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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

the carriage of my self in that service I have many honorable witnesses that can tel that the next day after my Lords arraignment by my diligence and information touching the quality and nature of the offendors six of nine were stayed which otherwise had been attainted I bringing their Lordships letter for their stay after the Jury was sworn to pass upon them so neer it went and how careful I was and made it my part that whosoever was in trouble about that matter assoon as ever his case was sufficiently known and defined of might not continue in restraint but be set at liberty and many other parts which I am well assured of stood with the duty of an honest man But indeed I will not deny for the case of Sir Thomas Smith of London the Q. demanding my opinion of it I told her I thought it was as hard as many of the rest but what was the reason because at that time I had seen only his accusation and had never been present at any examination of his and the matter so standing I had been very untrue to my service if I had not delivered that opinion But afterwards upon a re-examination of som that charged him who weakned their own testimony especially hearing himself viva voce I went instantly to the Q. out of the soundness of my conscience not regarding what opinion I had formerly delivered told her Majesty I was satisfied and resolved in my conscience that for the reputation of the action the plot was to countenance the action further by him in respect of his place then they had indeed any interest or intelligence with him It is very true also about that time her Majesty taking a liking of my pen upon that which I had done before concerning the proceeding at York house and likewise upon some other declarations which in former times by her appointment I put in writing commanded me to pen that book which was published for the better satisfaction of the world which I did but so as never Secretary had more perticular and express directions and instructions in every point how to guide my hand in it and not onely so but after that I had made a first draught thereof and propounded it to certain principal Councellors by her Majesties appointment it was perused weighed censured altered and and made almost anew writing according to their Lordships better consideration wherein their Lordships and my self both were as religious and curious of truth as desirous of satisfaction and my self indeed gave onely words and form of stile in pursuing their direction And after it had passed their allowance it was again exactly perused by the Queen her self and some alterations made again by her appointment nay and after it was set to print the Queen who as your Lordship knoweth as she was excellent in great matters so she was exquisite in small and noted that I could not forget my ancient respect to my Lord of Essex interming him ever my Lo. of Essex my Lord of Essex almost in every page of the Book which she thought not fit but would have it made Essex or the late Earl of Essex whereupon of force it was printed de novo the first copies suppressed by her peremptory commandment And this my good Lord to my furthest remembrance is all that passed wherein I had part which I have set down as neer as I could in the very words and speeches that were used not because they are worthy the repetition I mean those of mine own but to the end your Lordship may lively and plainly discern between the face of truth and a smooth tale And the rather also because in things that passed a good while since the very words and phrases did sometimes bring to my remembrance the matters wherein I report me to your honorable judgement whether you do not see the traces of an honest man and had I been as well beleeved either by the Queen or by my Lord as I was well heard by them both both my Lord had been fortunate and so had my self in his fortune To conclude therefore I humbly pray your Lordship to pardon me for troubling you with this long Narration and that you will vouchsafe to hold me in your good opinion till you know I have deserved or finde that I shall deserve the contrary and even so I continue At your Lordships Honorable commandments very humbly THE Ld. BACON HIS LETTER TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND most Excellent Prince CHARLS Prince of Wales Duke of Corn-Wal Earl of Chester c. It may please your Highness IN part of my acknowledgement to your highness I have endevoured to do honor to the memory of the last King of England that was Ancestor to the King your Father and your self and was that King to whom both unions may in a sort refer that of the Roses being in him consummate and that of the Kingdoms by him begun besides his times deserve it for he was a wise man and an Excellent King and yet the times very rough and full of mutations and rare accidents and it is with times as it is with wayes some are more up hill and down hill and some are more flat and plain and the one is better for the liver and the other for the writer I have not flattered him but took him to life as well as I could sitting so far of and having no better light it is true your Highness hath a living patern incomparable of the King your Father but is not amiss for you also to see it one of these Ancient Pieces God preserve your Highness Your Highness most humble and devoted Servant Francis S t Alban FINIS THE Lord Treasurer BUR LEIGH HIS Advice to Queen ELIZABETH in matters of Religion and State Most Gratious Soveraign CARE one of the true bred Children of my unfained affection awaked with the late wicked and barbarous attempts would needs exercise my pen to your sacred Majesty not onely encouraging me that it would take the whole fault of boldness upon it self but also that even the world should not doubt to appear in your Highness presence in their kindly rudeness For that if your Majesty with your voice did but read them your very reading would grace them with eloquence Therefore laying aside all self guilty conceits of ignorance knowing that the Sign is not angry with the well meaning Astronomer though he hap to miss his course I will with the same sincerity display my humble conceits wherewith my life shall be amongst the foremost to defend the blessings which God in you hath bestowed upon us So far then as can be perceived by my humane judgment Dread Soveraign you may judge that the happiness of your present Estate can no ways be encumbred with one of these two means viz Either by your 1 Factious Subjects or 2 Forraign Enemies Your strong and Factious Subjects are the Papists strong I account them both in number and nature

the utmost of my wits and adventure my fortune with the Queen to have reintegrated his and so continued faithfully and industriously till his last fatal impatience for so I wil call it after which day there was not time to work for him though the same my affection when it could not work on the subject proper went to the next with no ill effect towards som others who I think do rather not know it then not acknowledge it And this I will assure your Lordsh I wil leave nothing untold that is truth for any enemy that I hav to add on the other side I must reserve much which makes for me in many respects of duty which I esteem above my credit and what I have here set down to your Lordsh I protest as I hope to have any part in God's favour is true It is well known how I did many years since dedicate my travels and studies to the use and as I may tearm it service of my Lord of Essex which I protest before God I did not making election of him as the likeliest mean of mine own advancement but out of the humor of a man that ever from the time I had any use of reason whether it were reading upon good books or upon the example of a good father or by nature I loved my Country more then was answerable to my fortune and I held at that time my L. to be the fitter instrument to do good to the State and therefore I applied my self to him in a manner which I think hapneth rarely among men for I did not onely labour carefully and industriously in that he set me about whether it were matter of advice or otherwise but neglecting the Queens service mine own fortune and in a sort my vocation I did nothing but advise and ruminate with my self to the best of my understanding propositions and memorials of any thing that might concern his Lordships honor fortune or service And when not long after I entred into this course my brother Mr. Anthony Bacon came from beyond the Seas being a Gentleman whose ability the world taketh knowledge of for matters of State specially forraign I did likewise knit his service to be at my L ds disposing And on the otherside I must and will ever acknowledge my Lords love trust and favour towards me last of all his liberality having infeofed me of land which I sold for eighteen hundred pounds to Master Reynold Nicholas and I think was more worth and that at such a time and with so kinde and noble circumstances as the manner was as much as the matter which though it be but an idle digression yet because I am not willing to be short in commemoration of his benefits I will presume to trouble your Lordship with the relating to you the manner of it After the Queen had denied me the Solicitors place for the which his Lordship had been a long and earnest sutor on my behalf it pleased him to come to me from Richmond to Twicknam Park and brake with me and said Mr. Bacon the Queen hath denied me the place for you and hath placed another I know you are the least part of your own matter but you fare ill because you have chosen me for your mean and dependance you have spent your time and thoughts in my matters I die these were his very words if I do not somewhat towards your fortune you shall not deny to accept a peece of Land which I will bestow upon you My answer I remember was that for my fortune it was no great matter but that his Lordships offer made me call to minde what was wont to be said when I was in France of the Duke of Guise that he was the greatest usurer in France because he had turned all his Estate into obligations meaning that he had left himself nothing but onely had bound numbers of persons to him Now my Lo. said I I would not hav you immitate his course nor turn your state thus by great gifts into obligations for you wil find many bad debtors He bad me take no care for that pressed it whereupon I said my Lor. I see I must be your homager and hold land of your gift but do you know the manner of doing homage in law Alwaies it is with a saving of his faith to the King and his other Lords and therefore my L. said I I can be no more yours then I was and it may be with the ancient savings and if I grow to be a rich man you will give me leave to give it back to some of your unrewarded followers But to return sure I am though I can arrogate nothing to my self but that I was a faithful remembrance to his Lordship that while I had most credit with him his fortune went on best And yet in two main points we alwaies directly and contradictorily differed which I will mention to your Lordship because it giveth light to all that followed The one was I ever set this down and that the onely course to be held with the Queen was by obsequiousness observance and I remember I would usually engage confidently that if he would take that course constantly and with choise of good particulars to express it the Queen would be brought in time to Assuerus question to ask What should be done to the man that the King would honour meaning that her goodness was without limit where there was a true concurrence which I knew in her nature to be true My Lord on the otherside had a setled opinion that the Queen could be brought to nothing but by a kinde of necessity and authority and I will remember when by violent courses at any time he had got his will he would ask me Now Sir whose principles be true And I would again say to him My Lord these courses be like to hot waters they will help at a pang but if you use them you shall spoil the stomack and you shall be fain still to make them stronger and stronger and yet in the end they will less their operation with much other variety wherewith I used to touch that string Another point was that I alwaies vehemently disswaded him from seeking greatness by a military dependance or by a popular dependance as that which would breed in the Queen jealousie in himself presumption and in the State perturbation and I did usually compare them to Icarus two wings which were joyned on with wax and would make him venture to soar too high and then fail him at the height And I would further say unto him My Lord stand upon two feet and fly not upon two wings The two feet are the two kinds of Justice Commutative and Distributive use your greatness for advancing of merit and vertue and relieving wrongs and burdens you shall need no other art or fineness but he would tell me that opinion came not from my minde but from my robe But it is very true that