THe Kings Most Excellent Majesty knowing your Integrity , Abilities and Experience in his Affairs , and particularly those of His Treasury , hath thought fit to make choice of you to be His Lord High Treasurer of England ; And what necessarily accompanies that Place , hath by His Letters Patents under the Great Seal , made you also Treasurer of His Exchequer .

The Lord High Treasurer of England's Office , is held by the Kings delivery of the White Staff ; The Treasurers of the Exchequer hath ever been held by Letters Patents ; And is that by which your Lordship is more immediately Intitled , to be a Chief Judge of this Court .

It were too nice and tedious , and peradventure too Formal , to give an account of the several distinct Powers of these two Offices ; Reason , and the length of Time hath now so Woven them together ; But as they are both in your Lordship , I may justly say you are in a Place of the very first Rank , as to Dignity , Power , Trust , and Influence of Affaires . A Place that requires such a Man as our Great Masters Wisdom hath found for it : From whose natural temper we may expect Courage , Quickness , and Resolution ; From whose Education , Wisdom and Experience ; And from whose Extraction , that Noble and Illustrious House of the Cliffords , an Heroick Mind , a Large Soul , and an Unshaken Fidelity to the Crown .

My Lord , 'T is a great Honour , much beyond even the place it self , that you are Chosen to it by this King , who , without flattery I may say , is as great a Master in the Knowledge of Men and Things , as this or any other Age hath produced ; And let me say farther , it is not only your Honour , that you are Chosen by Him ; but it is your Safety too , that you have Him to Serve : with whom no subtil Insinuations of any near Him , nor the aspiring Interest of a Favorite , shall ever prevail against those that serve Him well . Nor can His Servants fear to be Sacrific'd to the Malice , Fury , or Mistake of a more swelling popular greatness . A Prince under whom the Unfortunate fall gently . A Prince , in a word , that best of all Mankind , deserves the Title of Deliciae Humani generis .

My Lord , I will not hold you long , for you have a Journey to go . After you have taken your Oath , and your Place in this Court , you are , according to antient Custom , to Visit all the Offices in the Upper and Lower Exchequer , And therefore let me end with this Wish , or rather Prophesie . That you may exceed all your Predecessors in this Place : The Abilities and Fidelity of the Renowned Lord Burleigh ; The Sagacity , Quickness and great Dispatch of his Son the Lord Salisbury ; And the Uprightness , Integrity and Wisdom of that great Man that went last before you , the Earl of Southampton .