t[at ~hto yo~r:rft Lo(cvc ; And take adorned. And fo huml:il d fi . ' ercwlt your elf arefo much therof,with Signification~f~~%nbglo yDour falvoura~le Acceptation e uty, rema111. • . |