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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01003	Sir Francis Bacon his apologie, in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex VVritten to the right Honorable his very good Lord, the Earle of Deuonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.; Apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1604 (1604)	STC 1111; ESTC S104433	17,982	74

but to publish and declare my selfe for him and neuer was I so ambitious of any thing in my life time as I was to haue caried some token or fauour from her Maiestie to my Lord vsing all the art I had both to procure her Maiestie to send and my selfe to be the messenger for as to the former I feared not to alleage to her that this proceeding towards my Lord was a thing towards the people verie implausible and therefore wished her Maiestie howsoeuer she did yet to discharge her selfe of it and to lay it vpon others and therefore that she should intermixe her proceeding with some immediate graces from her selfe that the world might take knowledge of her Princely nature and goodnesse lest it should alienate the hearts of her people from her Which I did stand vpon knowing very well that if she once relented to send or visite those demonstrations wold proue matter of substance for my Lords good And to draw that employment vpon my selfe I aduised her Maiestie that whensoeuer God should moue her to turne the light of her fauour toward my Lord to make signification to him thereof that her Maiestie if she did it not in person would at the least vse some such meane as might not intitle themselues to any part of the thanks as persons that were thought mightie with her to worke her or to bring her about but to vse some such as could not be thought but a meere conduct of her owne goodnesse but I could neuer preuaile with her though I am perswaded she saw plainely whereat I leuelled but she had me in iealousie that I was not hers intirely but still had inward and deepe respects towards my Lord more then stood at that time with her will and pleasure About the same time I remember an answer of mine in a matter which had some affinitie with my Lords cause which though it grew from me went after about in others names For her Maiesty being mightily incensed with that booke which was dedicated to my Lord of Essex being a storie of the first yeare of king Henry the fourth thinking it a seditious prelude to put into the peoples heads boldnesse and faction said she had good opinion that there was treason in it and asked me if I could not find any places in it that might be drawne within case of treason whereto I answered for treason surely I found none but for fellonie very many And when her Maiestie hastily asked me wherein I told her the Author had committed very apparant theft for he had taken most of the sentences of Cornelius Tacitus and translated them into English and put them into his text And another time when the Queene would not be perswaded that it was his writing whose name was to it but that it had some more mischieuous Author and said with great indignation that she would haue him racked to produce his Author I replyed Nay Madame he is a Doctor neuer racke his person but racke his stile let him haue pen inke and paper and helpe of bookes and be enioyned to continue the storie where it breaketh off and I will vndertake by collecting the stiles to iudge whether he were the Author or no. But for the maine matter sure I am when the Queene at any time asked mine opinion of my Lords case I euer in one tenor said vnto her that they were faults which the Law might tearme Contempts because they were the transgression of her particular directions and instructions but then what defence might be made of them in regard of the great interest the person had in her Maiesties fauour in regard of the greatnesse of his place and the amplenesse of his Commission in regard of the nature of the businesse being action of warre which in coÌ„mon cases cannot be tyed to strictnesse of instructions in regard of the distance of the place hauing also a sea betweene that demaunds and commands must be subiect to wind and weather in regard of a counsell of State in Ireland which he had at his backe to auow his actions vpon and lastly in regard of a good intention that he would alleadge for himselfe which I told her in some religions was held to be a sufficient dispensation for Gods commaundements much more for Princes In all these regards I besought her Maiestie to be aduised againe and again how she brought the cause into any publike question nay I went further for I told her my Lord was an eloquent and well spoken man and besides his eloquence of nature or art he had an eloquence of accident which passed them both which was the pittie and beneuolence of his hearers and therefore that when he should come to his answer for himselfe I doubted his words would haue so vnequall passage aboue theirs that should charge him as would not be for her Maiesties honour and therefore wished the conclusion might be that they might wrap it vp priuatly betweene themselues and that she would restore my Lord to his former attendance with some addition of honour to take away discontent But this I will neuer deny that I did shew no approbation generally of his being sent back againe into Ireland both because it would haue caried a repugnancie with my former discourse and because I was in mine owne heart fully perswaded that it was not good neither for the Queene nor for the State nor for himselfe and yet I did not disswade it neither but left it euer as locus lubricus For this particularitie I do well remember that after your Lordship was named for the place in Ireland and not long before your going it pleased her Maiestie at White hall to speake to me of that nomination at which time I said to her Surely Madame if you meane not to employ my Lord of Essex thither againe your Maiestie cannot make a better choice and was going on to shew some reason and her Maiestie interrupted me with great passion Essex said she whensoeuer I send Essex backe again into IrelaÌ„d I will marrie you claime it of me wherunto I said Well Madame I will release that contract if his going be for the good of your State Immediatly after the Queene had thought of a course which was also executed to haue somewhat published in the Starre-chamber for the satisfaction of the world touching my Lord of Essex his restraint and my Lord of Essex not to be called to it but occasion to be taken by reason of some Libels then dispersed which when her Maiestie propounded vnto me I was vtterly against it and told her plainely that the people would say that my Lord was wounded vpon his backe and that Iustice had her ballance taken from her which euer consisted of an accusation and defence with many other quicke and significant tearms to that purpose in so much that I remember I said that my Lord in foro famae was too hard for her and therefore wished her as I had done before to wrap it

SIR FRANCIS BACON HIS APOLOGIE IN CERTAINE imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex VVritten to the right Honorable his very good Lord the Earle of Deuonshire Lord Lieutenant of Ireland LONDON Printed for FELIX NORTON and are to be sold in Pauls churchyard at the signe of the Parot 1604. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HIS VERIE GOOD LORD THE Earle of Deuonshire Lord Lieutenant of Ireland IT may please your good Lordship I cannot be ignorant and ought to be sensible of the wrong which I sustaine in common speech as if I had bene false or vnthankfull to that noble but vnfortunate Earle the Earle of Essex And for satisfying the vulgar sort I do not so much regard it though I loue good name but yet as an handmaid and attendant of honestie and vertue For I am of his opinion that said pleasantly That it was a shame to him that was a suter to the Mistresse to make loue to the wayting woman and therefore to woo or court common fame otherwise then it followeth vpon honest courses I for my part finde not my selfe fit nor disposed But on the other side there is no worldly thing that concerneth my selfe which I hold more deare then the good opinion of certaine persons amongst which there is none I would more willingly giue satisfactioÌ„ vnto then to your Lordship First because you loued my Lord of Essex and therefore will not be partiall towards me which is part of that I desire next because it hath euer pleased you to shew your selfe to me an honorable friend and so no basenesse in me to seeke to satisfie you and lastly because I know your Lordship is excellently grounded in the true rules and habits of duties and moralities which must be they which shal decide this matter wherin my Lord my defence needeth to be but simple and briefe namely that whatsoeuer I did concerning that action and proceeding was done in my dutie and seruice to the Queene and the State in which I would not shew my selfe false hearted nor faint hearted for anie mans sake liuing For euerie honest man that hath his heart well planted will forsake his King rather then forsake God and forsake his friend rather then forsake his King and yet will forsake any earthly commoditie yea and his owne life in some cases rather then forsake his friend I hope the world hath not forgotten these degrees else the heathen saying Amicus vsque ad ar as shal iudge them And if anie man shall say that I did officiously intrude my selfe into that businesse because I had no ordinary place the like may be said of all the businesse in effect that passed the hands of the learned counsell either of State or Reuenues these manie yeares wherein I was continually vsed For as your Lordship may remember the Queene knewe her strength so well as she looked her word should be a warrant and after the manner of the choisest Princes before her did not alwayes tye her trust to place but did sometime deuide priuate fauor from office And I for my part though I was not so vnseene in the world but I knewe the condition was subiect to enuie and perill yet because I knew againe she was constant in her fauours and made an end where she began and specially because she vpheld me with extraordinarie accesse and other demonstrations of confidence and grace I resolued to endure it in expectation of better But my scope desire is that your Lordship wold be pleased to haue the honourable patience to know the truth in some particularitie of all that passed in this cause wherein I had any part that you may perceiue howe honest a heart I euer bare to my Soueraigne and to my Countrey to that Noble man who had so well deserued of me and so well accepted of my deseruings whose fortune I cannot remember without much griefe But for anie action of mine towards him there is nothing that passed me in my life time that cometh to my remembrance with more clearnesse and lesse checke of conscience for it wil appeare to your Lordship that I was not onely not opposite to my Lord of Essex but that I did occupy the vtmost of my wits and aduenture my fortune with the Queene to haue reintegrated his and so continued faithfully and industriously till his last fatall impatience for so I wil call it after which day there was not time to worke for him though the same my affectioÌ„ when it could not worke vpon the subiect proper went to the next with no ill effect towards some others who I thinke do rather not know it then not acknowledge it And this I will assure your Lordship I will leaue nothing vntold that is truth for anie enemie that I haue to adde on the other side I must reserue much which makes for me vpon manie respects of dutie which I esteeme aboue my credite and what I haue here set downe to your Lordship I protest as I hope to haue any part in Gods fauour is true It is wel knowne how I did many yeares since dedicate my trauels and studies to the vse as I may terme it seruice of my Lord of Essex which I protest before God I did not making election of him as the likeliest meane of mine owne aduancement but out of the humor of a man that euer from the time I had anie vse of reason whether it were reÃ¡ding vpon good bookes or vpon the example of a good father or by nature I loued my countrey more then was answerable to my fortune and I held at that time my Lord to be the fittest instrument to do good to the State and therefore I applied my selfe to him in a manner which I thinke happeneth rarely amongst men for I did not only labour carefully and industriously in that he set me about whether it were matter of aduice or otherwise but neglecting the Queenes seruice mine owne fortune and in a sort my vocation I did nothing but deuise and ruminate with my selfe to the best of my vnderstanding propositions memorials of any thing that might coÌ„cerne his Lordships honor fortune or seruice And when not long after I entred into this course my brother Maister Anthony Bacon came from beyond the seas being a Gentleman whose abilitie the world taketh knowledge of for matters of State specially forreine I did likewise knit his seruice to be at my Lords disposing And on the other side I must will euer acknowledge my Lords loue trust and fauour towards me last of all his liberalitie hauing infeoffed me of land which I sold for eighteene hundred pounds to Maister Reynold Nicholas and I thinke was more worth and that at such a time and with so kinde and noble circumstances as the maner 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 benefites I will presume to trouble your Lordship with

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