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accomplishment of a facetious wit to recommend him", but also that "many persons, knowing what interest he had with Sir Robert ... made him their friend, at any rate, to solicit their causes with him, who was ever... ready to gratify Sir
Michael, especially where the benefit was likely to accrue to him".
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but seems to have surrendered the post on 12 July 1604. According to Wotton, Hicks "was well skilled in philological learning, and had read over the polite Roman historians and moralists; out of which authors he made large collections, especially of the moral and wise sentences out of which he filled
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money in 1593, and between that year and 1608 Bacon sent him several appeals for further loans. Hicks proved a very friendly creditor. Bacon invariably wrote to him in amicable terms and urged him to preserve good relations between himself and Sir Robert Cecil. To
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Joining the household of Sir
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Hicks appeared to have possessed considerable financial abilities, and his personal friends sought his aid and counsel in their pecuniary difficulties. He lent
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Michael Hicks (or Hickes) born 21 October 1543, was the eldest son of Robert Hicks of
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In June 1604, he was granted the site and demesne of the priory of Lenton, Nottinghamshire. On 16 June 1604 Hicks entertained
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