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A28210	An extract by Mr. Bushell of his late abridgment of the Lord chancellor Bacons philosophical theory in mineral prosecutions published for the satisfaction of his noble friends that importunately desired it.	Bushell, Thomas, 1594-1674.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Atlantis.	1660 (1660)	Wing B296A; ESTC R25904	70,608	109

of this Islands Solomons-House modeled in my new Atlantis And I can hope my Lords that my midnight studies to make our Countryes flourish and out-vie European neighbours in mysterious and beneficent Arts have not so ingratefully affected your noble intellects that you will delay or resist his Majesties desires and my humble Petition in this benevolent yea magnificent affair since your honorable posterities may be inriched thereby and my ends are only to make the world my Heir and the learned Fathers of my Solomons-House the successive and sworn Trustees in the dispensation of this great service for Gods glory my Princes magnifice this Parliaments honor our Countryes general good and the propagation of my own memory And I may assure your Lordships that all my proposals in order to this great Architype seemed so rational and feisable to my Royal Soveragin our Christian Solomon that I thereby prevailed with his Majesty to call this Honourable Parliament to confirm and impower me in my own way of Mining by an Act of the same after his Majesties more weighty affairs were considered in your wisdomes both which he desires your Lordships and you Gentlemen that are chosen as the Patriots of your respective Countries to take speedy care of which done I shall not then doubt the happy issue of my undertakings in this design whereby concealed Treasures which now seem utterly lost to mankind shall be confined to so universal a piety and brought into use by the industry of converted Penitents whose wretched Carcases the impartial Laws have or shall dedicate as untimely feasts to the worms of the earth in whose wombe those deserted Mineral riches must ever lie buried as lost abortments unless those be made the active Midwives to deliver them For my Lords I humbly conceive them to be the fittest of all men to effect this great work for the ends and causes which I have before exprest All which my Lords I humbly refer to your grave and solid Judgments to conclude of together with such other assistances to this frame as your own oraculous wisdom shall intimate for the magnifying our Creator in his inscrutable providence and admirable works of Nature But before this could be accom●lished to his own content there arose such complaints against his Lordship and the then Favorite at Court that for some dayes put the King to this Quere whether he should permit the Favorite of his affection or the Oracle of his Counsel to sink in his service whereupon his Lordship was sent for by the King who after some discourse gave him this positive advice to submit himself to his House of Peers and that upon his Princely word he would then restore him again if they in their honors should not be sensible of his merits Now though my Lord foresaw his approaching ruine and told his Majesty there was little hopes of mercy in a multitude when his Enemies were to give fire if he did not plead for himself yet such was his obedience to him from whom he had his being that he resolv'd his Majesties will should be his only Law and so took leave of him with these words Those that will strike at your Chancellor its much to be feared will strike at your Crown and wish'd that as he was then the first so he might be the last of Sacrifices Soon after according to his Majesties commands he wrote a submissive letter to the House and sent me to my Lord Windsor to know the result which I was loath at my return to acquaint him with for alas his Soveraigns favour was not in so high a measure but he like the Phoenix must be sacrifized in flames of his own raising and so perish'd like Icarus in that his lofty design the great revenue of his Office being lost and his Titles of Honour saved but by the Bishops Votes whereto he replied That he was only bound to thank his Clergy the thunder of which fatal sentence did much perplex my troubled thoughts as well as others to see that famous Lord who procured his Majesty to call this Parliament must be the first subject of their revengeful wrath and that so unparalleld a Master should be thus brought upon the publick stage for the foolish miscarriages of his own servants whereof with grief of heart I confess my self to be one Yet shortly after the King dissolved the Parliament but never restored that matchless Lord to his place which made him then to wish the many years he had spent in State-policy and Law-study had been solely devoted to true Philosophy for said he the one at best doth but comprehend mans frailty in its greatest splendor but the other the mysterious knowledge of all things created in the six dayes work Wherefore considering his fatherlike favors to my undeservings exprest in my confession to the honorable Council and knowing the Library he left to the world viz. His great work intituled Instauratio Magna an admirable piece containing First de Augmentis Scientiarum or his advancement of Learning in nine Books written in Latine and dedicated to King Charls then Prince of Wales Secondly Novum organum sive Judica vera de interpretatione naturae written in Latine and dedicated to King James Thirdly Sylva Sylvarum or his Natural History his New Atlantis his History of Life and Death historia ventorum all dedicated to King Charles by D. Rawley sometimes his Lordships Chaplain Sermones fideles sive interioria rerum otherwise called his Essays dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham De sapientia veterum or the wisdom of the Antients dedicated to the Earl of Salisbury Lord Treasurer and Chancellour of the University of Cambridge and to the University a double dedication which was afterwards translated by Sir Arthur Gorges and dedicated to the Queen of Bohemia Dialogus de Bello Sacro dedicated to Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester The History of Henry the Seventh dedicated to K. Charls His Elements of the Law Resuscitatio certain excellent Discourses Letters and the like being his Remains set forth by the said Doctor Rawley A Manual of Devotions intituled Comfortable Crums of refreshment by Prayers Meditations Consolations and Ejaculations with a confession of Faith published by the aforesaid worthy and faithfull Doctor Rawley Doctor in Divinity and one of his Majesties Chaplains I willingly then betook my self to that penance of solitude imposed me by his Lordships Fatherly advice as is exprest in my Letter to my fellow Prisoners for Debt before I should dare to attempt any of his Mineral ●rust formerly consign'd me by the favour of his affection as doth more at large appear in my humble Remonstrance to the Honourable Council the which for three years I strictly kept as if obliged by a Religious Vow from whence I was grown so sensible of other mens suffering restraint for Conscience sake as I procured the liberty of many Jesuite Priests Anabaptists Brownists Familists of love Adamites and one of the Rosie-Crucians whose humility and

straw consigned them by the Christian charity of some honest Farmer or good Free-holder but after a thankful remembrance to the All-disposer they had a repetition of the present times and the bounty of rich mens Tables as well as the mock-Beggars Palaces giving their verdict as canonical amongst the sage Beggars by inspection from their own observation what must become of their actions and issue that quoth he live by oppression and in pleasures whereof yo●ng man I must tell you my Father was held a great Astrologer for those hidden mysteries in the Beggars fraternity although his education had no other Tutorship then 76 years experience under the green Canopy of summer hedges called the Beggars College in moonshiny nights and as I take it the Shepheards Calendar went no further with them in the literal sense of Astrology than the cognisance of all Creatures behaviours in their lives and deaths intimating once a month as a general Lector to our memory that nothing more of learning was required from us mortals but the glory of humility and obedience Which caused me to propose this question Whether his mind was not addicted to the same study of his fathers Collections or whether they were buried in his own Sepulchre Who with a sigh and sobbing heart told me in short It was his greatest grief for he had nothing of the book but seven Prayers for every day in the week one A●d yet young man said he if you have a desire to see fashions in a Beggars habit as well as in the gay clothes of the Worlds converse I will conduct you to the acquaintance of those persons that were of repute with my father and of such singular documents and principles without worldly ends as they in short time will make you heir to the track of their knowledge in moral vertues if they find by your physiognomy and carriage an inclination of yo●rs to do good to the sad condition of their own tribe as well as to your self and indoctrinate the rest by winnowing the chaff from the corn the good from the bad For we have most commonly once a week in our Barn Gypsies Bedlams and all sorts of lazie Vagabonds which we conceive i● the poor and honest Beggars purgatory and a great trial of his hum●ne patience when such a misery is added to his poverty there being all degrees of professions from the highest to the lowest that come within the verge of our Beggars assembly to give us an abstract of the rest of the family as well as the occasion that brought them to our acquaintance and then we commonly shew them their pedigree from the Usurers book the Lawiers library the Courtiers chea● the Countrimans fraud the Merchants falsity and what sprang from their own exorbitant fooleries when and where came the curse to them of such a desolation and how to salve the same from despair of Gods mercy which ever attends their consciences in such wicked actions I had no sooner received the Epi●ome of those Beggars pilgrimages in a far larger measure than is here exprest but I began to contemplate upon the happinesse I should receive if a Summers progresse were spent in such a service that was called by him the Charnel-house of the living being buried alive because it was observed that some of every family had alwayes their recourse to this impregnable Citadel of misery that can and must hold out as he did aver to the last man Which considerations brought me then to lo●th my self and the whole Worlds Commerce for his solid society But some ten days after I was summoned by the Governour of that Island upon the old score of a Spie Where giving him the same account as before exprest in answer to his Queries I found him so rigidly bent to make me his prisoner as I was forced to put on the disguise of a discontented Lover and to implore the intercession of three vertuous and amiable Ladies that were accidentally present letting them know that I had lost the Mistresse of my heart by death which is Natures Serjeant a month before and could not asswage that passion of affection remaining with me in remembrance of her fidelity unless I should interre my self in her Tomb or use this means of so itude to ease my groaning spirit and oppressed mind hoping their compassionate natures wou●d favour me with their pi●ies and palliate the Governours fury through their familiar acquaintance if they had ever been in Love themselves or did believe there was such a prevalent power in that passion after the death of his or her dearly beloved Friend From whence with joynt consent they rose up like Lightning tore the Warrant made for my Commitment saying It were impossible for such expressions of fervent love to proceed from so simple a fellow as I did seem to be but that it must be the cause of my obscurity and not any other affinity to the nature of a Spie than contemplating on her memory that was dead to the world though living to my self But his hard heart being frozen with age from any such affection signed another warrant to secure my person his prisoner which made me then disclose my name and whose servant I was with contempt to his power Dinner then comming in I took my leave saying to the Ladies That the Mistris I meant to harbour in my breast as my only companion in this solitude was to exchange the habitual errors of my youth for vertuous acts And though the place can now afford me being known no other content than shame yet the Mother should sooner forget her Child than I their noble civilities and to that purpose I would wait upon them in another habit towards my Journey to London where giving my quondam Master an account with the reason of my revolt he said It shewed I was luke-warm in my Devotion when I was ashamed of such an innocent profession howsoever he seemed glad of my return and said If he were assured of my perseverance to endeavour the Mastery of my self he would trust me in the secrets of his Mineral design before any Kinsman or Scholar of his acquaintance being jealous as I conceive from his following discourse that the one might be careless or covetous and the other arrogate the whole honour to himself although Divine Providence gave the encrease and inspired that Lords Philosophy to make the model from such a promiscuous Chaos as drowned Minerals and Condemned men hoping by their conversions to do the work for Gods greater glory and his own more perpetual honour The Moral of which truth in trying a retired life confirmed by my Lords trust and my perseverance in the like way induced the late King to grant me not onely my own desires in the Mines Mint and Customs but afterwards his Majesty was confined to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Wight where amongst other Discourses with which some of his Attendants entertained him he was assured of the truth of