He humbly beseeches Juxon that he may be allowed to "receive and dispose of the said books so sent freely without any trouble." (5) A note of Laud's, written by his secretary, but signed by himself, as follows:--"Had not the Petitioner offended in a high matter against the State in transporting bullion of the kingdom, I should have been willing to have given time as is here [i.e.in the last document] expressed.
However, I desire Sir John Lambe to consider of his Petition, and do further therein as he shall find to be just and fitting, unless he find that the sentence in the Star-Chamber hath disabled him .-- W.
CANT.

_Apr._ 21, 1640." (6) Humble Petition, undated, of Ulac, now "prisoner in the Fleet," to Sir John Lambe.

The prisoner "was, the 24th of May last, censured by the Lords in the High Court of Star-Chamber in L1000 to his Majesty and imprisonment." He is in very great straits, owing above L500 to his Majesty's Printers for books, "much hindered by the deadness of trading," and by the return of many books on his hands.

He is "a stranger, without any friends," and unless the fine of L1000 is mitigated "to a very low rate," he will be in "utter ruin and misery." He therefore prays Lambe's good word with Laud .-- My only doubt is whether the document I have put here as No.

6, ought not to _precede_ the others: i.e.whether Ulac's offence in the matter of the "bullion," with his fine and imprisonment, was not an affair of older date than his importation of books after time in April 1640, though then remembered against him.
All the documents were together in the same bundle in the S.P.0.
when I examined them, and the published Calendars have not yet overtaken them.] And now for More's own _Fides Publica_ or Public Testimony for Himself.