53. The Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses in Cambridge, to Lord Cecil; to pardon Mr. Jordan Chadwick one of his Chaplains, for omitting a College exercise, occasioned by his grief for the death of his mother, April 3, 1605.
55. Mr. Robert Kayll, to Sir M. Hicks; to intreat Lord Salisbury for a Clerkship of the Council, in place of Sir Tho. Smith, who had resigned, May 13, 1605.
56. Sir John Linewraye, to Sir M. Hicks; to procure for Sir Anthony Deering the Lieutenancy of the Tower, in place of Sir Geo. Harvy, who was resigning on account of his great age, May 24, 1605. Also Sir Anthony's letter to Sir Michael on the tame subject, May 31, 1605.
57. Wm. Donhault, who had lost his livelihood, and been imprisoned on Lord Essex's account, begs Sir M. Hick's intercession for some favour to be procured from Lord Salisbury, 1605.
59. Sir Peregrine Willughby, in the Fleet prison, to Sir M. Hicks, to remind Lord Salisbury of his imprisonment for his father's debts, June 15; 1605. See Art. 14, which should have followed this letter.