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A28370	The remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount of St. Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being essayes and severall letters to severall great personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published : a table whereof for the readers more ease is adjoyned.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.; Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. Characteristicks of a believing Christian.	1648 (1648)	Wing B318; ESTC R17427	72,058	110

a strength And I am sure her Majesty and my Lords of the Councell do not think their care dissolved when they have chosen whom to employ But that they will proceed in a Spirit of State and not leave the main point to discretion Then if a resolution be taken a consultation must be governed upon information to be had from such as know the place and matters in Fact And in the taking of information I have alwayes noted there is a skill and a wisdom For I cannot tell what an account or enquiry hath been taken of Sir William Russel and of Sir R. Bingham of the Earl of Thomond of Mr. Wilbraham But J am of opinion much more would be had of them if your Lordship shall be pleased severally to confer not Obliter but expresly and upon Caveat given them to think of it before For bene docet qui prudenter interrogat For the points of opposing them J am too much a stranger to the businesse to deduce them but in a Topique me thinks the pertinent interrogatories must be either of the possibilities and means of accord or of the nature of the War or of the reformation of the particular abuses or of the joyning of practise with force in the division of the Rebels If your Lordship doubt to put your sickle in others Harvest First time being fit to you in Mr. Secretaries absence Next Vnita fortior Thirdly being mixt with matter of War it is fittest for you Lastly I know your Lordship will carry it with that modesty and respect towards aged Dignity and that good correspondence towards my dear Ally and your good friend now abroad as no inconvenience may grow that way Thus have I played the ignorant Statesman which I do to no body but your Lordship except J do it to the Queen sometimes when she trains me on But your Lordship will accept my duty and good meaning and secure me touching the privatnesse of that I write Your Lordships to be commanded FRAN. BACON A Letter of advise to my Lord of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598. before my Lord was nominated for the Charge of Ireland My Lord THese Advertisements which your Lordship imparted to me and the like J hold to be no more certain to make judgment upon then a Patients water to a Physitian Therefore for me upon one water to make a judgment were indeed like a foolish bold Mountebank or Doctor Birket yet for willing duties sake I will set down to your Lordship what opinion sprung in my mind upon that I read The Letter from the Councell there leaning to mistrust J do not much rely upon for three Causes First because it is always both the grace and the safety from blame of such a Councell to erre in causion whereunto add that it may be they or some of them are not without envy towards the person who is used in treating the Accord Next because the time of this treaty hath no shew of dissimulation For that Tyron is now in no straight But he is not now like a Gamester that will give over because he is a Winner then because he hath no more money in his purse Lastly I do not see but those Articles whereupon they ground their Supposition may as well proceed out of fear as out of fals●ood For the retaining of the dependance of the porracting the admission of a Sher●ff the refusing to give his Son for Hostage the holding off from present repair to Dublin the refusing to go presently to accord without including Odonell and others his Assistants may very well come of a guilty reservation in case he should receive hard measure and not out of treachery So as if the great person be faithfull and that you have not here some present intelligence of present Succours from Spain for the expectation whereof Tyron would gain time J see no deep cause of distrusting the cause if it be good And for the question her Majesty seemeth to me a Winner three ways First her purse shall have some rest Next it will divert the forrain designs upon that place Thirdly though her Majesty is like for a time but to govern Precario on the North and be not in true command in better state there then before yet besides the two respects of ease of charge and advantage of opinion abroad before mentioned she shal have a time to use her Princely Policy in two points to weaken them the one by division and disunion of the heads the other by recovering and winning the people from them by justice which of all other causes is the best Now for the Athenian question you discourse well quid igitur agendum est I will shoot my fools bolt since you will have it so● The Earl of Ormond to be encouraged and comforted above all things the Garisons to be instantly provided for upportunity makes a thief And if he should mean never so well now yet such an advantage as the breaking of her Majesties Garrisons might tempt a true man And because he may aswell waver upon his own inconstancy as upon occasion And wanton variablenesse is never restrained but with fear I hold it necessary he be menaced with a strong war not by words but by musters and preparation of Forces here in case the Accord proceed not but none to be sent over least it disturb the Treaty and make him look to be over-run as soon as he hath laid Way Arms And but that your Lordship is too easie to passe in such cases from dissimulation to verity J think if your Lordship lent your reputation in this case it is to pretend that if a defensive War as in times past but a wofull reconquest of those parts in the Countrey you would accept the charge J think it would help to settle him and win you a great deal of honour gratis And that which most properly concerneth this action if it prove a peace J think her Majesty shall do well to cure the Root of the Disease and to professe by a Commission of peaceable men chiefly of respect and countenance and reformation of abuses extortions and injustices there and to plant a stronger and surer Government then heretofore for the ease and protection of the Subject for removing of the Sword or Government in Arms from the Earl of Ormond or the sending of a Deputy which will eclipse it if peace follow J think unseasonable Lastly I hold still my opinion both for your better information and your fuller declaration of your care and medling in this urging and meriting service that your Lordship have a set conference with the persons I named in my former Writing I rest My Lord At your Lordships service FRAN. BACON A Letter of advice to my Lord of Essex immediate before his going into Ireland My singular good Lord YOur late Note of my silence on your occasions hath made me set down these few wandring lines as one that would say somwhat and can say nothing

encounter the main Battell the Wings are yet unbroken they may charge you at an instant as Death therefore walk circumspectly And if at length by the means of our good Masters and Governours you recover the favour you have lost give God the glory in actions not in words only and remember us with some of your past misfortune whose estate and undoings hath doth and may hereafterly in the power of your breath There is great mercy in dispatch delayes are tortures where-with by degrees we are rent out of our estates Do not you if you be restored as some others do fly from the service of vertue to serve the time as if they repented their goodnesse or meant not to make a second hazard in Gods house But rather let this crosse make you more zealons in Gods cause sensible in ours and more sensible in all that expresse thus You have been a great enemy of the Papists if you love God be so still but more indeed then heretofore for much of your zeal before was wasted in words call to remembrance they were the Persons that thus prophesied of this Crosse of yours long before it hapned they saw the storm coming being the principall contrivers and furtherers of the Plot these men blew the coals heat the irons and make all things ready they owe you a good turn and will if they can pay it you you see their hearts by their deeds prove you your Faith so to the best good work you can do is to do the best you can against them that is to see the Laws severely justly and diligently executed And now we beseech you My Lord seem sensible both of the stroke and hand that strikes you learn of David to leave Shemy and look upon God he hath some great work to do and he prepares you for i● he would not have you faint nor yet bear this Crosse with a Stoicall resolution there is a Christian mediocritie worthy your greatnesse I must be plain perhaps rash had every note you had taken at Sermons bin written in your heart to practise this work had been done long since without the errour of your enemies but when we will not mend our selves God if we belong to him takes us in hand and because he sees maius nitus dolem us per hoc quod foris patimur He therefore sends us outward Crosses which while they cause us to mourn they do comfort us being assured testimonies of his love that sends them To humble our selves therefore to God is the part of a Christian but for the World and our Enemies that councell of the Poet is apt Rebus angustus animosus atque forte apparere sapienter item contrahes vento in nostrum secundo turgida vela The last part of this you forgot yet none need to be ashamed to make use of it and so being armed against casualties you may stand firm against the assaults on the right hand and on the left for this is cer●ain the mind that is most prone to be puffed up with prosperity is most weak and apt to be dejected with the least touch of adversity indeed she is able to stagger a strong man striking terrible blowes especially Immerito veniens paena dolonda venit but true Christian wisdom gives us armour of proof against all these assaults and teacheth us in all estates to be contented for though she cause our trencher friends to declare themselves our enemies though she give heart to the most coward to strike us though an hours continuance countervails an Age of prosperity though she cast in our dishes all the evils that ever we have done yet hath she no power to hurt the humble and wise but only to break such as too much prosperity hath made stift in their own thoughts but weak indeed and fit for ruine when the wise from thence rather gather profit and wisdom by the example of David who saith Before I was chastis●d I went wrong Now then he knows the right way and will look better to his footing Cardans●… saith that weeping fasting and sighing are three great purges of grief Indeed naturally they help to assway Sorrow but God in this Case is the best and only Physician the means he hath ordained are the advice of friends the amendment of our selves for amendment is both the Physick and the Cure For friends though your Lordship be scanted yet I hope you are not altogether destitute if you be look on good books they are true friends that will neither slatter nor dissemble be you betwixt your self applying what they teach to the party grieved and you shall need no other comfort nor Counsellours To them and to Gods holy spirit directing you in the reading of them I commit your Lordship beseeching him to send a good issue of these your troubles and from henceforth to work a Reformation in what hath been amiss and a resolute perseverance proceeding and growth in all that is good and that for his glory the benefit of your self this Church and Common-wealth whose faithfull Servant while you remain I remain a faithfull Servant to you Suppose this boldnesse occasioned by something I hear which I dare not write be not so secure though you see some Clouds break up all crosses and damages may be compared to a Woolf which coming upon a man suddenly causeth his voice and heart to fail but the danger that is expected is toothlesse and half prevented A Letter to my Lord Treasurer in excuse of his Speech in Parliament against the Treble Subsidie It may please your good Lordship I Was sorry to find by your Lordships Speech yesterday that my hastie Speech in Parliament delivered in discharge of my Conscience my duty to God her Majesty and my Countrey was offensive If it were misreported I would be glad to attend your Lordship to disavow any thing I said not If it were misconstrued I would be glad to expound my words to exclude any sense I meant not if my heart be mis-judged by imputation of popularity or opposition I have great wrong and the greater because the manner of my Speech did most evidently shew that I spake simply and only to satisfie my conscience and not with any advantage or policie to sway the cause And my terms carryed all signification of duty zeal towards her Majesty and her service It is very true that from the beginning whatsoever was a double Subsidie J did wish might for presidents sake appear to be extraordinary and for discontents sake might not have been levyed upon the poverty though otherwise J wished it as rising as J think this will prove and more this was my mind J confesse it And therefore J do most humbly pray your good Lordship First to continue me in your own good opinion and then to perform the part of an Honourable friend towards your poor humble and obedient Servant and Allyance in drawing Her MAJESTIE to accept of the sinceritie and simplicitie of my zeal and

to hold me in Her Majesties good favour which is to me dearer then my life And so c. Your Lordships most humbly in all duty FRAN. BACON A Letter to my Lord Treasurer recommending his first since touching the Sollicitours place My Lord AFter the remembrance of my humble duty though J knew by late experience how mindfull your Lordship vouchsafeth to be of me and my poor fortunes since it pleased your Lordship during your indisposition when Her Majestie came to visit your Lordship to make mention of me for my employment and preserment Yet being now in the Country J do presume that your Lordship who of yourself had an honourable care of the matter will not think it a trouble to be sollicited therein My hope is this that whereas your Lordship told me Her Majestie was somewhat graviled upon the offence Shee took at my Speech in Parl. Your Lp● favourable endeavour who hath assured me that for your own part you construe that J speak to the best will be as good a Tyde to remove Her from that shelf And it is not unknown unto your good Lordship that J was the first of the ordinary sort of the lower House that spake for the Subsidie And that which J after spake in difference was but in circumstance of time which me thinks was no great matter since there is variety alotted in Councell as a discord in Musick to make it more perfect But J may Justly doubt not so much Her Majesties impression upon this particular as Her conceit otherwise if my insufficiency and unworthinesse which J acknowledge to be greater Yet it will be the lesse because I purpose not to divide my self between her Majesty and the causes of other men as others have done But to attend her busines only hoping that a whole man meanly able may do as well in half a man betterable And if her Majesty think either that she shall make an adventure in using me that is rather a man of study then of practise and experience Surely I may remember to have heard that my Father an example I confesse rather ready then like was made Sollicitour of the Augmentation a Court of much business when he had never practised and was but 27. years old And Mr. Brograve was now in my time called Attorney of the Dutchie when he had practised little or nothing and yet hath discharged his place with great sufficiencie But these things and the like as her Majestie shall be made capable of them Wherein knowing what authority your Lordships commendation hath with her Majesty I conclude with my self that the substance of strength which I may receive will be from your Lordship It is true my life hath been so private as I have had no means to do your Lordship service But as your Lordship knoweth I have made offer of such as I could yeeld For as God hath given me a mind to love the publick So incidently I have ever had your Lordship in singular admiration whose happy ability her Majesty hath so long used to her great honour and yours Besides that amendment of State or countenance which I have received hath been from your Lordship And therefore if your Lordship shall stand a good friend to your poor Alge you shall but Tuere opus which you have begun And your Lordship shal bestow your Benefice upon one that hath more sense of Obligation thenof self-love Thus humbly desiring pardon of so long a Letter I wish your Lordship all happinesse Your Lordships in all humblenesse to be commanded F. BACON June 6. 1595. A Letter of Ceremonies to Queen Elizabeth upon the sending of a New-years Gift It may please your sacred Majesty ACcording to the Ceremonie of the Time I would not forget in all humblenesse to present Your Majestie with a small New-years Gift nothing to my mind and therefore to supply it I cannot but pray to God to give Your Majestie His New-Years Gift that is a New-Year that shall be as no Year to your Body and as a Year with two Harvests to your Cofters and every other way prosperous and gladsom and so I remain Your Majesties loyall and obedient Subject FRAN. BACON A Letter of Ceremonies to Queen Elizabeth upon the sending of another New-Years Gift Most excellent Soveraign Mistrisse THe only New-years Gift which I can give your Majestie is that which God hath given unto me which is a mind in al humblenesse to wait upon the Commandements and businesse wherein I would to God I were hooded that I saw lesse or that I could perform more For now I am like a Hawk that baits when I see occasion of service but cannot fly because I am tyed to anothers Fist But mean while I continue of making your Majesty my Obligation of a Garment as unworthy the wearing as his service that sendeth but the approach to your Excellent person may give worth to both which is all the happiness I aspire unto A Letter of advise to the Earl of Essex to take upon him the care of the Irish Businesse when Mr. Secretary Cecill was in France My singular good Lord I Do write because I have not yet had time fully to expresse my conceit nor now to attend you touching Irish Matters considering them as they may concern the State that it is one of the aptest particulars that hath come or can come upon the Stage to purchase your Lordship honour upon I am moved to think for three Reasons Because it is ingenerate in your house in respect of my Lord your Fathers noble attempts because of all the accidents of State of this time the labour resteth most upon that And because the world will make a kind of comparison between those that set it out of France and those that shall bring it unto France which kind of honour giveth the quickest kind of reflection the transferring this honour upon your self consisteth upon two points the one if the principall persons employed come in by you and depend upon you the other if your Lordship declare your self to undertake a care of that matter For the persons it falleth out well that your Lordship hath had no interest in the persons of imputation For neither Sir William Fitz-Williams nor Sir Iohn Norrice was yours Sir William Russel was conceived yours but was curbed Sir Connyers Clifford as I conceive it dependeth upon you who is said to do well And if my Lord of Ormond in this interim shall accommodate well I take it he hath alwayes had good understanding with your Lordship So as all things are not only whole and intire but of favourable aspect towards your Lordship If you now chuse well wherein in your wisdom you will remember there is a great difference in choice of the persons as you shall think the affairs to incline to composition or to war For your care taking generall and popular conceit hath been that Irish causes have been much neglected whereby the very reputation of better care will be