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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01003	Sir Francis Bacon his apologie, in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex VVritten to the right Honorable his very good Lord, the Earle of Deuonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.; Apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1604 (1604)	STC 1111; ESTC S104433	17,982	74

but to publish and declare my selfe for him and neuer was I so ambitious of any thing in my life time as I was to haue caried some token or fauour from her Maiestie to my Lord vsing all the art I had both to procure her Maiestie to send and my selfe to be the messenger for as to the former I feared not to alleage to her that this proceeding towards my Lord was a thing towards the people verie implausible and therefore wished her Maiestie howsoeuer she did yet to discharge her selfe of it and to lay it vpon others and therefore that she should intermixe her proceeding with some immediate graces from her selfe that the world might take knowledge of her Princely nature and goodnesse lest it should alienate the hearts of her people from her Which I did stand vpon knowing very well that if she once relented to send or visite those demonstrations wold proue matter of substance for my Lords good And to draw that employment vpon my selfe I aduised her Maiestie that whensoeuer God should moue her to turne the light of her fauour toward my Lord to make signification to him thereof that her Maiestie if she did it not in person would at the least vse some such meane as might not intitle themselues to any part of the thanks as persons that were thought mightie with her to worke her or to bring her about but to vse some such as could not be thought but a meere conduct of her owne goodnesse but I could neuer preuaile with her though I am perswaded she saw plainely whereat I leuelled but she had me in iealousie that I was not hers intirely but still had inward and deepe respects towards my Lord more then stood at that time with her will and pleasure About the same time I remember an answer of mine in a matter which had some affinitie with my Lords cause which though it grew from me went after about in others names For her Maiesty being mightily incensed with that booke which was dedicated to my Lord of Essex being a storie of the first yeare of king Henry the fourth thinking it a seditious prelude to put into the peoples heads boldnesse and faction said she had good opinion that there was treason in it and asked me if I could not find any places in it that might be drawne within case of treason whereto I answered for treason surely I found none but for fellonie very many And when her Maiestie hastily asked me wherein I told her the Author had committed very apparant theft for he had taken most of the sentences of Cornelius Tacitus and translated them into English and put them into his text And another time when the Queene would not be perswaded that it was his writing whose name was to it but that it had some more mischieuous Author and said with great indignation that she would haue him racked to produce his Author I replyed Nay Madame he is a Doctor neuer racke his person but racke his stile let him haue pen inke and paper and helpe of bookes and be enioyned to continue the storie where it breaketh off and I will vndertake by collecting the stiles to iudge whether he were the Author or no. But for the maine matter sure I am when the Queene at any time asked mine opinion of my Lords case I euer in one tenor said vnto her that they were faults which the Law might tearme Contempts because they were the transgression of her particular directions and instructions but then what defence might be made of them in regard of the great interest the person had in her Maiesties fauour in regard of the greatnesse of his place and the amplenesse of his Commission in regard of the nature of the businesse being action of warre which in cōmon cases cannot be tyed to strictnesse of instructions in regard of the distance of the place hauing also a sea betweene that demaunds and commands must be subiect to wind and weather in regard of a counsell of State in Ireland which he had at his backe to auow his actions vpon and lastly in regard of a good intention that he would alleadge for himselfe which I told her in some religions was held to be a sufficient dispensation for Gods commaundements much more for Princes In all these regards I besought her Maiestie to be aduised againe and again how she brought the cause into any publike question nay I went further for I told her my Lord was an eloquent and well spoken man and besides his eloquence of nature or art he had an eloquence of accident which passed them both which was the pittie and beneuolence of his hearers and therefore that when he should come to his answer for himselfe I doubted his words would haue so vnequall passage aboue theirs that should charge him as would not be for her Maiesties honour and therefore wished the conclusion might be that they might wrap it vp priuatly betweene themselues and that she would restore my Lord to his former attendance with some addition of honour to take away discontent But this I will neuer deny that I did shew no approbation generally of his being sent back againe into Ireland both because it would haue caried a repugnancie with my former discourse and because I was in mine owne heart fully perswaded that it was not good neither for the Queene nor for the State nor for himselfe and yet I did not disswade it neither but left it euer as locus lubricus For this particularitie I do well remember that after your Lordship was named for the place in Ireland and not long before your going it pleased her Maiestie at White hall to speake to me of that nomination at which time I said to her Surely Madame if you meane not to employ my Lord of Essex thither againe your Maiestie cannot make a better choice and was going on to shew some reason and her Maiestie interrupted me with great passion Essex said she whensoeuer I send Essex backe again into Irelād I will marrie you claime it of me wherunto I said Well Madame I will release that contract if his going be for the good of your State Immediatly after the Queene had thought of a course which was also executed to haue somewhat published in the Starre-chamber for the satisfaction of the world touching my Lord of Essex his restraint and my Lord of Essex not to be called to it but occasion to be taken by reason of some Libels then dispersed which when her Maiestie propounded vnto me I was vtterly against it and told her plainely that the people would say that my Lord was wounded vpon his backe and that Iustice had her ballance taken from her which euer consisted of an accusation and defence with many other quicke and significant tearms to that purpose in so much that I remember I said that my Lord in foro famae was too hard for her and therefore wished her as I had done before to wrap it

the sharpnesse of their sword and had the naturall and elementall aduantages of woods and bogges and hardnesse of bodies they euer found they had their hands full of them and therefore concluded that going ouer with such expectation as he did and through the curlishnesse of the enterprise not like to answer it would mightily diminish his reputation and many other reasons I vsed so as I am sure I neuer in any thing in my life time dealt with him in like earnestnes by speech by writing and by all the meanes I could deuise For I did as plainely see his ouerthrow chained as it were by destinie to that iourney as it is possible for any man to ground a iudgment vpon future contingents But my Lord howsoeuer his eare was open yet his heart and resolution was shut against that aduice whereby his ruine might haue bin preuēted After my Lords going I saw how true a Prophet I was in regard of the euident alteration which naturally succeeded in the Queens mind and thereupon I was stil in watch to find the best occasion that in the weakenesse of my power I could either take or minister to pull him out of the fire if it had bene possible and not long after me thought I saw some ouerture thereof which I apprehended readily a particularitie I thinke be knowne to very few and the which I do the rather relate to your Lordship because I heare it shold be talked that while my Lord was in Ireland I reuealed some matter against him or I cannot tel what which if it were not a meere slaunder as the rest is but had any though neuer so litle colour was surely vpon this occasion The Queene one day at Nonesuch a litle as I remember before Cuffes coming ouer I attending her shewed a passionate distast of my lords proceedings in Ireland as if they were vnfortunate without iudgement contemptuous and not without some priuate end of his owne 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 Madame I know not the particulars of Estate and I know this that Princes actions must haue no abrupt periods or conclusions but otherwise I would thinke that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staffe in his hand as my Lord of Leicester had and continued him still about you for societie to your selfe and for an honour and ornament to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people and in the eyes of forreine Embassadours then were he in his right element for to discontent him as you do and yet to put armes and power into his hands may be a kind of temptation to make him proue cumbersome and vnruly And therefore if you would imponere bonam clausulam and send for him and satisfie him with honour here neare you if your affaires which as I haue said I am not acquainted with wil permit it I thinke were the best way Which course your Lordship knoweth if it had bene taken then all had bene well and no contempt in my Lords comming ouer nor continuance of these iealousies which that employment of Ireland bred and my Lord here in his former greatnesse Wel the next newes that I heard was that my Lord was come ouer and that he was committed to his chamber for leauing Ireland without the Queenes licence this was at Nonesuch where as my duty was I came to his Lordship and talked with him priuately about a quarter of an houre and he asked mine opinion of the course was taken with him I told him My Lord Nubecula est citò transibit it is but a mist but shall I tell your Lordship it is as mists are if it go vpwards it may haps cause a shower if downewards it will cleare vp And therefore good my Lord carie it so as you take away by all meanes all ombrages and distasts from the Queene and specially if I were worthie to aduise you as I haue bene by your self thought and now your question imports the continuance of that opiniō obserue three points First make not this cessation or peace which is concluded with Tyrone as a seruice wherein you glorie but as a shuffling vp of a prosecution which was not very fortunate Next represent not to the Queene any necessitie of estate whereby as by a coercion or wrench she should think her selfe inforced to send you back into Ireland but leaue it to her Thirdly seeke accesse importunè oportunè seriously sportingly euery way I remember my Lord was willing to heare me but spake very few words shaked his head sometimes as if he thought I was in the wrong but sure I am he did iust cōtrary in euery one of these three points After this during the while since my Lord was committed to my Lord Keepers I came diuers times to the Queene as I had vsed to do about causes of her reuenue and law businesse as is well knowne by reason of which accesses according to the ordinarie charities of Court it was giuē out that I was one of them that incensed the Queene against my Lord of Essex These speeches I cannot tel nor I wil not thinke that they grew any way from her Maiesties owne speeches whose memory I wil euer honour if they did she is with God and miserum est ab illis ledi de quibus non possis quaeri But I must giue this testimonie to my Lord Cecill thát one time in his house at the Sauoy he dealt with me directly and said to me Cousin I heare it but I beleeue it not that you should do some ill office to my Lord of Essex for my part I am meerely passiue and not actiue in this action and I follow the Queene and that heauily and I leaue her not my Lord of Essex is one that in nature I could consent with as well as with any one liuing the Queen indeed is my Soueraigne and I am her creature I may not leese her and the same course I wold wish you to take whereupon I satisfied him how farre I was from any such mind And as sometimes it cometh to passe that mens inclinations are opened more in a toy then in a serious matter A little before that time being about the middle of Michaelmas terme her Maiestie had a purpose to dine at my lodge at Twicknā Parke at which time I had though I professe not to be a Poet prepared a Sonnet directly tending and alluding to draw on her Maiesties reconcilement to my Lord which I remēber also I 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 plainely in what spirit I proceeded and that I was ready not onely to do my Lord good offices