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cause_n	according_a	court_n	law_n	1,543	5	4.8094	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28017	The apology of Sr. Francis Bacon, Kt. in certain imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex written to the Right Honourable his very good Lord the Earl of Devonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Devonshire, Charles Blount, Earl of, 1563-1606.	1670 (1670)	Wing B268; ESTC R27214	17,987	17

and the sharpness of their sword and had the natural elemental advantages of woods and boggs and hardness of bodies they ever found they had their hands full of them and therefore concluded that going over with such expectation as he did and through the churlishness of the enterprise not like to answer it would mightily diminish his reputation and many other reasons I used so as I am sure I never in any thing in my life time dealt with him in like earnestness by speech by writing and by all the means I could devise For I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey as it is possible for a man to ground a judgement upon future contingents But my Lord howsoever his ear was open yet his heart and resolution was shut against that advise whereby his ruin might have been prevented After my Lords going I saw then how true a Prophet I was in regard of the evident alteration which naturally succeeded in the Queens mind and thereupon I was still in watch to find the best occasion that in the weakness of my power I could either take or minister to pull him out of the fire if it had been possible and not long after me thought I saw some overture thereof which I apprehended readily a particularity I think be known to very few and the which I do the rather relate unto your Lordship because I hear it should be talked that while my Lord was in Ireland I revealed some matters against him or I cannot tell what which if it were not a mear slander as the rest is but had any though never so little colour was surely upon this occasion The Queen one day at Nonesuch a little as I remember before Cuffes coming over I attending on her shewed a passionare distast of my Lords proceedings in Ireland as if they were unfortunate without judgment contemptuous and not without some private end of his own and all that might be and was pleased as she spake of it to many that she trusted least so to fall into the like speech with me whereupon I who was still awake and true to my grounds which I thought surest for my Lords good said to this effect Madam I know not the particulars of Estate and I know this that Princes actions must have no abrupt periods or conclusions but otherwise I would think that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand as my Lord of Leicester had and continued him still about you for society to your self and for an honor and ornament to your Attendance and Court in the eyes of your people and in the eyes of forraign Ambassadors than were he in his right element for to d● content him as you do and yet to put arms and power into his hands may be a kind of temptation to make him prove combersome and unruly And therefore if you would ●mp nere b●nam clausulam and send for him and satisfie him with honour here near you if your affairs which as I have said I am not acquainted with will permit it I think were the best way Which course your Lordship knoweth if it had been taken then all had been well and no contempt in my Lords coming over nor continuance of these jealousies which that employment of Ireland bred and my Lord here in his former greatness Well the next news that I heard was that my Lord was come over and that he was committed to his Chamber for leaving Ireland without the Queens licence this was at Nonesuch where as my duty was I came to his Lordship and talked with him privately about a quarter of an hour and he asked mine opinion of the course was taken with him I told him My Lord Nubecula est cito transibit it is but a mist but shall I tell your Lordship it is as mists are if it go upwards it may perhaps cause a snowre if downwards it will clear up And therefore good my Lord carry it so as you take away by all means all umbrages and distasts from the Queen and especially if I were worthy to advise you as I have been by your self thought and now your question imports the continuance of that opinion observe three points First make not this cessation or peace which is concluded with Tyrone as a service wherein you glory but as a shuffling up of a prosecution which was not very fortunate Next represent not to the Queen any necessity of estate whereby as by a coercion or wrench she should think her self inforced to send you back into Ireland but leave it to her Thirdly s●ck accesse importune opportun● seriously sportingly every way I remember my Lord was willing to hear me but spake very few words and shaked his head sometimes as if he thought I was in the wrong but sure I am he did just contrary in every one of these three points After this during the while since my Lord was committed to my Lord Keepers I came divers times to the Queen as I had used to do about causes of her revenue and law business as is well known by reason of which accesses according to the ordinary charities of Court it was given out that I was one of them that incensed the Queen against my Lord of Essex These speeches I cannot tell nor I will not think that they grew any way from her Majesties own speeches whose memory I will ever honour if they did she is with God and miserum est ab illis laedi de quibus non possis queri But I must give this testimony to my Lord Cecil that one time in his house at the Savoy he dealt with me directly and said to me Cousin I hear it but I believe it not that you should do some ill office to my Lord of Essex for my part I am meerly passive and not active in this action and I follow the Queen and that heavi y and I lead her not my Lord of Essex is one that in nature I could consent with as well as with any one living the Queen indeed is my Soveraign and I am her creature I may not lose her and the same course I would wish you to take whereupon I satisfied him how far I was from any such mind And as sometimes it cometh to pass that mens inclinations are opened more in a toy than in a serious matter A little before that time being about the midle of Michaelmas Term her Majesty had a purpose to dine at my lodge at Twicknam Park at which time I had though I profess not to be a Poet prepared a Sonnet directly tending and alluding to draw on her Majesties reconcilement to my Lord which I remember also shewed to a great person one of my Lords nearest friends who commended it this though it be as I said but a toy yet it shewed plainly in what spirit I proceeded and that I was ready not only to do my Lord