For this particular favour of transferring my place to so well deserving a successor, I doo wholly depend vppon y^{r} L^{p} as I shall euer doo vpon all other occasions, while I live, as one that have separated my self from all other dependancies, beeing entirely devoted to doo y^{r} L^{p} all humble & faythful service Jo: Dauys. 21 Junij 1619. if my long service may induce favour, y^{r} L^{p} may bee pleased to looke vppon the noate enclosed. To the right honorable my very good lord my lord the Marques of Buckingham, &c. It is to be regretted that the "noate" of the postscript has not been preserved. It probably enumerated his public services. Sir William Ryves succeeded as Attorney-General for Ireland by Patent dated 30th October, 1619.[40] From 1619 onward, Sir John Davies is found in the House of Commons (still for Newcastle-under-Lyne) and "on circuit" as a Judge. His "Charges"--to be given in his Prose Works--as "one of the Justices of Assize for the Northerne Circute"--are very characteristic, being full of legal 'precedents,' and noticeable in their tracing up the verdict sought to abiding principles. He took part in the memorable "case" of Frances, Countess of Somerset, for the poison-murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. In the House of Commons he spoke seldom; but when anything that concerned Irish interests came up he never failed to contend in behalf of Ireland.[41] [Footnote 40: By inadvertence the Patent describes Sir John Davies as "deceased." Unless used as = departed (from Ireland), or = having ceased to fill the office, it is a singular oversight.] [Footnote 41: In the Life, as before, his appearances in Parliament will be noted and illustrated.] Lightening his legal employments were a large correspondence and 'fellowship' with his most eminent contemporaries, and the collection of his Poetical Works, in so far as he wished them to go down to posterity. Of the former I select one undated letter to the illustrious Sir Robert Cotton, with whom he had been early acquainted, and associated in 1614, in re-establishing the Society of Antiquaries, originally founded in 1590. One of these is a sprightly and pleasant letter, and all the more welcome that most of his correspondence that remains is official and grave. The lighter letter is as follows, from MSS. Cotton: Julius C. III., p. 14: now paged 133, British Museum: Sweet Robin, for a few sweet words, a client of mine hath presented me w^{th} sweet meates, to what end I know not except it be, as Chaucer speakes, To make mine English sweet uppon my tongue, that I may pleade the better for him to morrow at the Seale.