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A58844	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.; Scrinia Ceciliana.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Throckmorton, Nicholas, Sir, 1515-1571.	1663 (1663)	Wing S2109; ESTC R10583	213,730	256

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

Queens Coffers for his own honours sake 3. But if it were an Embassy of weight concerning affairs of State choice was made of some sad person of known judgment wisdom and experience and not of a young man nor wayed in State-matters nor of a meer formal man whatsoever his title or outside were 4. Yet in company of such some young towardly Noblemen or Gentleman were usually sent also as assistance or attendants according to the quality of the persons who might be thereby perpared and sitted for the like imployment by this means at another turn 5. In their company were always sent some garve and sad men skilful in the Civil Laws and some in the Languages and some who had been formerly conversant in the Courts of those Princes and knew their ways these were assistance in private but not trusted to manage the affairs in publick that would decract from the honour of the Principal Embassadour 6. If the Negotiation were about Merchants affaires then were the persons imployed for the most part Doctors of the Civil Law assisted with some other discreet men and in such the charge was ordinarily defrayed by the Company or Society of Merchants whom the Negotiation concerneth 7. If Legier Embassadors or Agents were sent to remain in or neer the Courts of those Princes or States as it was ever held fit to observe the motions and to hold correspondency with them upon all occasions such were made choice of as were presumed to be vigilant industrious and discreet men and had the Language of the place whither they were sent and with these were sent such as were hopeful to be worthy of the like imployment at another time 8. Their care was to give true and timely Intelligence of all Occurrences either to the Queen her self or the Secretaries of State unto whom they had their immediate relation 9. Their charge was alwayes born by the Queen duly paid out of the Exchequer in such proportion as according to their qualities and places might give them an honourable subsistence there But for the reward of their service they were to expect it upon their return by some such preferment as might be worthy of them and yet be little burthen to the Queens Coffers or Revenues 10. At their going forth they had their general Instructions in writing which might be communicated to the Ministers of that State whither they were sent and they had also private instructions upon particular occasions and at their return they did always render an account of some things to the Queen her self of some things to the body of the Councel and of some others to the Secretaries of State who made use of them or communicated them as there was cause 11. In those days there was a constant course held that by the advice of the Secretaries or some principal Councellors there were always sent forth into several parts beyond the Seas some young men of whom good hopes were conceived of their towardliness to be trained up and made fit for such publick imployment and to learn the Languages This was at the charge of the Queen which was not much for they travelled but as private Gentlemen and as by their industry their deserts did appear so were they farther imployed or rewarded This course I shall recommend unto you to breed up a nursery of such publick Plants V. For peace and war and those things which appertain to either I in my own disposition and profession am wholly for peace if it please God to bless the Kingdome therewith as for many years past he hath done and 1. I presume I shall not need to perswade you to the advancing of it nor shall you need to perswade the King your Master therein for that he hath hitherto been another Solomon in this our Israel and the Motto which he hath chosen Beati Pacifici shews his own judgement But he must use the means to preserve it else such a jewel may be lost 2. God is the God of peace it is one of his Attributes therefore by him alone we must pray and hope to continue it there is the foundation 3. And the King must not neglect the just ways for it Justice is the best Protector of it at home and providence for war is the best prevention of it from abroad 4. Wars are either Forreign or Civil for the Forreign war by the King upon some Neighbour Nation I hope we are secure the King in his pious and just disposition is not inclinable thereunto his Empire is long enough bounded with the Ocean as if the very Scituation thereof had taught the King and People to setup their rests and say Ne plus ultra 5. And for a war of invasion from abroad only we must not be over-secure that 's the way to invite it 6. But if we be always prepared to receive an enemy if the ambition or malice of any should incite him we may be very confident we shall long live in peace and quietness without any attempts upon us 7. To make the preparations hereunto the more assured In the first place I will recommend unto you the care of our out-work the Navy Royal and Shipping of our Kingdome which are the walls thereof and every great Ship is an impregnable fort and our many safe and commodious Ports and Havens in every of these Kingdoms are as the redoubts to secure them 8. For the body of the Ships no Nation of the World doth equal England for the Oaken Timber wherewith to build them and we need not borrow of any other Iron for Spikes or Nails to fasten them together but there must be a great deal of Providence used that our Ship-Timber be not unnecessarily wasted 9. But for Tackling as Sails and Cordage we are beholden to our Neighbours for them and do buy them for our money that must be foreseen and laid up in store against a time of need and not sought for when we are to use them But we are much too blame that we make them not at home only Pitch and Tar we have not of our own 10. For the true Art of building of Ships for Burthen and Service both no Nation in the World exceeds us Ship-wrights and all other Artisans belonging to that Trade must be cherished and encouraged 11. Powder and Ammunition of all sorts we can have at home and in Exchange for other Home-Commodities we may be plentifully supplied from our Neighbours which must not be neglected 12. With Mariners and Seamen this Kingdom is plentifully furnished the constant Trade of Merchandizing will furnish us at a need and Navigable Rivers will repair the store both to the Navy Royal and to the Merchants if they be set on work and well payed for their Labour 13. Sea-Captains and Commanders and other Officers must be encouraged and rise by Degrees as their Fidelity and Industry deserve it 14. Our strict League of Amity and Alliance with our near Neighbour the Hollanders is a mutual strength

it hath been answered untill her cause may appear more probable for her innocency the Queens Majesty cannot with honor receive her personally but if the Queen will by any manner of means honorable let her cause appear to be void of the horrible crime imputed to her for the murthering of her husband she shall be aided and used with all honor whereunto she will give no resolute answer other then that if she may come personally to the Queens Majesty then she will let it appear how she standeth in the cause Hereupon we stand at a brawl she much offended that she hath not her requests and we much troubled with the difficulties finding neither her continuance here good nor her departing hence quiet for us We here speak of one La Mote that should come hither Yours assured W. Cecil From Havering the 13. of July in haste Postscript And for and x I pray you put them in comfort that if extremity should happen they must not be left for it is so universal a cause as none of the Religion can separate themselves one from another we must all pray together and stand fast together and further c. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France AFter my hearty commendations though here be no great cause of present dispatch to you yet for the return of this bearer your servant Darrington having been long here and also to let you understand of the Queens Majesty proceedings with the Queen of Scots since her being in this Realm and since my last letters to you I have taken this occasion to return him to you The Queen of Scots having long laboured the Queens Majesty both by Messages and Letters to have aid of her Majesty against the Lords of Scotland and by force to restore her to her Realm her Majesty could not finde it meet in honor so to do but rather to seek all other good means to compass it with quiet and honor wherein much travailing hath been spent Finally the Queen of Scots hath agreed that her matter shall be heard in this Realm before some good personages to be deputed by the Queens Majesty to meet with some of the Lords of Scotland about New-Castle or Durham or neer this way as shall be found fit and so to be reported to her Majesty This way being now resolved upon and accepted of all parts the Earl of Murray hath offered to come himself in person if her Majesty finde it good accompanyed with others of meet condition to any place and at any time that her Majesty will appoint and because the Lord Herreys having long been here for the Queen of Scots and lately gone to her hath on his Mistrisses behalf required that speed might be used in this matter the Queens Majesty hath by her special letters required the Earle of Murray that all expedition may be made either for his own or else that some others may come chosen to be persons of wisdom and dexterity and void of all particular passion in such a cause as this is and upon his answer of the persons that shall be thus appointed there the Queens Majesty will with all speed send like fit personages from hence to meet with them and in the mean time where they the Lords of Scotland had summoned a Parliament of their three Estates to assemble in this next August her Majesty hath required them to suspend the holding of the Parliament untill the issue of this matter to be heard by her Majesty may come to some end In this meeting the Queens Majesty doth not mean to charge the Queen of Scots but will hear what the Lords can alleadge for themselves to defend all their doings and proceedings for imprisoning and deposing their Queen and other matters published by them and thereof to cause report to be made to her to be answered and likewise to carry such matters as are to come from her against them and upon hearing of all parts as matters shall in truth fall out so doth her Majesty mean to deal further therein as honor will lead and move her to do Whilst these things have been in doing the Queens Majesty hath been advertised though not from the Queen of Scots that she hath deputed the whole Government of her Realm of Scotland to the Duke of Chastilheraulte thereby both to make a party as may be supposed betwixt him and the Earl of Murray and also to be the earnester to procure Forreign aid for his maintenance whereof her Majesty is informed there is a great appearance having obtained of the French King good numbers of Harquebuziers and others ready to embarque for Scotland which being true her Majesty hath good cause to let the said King understand that it is against his promise as your self knoweth best And so hath also the said Queen assured her Majesty that she will not procure any Strangers to come into Scotland for her use untill it may appear what will ensue of this meeting But if the contrary fall out either by her own means or by the procuring of the said Duke of Chastilherault in France the Queens Majesty will not onely forbear to deal any further for the benefit of the Queen of Scots as hitherto her Highness hath done with all honor and sincerity having had as great care of her cause as she her self could have but shall be justly moved to do otherwise then the said Queen or her friends abroad would wish Thus much I thought good to impart unto you of these matters to the end that if you being there finde indeed that the said Duke doth obtain any such aide there to be sent into Scotland you may take occasion to deal therein with the King or with such as you know fittest for the stay thereof The Queen is now removed lately from Carlile to Bolton Castle a house of the Lord Scroops about 30. miles within the land fitter in all respects for her to lye at then Carlile being a Town for Frontier and War the Queens Majesty doth cause her to be very well and honorably used and accompanied And thus having no other present matter to write unto you I thought good herewith to return your servant to you wishing you right heartily well to do From the Court at Endfield the 25. of July 1568. After the end of this letter your servant Wall arrived here with your letters to the Lord Steward the Earl of Leicester and to me for answer to the letter which we wrote to you which letter after I had caused to be deciphered I sent to the Court to them my self being at my house near Waltham not well at ease nor in case to go to Court I long much to hear answer of letters sent by your Lackque touching the matter of an Italian whereof I doubt the Queens Majesty is more careful to hear then she doth here express at this time I have received a letter from an Italian there with you who