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A28011	Sir Francis Bacon his apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex written to the Right Honourable his very good lord, the Earle of Devon-shire, lord livetenant [sic] of Ireland.; Apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1642 (1642)	Wing B267; ESTC R11758	17,898	22

I was to have carried some token or favour from her Majestie to my Lord using all the art I had both to procure her Majestie to send and my selfe to bee the messenger for as to the former I feared not to alleadge to her that this proceeding toward my Lord was a thing towards the people very implausible and therefore wished her Majestie howsoever shee did yet to discharge her selfe of it and to lay it upon others and therefore that she should intermixe h●r 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 upon knowing very well that if shee once relented to send or visite those demonstrations would prove matter of substance for my Lords good And to draw that employment upon my selfe I advised her Majestie that whensoever God should move her to turne the light of her favours towards my Lord to make signification to him thereof that her Majestie if she did it not in person would at the least use some such meane as might not intitle themselves to any part of the thankes as persons that were thought mightie with her to worke her or to bring her about but to use some such as could not be thought but a meere conduct of her owne goodnesse but I could never prevaile with her though I am perswaded shee saw plainely whereat I levelled but thee had me in jealousie that I was not hers intirely but still had inward and deepe respects towards my Lord more than 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 Majestie being mightily incensed with that booke which was dedicated to my Lord of Essex being a story 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 drawn within case of treason whereto I answered for treason surely I found none but for fellony very many And when her Majesty hastily asked me wherein I told her the Author had committed very apparent 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 mischievous Author and said with great indignation that shee would have him racked to produce his Author I replyed Nay Madam he is a Doctor never racke his person but racke his stile let him have pen inke and paper and help of books and be enjoyned to continue the story wherein it breaketh off and I will undertake by collecting the stiles to judge whether he were the Author or no. But for the maine matter sure I am when the Queene at that time asked mine opinion of my Lords case I ever in one tenor said unto 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 Majesties favour 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 War which in common cases cannot be tyed to strictnesse of instructions in regard of the distance of the place having also a Sea between that demands and commands must be subject to wind and weather in regard of a counsell of State in Ireland which he had at his backe to avow his actions upon and lastly in regard of a good intention that he would alleage for himselfe which I told her in some religions was held to bee a sufficient dispensation for Gods Commandements much more for Princes In all these regards I besought her Majestie to be advised again again how she brought the cau●e 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 benevolence of his hearers and therefore that when he should come to his answer for himselfe I doubted his words would have so unequall passage above theirs that should charge him as would not be for her Majesties honour and therefore wished the conclusion might bee that they might wrap it up privately between themselves and that she would restore my Lord to his former attendance with some addition of her our to take away discontent But this I will never deny that I did shew no approbation generally of his being sent backe againe into Ireland both because it would have carried a repugnancy 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 ever as locus lubricus For this particularitie I doe well remember that after your Lordship was named for the place in Ireland and not long before your going it pleased her Majestie at White Hall to speake to me of that nomination at which time I said to her Surely Madam if you meane not to imploy my Lord of Essex thither againe your Majestie cannot make a better choise and was going on to shew some reason and her Majestie interrupted me with great passion Essex said she whensoever I send Essex back againe into Ireland I will marrie you claime it of me whereunto I said Well Madam I will release that contract if his going be for the good of your State Immediately after the Queene had thought of a course which was also executed to have 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 Majestie propounded unto mee I was utterly against it and told her plainely that the people would say that my Lord was wounded upon his backe and that Justice had her ballance taken from her which ever consisted of an accusation and defence with many other quicke and significant tearmes 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 h●r as I had done before to wrap it up privately And certainly I offended her at that time which was rare with me For I call to minde that

SIR FRANCIS BACON HIS APOLOGIE In certaine Imputations concerning the late Earle of ESSEX WRITTEN To the Right Honourable His very Good LORD the Earle of DEVON-SHIRE LORD LIVETENANT OF IRELAND London Printed 1642. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE His Very good Lord the Earle of Devonshire Lord Lievtenant of Ireland IT may please Your good Lordship I cannot be ignorant and ought to bee sensible of the wrong which I sustaine in common speech as if I had beene false or unthankfull to that Noble but unfortunate Earle the Earle of Essex and for satisfying the vulgar sort I doe not so much regard it though I love a good name but yet as an hand maid and attendant of honesty 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 love to the waiting woman and therefore to woo or Court common fame otherwise than it followeth upon honest courses I for my part finde not my selfe fit nor disposed But on the otherside 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 give satisfaction unto then to your Lordship First because you loved my Lord of Essex and therefore will not bee partiall towards mee which is part of that I desire next because it hath ever pleased you to shew your selfe to me an honourable friend and so no basenesse in me to seeke to satifie 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 shall decide this matter wherein my Lord my defence needeth to be but simple and briefe namely that whatsoever I did concerning that action and proceeding was done in my duty and service to the Queene and the State in which I would not shew my selfe false-hearted nor faint hearted for any mans sake living For every honest man that hath his heart well planted will forsake his King rather than forsake God and forsake his friend rather than forsake his King and yet will forsake any earthly commodity yea and his owne life in some cases rather than forsake his friend I hope the world hath not forgotten these degrees else the heathen saying Amicus usque adaras shall judge them And if any man shall say that I did officiously intrude my selfe in that businesse because I had no ordinary place the like may be said of all the businesse in effects that passed the hand of the learned counsel either of State or Revenues these many Yeares wherein I was continually used For as your Lordship may remember the Queene knew 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 devide private favour from office And I for my part though I was not so unseene in the world but I knew the condition was subject to envie and perill yet because I knew againe shee was constant in her favours and made an end where she began and specially because she upheld mee with extraordinary accesse and other demonstrations of confidence and grace I resolved to endure it in expectation of better But my scope and desire is that Your Lordship would bee pleased to have the Honourable patience to know the truth in some particularity of all that passed in this cause wherein I had any part that you may perceive how honest a heart I ever bare to my Soveraigne and to my Country and to that Nobleman who had so well deserved of me and so well accepted of my deservings whose fortune I cannot remember without much griefe But for any action of mine towards him there is nothing that passed me in my life time that commeth to my remembrance with more clearenesse and lesse checke of Conscience for it will appeare to your Lordship that I was not onely not opposite to my Lord of Essex but that I did occupy the utmost of my wit and adventure my fortune with the Queene to have reintegrated his and so continued faithfully and industriously till his last fatall impatience for so I will call it after which day there was not time to worke for him though the same my assection when it could not worke upon the subject proper went to the next with no ill effect towards some others who I thinke doe rather not know it then not acknowledge it And this I will assure your Lordship I will leave nothing untold that is truth for any enemy that I have to adde and on the other side I must reserve much which makes for mee upon many respects of duty which I esteeme above my credit and what I have here set downe to your Lordship I protest as I hope to have any part in Gods favour is true It is well knowne how I did many yeares since dedicate my travels and studies to the use and as I may terme it service of my Lord of Essex which I protest before God I did not making election of him as the likeliest meane of mine owne 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 bookes or upon the example of a good father or by nature I loved my Countrie more than was answerable to my fortune and I held at that time my Lord to be the fitter instrument to doe good to the State and therefore I applied my selfe to him in a manner which I think happeneth rarely amongst 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 Queenes service mine owne fortune and in a sort my vocation I did nothing but advise and ruminate with my selfe to the best of my understanding propositions and memorials of any thing that might concerne his Lordships honour fortune or service And when not long after I entred into this course my brother Master Anthony Bacon came from beyond the Seas being a Gentleman whose abilitie the world taketh knowledge of for matters of State specially forreigne I did likewise knit his service to be at my Lords disposing And on the other side I must and will ever acknowledge my Lords love trust and favour towards me last of all his liberality having infeoffed me of Land which I sold for 18. 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 bee short in commemoration of his benefits I will presume to trouble your Lordship with the relating to you the manner of it after the Queene had denied mee the Sollicitors place for