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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

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vp priuatly And certainely I offended her at that time which was rare with me for I cal to mind that both the Christmas Lent and Easter Terme following though I came diuers times to her vpon Law busines yet me thought her face and maner was not so cleare and open to me as it was at the first And she did directly charge me that I was absent that day at the Starre-chamber which was very true but I alleaged some indisposition of bodie to excuse it and during all the time aforesaid there was altum silentium from her to me touching my Lord of Essex causes But towardes the end of Easter tearme her Maiestie brake with me and told me that she had found my words true for that the proceeding in the Starre-chamber had done no good but rather kindled factious bruites as she termed them then quenched them and therefore that she was determined now for the satisfaction of the world to proceed against my Lord in the Star-chamber by an information ore tenus and to haue my lord brought to his answer howbeit she said she wold assure me that whatsoeuer the did should be towards my Lord ad castigationem non ad destructionem as indeed she had often repeated the same phrase before whereunto I said to the end vtterly to diuert her Madam if you will haue me speake to you in this argument I must speake to you as Frier Bacons head spake that said first Time is and then Time was and time would neuer be for certainly said I it is now far too late the matter is cold and hath taken too much winde whereat she seemed againe offended and rose from me and that resolutiō for a while continued and after in the beginning of Midsomer terme I attending her and finding her setled in that resolution which I heard of also otherwise she falling vpon the like speech it is true that seeing no other remedie I said to her slightly Why Madame if you will needs haue a proceeding you were best haue it in some such sort as Ouid spake of his mistris Est aliquid luce patente minus to make a counseltable matter of it and there an end which speech againe she seemed to take in il part but yet I thinke it did good at that time and holpe to diuert that course of proceeding by informatiō in the Starre-chamber Neuertheles afterwards it pleased her to make a more solemne matter of the proceeding and some few dayes after when order was giuen that the matter shold be heard at York house before an assembly of Counsellers Peeres and Iudges and some audience of men of qualitie to be admitted and then did some principal Counsellers send for vs of the learned Counsell and notifie her Maiesties pleasure vnto vs saue that it was said to me openly by one of them that her Maiesty was not yet resolued whether she would haue me forborne in the busines or no. And hereupon might arise that other sinister and vntrue speech that I heare is raised of me how I was a suter to bee vsed against my Lord of Essex at that time for it is very true that I that knew well what had passed betweene the Queen and me and what occasion I had giuen her both of distast distrust in crossing her disposition by standing stedfastly for my Lord of Essex suspecting it also to be a stratageme arising from some particular emulation I writ to her two or three words of complement signifying to her Maiestie that if she would be pleased to spare me in my Lord of Essex cause out of the consideration she tooke of my obligation towards him I should reckō it for one of her highest fauors but otherwise desiring her Maiestie to thinke that I knew the degrees of duties and that no particular obligatiō whatsoeuer to any subiect could supplant or weaken that entirenes of dutie that I did owe and beare to her and her seruice this was the goodly sute I made being a respect no mā that had his wittes could haue omitted but neuerthelesse I had a further reach in it for I iudged that dayes worke would be a full period of any bitternesse or harshnes betweene the Queene and my Lord and therefore if I declared my selfe fully according to her mind at that time which could not do my Lord any manner of preiudice I should keepe my credit with her euer after whereby to doe my Lord seruice Hereupon the next news that I heard was that we were all sent for againe and that her Maiesties pleasure was we all should haue parts in the businesse and the Lords falling into distribution of our parts it was allotted to me that I should set foorth some vndutifull cariage of my Lord in giuing occasion and countenance to a seditious Pamphlet as it was tearmed which was dedicated vnto him which was the booke before mentioned of king Henry the fourth Whereupon I replyed to that allotment and said to their Lordships that it was an old matter and had no maner of coherence with the rest of the charge being matters of Ireland and therefore that I hauing bene wronged by bruites before this wold expose me to them more and it would be said I gaue in euidence mine owne tales It was answered againe with good shew that because it was considered how I stood tyed to my Lord of Essex therefore that part was thought fittest for me which did him least hurt for that wheras all the rest was matter of charge and accusation this onely was but matter of caueat and admonition Wherewith though I was in mine owne mind litle satisfied because I knew wel a man were better to be charged with some faults then admonished of some others yet the conclusion binding vpon the Queenes pleasure directly volens nolens I could not auoide that part that was laid vpon me which part if in the deliuerie I did handle not tenderly though no man before me did in so cleare tearmes free my Lord from al disloyaltie as I did that your Lordship knoweth must be ascribed to the superior dutie I did owe to the Queenes fame and and honor in a publike proceeding and partly to the intention I had to vphold my self in credit strength with the Queene the better to be able to do my Lord good offices afterwards for assoone as this day was past I lost no time but the very next day following as I remember I attended her Maiesty fully resolued to try and put in vre my vtmost indeuour so farre as I in my weaknesse could giue furtherance to bring my Lord againe speedily into Court into fauour and knowing as I supposed at least how the Queene was to be vsed I thought that to make her conceiue that the matter went well then was the way to make her leaue off there and I remember wel I said to her you haue now Madame obtained victorie ouer two things which the greatest Princes in the world cannot at
iudge specially if he knew the Queene and do remember those times whether they were not the labours of one that sought to bring the Queene about for my Lord of Essex his good The troth is that the issue of all his dealing grew to this that the Queene by some flacknesse of my Lords as I imagine liked him worse and worse and grew more incensed towards him Then she remembring belike the continuall and incessant and confident speeches and courses that I had held on my Lords side became vtterly alienated from me and for the space of at least three moneths which was betweene Michaelmas and Newyears tide following would not as much as looke on me but turned away frō me with expresse and purpose-like discountenance wheresoeuer she saw me and at such time as I desired to speake with her about Law businesse euer sent me forth very slight refusals insomuch as it is most true that immediatly after Newyeares tide I desired to speake with her and being admitted to her I dealt with her plainely and said Madame I see you withdraw your fauor from me and now I haue lost many friends for your sake I shall leese you too you haue put me like one of those that the Frenchmen call Enfans perdus that serue on foote before horsmen so haue you put me into matters of enuie without place or without strength and I know at Chesse a pawn before the king is euer much plaid vpon a great many loue me not because they thinke I haue bene against my Lord of Essex and you loue me not because you know I haue bene for him yet will I neuer repent me that I haue dealt in simplicitie of heart towards you both without respect of cautions to my selfe and therefore viuus vidensque pereo If I do breake my necke I shall do it in manner as Maister Dorrington did it which walked on the battlements of the Church many daies and tooke a view and suruey where he should fall and so Madame said I I am not so simple but that I take a prospect of mine ouerthrow only I thought I would tell you so much that you may know that it was faith and not folly that brought me into it and so I will pray for you Vpon which speeches of mine vttered with some passion it is true her Maiestie was exceedingly moued and accumulated a number of kind and gracious words vpon me and willed me to rest vpon this Gratia mea sufficit and a number of other sensible and tender words and demonstrations such as more could not be but as touching my Lord of Essex ne verbum quidem Wherupon I departed resting then determined to meddle no more in the matter as that that I saw would ouerthrowe me and not be able to do him any good And thus I made mine owne peace with mine owne confidence it that time and this was the last time I saw her Maiestie before the eight of Februarie which was the day of my Lord of Essex his misfortune After which time for that I performed at the barre in my publike seruice your Lordship knoweth by the rules of dutie that I was to do it honestly and without preuarication but for any putting my selfe into it I protest before God I neuer moued neither the Queene nor any person liuing concerning my being vsed in the seruice either of euidence or examination but it was meerely laid vpon me with the rest of my fellowes And for the time which passed I meane betweene the arraignement and my Lords suffering I well remember I was but once with the Queene at what time though I durst not deale directly for my Lord as things then stood yet generally I did both commend her Maiesties mercie tearming it to her as an excellent balme that did continually distill from her Soueraigne hands and made an excellent odour in the senses of her people and not onely so but I tooke hardinesse to extenuate not the fact for that I durst not but the danger telling her that if some base or cruell minded persons had entred into such an action it might haue caused much bloud and combustion but it appeared well they were such as knew not how to play the malefactors and some other words which I now omit And as for the rest of the cariage of my selfe in that seruice I haue many honorable witnesses that can tell that the next day after my Lords arraignement by my diligence and information touching the qualitie and nature of the offendors sixe of nine were stayed which otherwise had bene attainted I bringing their Lordships letter for their stay after the Iurie was sworne to passe vpon them so neare it went and how carefull I was and made it my part that whosoeuer was in trouble about that matter assoone as euer his case was sufficiently knowne and defined of might not continue in restraint but be set at libertie and many other parts which I am well assured of stood with the dutie of an honest man But indeed I will not deny for the case of Sir Thomas Smith of London the Queene demaunding my opinion of it I told her I thought it was as hard as many of the rest but what was the reason because at that time I had seene only his accusation and had neuer bene present at any examination of his and the matter so standing I had bin very vntrue to my seruice if I had not deliuered that opinion But afterwards vpon a reexamination of some that charged him who weakned their owne testimonie and especially hearing himselfe viua voce I went instantly to the Queene out of the soundnesse of my conscience and not regarding what opinion I had formerly deliuered told her Maiestie I was satisfied and resolued in my conscience that for the reputation of the action the plot was to countenance the action further by him in respect of his place then they had indeed any interest or intelligence with him It is very true also about that time her Maiesty taking a liking of my pen vpon that which I had done before concerning the proceeding at Yorke house and likewise vpon some other declarations which in former times by her appointment I put in writing commaunded me to penne that booke which was published for the better satisfaction of the world which I did but so as neuer Secretarie had more particular and expresse directions and instructions in euery point how to guide my hand in it and not onely so but after that I had made a first draught therof and propounded it to certaine principall Councellers by her Maiesties appointment it was perused weighed censured altered and made almost anew writing according to their Lordshippes better consideration wherein their Lordshippes and my selfe both were as religious and curious of truth as desirous of satisfaction and my selfe indeed gaue only words and forme of stile in pursuing their direction And after it had passed their allowance it was againe exactly perused by the Queen her selfe and some alterations made againe by her appointment nay and after it was set to print the Queene who as your Lordshippe knoweth as she was excellent in great matters so she was exquisite in small and noted that I could not forget my auncient respect to my Lord of Essex in terming him euer My Lord of Essex My Lord of Essex in almost euery page of the booke which she thought not fit but would haue it made Essex or the late Earle of Essex whereupon of force it was printed de noue and the first copies suppressed by her peremptorie commaundement And this my good Lord to my furthest remembrance is all that passed wherein I had part which I haue set downe as neare as I could in the very words and speeches that were vsed not because they are worthie the repetition I mean those of mine owne but to the end your Lordship may liuely and plainly discerne betweene the face of truth and a smooth tale And the rather also because in things that passed a good while since the very wordes and phrases did sometimes bring to my remembrance the matters wherein I report me to your Honourable iudgement whether you do not see the traces of an honest man and had I bene as well beleeued either by the Queene or by my Lord as I was well heard by them both both my Lord had beene fortunate and so had my selfe in his fortune To conclude therfore I humbly pray your Lordshippe to pardon me for troubling you with this long Narration and that you will vouchsafe to hold me in your good opinion till you know I haue deserued or find that I shall deserue the contrarie and euen so I continue At your Lordships Honorable commandements very humbly FINIS