your Majesty.  Give me Leave to tell you, Sir, this is the Reason that we in the Country hear so often repeated the Word Prerogative.  That Part of your Law which is reserved in your self for the readier Service and Good of the Publick, slight Men are eternally buzzing in our Ears to cover their own Follies and Miscarriages.  It would be an Addition to the high Favour you have done me, if you would let Eucrate send me word how often, and in what Cases you allow a Constable to insist upon the Prerogative.  From the highest to the lowest Officer in your Dominions, something of their own Carriage they would exempt from Examination under the Shelter of the Word Prerogative.  I would fain, most noble Pharamond, see one of your Officers assert your Prerogative by good and gracious Actions.  When is it used to help the Afflicted, to rescue the Innocent, to comfort the Stranger?  Uncommon Methods, apparently undertaken to attain worthy Ends, would never make Power invidious.  You see, Sir, I talk to you with the Freedom your noble Nature approves, in all whom you admit to your Conversation.

’But, to return to your Majesty’s Letter, I humbly conceive, that all Distinctions are useful to Men, only as they are to act in Publick; and it would be a romantick Madness, for a Man to be a Lord in his Closet.  Nothing can be honourable to a Man apart from the World, but the Reflection upon worthy Actions; and he that places Honour in a Consciousness of Well-doing, will have but little Relish for any outward Homage that is paid him, since what gives him distinction to himself, cannot come within the Observation of his Beholders.  Thus all the Words of Lordship, Honour, and Grace, are only Repetitions to a Man that the King has order’d him to be called so; but no Evidences that there is any thing in himself that would give the Man who applies to him those Ideas, without the Creation of his Master.

’I have, most noble Pharamond, all Honours and all Titles in your own Approbation; I triumph in them as they are your Gift, I refuse them as they are to give me the Observation of others.  Indulge me, my Noble Master, in this Chastity of Renown; let me know my self in the Favour of Pharamond; and look down upon the Applause of the People.

I am,
in all Duty and Loyally,
Your Majesty’s most obedient
Subject and Servant,
Jean Chezluy.

SIR,

’I need not tell you with what Disadvantages Men of low Fortunes and great Modesty come into the World; what wrong Measures their Diffidence of themselves, and Fear of offending, often obliges them to take; and what a Pity it is that their greatest Virtues and Qualities, that should soonest recommend them, are the main Obstacle in the way of their Preferment.

’This, Sir, is my Case; I was bred at a Country-School, where I learned Latin and Greek.  The Misfortunes of my Family