Attorneys place p. 20. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir George Cary in France upon sending him his Writing In foelicem memoriam Elizabethae p. 21. A Letter to Sir George Villiers touching the difference between the Courts of Chancery and Kings Bench. p. 22. Sir Francis Bacon to the King concerning the Praemunire in the Kings Bench against the Chancery p. 23. A Letter to the King touching matter of Revenue and Profit p. 27. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney to the King touching the proceeding with Somerset p. 28. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney to Sir George Villiers concerning the proceeding with Somerset p. 30. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney giving account of an Examination taken of Somerset at the Tower p. 32. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney to Sir George Villiers touching the proceeding with Somerset p. 34. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney to Sir George Villiers of Account and Advice to His Majesty touching Somerset's Arraignment p. 35. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney and some great Lords Commissioners concerning the perswasion used to the Lord of Somerset to a frank Consession p. 36. Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon some inclination of His Majesty signified to him for the Chancellors place p. 38. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney returned with Postils of the Kings own Hand p. 39. The Copy of a Letter conceived to be written to the late Duke of Buckingham when he first became a Favourite to King James by Sir Francis Bacon afterwards Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Alban Containing some Advices to the Duke for his better direction in that eminent place of the Favourite Drawn from him at the intreaty of the Duke himself by much importunity p. 43. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers of Advice concerning Ireland from Gorambury to Windsor p. 67. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney General to the Master of the Horse upon the sending of his Bill for Viscount sc. p. 69. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers upon the sending his Pattent for Uiscount Villiers to be Signed p. 70. Sir Francis Bacon to the King about a Certificate of my Lord Coke's p. 72. A Letter to the King touching the Lord Chancellors place ibid. A Letter to the King of my Lord Chancellors amendment and the difference begun between the Chancery and Kings Bench. p. 75. Sir Francis Bacon the Kings Attorney to the King giving some account touching the Commendams p. 76. Sir Francis Bacon his Advertisement touching an Holy War to the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews Lord Bishop of Winchester and Councellor of Estate to His Majesty p. 78. Sir Francis Bacon to the King about the Pardon of the Parliaments Sentence p. 81. Sir Francis Bacon to King James of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England p. 82. Sir Francis Bacon to the Right Honourabl◠〈◊〉 very good Lord the Earl of Devonshire Lord Lieutenant of 〈◊〉 p. 87. A Discourse touching Helps for the intellectual Powers by Sir Francis Bacon p. 97. Sir Francis Bacon to the King p. 101. C. Certain Copies of Letters written by Sir William Cecil Knight Secretary of Estate to Queen Elizabeth to Sir Henry Norris Knight Ambassador for the said Queen Resident in France Beginning the 10th of February 1566. and ending the 26th of September 15â—0 p. 105. The Lord Coke to King James touching trial of Duels out of England p. 193. H. The History of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth King Edward the Sixth Queen Mary and part of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth p. 194. I. A Copy of a Letter from His Majesty to the Lords read at Board Nov. 21. 1617. touching the abatement of His Majesties Houshold Charge p. 198. A Copy of His Majesties second Letter p. 199. A Letter from the King to his Lordship by occasion of a Book It was the Organon p. 200. To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Thomas Coventry Our Attorney-General ibid. S. 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abolishing of the priviledges of Sanctuaries in case of Treason and that not before he had obtained it by way of suit from Pope Alexander which Sanctuaries nevertheless had been the forges of most of his troubles In his Government he was led by none scarcely by his Laws and yet he was a great observer of formality in all his proceedings which notwithstanding was no impediment to the working of his will 〈…〉 the suppressing and punishment of the Treasons which during the whole time of his Reign were committed against him he had a very strange kind of interchanging of very large and unexpected pardons with severe executions which his Wisdom considered could not be imputed to any Inconstancy or Inequality but to a discretion or at least to a principle that he had apprehended that it was good not obstinately to pursue one course but to try both ways In his Wars he seemed rather confident than enter prizing by which also he was commonly not the poorer but generally he did seem inclinable to live in peace and made but offers of War to mend the conditions of peace and in the quenching of the commotions of his Subjects he was ever ready to atchieve those Wars in Person sometimes reserving himself but never retiring himself but as ready to second Of nature he coveted to accumulate treasure which the People into whom there is infused for the preservation of Monarchies a natural desire to discharge their Princes though it be with the unjust Charge of their Councellors and Ministers did impute unto Cardinal Morton and Sir Reynold Bray who as it after appeared as Councellors of ancient Authority with him did so second his humour as nevertheless they tempted it and refrained it whereas Empson and Dudley that followed being persons that had no reputation with him otherwise than the servile following of his own humour gave him way and shaped him way to these extremities wherewith himself was touched with remorse at his death and with his Successor disavowed In expending of Treasure he never spared Charge that his Affairs required and in his Foundations was Magnificent enough but his Rewards were very limited so that his Liberality was rather upon his own state and memory than towards the deserts of others He chose commonly to employ cunning persons as he that knew himself sufficient to make use of their uttermost reaches without danger of being abused with them himself The rest is wanting A Copy of a Letter from His Majesty to the Lords read at Board Novemb. 21. 1617. touching the abatement of His Majesties Houshold Charge MY Lords no worldly thing is so precious as Time Ye know what task I gave you to work upon during my absence and what time was limited unto you for the performance thereof This same Chancellor of Scotland was wont to tell me twenty four years ago that my house could not be kept upon Epigrams long discourses and fair tales will never repair my estate Omnis vertus in Actione consistit Remember that I told you the shooe must be made for the foot and let that he the Square of all your proceeding in this business Abate super-fluities in all things and multitudes of unnecessary Officers where ever they be placed But for the houshold Wardrope and Pensions cut and carve as many as may agree with the possibility of my means Exceed not your own rule of 50000 l. for the houshold If you can make it lesse I will account it for good service And that you may see I will not spare mine own person I have sent with this bearer a note of the superfluous charges concerning my mouth having had the happy opportunities of this Messenger in an errand so nearly concerning his place In this I expect no answer in word or writing but only the real performance for a beginning to relieve me out of my miseries For now the Ball is at your feet and the world shall bear me witness that I have put you fairly to it and so praying God to bless your labours I bid you heartily farewell Your own James R. A Copy of His Majesties second Letter MY Lords I received from you yesternight the bluntest Letter that I think ever King received from his Councel Ye write that the Green Cloth will do nothing and ye offer me advice Why are ye Councellors if ye offer no Councel an ordinary Messenger might have brought me such an answer It is my pleasure that my charges be equalled with my Revenue and it is just and necessary so to be For this a project must be made and one of the main branches thereof is my house This Project is but to be offered unto you and how it may be best laid then to agree with my honour and contentment ye are to advise upon and then have my consent If this cannot be performed without diminishing the number of the Tables diminished they must be and if that cannot serve two or three must be thrust into one If the Green Cloth will not make a Project for this some others must do it If ye cannot find them out I must Only remember two things That time must no more be lost and that there are twenty wayes of abatement besides the house if they be well looked into And so farewell James R. A Letter from the King to his Lordship by occasion of a Book It was the Organon MY Lord I have received your Letter and your Book then which ye could not have sent a more acceptable Present unto Me how thankful I am for it cannot better be expressed by Me then by a firm resolution I have taken first to read it through with care and attention though I should steal some houres from My sleep having otherwise as little spare time to read it as ye had to write it and then to use the liberty of a true friend in not sparing to ask you the question in any point thereof I shall stand in doubt Nam ejus est explicare cujus est condere As for the other part I will willingly give a due Commendation to such places as in My Opinion shall deserve it In the mean time I can with Comfort assure you that ye could not make choice of a Subject more befitting your place and your universal and Methodick knowledge and in the general I have already observed that ye jump with me in keeping the middle way between the two extreams as also in some particulars I have found that ye agree fully with my opinion and so praying God to give your work as good success as your heart can wish and your labours deserve I bid you heartily farewell James R. To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Thomas Coventry Our Attorney General TRusty and Well-beloved We greet you well whereas our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cosen the Viscount of St. Alban upon a sentence given in the Upper-house of Parliament full three years since and more hath endured loss of his place Imprisonment and Confinement
March 30. 1663. Let this Collection of Letters and other Discourses be Printed HENRY BENNET SCRINIA CECILIANA MYSTERIES OF State Government IN LETTERS Of the late Famous Lord Burghley And other Grand Ministers of STATE In the Reigns of Queen ELIZABETH and King JAMES Being a further Additional Supplement of the CABALA AS ALSO Many Remarkable Passages faithfully Revised and no where else Published With two exact Tables The one of the Letters The other of Things most Observable LONDON Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet 1663. The Stationers To the READER Courteous Reader ALthough it be a received Position That Merit is worthier than Fame yet duly considered they ought to be inseparable the one being the just Guerdon of the other Upon that account we have presumed to make Publick these ensuing Memorials or Letters being Monuments of some late Eminent Patriots and Hero's of this Nation Who whilst they were Actors in such grand Affairs as suited with their high Service under their Sovereigns were deservedly Dignified here and Renowned abroad The first of these Worthies being Sir William Cecil Lord Burghley who was an unparallel'd Minister of State And as we conceive of the longest continuance that any Prince then or ever since with such Success enjoyed a person alwayes peaceable and moderate free from Covetousness or Ambition in the course of his Service rather willing to endure the Burthen than desiring the fruition of Honour or Profit profound in Judgment assisted with great Experience and therefore worthily celebrated both here and abroad as Pater Patriae and an indefatigable Votary to the Crown And for the matters and designs in the Letters themselves we shall be silent hoping the Fame of the person will be motive sufficient for you to purchase this Jewel Concerning the Times they were wheeled about with new and great Revolutions and Divisions not only at Home but also in France Scotland the Low Countries and generally in most of the other Kingdoms and States abroad Forâs Pugnae intus Timores Conspiracies Invasions and Insurrections amongst our selves War Devastations and Massacres amongst our Neighbours for the most part shadowed with the Vaile of Religion many Princes of the Blood and persons of great Authority being sacrificed on either part turbulent Times and of great mutations proper to try the Ability and Fidelity of a State Atlas wherein with what Wisdom he acquitted himself is referred to you to determine The next is Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Ambassador in France for Queen Elizabeth in the Infancy of her Reign we have nothing here of his remains but only his Letter to Her Majesty touching a free passage for the Queen of Scots through England wherein you will find variety of Politick Reasons pressed on each part with smart Judgment In the third place is Sir Philip Sidney that choice Darling of the Muses whom we suppose you will freely grant to have been Tam Marti quam Mercurio in whom England Netherland the Heavens and the Arts the Souldiers and the World did emulate a share here we have only a dissuasive Letter to the Queen touching Her Marriage with Mounsieur of France fortified with many pressing and effectual Reasons against that match and penned with a Politick and Ingenuous Stile And in the last place we present you with some Pieces of the inimitable Viscount St. Alban some in the Reign of the late glorious Queen and others in the Halcyon dayes of the late King James never before to our best knowledge made Publick deck't with many grateful Flowers of Philosophy History and Policy the Fall of the Earl of Somerset and the immediate Advance of the Duke of Buckingham with many other passages of moment and here you may observe the memorials of other worthy persons although the Title point only at Sir William Cecil for we conceive it not imaginable That such experienced and sure Masters of Knowledge would employ their thoughts in any thing sleight or superficial However we dare not assume that boldness as to write Encomiasticks of such great Personages that Right we suppose is much better performed by more quaint Pens already Lunae Radiis non maturescit Botrus And their Names and Honour still live in fresh memory Here you may safely turn Necromancer and consult with the dead or rather with the living for such Monuments as these survive Marble Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori These are not like Augustus his two infamous Daughters or his unworthy Nephew Posthumus Agrippa Impostumes as he termed them that broke from him but pure and legitimate Issue of the nobler part which is with care exposed to publick View for the better accomodation of those that have been pleased to purchase the two former Volumes of the like Nature and Quality Temple-gate June 18. 1663. G. B. T. C. A TABLE of the LETTERS contained in this COLLECTION B. SIR Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Burghley Pag. 1. Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Burghley p. 2. Sir Francis Bacon in recommendation of his Service to the Earl of Northumberland a few dayes before Queen Elizabeths death p. 4. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Robert Kempe upon the death of Queen Elizabeth p. 5. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. David Foules in Scotland upon the entrance of His Majesties Reign ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon presenting his Discourse touching the Plantation of Ireland p. 6. Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Chancellor touching the History of Britain p. 7. Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon the sending unto him a beginning of a History of His Majesties time p. 9. Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Salisbury upon sending him one of his Books of Advancement of Learning ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the same occasion of sending his Book of Advancement of Learning p. 10. A Letter of the like Argument to the Lord Chancellor ibid. Sir Francis Bacon of like Argument to the Earl of Northampton with Request to present the Book to His Majesty p. 11. Sir Francis Bacon his Letter of Request to Dr. Plafer to Translate the Book of Advancement of Learning into Latine ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Thomas Bodley upon sending him his Book of the Advancement of Learning p. 13. Sir Francis Bacon to the Bishop of Ely upon sending his Writing intituled Cogitata visa ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Thomas Bodley after he had imparted to him a Writing intituled Cogitata visa p. 14. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew upon sending him part of Instauratio Magna p. 15. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew touching Instauratio Magna p. 16. A Letter to Mr. Matthew upon sending his Book De Sapientia Veterum p. 17. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Savill ibid. Sir Francis Bacon to the King touching the Sollicitors place p. 18. Sir Francis Bacon to the King his Suit to succeed in the
Bill of Attainders of Tresham and the rest in the matter of Purveyance in the Ecclesiastical Petitions in the Grievances and the like as I was ever careful and not without good success sometimes to put forward that which was good sometimes to keep back that which was not so good so Your Majesty was pleased to accept kindly of my Services and to say to me such Conflicts were the wars of Peace and such Victories the Victories of peace And therefore such servants that obtained them were by Kings that Reign in Peace no less to be esteemed than services of Commanders in the Wars In all which nevertheless I can challenge to my self no sufficiency but that I was diligent and reasonably happy to execute those directions which I received either immediately from Your Royal Mouth or from my Lord of Salisbury At which time it pleased Your Majesty to promise and assure me that upon the remove of the then Attorney I should not be forgotten but brought into ordinary place And this was after confirmed to me by many of my Lords and towards the end of the last Term the manner also in particular was spoken of that is that Mr. Sollicitor should be made Your Majesties Serjeant and I Sollicitor for so it was thought best to sort with both our gifts and faculties for the good of your Service And of this resolution both Court and Countrey took knowledge Neither was this any invention or project of mine own but moved from my Lords and I think first from my Lord Chancellor Whereupon resting Your Majesty well knoweth I never opened my mouth for the greater place though I am sure I had two Circumstances that Mr. Attorney that now is could not alledge The one nine years service of the Crown The other being Cousin-German to the Lord of Salisbury whom Your Majesty esteemeth and trusteth so much But for the less place I conceived it was meant me But after that Mr. Attorney Hubbert was placed I heard no more of my Preferment but it seemed to be at a stop to my great disgrace and discouragement For graciousSovereign if still when the waters are stirred another shall be put before me Your Majesty had need work a Miracle or else I shall be still a lame man to do Your Majesty Service And therefore my most humble Suit to Your Majesty is That this which seem'd to me was intended may speedily be performed And I hope my former Service shall be but beginnings to better when I am better strengthned For sure I am no mans heart is fuller I say not but many have greater hearts but I say not fuller of Love and Duty towards Your Majesty and Your Children as I hope time will manifest against Envy and Detraction if any be To conclude I most humbly crave pardon for my boldness and rest Sir Francis Bacon to the King his suitc to succeed in the Atturneys place It may please your Majesty YOur great and Princely favours towards me in advancing me to place and that which is to me of no less comfort your Majesties benign and gracious acceptation from time to time of my poor services much above the merit and value of them hath almost brought me to an opinion that I may sooner perchance be wanting to my self in not asking then find your Majesties goodness wanting to me in any my reasonable and modest desires And therefore perceiving how at this time preferments of Law fly about mine ears to some above me and to some below me I did conceive your Majesty may think it rather a kinde of dulness or want of Faith than Modestie if I should not come with my Pitcher to Jacobs well as others do Wherein I shall propound to your Majesty that which tendeth not so much to the raising of my Fortune as to the setling of my minde being sometimes assayled with this Cogitation that by reason of my slowness to sue and apprehend sudden occasions keeping on one plain course of painful service I may in fine dierum be in danger to be neglected and forgotten And if that should be then were it much better for me now while I stand in your Majesties good opinion though unworthy and have some reputation in the world to give over the Course I am in and to make Proof to do you some honour by my Pen either by writing some faithful Narrative of your happy though not untraduced times or by recompiling your Laws which I perceive your Majesty laboureth with and hath in your head as Jupiter had Pallas or some other the like work for without some endeavour to do you honour I would not live then to spend my wits and time in this laborious place wherein now I serve if it shall be deprived of those outward ornaments and inward comforts which it was wont to have in respect of an assured succession to some place of more dignitie and rest which seemeth now to be a hope altogether casual if not wholly intercepted Wherefore not to hold your Majesty long my suit then the which I think I cannot well go lower is that I may obtain your royal promise to succeed if I live into the Atturneys place whensoever it shall be void in being but the natural and immediate step and rise which the place I now hold hath ever in sort made claim to and almost never failed of In this suit I make no friends to your Majesty but relie upon no other motive than your Grace nor any other assurance but your word whereof I had good experience when I came to the Solicitors place that they were like to the two great Lights which in their motions are never Retrograde So with my best prayer for your Majesties happiness I rest Sir Francis Bacon to Sir George Cary in France upon sending him his writing In foelicem memoriam Elizabethae My very good Lord BEing asked the question by this bearer an old servant of my brother Anthony Bacon whether I would command him any service into France and being at better leisure then I would in regard of sickness I began to remember that neither your business nor mine though great and continual can be upon an exact account any just occasion why so much good will as hath passed between us should be so much discontinued as it hath been And therefore because one must begin I thought to provoke your remembrance of me by my Letter And thinking how to fir it with somewhat besides salutations it came to my mind that this last summer by occasion of a factious Book that endeavoured to verifie Misera Foemina the addition of the Popes Bull upon Queen Elizabeth I did write a few lines in her memorial which I thought you would be well pleased to read both for the argument and because you were wont to bear affection to my pen. Verum ut aliud ex alio if it came handsomly to pass I would be glad the President de Thou who hath written a History as you know
be there kept The fond Lord Morley without any cause offered him is gone like a noddy to Lorrein SIR I Stayed this bearer two days longer then first I intended because the French Ambassador required Audience affirming that he had answer from the French King wherewith the Queens Majesty would be satisfied and yesterday he was here and shewed her Majesty the French Kings letters to him and thereof gave her Majesty a copy which I have and do send to you herewith an extract of a clause tending to the matter the letter being of it self long and full of good words purporting his desire to have the Scotish Queen restored and concord established betwixt the two Queens the letter is dated the 10. of June and I note that your letter is dated the 15. and by his aforesaid letter King writeth that he will within two days speak with you at Alansen Now how the Kings promise will be kept a short time will declare or how if he break it there shall be some â—avillations found wherein I doubt that they will seek illusions for that we do yet keep Hume Castle and Fast Castle which are kept with not past fourscore men and being the houses of the Lord Hume the Warden who aided our Rebels with his Forces to invade burn and spoil England and therefore is by the Laws of the Borders answerable to the subjects of England it is reason they be kept untill he will return or authorize some for him to make answer or to take order with the complainants which being done the Queen Majesty will readily restore them Thus much I have thought meet to impart Yours assuredly W. Cecil Oatlands 25. Inne 1570 To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador c. SIR I Am thrown into a Maze at this time that Iknow not how to walk from dangers Sir Walter Mildmay and I are sent to the Scotish Queen as by the Queens Majesties letters you may see God be our guide for neither of us like the Message I trust at my return when Mr. Walsingham shall be returned to help you home your sufficient is sufficient to impart unto you all our Occurrents and so I end Your assured friend W. Cecil Reading 26. Sept. 1570. To the right honorable Sir Henry Notris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France The Lord Coke to King James touching trial of Duels out of England May it please your most excellent Majesty I Have received a commandment by Mr. Sollicitor from your Majesty consisting upon two parts First to answer whether I informed not your Majesty that if two of your Subjects should go over beyond Sea to fight in a Forreign Kingdom and there in fight the one killeth the other that in this case the same might be punished by appeal before the Constable and Marshal of England Secondly if I made any such information what authority and reason I had to maintain it To the first the truth is that I did inform your Majesty so and I well remember I said then that it was Dowties Case your Majesty then speaking of Duels To the second this is by authority of an Act of Parliament made in the first year of King Henry the Fourth the 14th Chapter in these words For many Inconveniencies and Mischiefs that have oftentimes happened by many Appeals made within the Realm before this time It is ordained and established from henceforth That all Appeals to be made of things done within the Realm shall be tryed and determined by the good Laws of this Realm made and used in the time of the Kings noble Progenitors And that all Appeals to be made of things done out of the Realm shall be tryed before the Constable and Marshal of England for the time being And that no Appeals be from henceforth made or in any wise pursued in Parliament in any time to come In the late Queens time a Case fell out upon this Statute Sir Francis Drake having put Dowtie to death beyond Sea the Brother and Heir of Dowtie sued by Petition to the Queen that she would be pleased to appoint a Constable hac vice to the end he might have an Appeal against Sir Francis Drake for the death of his Brother This Petition the Queen referred to Sir Thomas Bromley and the two chief Justices and others And it was resolved of by them which I being of Council with Dowtie set down briefly for my Learning That if two Englishmen go beyond Sea and in Combate the one killeth the other this offence may be determined before the Constable and Marshal of England and so was the Statute of 1 Henr. 4. to be intended But after upon the true circumstance of the Case the Queen would not constitute a Constable of England without whom no Proceeding could be And I take this resolution to be well warranted by the Statute and no small inconvenience should follow and a great defect should be in the Law if such bloody offences should not be punished and Your Majesty should lose a flower of Your Crown in losing this Power to punish these growing and dangerous offences I shewed to Mr. Sollicitor my Report and Memorial of Dowtie's Case and I shall ever remain Your Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subject Edw. Coke 19. Febr. 1616. The History of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth King Edward the Sixth Queen Mary and part of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth THE books which are written do in their kinds represent the faculties of the mind of man Poesie his Imaginations Philosophy his Reason and History his Memory of which three facuities least exception is commonly taken to memory because Imagination is often times idle and Reason litigious So likewise History of all writings deserveth least taxation as that which holdeth least of the Author and most of the things themselves Again the use which it holdeth to mans life if it be not the greatest yet assuredly it is the freest from ill accident or quality For those that are conversant much in Poets as they attain to greater variety so withall they become concieted and those that are brought up in Philosophy and Sciences do wax according as their nature is some of them too stiff and opinionative and some others too perplexed and confused whereas History possesseth the mind with conceits which are nearest allied unto action and imprinteth them so as it doth not alter the complexion of the minde neither to irresolution nor pertinacity But this is true that in no sort of writings there is a greater distance between the good and the bad no not between the most excellent Poet and the vainest Rimer nor between the deepest Philosopher and the most frivolous School-men then there is between good Histories and those that unworthily bear the same or the like title In which regard having purposed to write the History of England from the beginning of the Reign of King H. 8. of that name near unto the present time
accompt my thankfulness the less for that my disability is great to shew it but to sustain me in her Majesties grecious opinion whereupon I onely rest and not upon any expectation of desert to proceed from my self towards the contentment thereof But if it shall please God to send forth an occasion whereby my faithful affection may be tried I trust it shall save me melibour for ever making more protestation of it hereafter In the mean time howsoever it be not made known to her Majesty yet God knoweth it through the daily sollicitations wherewith I address my self unto him in unfeigned Prayer for the multiplying of her Majesties prosperities to your Lordship also whose recommendation I know right well hath been material to advance her Majesties good opinion of me I can be but a bounden servant So much may I safely promise and purpose to be seeing publick and private bonds vary not but that my service to her Majesty and your Lordship draw in a line I wish therefore to shew it with as good proof as I can say it in good faith c. Your Lordships c. Sir Francis Bacon in recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northumberland a few days before Queen Elizabeths death It may please your good Lordship AS the time of sowing of seed is known but the time of coming up and disclosing is casual or according to the season So I am a witness to my self that there hath been covered in my mind a long time a seed of affection and zeal towards your Lordship sown by the estimation of your vertues and your particular honours and favours to my brother deceased and to my self which seed still springing now bursteth forth into this profession And to be plain with your Lordship it is very true and no winds or noyses of civil matters can blow this out of my head or heart that your great capacity and love towards studies and contemplations of an higher and worthier nature then popular a Nature rare in the world and in a person of your Lordships quality almost singular is to me a great and chief motive to draw my affection and admiration towards you and therefore good my Lord if I may be of any use to your Lordship by my Head Tongue Pen Means or Friends I humbly pray you to hold me your own and herewithal not to do so much disadvantage to my good mind nor partly to your own worth as to conceive that this commendation of my humble service proceedeth out of any streights of my occasions but meerly out of an election and indeed the fulness of my heart And so wishing your Lordship all prosperity I continue Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Robert Kempe upon the death of Queen Elizabeth Mr. Kempe This alteration is so great as you might justly conceive some coldness of my affection towards you if you should hear nothing from me I living in this place It is in vain to tell you with what a wonderful still and calme this wheel is turned round which whether it be a remnant of her felicity that is gone or a fruit of his reputation that is coming I will not determine for I cannot but divide my self between her memory and his name Yet we account it but as a fair morn before Sun rising before his Majesties presence though for my part I see not whence any weather should arise The Papists are conteined with fear enough and hope too much The French is thought to turn his practice upon procuring some disturbance in Scotland where Crowns may do wonders But this day is so welcome to the Nation and the time so short as I do not fear the effect My Lord of Southampton expecteth release by the next dispatch and is already much visited and much well wished There is continual posting by men of good quality towards the King the rather I think because this Spring time it is but a kinde of sport It is hoped that as the State here hath performed the part of good Attorneys to deliver the King quiet possession of his Kingdom so the King will re-deliver them quiet possession of their places rather filling places void than removing men placed So c. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. David Foules in Scotland upon the entrance of His Majesties Reign SIR The occasion awaketh in me the remembrance of the constant and mutual good offices which passed between my good brother and your self whereunto as you know I was not altogether a stranger though the time and design as between brethren made me more reserved But well do I bear in mind the great opinion which my brother whose Judgment I much reverence would often express to me of the extraordinary sufficiency Dexterity and temper which he had found in you in the business and service of the King our Sovereign Lord. This latter bred in me an election as the former gave an inducement for me to address my self to you and to make this signification of my desire towards a mutual entertainment of good affection and correspondence between us hoping that some good effect may result of it towards the Kings service and that for our particulars though occasion give you the precedence of furthering my being known by good note unto the King so no long time will intercede before I on my part shall have some means given to requite your favours and to verifie your commendation And so with my loving commendations good Mr. Foules I leave you to Gods goodness From Graies Inne this 25th of March. Sir Francis Bacon to the King upon presenting his discoursetouching the Plantation of Ireland It may please your excellent Majesty I know no better way how to express my good wishes of a New-year to your Majesty then by this little book which in all humbleness I send you The stile is a stile of business rather then curious or elaborate And herein I was encouraged by my experience of your Majesties former Grace in accepting of the like poor field-fruits touching the Union And certainly I reckon this action as a second brother to the Union For I assure my self that England Scotland and Ireland well united is such a Trifoil as no Prince except your self who are the worthiest weareth in his Crown Si Potentia reducatur in actum I know well that for me to beat my brains about these things they be Majora quam pro fortuna but yet they be Minora quam pro studio voluntate For as I do yet bear an extream zeal to the memory of my old Mistriss Queen Elizabeth to whom I was rather bound for her trust than for her favour so I must acknowledge my self more bound to your Majesty both for trust and favour whereof I will never deceive the one as I can never deserve the other And so in all humbleness kissing your Majesties Sacred hands I remain Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Chancellor touching the History of Britain It may please your good Lordship SOme
you with or the honour of his Majesty to whom it is dedicated or your particular inclination to my self who as I never took so much comfort in any labours of my own so I shall never acknowledge my self more obliged in any thing to the labour of another then in that which shall assist this Which your labour if I can by my place profession means friends travel word deed requite unto you I shall esteem my self so straitly bound thereunto as I shall be ever most ready both to take and seek occasions of thankfulness And so leaving it nevertheless Salva amicitia as reason is to your own good liking I remain c. Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Thomas Bodley upon sending him his Book of the advancement of Learning SIR I Think no man may more truly say with the Psalmist Multum incola fuit anima mea For I do confess since I was of any Understanding my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done and in absence Errors are committed which I do willingly acknowledge and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest that knowing my self by inward Calling to be fitter to hold a Book than to play a part I have led my life in civil Causes for which I was not very fit by nature and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind Therefore calling my self home I have now for a time enjoyed my self where likewise I desire to make the World partaker My labours if so I may term that which was the comfort of my other labours I have dedicated to the King desirous if there be any good in them it may be as fat of a Sacrifice incensed to his Honour and the second Copy have I sent unto you not only in good Affection but in a kind of Congruity in regard of your great and rare desert of Learning For Books are the Shrines where the Saint is or is believed to be And you having built an Ark to save Learning from deluge deserve in propriety any new instrument or engine whereby Learning should be improved or advanced So c. Sir Francis Bacon to the Bishop of Ely upon sending his writing intituled Cogitata visa My very good Lord NOW your Lordship hath been so long in the Church and the Palace disputing between Kings and Popes me-thinks you should take pleasure to look into the field and refresh your mind with some matter of Philosophy though that Science be now through age waxed a child again and left to boys and young men And because you are wont to make me believe you took liking to my writings I send you some of this Vacation fruits and thus much more of my mind and purpose I hasten not to publish perishing I would prevent And I am sorced to respect as well my times as the matter For with me it is thus and I think with all men in my case If I bind my self to an argument it loadeth my mind but if I rid my mind of the present Cogitation it is rather a recreation This hath put me into these Miscellanies which I purpose to suppress if God give me leave to write a just and perfect Volume of Philosophy which I go on with though slowly I send not your Lordship too much lest it may glut you Now let me tell you what my desire is If your Lordship be so good now as when you were the good Dean of Westminster my request to you is that not by Pricks but by Notes you would mark unto me whatsoever shall seem unto you either not currant in the stile or harsh to credit and opinion or inconvenient for the person of the writer For no man can be Judge and party and when our minds judge by reflexion on our selves they are more subject to error And though for the matter it self my judgment be in some things fixed and not accessible by any mans judgment that goeth not my way yet even in those things the admonition of a friend may make me express my self diversly I would have come to your Lordship but that I am hastning to my house in the Country And so I commend your Lordship to Gods goodness Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Thomas Bodley after he had imparted to him a Writing intituled Cogitata visa SIR in respect of my going down to my house in the Countrey I shall have miss of my Papers which I pray you therefore return unto me You are I bear you witness sloathful and you help me nothing so as I am half in conceit that you affect not the Argument I or my self I know well you love and affect I can say no more to you but Non canimus surdis respondent omnia silvae If you be not of the Lodgings chaulked up whereof I speak in my Preface I am but to pass by your door But if I had you but a Fortnight at Gorambury I would make you tell me another Tale or else I would add a Cogitation against Libraries and be revenged on you that way I pray you send me some good news of Sir Thomas Smith and commend me very kindly to him So I rest Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew upon sending him part of Instauratio Magna Mr. Matthew I plainly perceive by your affectionate writing touching my work that one and the same thing affecteth us both which is the good end to which it is dedicated For as to any ability of mine it cannot merit that degree of approbation For your Caution for Church-men and Church-matters as for any impediment it might be to the applause and celebrity of my work it moveth me not but as it may hinder the fruit and good which may come of a quiet and calme passage to the good Port to which it is bound I hold it a just respect so as to fetch a fair wind I go not too far about But troth is I shall have no occasion to meet them in my way except it be as they will needs confederate themselves with Aristotle who you know is intemperately magnified with the Scholemen and is also allyed as I take it to the Jesuits by Faber who was a companion of Loyola and a great Aristotelian I send you at this time the only part which hath any harshness and yet I framed to my self an opinion that whosoever allowed well of that Preface which you so much commend will not dislike or at least ought not dislike this other speech of Preparation For it is written out of the same spirit and out of the same necessitie Nay it doth more fully lay open that the question between me and the Ancients is not of the vertue of the race but of the rightness of the way And to speak truth it is to the other but as Palma to Pugnus part of the same thing more large You conceive aright that in this and the other you have Commission to impart and communicate them to others according to your discretion other matters I
trust in a business of that nature and recommend it to one or more of them to inform you of their opinions and of their reasons for or against the granting of it and if the matter be of great weight indeed then it would not be amiss to send several Copies of the same Petition to several of your Friends the one not knowing what the other doth and desire them to return their Answers to you by a certain time to be prefixed in writing so shall you receive an impartial Answer and by comparing the one with the other you shall both discern the Abilities and Faithfulness of your Friends and be able to give a judgment thereupon as an Oracle But by no means trust not your own judgment alone for no man is omniscient nor trust only to your Servants who may mislead you or misinform you by which they may perhaps gain a few Crowns but the Reproach will lie upon yourself if it be not rightly carried For the facilitating of your dispatches my Advice is further that you divide all the Petitions and the matters therein contained under several Heads which I conceive may be fitly ranked into these eight sorts 1. Matters that concern Religion and the Church and Church-men 2. Matters concerning Justice and the Laws and the Professors thereof 3. Councellors and the Councel-table and the great Offices and Officers of the Kingdom 4. Forrain Negotiations and Embassies 5. Peace and War both Forrain and Civil and in that the Navy and Forts and what belongs to them 6. Trade at home and abroad 7. Colonies or Forrain Plantations 8. The Court and Curiality And whatsoever will not fall naturally under one of these Heads believe me Sir will not be worthy of your thoughts in this capacity we now speak of And of these sorts I warrant you you will find enough to keep you in business I begin with the first which concerns Religion 1. In the first place be you your self rightly perswaded and setled in the true Protestant Religion professed by the Church of England which doubtless is as sound and orthodox in the Doctrine thereof as any Christian Church in the World 2. In this you need not be a Monitor to Your gracious Master the King the chiefest of His imperial Titles is to be The Defender of the Faith and His Learning is eminent not only above other Princes but above other men be but his Scholar and you are safe in that 3. For the Discipline of the Church of England by Bishops c. I will not positively say as some do that it 's Jure Divino but this I say and think ex animo that it is the nearest to Apostolical Truth and confidently I shall say it is fittest for Monarchy of all others I will use no other Authority to you than that excellent Proclamation set out by the King Himself in the first Year of His Reign and annexed before the Book of Common-Prayer which I desire you to read and if at any time there shall be the least motion made for Innovation to put the King in mind to read it Himself It is most dangerous in a State to give ear to the least alterations in Government 4. Take heed I beseech you that you be not an instrument to countenance the Romish Catholicks I cannot flatter the world believes that some near in blood to you are too much of that perswasion you must use them with fit respects according to the bonds of nature but you are of kin and so a Friend to their Persons not to their Errours 5. The Arch-bishops and Bishops next under the King have the Government of the Church and Ecclesiastical Affairs be not you the mean to prefer any to those places for any by-respects but only for their Learning Gravity and Worth their Lives and Doctrine ought to be exemplary 6. For Deans and Canons or Prebends of Cathedral Churches In their first institution they were of great use in the Church they were not only to be of councel with the Bishop for his revenue but chiefly for his Government in causes Ecclesiastical use your best means to preferre such to those places who are fit for that purpose men eminent for their learning piety and discretion and put the King often in minde thereof and let them be reduced again to their first institution 7. You will be often sollicited and parhaps importuned to preferre Scholars to Church-living you may further your friends in that way caeteris paribus otherwise remember I pray that these are not places meerly of favour the charge of souls lies upon them the greatest account whereof will be required at their own hands but they will share deeply in their faults who are the instruments of their Preferment 8. Besides the Romish Catholicks there is a generation of Sectaries the Anabaptists Brownists and others of their kinds they have been several times very busie in this Kingdom under the colour of zeal for reformation of Religion The King your Master knows their disposion very well a small touch will put him in mind of them he had experience of them in Scotland I hope he will beware of them in England a little countenance or connivency sets them on fire 9. Order and decent ceremonies in the Church are not only comely but commendable but there must be great care not to introduce innovations they will quickly prove scandalous men are naturally over-prone to suspition the true Protestant Religion is seated in the golden mean the enemies unto her are the extreams on either hand 10. The persons of Church-men are to be had in due respect for their works sake and protected from scorn but if a Clergie man be loose and scandalous he must not be patronized nor winck't at the example of a few such corrupt many 11. Great care must be takan that the patrimony of the Church be not sacrilegiously diverted to lay uses His Majesty in his time hath religiously stopped a leak that did much harm and would else have done more Be sure as much as in you lies stop the like upon all occasions 12. Colledges and Schools of learning are to be cherished and encouraged there to breed up a new stock to furnish the Church and Common-wealth when the old store are transplanted This Kingdom hath in latter ages been famous for good literature and if preferment shall attend the deservers there will not want supplies Next to Religion let your care be to promote Justice By Justice and mercy is The Kings throne established 1. Let the rule of Justice be the Laws of the Land an impartial arbiter between the King and his people and between one Subject and another I shall not speak superlatively of them lest I be suspected of partiality in regard of my own profession but this I may truly say they are second to none in the Christian world 2. And as far as it may lie in you let no Arbitrary power be intruded the people of this Kingdome love
but by Justice and Sentence as Delinquents and Criminals all three famous Writers Insomuch as the remembrance of their calamity is now as to posterity but as a little Picture of Night-work remaining amongst the fair and excellent Tables of their Acts and Works and all three if that were any thing to the matter fit examples to quench any mans ambition of rising again for that they were every one of them restored with great glory but to their further ruine and destruction ending in a violent death The men were Demosthenes Cicero and Seneca persons that I durst not claim affinity with except the similitude of our fortunes had contracted it When I had cast mine eyes upon these examples I was carried on further to observe how they did bear their fortunes and principally how they did imploy their times being banished and disabled for publick business to the end that I might learn by them and that they might be as well my Counsellors as my Comsorters Whereupon I happened to note how diversly their fortunes wrought upon them especially in that point at which I did most aim which was the employing of their times and pens In Cicero I saw that during his banishment which was almost two years he was so softned and dejected as he wrote nothing but a few womanish Episiles And yet in mine opinion he had least reason of the three to be discouraged for that although it was judged and judged by the highest kind of judgement in form of a Statute or Law That he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized and his houses pulled down and that it should be highly penal for any man to propound his repeal yet his case even then had no great blot of ignominy but it was thought but a tempest of Popularity which overthrew him Demosthenes contrary-wise though his case was foul being condemned for bribery and not simple bribery but bribery in the nature of Treason and disloyalty yet nevertheless he took so little knowledge of his fortune as during his banishment he did much busie himself and intermeddle with matters of State and took upon him to counsel the State as if he had been still at the Helm by Letters as appears by some Epistles of his which are extant Seneca indeed who was condemned for many corruptions and crimes and banished into a solitary Island kept a mean for though his Pen did not freeze ye he abstained from intruding into matters of business but spent his time in writing Books of excellent Arguments and use for all Ages though he might have made better choice sometimes of his Dedications These examples confirmed me much in a resolution whereunto I was otherwise inclined to spend my time wholy in writing and to put forth that poor Talent or half-talent or what it is that God hath given me not as heretofore to particular exchanges but to ranks or Mounts of Perpetuity which will not break Therefore having not long since set forth a part of my Instauration which is the work that in mine own judgement Si nunquam fallit Imago I may most esteem I think to proceed in some few parts thereof And although I have received from many parts beyond the Seas testimonies touching that work such as beyond which I could not expect at the first in so abstruse an Argument yet nevertheless I have just cause to doubt that it flies too much over mens heads I have a purpose therefore though I break the order of time to draw it down to the sense by some patterns of a Natural Story and Inquisition And again for that my Books of Advancement of Learning may be some preparative or Key for the better opening of the Instauration because it exhibits a mixture of new conceipts and old whereas the Instauration gives the new unmixed otherwise then with some little aspersion of the old for tastes sake I have thought to procure a Translation of that Book into the general Language not without great and ample additions and enrichment thereof especially in the second Book which handleth the partition of Sciences in such sort as I hold it may serve in lieu of the first part of the Instauration and acquit my promise in that part Again because I cannot altogether desert the civil person that I have borne which if I should forget enough would remember I have also entred into a work touching Laws propounding a Character of Justice in the middle Term between the speculative and reverend discourses of Philosophers and the writings of Lawyers which are tied and obnoxious to their particular Laws And although it be true that I had a purpose to make a particular Digest or re-compilement of the Laws of mine own Nation yet because it is a Work of assistance and that that I cannot master by my own forces and pen I have laid it aside Now having in the work of my Instauration had in contemplatiō the general good of men in their very being and dowries of nature in my work of Laws the general good of men in Society and the dowries of Government I thought in duty I owed somewhat unto mine own Countrey which I ever loved insomuch as although my place hath been far above my deserts yet my thoughts and cares concerning the good thereof were beyond and over and above my place So now being as I am no more able to do my Countrey service it remained unto me to do it honour which I have endeavoured to do in my Work of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh As for my Essayes and some other particulars of that Nature I count them but as the Recreations of my other Studies and in that sort I purpose to continue them though I am not ignorant that those kind of Writings would with less pains and embracement perhaps yield more lustre and reputation to my Name than those other which I have in hand But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own Writings before his death to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man and not to go along with him But revolving with myself my Writings as well those I have published as those which I had in hand methought they went all into the City and none into the Temple where because I have found so great consolation I desire likewise to make some poor oblation Therefore I have chosen an Argument mixt of Religious and Civil Considerations and likewise mixt between Contemplative and Active For who can tell whether there may not be an Exoriere aliquis Great matters especially if they be Religious have many times small beginnings and the Plat-form may draw on the Building This Work because I was ever an enemy to flattering Dedications I have dedicated to your Lordship in respect of our ancient and private acquaintance and because amongst the men of our times I hold you in especial Reverence Sir Francis Bacon to the King about
sorry that at present I am unfurnished to help you with a Secretary my servant Windebanke is sick Mr. Sommers will not be induced to leave his place So as nevertheless if I can procure you any other meet person by the next Messenger you shall hear I thank you for the Chart of Paris and for a written Book to the Queens Majestie whereof her Majesty would gladly know the Author And so I end Yours assuredly W. Cecil Richmond 14. July 1567. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR AT my last writing by Master Jenny I did not make any mention of answer to your request for the provision of a Secretary Because I heard that you meant to place one Molenenx if he might be recommended by me and truly if he be meet for the place I do well allow thereof for howsoever he did in times past misuse me I have remitted it and wish him well My Lord Keeper prayeth you to use some good means to inquire by the way of Orleans of Sir Ralph Pawlet what is become of him and where he is and how he doth It is certain on the 29. of July the Prince of Scotland was Crowned King at Sterling with all the Ceremonies thereto due and with a general applause of all sorts the Queen yet remaineth where she was Yours assuredly W. Cecil Windsor 5. Aug. 1567. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR YOu shall perceive by the Queens Majesties Letter to you at this present how earnestly she is bent in the favor of the Queen of Scots and truely since the beginning she hath been greatly offended with the Lords and howsoever her Majesty might make her profit by bearing with the Lords in this Action yet no councel can stay her Majestie from manifesting of her misliking of them So as indeed I think thereby the French may and will easily catch them and make their present profit of them to the damage of England and in this behalf her Majesty had no small misliking of that Book which you sent me written in French whose name yet I know not but howsoever I think him of great Wit and acquaintance in the affairs of the world It is not in my power to procure any reward and therefore you must so use the matter as he neither be discouraged nor think unkindness in me When all is done I think my Lord of Murray will take the Office of Regency and will so band himself with the rest as he will be out of peril at home And as for External power to offend them I think they are so skillful of other Princes causes and needs as I think they will remain without fear We are occupied with no news greater then this of Scotland We begin to doubt of the King of Spains coming out of Spain finding it more likely for his Son to come In Ireland all things proceed smoothly to make the whole Realm obedient the Deputie hath leave to come over to confer with the Queens Majesty upon the affairs My Lord of Sussex wrot from Augusta the 24. of July that he meant to be at Vienna the last of July and also that the Emperor meant to be there at the same time I must heartily pray you to bear with my advice that in your expences you have consideration not to expend so much as by your Bills brought to me by your servant Cartwright it seemeth you do for truely I have no Warrant to allow such several Fees as be therein contained neither did I know any of the like allowed to any of your predecessors and in the paying for your intelligences if you be not well ware you shall for the most part have counterfeited ware for good money In matters of importance or when you are precisely commanded to prosecute matters of weight it is reason your extraordinary charges be born but as to the common Advisees of the Occurrents abroad they are to be commonly had for small value and many times as news for news for at this day the common Advisees from Venice Rome Spain Constantinople Vienna Geneva Naples yea and from Paris are made so currant as every Merchant hath them with their letters from their Factors If I did not know your good Nature I would not thus plainly write and yet if I should not hereof warn you your expences might increase and I know not how to procure your payment and yet hereby I mean to do my best at all times to help you to allowance for all necessary expences and so take my leave Yours assuredly W. Cecil From the Mannor of Guilford 19. Aug. 1567. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR I Have had no good Messenger of good time to write unto you the Queens Majesty hath been abroad from Windsor these twenty dayes and returned on Saturday very well Lignerolls is come out of Scotland with very small satisfaction as I think he could not speak with the Queen no more then Sir Nicholas Throckmorton who also is returning The Hambletons hold out the Earl of Murray is now Regent the Queens Majesty our Sovereign remaineth still offended with the Lords for the Queen the example moveth her In Ireland all things prosper and be quiet Sir Henry Sydney shall come onely to confer and shall return to keep a Parliament in Ireland My Lord of Sussex was honorably received the fifth of August lodged and defrayed by the Emperor had his first Audience on the eight the Arch-Duke Charles was looked for within five days and now we daily look for Sir Henry Cobham to come in Post at the least within these ten days All things are quiet within this Realm thanked be Almighty God I have presently a paper sent me from Antwerp in French very strange containing an Edict to compell all Judges Governors all Officers and Councellors to give Attestation of the Catholick Faith if it should be true it should be a hazard to make a plain civil war My Lady your Wife came this night hither to Windsor whom I have warned to write to you by this bearer Yours assuredly W. Cecil Septem 3. 1567. To the Right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR YOu may perceive by the Queens letter how this noble man is partly of his own minde partly by perswasion stayed and surely if either the French King or the Queen should appear to make any force against them of Scotland for the Queens cause we finde it credibly that it were the next way to make an end of her and for that cause her Majesty is loth to take that way for avoiding of standers that might grow thereby I had provided a young man for you which could have served very well for writing and speaking of French and English but I durst not allow him to serve you in your
that Business 28. 29. 30 31 32 33 c. His advice to Sir George Villiers concorning Ireland wherein three Propositions are acutely scan'd 1. Touching the Recusant Magistrates of Towns there 2. About roducing the Number of the Council from Fifty to twenty 3. That a means may be found to re-enforce the Army by 500. or 1000. men without increase of Charge 67 68 69. From him to the Duke when he first became a Favourite with somo directions or his demeanor in that eminent place ranked into eight material Heads with an ample and quaint gloss upon each of them most elegantly pen'd 43 44. Again to him upon sending his Pattent for Viscount Villiers with several Avisoes and incidently a Censure of the Cecils the Father and the Son Pag. 70 71. Sends the King a Certificate from the Lord Coke 72. Sends to the King an Essay of History of His Majesties time 9. Desires the History of Brittain may be written for three Observations 7 8. Sixty four years old in Age and three years and five months in misery desires neither means place nor imployment but a total remission of the sentence of the Upper House by the example of Sir John Bennet 81. To the King touching the Plantation of Ireland as formerly of the Union as being Brother thereunto 6. To the Earl of Salisbury touching his Book of the advancement of Learning saying He is but like a Bell-ringer to awake better spirits 9 10. Several Letters to great Personages in sending unto them his Book of advancement of Learning and the presenting of it to the King 10 11. To Dr. Plafer touching the Translating of it into Latine with many excellent Reasons to that Inducement 11 12. To Sir Thomas Bodley upon sending the same Book 13. To divers Friends upon sending unto them some other of his Books 13. 14 15 16. To Mr. Savil touching the Education of Youth and the improving the Intellectual Powers Pag. 17. A Factious Book stiling the Queen Misera Faemina the addition of the Popes Bull. 21. The business of the Commendams and the carriage of the Judges therein related to the King 76 77. Three Examples of great Calamity Demosthenes Cicero and Seneca A Discourse concerning his own Books 78 79 80. A learned and ample Discourse touching a Digest to be made of the Laws of England from 82. to 86. To the Earl of Devonshire a Letter Apologetical touching a common fame as if he had been false or ungrateful to the Earl of Essex something long but exquisitely pen'd from 87. to 104. A discourse touching Helps for the Intellectual Powers by Sir Fran. Bacoa Faber quisque fortunae suae an insolent saying except it be interpreted as an hortative to correct slâ—th and not as it soundeth an high imagination for any man to fathom all Accidents Faber quisque Ingenii sui more true and more profitable Divers manner of instances in Improvements not only in the body of man but in his mind and spirit and therein not only in his Appetite and Affection but in his Powers of Wit and Reason The Will most manageable and admitteth most Medicines for Cure The first is Religion 2. Opinion and Apprehension 3. Example 4. When one affection is corrected by another And lastly a Confirmation of all by custom and habit Five Rules for exercises Pag. 97 98 99 100 Sir Francis Bacon to the King modestly Apologetical intimating his former services and his present low condition after the sentence pronounced against him by the Lords Implores the King that he that hath born a bag may not in his age be forc'd to bear aWallet nor he that desired to live to study may not be driven to study to live 101 102 103 104 C. CEcil Sir William to Sir Henry Norris Ambassadour in France about his Entertainment there being Extraordinary and what the Reason should be Sha'ne Oneal sues to be received into the Queens favour 105 106. Taxes Mounsieur de Foix for breach of promise in not delivering Lestrille The News of the death of the King of Scots and the manner of it Earl Bothwell suspected 107 108. Callice demanded to be restored to the Queen according to the Treaty of Cambray More of the business of the murder of the King of Scots words which touch't that Queen but fit to be supprest Pag. 109 111. If Callice be not delivered 50000 l. is to be forfeited 110. Matters in Flanders go hard against the Protestants 111. Those of the Order of France if life or honour be touched to be tried by Kings and others of the same Order ibid. Marriage of the Queen of Scots to Bothwell the prime of the Nobility against it 112. The French Kings Letter touching Callice ill resented by the Queen The Queen of Scots married the 15th of May. 113. Bothwell prosecuted for the murder defended by the Queen and the Hambletons the Queen under restraint Sha'ne Oneal slain in Ireland by certain Scots 114. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton sent into Scotland to Negotiate a Pacification The two Factions of the Hambletons and Lenox's 115. The Prince of Scotland Crowned at Sterling the 29th of July 116. Queen Elizabeth offended with the Scotch Lords Murray like to be made Regent Advice to Sir Henry Norris touching his Expences 117. Murray made Regent my Lord of Sussex with the Emperour all Judges Officers c. At Antwerp compelled to attest the Catholick Faith 118. Bothwell reported to be taken at Sea 119 120. Dunbar rendred to the Regent the Keeper thereof adjudged to a new Punishment Pag. 120. Expectation of Marriage between the Queen and the Archduke Charles 121. Troubles in France between the Prince of Conde and the King 121 122. The Queen of Scots noted by the Parliament there to be privy to the murder of her husband 123. The Earl of Desmond and his brother in the Tower 125. Fishermen of Diepe taken at Rye with unlawful Nets 126. The Popes Ministers preferre the State of their corrupt Church before the Weal of any Kingdom 128. The Earl of Sussex his return The Prince of Orange his Son to be sent into Spain and doubted Egmond and Horn must follow ibid. Emanuel Tremelius sent into England by the Elector Palatine The Prince of Orange refuseth to be judged by the Duke of Alva The Hambletons continue their Faction The death of Sir Ambrose Cave 129. Beaton sent from Scotland into France for 1000. Harquebusiers Money and Ordnance 131. Devilish practice against the Queen The Scots Queen removed to Bolton Castle her demands of the Queen denied 133. The Queen of Scots submits her Cause to be heard and determined in England 134 135 136 c. What preparations in France intended for Scotland Great expectation of the success of matters in the Low Countries Pag. 137. Unhappy but incredible News out of Flanders The Duke of Norfolk the Earl of Sussex and Sir Walter Mildmay Commissioners in the North about the Queen of Scots business 138. She makes Arguile and Huntley Lieutenants and the
Duke of Chastillherault over all They raise Forces against the Regent are Routed 139. A Couragious Answer from Queen Elizabeth to the French Ambassadour and the Audience adjourned 140. She sends a Ring to Marshal Montmorancy his wife 141. The Bishop of Rhemes Ambassador from France is offended that the doctrine of Rome is said to be contrary to Christs deducing consequently that his Mr. should be reputed no Christian and how that Speech was salved The Cardinal Chastillons Wife comes over 141 142. The Reason of the Cardinals coming into England Ships sent by the Queen to preserve the Bourdeaux Fleet. The Queen of Scots Case not defensible and the Consequence thereof 144. Matters about the Queen of Scots Chastillion highly commended 144 145. The Cause of the Queen of Scots to be heard here 146. Passages touching the differences between the King and the Prince of Conde Pag. 147. Matters against the Queen of Scots very bad 148. Sir Henry Norris claims the Lord Dacres Lands 149. Three manner of wayes proposed for ending the Scottish differences 150. Spanish Treasure stayed ibid. 151 156. The Parliament of Scotland declares the Queen of Scots privy to the murder of her Husband 152. D'Assonvill comes over Without Commission and desires Conference with the Spanish Ambassadour but denied 153. Hawkins his Return to Mounts Bay from the Indies with Treasure The Queen of Scots at Tetbury under the charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury 153. The French Ambassadors Currier searched and the Reason of it 154. The Prince of Conde slain in Battel against the King 157. The 13th of March had two great Effects 158. Differences in Scotland accorded 159. But not observed 160. Sir William Cecil laments the misfortune of France means made to accord with the Low Countries Scottish Nobility reconciled 61. Original Letters intercepted by persons of credit in the FrenchCourt of advertisement concerning the Queen of Scots and the Duke of Anjou Pag. 161. That the said Queen should transfer her title on the said Duke to learn more truth hereof and advertise with speed The Queens Ships far excel others 162. The Queen of Scots excuseth her Transaction with the Duke of Anjou 163 164. A Rebellion in the West-part of Ireland and the Spaniards aid feared 164. My Lord of Shrewsbury strucken with a Palsie and a Phrensie 165. The Parisians execute two Merchants whom the King had pardon'd The English Ambassador taxed for dealing with the Kings Rebels 166. The Earl of Desmond's great Rebellion in Ireland but dispersed 167 168. An Italian sent hither upon a Devilish attempt An Insurrection in Suffolk Queen Elizabeth desires to be rid of the Queen of Scots 169. The Queen offended at the Duke of Norfolk about his Marriage Sir William Cecil his good Friend therein my Lords of Arundel and Pembroke confined to their Lodgings about it and so is the Lord Lumley My Lord of Huntington joined with the Earl of Shrewsbury in the custody of the Scots Queen 172. The King of Spains designs with the Irish. Pag. 173. The grand Rebellion in the North and the pretences thereof and their numbers and names 174 175. A Report of the death of the Count Nassau the Northern Rebellion scattered and their Ring-leaders fled 176. Extracts of Letters out of the north The two Rebellious Earls in Liddesdale but flee from thence The Countess of Northumberland and her attendants robbed in Scotland The Earls flee with about 50. horse Westmerland changeth his coat of plate sword and travails like a Scottish borderer many others taken 177 178 The Regent of Scotland takes the Earl of Northumberland and others The Lord Fernhurst and Bucklugh aiders of them p. 178 The Murther of the Regent of Scotland at Lithgo by Hambleton of Bothwell Hall The Earl of Sussex his wise and noble carriage The Hambletons strongly suspected for the murder and why 179 180 The French Embassador makes 3 demands of the Queen in behalf of the Queen of Scots p. 181 Sir William Cecil names to the Queen Mr. Francis Walsingham and Mr. Henry Killigrew to succeed Sir Henry Norris in France p. 182 The Earl of Sussex goes again into Scotland The Bishop of Ross writes a Book in defence of the Queen of Scots and dangerous against Queen Elizabeth Pag. 183. The Earls of Worcester and Huntington made Knights of the Order p. 184 The Earl of Sussex and the Lord Hunsdon enter Scotland with fire and sword 50. Castles and 300 Villages burnt p. 184 185 The Lord Scroop Warden of the West Marshes makes great devastation in Scotland The Castle of Hume surrendred to the Lords of Sussex and Hunsdon and well fortified for the Queens service A great part of the Scotish borderers obediently adhere to their King and offer dependance upon the Queens Majesty The contrary part act rebelliously A great meeting of Lords on both sides at Edenburgh in Armes to try who shall have the authority p. 186 187 Simon Musgrage General of the horse routs the Lord Maxell is in some distress by him but is relieved by the Lord Scroop 's forces and the Maxwels and several other Lords escaped by flight Drumlangricks servants and tenants although pretended favorers of the King and Queen cruel to the English Dumfriese a Receptacle of English Rebels p. 187 188 The Queen of Scots desires cessation of Armes the Bishop of Ross plots against the Queen p. 189 Sir Henry Norris to be revoked and Mr. Walsingham to go in his place ibid. The Marshal of Berwick betray'd by the Bishop of St. Andrews and other Lords who under colour and treaty with him intended to have slain him he destroys the Hambletons Castles and houses Pag. 190. The Earl of Southampton for complyance with the Bishop of Ross is committed close prisoner to the Sheriff of London The fond Lord Morley withdraws to Lovain p. 191 The French King mediates for the Queen of Scots the Queen keeps some Castles in Scotland until her subjects of England should have satisfaction p. 191 192 Sir William Cecil and Sir Walter Mildmay are sent Commissioners to the Scotch Queen and they like not the message The Lord Coke to King James touching tryal of Duels out of England occasioned by putting to death of Doubty beyond the Seas by Sir Francis Drake that crime tryable only before the Constable and Marshal of England p. 193 194 H. THe History of the Reign of King Henry the 8th King Edward the 6th Queen Mary and part of Queen Eliz. p. 194 195 I. Exquisitely begun but left imprfect Two Copies of Letters from King James to the Lords touching abatement of his houshold charge and the means of redresse p. 198 199 From the King to the Lord Bacon in commendation of his book caled the Organon To Sir Thomas Coventry Atturney General commanding him to prepare a pardon of the whole sentence pronounc'd against my Lord Bacon p. 200 201 S. SIr Philip Sidney to the Queen diswading her from her marriage with Mounsieur most elegantly and judiciously penned p. 201 202 203 A most quaint Speech made by the Lord Bacon then Sollicitor General at the arraignment of the Lord Sanquir as well in extenuation as aggravation of the murder of Turner 209 210 c. The Countess of Shrewsburies Case touching the Marriage of the Lady Arabella and her refusal to be examined therein 212 213. T. SIR Nicholas Throckmorton Ambassador in France to Q. Elizabeth touching a free passage for the Q of Scots through England into Scotland several Politick Reasons urged on both sides between him the Queen of Scots and the Queen-Mother of France 214 215 216 c. FINIS ERRATA PAge 72. line 16. for bnt read but. p. 89. l. 22. for Twilknam r. Twitnam p. 97 l. 3. for fortunas suas r. fortunae suae p. 116. l. 3. for Moleneux r. Molineux p. 120. in fine for name r. named p. 130. l. 9. for what r. with and l. 7. for not r. now p. 137. l. 12. for to r. to be p 165. l. 6. for there r. here p. 173. l. 9. or 10. for over r. fromus p. 182. l. 14. for inferrior r. inferior p. 208. l. 18. for Holladour r. Hollander and in the same line for le r. he p. 211. l. 21. for Luedia r. Suedia p. 224. l. 26. for Abeville r. Abbeville 27 E. 3. Cap. 1. 4 H. 4. Cap. 23. These that follow are but indigested Notes Entertainment above ordinary To know the cause thereof Her Majestie much mislikes of the Prince of Conde and Thadnur Lords of France The Lords of the Council do all they can to cover the same Her Majesty being a Prince her self is doubtful to give comfort to subjects Our Ambassador to comfort them nevertheless as occasion serves Expectation of the Queens marrying with the Archduke Charles In Scotland all quiet the Scotish Queen still in Loughlevin and in health Murray ruleth quietly as Regent Original lettere intercepted by persons of credit in the French ourt of Advertisement concerning the Q of Scots and Duke of Anjou That the said Scotish Queen should transfer her Title on the said Duke To learn more truth hereof and advertise with speed This precisely denyed by the other side To send a trusty person to Marcells 19. Febr. 1616. Note before this Statute Criminal Causes were often adjudged in Parliament