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Sir Francis Bacon's MSS relating to Ireland (Author: Francis Bacon)

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p.377

Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers, 2 July 1616

Spedding, Letters & Life, V, 377

Sir,

I think I cannot do better service towards the good estate of the kingdom of Ireland than to procure the king to be well served in the eminent places of Law and Justice; I shall therefore name unto you for the Attorney's place there, or for the Solicitor's place, if the now Solicitor shall go up, a gentleman of mine own breeding and framing, Mr. Edward Wrytington, of Gray's Inn; he is born to eight hundred pound a year; he is the eldest son of a most severe justicer amongst the recusants of Lancashire, and a man most able for law and speech, and by me trained in the king's causes. My Lord Deputy by my description is much in love with the man. I hear my Lord of Canterbury and Sir Thomas Lake should name one Sir John Bear and some other mean men. This man I commend upon my credit for the good of his Majesty's service. God ever preserve and prosper you. I rest

Your most devoted and most bounden servant,

Fr. Bacon
2 of July, 1616.