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Show A Letter, totl>e K~ng, reporting, &c. ----------~---- . of the articulars, do;f~il, it will be rather, for want that tf anyfh. in ~hofe that iball deal in them, than want of M& of ~ork??Jan h tpThin 's thernfelves. The other Paper' h~th maily ter~als, u}~ ~Cards~ And I fend it chiefly, that your M~lefty, may Dlfcardl ~fur rized, by ProjeEfors; who pretend,fomenmes,grcac t\[~;vc~i~s, a~d Inventions in Things, that h~ve been J'Alo~t ed , an d, pe rhaps' after a better fa.{ hlon, long ilnce. Go tnlg ty preferve your Mtt.tefty. Your Majdties, mofr humble, and devoted, sub1ea, and savant. A Letter. to the King, reporting tbe Day of Hearing, of I. S. ' bis Cauje in 1he Stat-re-Chamber. . , 1t9 April 1615• 1 leafe your excellent Ma jefty' . t may f . and well aft. 1 hold it to be Janus Bifrons ; J~ S.lus Day ls.Af,ft'a to that \vhich is paft; And to the Future: It hath a ~~h fafi~fi~ and prepare. All did well : My Lord A~d <;lot~ divered tl~e Law, for the Bene~volmce, frrongl?; I Cbtef Jufitee, t d . imcly ~1r chanceller of the Excluquer {pake would he ha hone fr~~ the ~ann~r, 'Of my late Lord Privy Stal; finely' fomew at a ele and Sir T/:Jom.U Lake, ( who Not all out ~o i11arply, but;.~ e~ . wlii familiarly, and Counis al o new, m thaLtCoudrt,f)P 1 bvo'·ey (who is likewife a {\:ranger fc"ll . l'ke My or o em r K ' • . r. f 11 d <: er- 1 • d" '1 ell and becan1ehlmlel we 'an there,) d~~ extxao\;~[:1 l :ean~ well alfo; And becaufe my Inhad a~ evl ent pp . und. havin {i oken· out of a few Heads" for~atton, wast~ ~r~. (For~ I fel8o~ doc lnore,) I [et down; as wh1ch I had gat ~e .' rforily a Frame of that, I had fa1d ·; foon, as I came orne, cu -' k · with more life. I have Tho':lgh I perfw~~e r{? f~~ I} ~~~r ~t;jrfty , hav.e fo tnuch idle ient lt to Mr. Murr~y, .• ea ' . [orne li ht of the Dayes work; time, to look upon u, lt m~y g~e . fl. tO pg ardon the Errours. God But I moft humbly pray yonr- ate,,;y, . pre[erve you ever. • Y~ur MaitHies, tnoft humble Subjei, ' , and devoted Servant. · .A , ----.~--- ·-- -·~ .... ·--""'-- ~ -.--~ ..... -~~--- "'~ ' ' .• A Letter' to -the King, COlfCerni'g the New Company.; ~ - --- A Letter, ·to the King, concerni1!g the New Company: Augufl: 1 2. 1 6 1 5· . It may pleafe your moft excellent Majefiy, · your Maiefiy, fhall ibortly receiv~ Lhe E~U, for the 1n~orporaion~ . of the New Company; together with a Btl!, for the Prtvy Stal,bc- . ing a Dependancy thereof. For this Mo:rnine:, I fubfcribed, and docket. ted, them_ b~~h .. I thi~k it therefore n~w .rime, r~ repre .. fent to your Ma7e~us h1gh wtfd01n, thnt whtch I concetye, and have had long in my minde, conc<:ining yoi1r Majefties fer vice, and honourable profit in this Bufinefs-. . This Pr~jt8, which hath proceeded', from 'a worthy Scr'vice, of the Lord Trea[urer, I have, from the bcginnihg, conftantly ~lffeet- . ecl; As may well appear, by my fundry L"hbours, from time to time, in the fame. For I hold it, a worthy charaCl:er, of your Majefties Reign ~ a~d Time's; In~o'tnuch, as though .·your Maiefly' mought have, at th1s ttme, ( as 1s fpoken·,) a great Annual Benefit, for the QEirring of it, yet I iball never be the Man, tpat fhould wifh your Maiefty, to deprive yout Self, of that Beatitude; Beatiu1 eH dare, quam accipere; In this caufc; But to fc1crifice your profit (though . as your Majeifies State'is, it be precious to you,) to [~ great a Good of your Kingdom : Although this Projetf,is not without a Profit, in?mediare, unto you, b)' the encteaftng of Cuftomts, upon the matertals ;of Dyes. . · But here is the Cafe. ·the New Company, by this Patent, and Privy Stal, are to have two Things~ wholly diverfe, from the firfi: Intention; Or 'rather,Ex Diametro·; oppofite unro the fatne5 which neverrhelefs, they mufi,of neceffity have~ or elfe the work is overthrown. So as Imaycall the~ Mala Nec1f'aria, but yet withall remporarie~ For; as Men make Warr, to have Pc~icc, fo thcfe Merchd.nts, muft have licenfe, for fllhite~, to the end, tO banifh whites; And they 111uft have licenfc, to ufc Teyntours, to the end to banifh Teyntour~. . This is therefore that I fay·; your Majtfly,tipon thefe two points, may juftly, and with honour, and with prcfervation of your firfl: Intention, inviolate, drmand_Profit in the Interim; as long as thefe unnatural points contimie_,and then to ceafc: For yo~r Maiefty, may be pleafcd to obferve, that they arc tb have all the old Companits Profit, by the Tradt'of whites; They ate, again to haye, upon the proportion of Cloarbes; which they fhall vent, died , ·and dre~ed, the Flemming's profit~ ilptin the Teyntof.!.r. Now then I ~1y; As tt had been, too good Husbandry, for a Kin!(, to have taken profit ~f them, if the ProjeCt could have been effeCted at once, (as was voiced;) So on the other fide, it might be, perchance, too lit· de --- |
