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A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

for by number they are able to raise a great Army and by their natural and mutual confidence and intelligence they may soon bring to pass an uniting with Forraign Enemies Factious I call them because they are discontented Of whom in all reason of State your Majesty must determine if you will suffer them to be strong to make them the better content or if you will discontent them by making them weaker for what the mixture of strength and discontent are in genders there needs no Syllogism to prove To suffer them to be strong with hope that with reason they will be contented carrieth with it in my opinion but a fairer enamling of a terrible danger For first mens natures are not only to strive against a present smart but to revenge by-past injury though they be never so well contented hereafter which cannot be so sufficient a pledg to your Majesty but that when opportunity shal flatter them they will remem +ber not the after slacking but the former binding and so much the more when they shall imagine this relenting rather to proceed from fear the which is the poyson of all Government when the Subject thinks the Prince doth any thing more out of fear then favour And therefore the Romans would rather abide the uttermost extremities then by their Subjects to be brought to any conditions Again for to make them contented absolutely I do not see how your Majesty either in Conscience will do or in policy may do it since you cannot throughly discontent your faithful Subjects and to fasten an unreconciled love with the losing of certain love is to build a house with the sale of lands so much the more in that your Majesty is imbarqued in the Protestant cause as in many respects by your Majesty it cannot be with any safety abandoned they having been so long time the onely instruments both of your Councel and Power and to make them half content and half discontent methinks carries with it as deceitful a shadow of reason as can be since there is no pain so small but if we can cast it off we will and no man loves one the better for giving him the Bastinado though with never so little a Cudgel But the course of the most Wise most Politick and best grounded Estate hath ever been to make an assuredness of friendship or to take away all power of enmity Yet here must I distingiush between discontent and dispair for it sufficeth to waken the discontented but there is no way but to kill desperates which in such a number as they are were as hard and difficult as impious and ungodly And therefore though they must be discontented yet I would not have them desperate for among many desperate men it is like some one will bring forth some desperate attemps Therefore considering that the urging of the oath must needs in some degree beget despair since therein he must either think as without the special grace of God he cannot think otherwise or else become a Traitor which before some hurt done seemeth hard I humbly submit this to your Excellent consideration whether with as much sincerity of your Majesties Person and State and more satisfaction for them it were not better to leav the oath to this sense That whosoever would not bear Arms against all forraign Princes and namely the Pope that should any way invade your Majesties Dominions he should be a Traytor for hereof this commodity will ensue that those Papists as I think most Papists would that should take this oath would be devided from the great mutual confidence which now is betwixt the Pope and them by reason of their afflictions for him And such Priests as would refuse that oath then no tongue could say for shame that they suffer for Religion if they did suffer But here it may be objected they would dissemble and equivocate with this oath and that the oath would dispence with them in that case Even so may they with the present oath both dissemble and equivocate and also have the Popes dispensation for the present oath as well as for the other But this is certain that whomsoever the conscience or fear of breaking an oath doth binde him would that oath binde And that they make conscience of an oath the troubles losses and disgraces that they suffer for refusing the same do sufficiently testifie and you know that the perjury of either oath is equal So then the farthest point to be sought for their contentment is but to avoid their dispair How to weaken their contentment is the next consideration Weakned they may be by two means First By lessening their number Secondly By taking away from their force their number will easily be lessened by the means of careful and diligent Preachers in each Parish to that end appointed And especially by good School-masters and bringers up of their youth the former by converting them after their fall and the latter by preventing them from falling into their errors For Preachers because their own groweth a great question I am provoked to lay at your Highness feet my opinion touching the preciser sort First Protesting to God Almighty and your sacred Majesty that I am not given over no nor so much as addicted to their preciseness therfore till I think that you think otherwise I am bold to think that the Bishops in these dangerous times take a very ill and unadvised course in driving them from their cures and this I think for two causes First because it doth discredit the reputation and estimation of your power when the Princes shal perceive and know that even in your Protestant Subjects in whom consisteth all your force strength and power there is so great and heart burning a division and how much reputation swayeth in these and all other worldly actions there is none so simple as to be ignorant and the Papists themselves though there be most manifest and apparent discord between the Franciscans and Dominicans the Jesuites and other Orders or Religious persons especially the Benedictims Yet will they shake off none of them because in the maine point of Popery they all agree and hold together And so far they may freely brag and vaunt of their unity The other reason is because in truth in their opinions though they are oversqueamish and nice and more scrupulous then they need yet with their careful catechizing and diligent Preaching they bring forth that fruit which your most Excellent Majesty is to desire and wish namely the lessning and diminishing the Papistical numbers And therefore in this time your Majesty hath especial cause to use and imploy them if it were but as Frederick the second that excellent Emperor did use and employ the Sarazens souldiers against the Pope because he was well assured and certainly knew that they onely would not spare his sanctity And for those objections what they would do if once they got a full and entire Authority in the Church methinks they are inter

remota in certa mala and therefore vicinia certa to be first considered As for School-masters they may be a principal means of diminishing their number the lamentable and pittiful abuses of them are easie to be seen since the greatest number of Papists is of very young men but your Majesty may prevent that bud and may use therein not onely a Pious and Godly means in making the Parents of every Shire to send their children to be vertuously brought up at a certain place for that end appointed but you shall also if it please your Majesty put in practice a notable stratagem used by Certories in Spaine by choosing such fit and convenient places for the same as may surely be at your devotion and by this means you shall under colour of education have them as hostages of the Parents fidelities that have any power in England and by this way their number will quickly be lessned for I account death doth no wayes lessen them since we find by experince that death worketh no such effect but that like Hydra's heads upon cutting off one seven growes up persecution being accounted as the badg of the Church and therfore they should never have the honour to take any pretence of Martyrdom in England where the fulness of blood and greatness of heart is such that they will even for shameful things go bravely to death much more when they think themselves to climb Heaven and that vice of obstinacy seems to the common people a divine constancy But for my part I wish no lessning of their number but by preaching and of the youngers education under good School-masters there taking away of their forces is as wel by Peace's Authority as of War provision Their Peace's Authority standeth either in Offices or Tenantries For their Offices their credit w●ll seem available if order be taken that from the highest Councellor to the lowest Constable none to have any charge or office but such as will really pray and communicate in their congregation according to the doctrine received generally into this Realm For their Tenantries this conceit I have thought upon which I submit to your farther piercing judgment That your Majesty in every Shire should give strict order to some that are indeed trusty and religious Gentlemen That whereas your Majesty is given to understand that divers Popish Landlords do hardly use all such of your people and subjects as being their tenants do embrace and live after the authorised and true Religion that therefore you do constitute and appoint to deal both with intreaty and authority paying as others do that they be not thrust out of their living nor otherwise unreasonably molested This would greatly bind the Commons hearts unto you on whom indeed consisteth the power and strength of your Realm and it will make them much the less or nothing at all depend upon their Landlords And although there may hereby grow some wrong which the Tenants upon that confidence may offer to their Landlords yet those wrongs are very easily even with one wink of your Majesty redressed and are nothing comparable to the danger of having many thousands depending upon the adverse party Their Wars provision I account men and munition of whom in some I could wish no man either great or smal should so much as be trained up in any Musters except his ●arishioners would answer for him that he orderly and duly receiveth the Communion and for munition that not one should keep in his house or have at command so much as a Halbert without he were conformable to the Church and of the condition aforesaid And if such order were taken that considering they were not put to the labour and charge of mustering and training therefore their contribution should be more and more narrowly looked into This would breed a chilness unto their fervour of superstition especially in popular resolutions who if they love Egypt is chiefly for the flesh pots so that me-thinks this temper should well agree with your wisdom and the mercifulness of your nature For to compel them you would not kill them you would not so in reason to trust them you should not trust being in no case to be used but where the trust is of one minde with the trusting reason which ever commandeth every wise man to fly and avoyd that shamefac'dness with the Greeks which is not to seem to doubt them which give just occasion of doubt This ruined Hercules the son of Great Alexander for although he had most manifest reasons and evident arguments to induce him to suspect his ill servant Poliperchon yet out of the confidence he had of him and the experience he had of his former Loyalty he would make provision accordingly because he would not seem so much as to misdoubt or suspect him and so by that means he was murthered by him But the knot of this discourse is That if your Majesty finde it reasonable of the one side by relenting the rigour of the oath and of the other by disabling the unsound Subjects you shall neither execute any but very Traytors in all mens opinions and constructions nor yet put faith and confidence in those even for their own sakes which must be faithful The second point of the general part of my discourse is the consideration of your forraign enemies which may prove either able or willing to hurt you and those are Scotland for his pretence and neighbourhood and Spain for his religion and power as for France I see not why it should not rather be made a friend not an enemy for though he agree not with your Majesty in matters of Conscience and Religion yet in hoc termino he doth agree that he feareth the greatness of Spain and therefore that may soder the link which Religion hath broken and make him hope by your Majesties friendship to secure himself of so potent an Adversary And though he were evilly affected towards your Majesty yet I do not think it greatly to be feared the pres●●● condition of his estate himself being a Prince who hath given an assurance to the world that he loves his ease much better then victories and a Prince that is neither beloved nor feared of his people And the people themselves being of a very light and unconstant disposition and besides they are altogether unexperienced and undisciplined how to do their duties either in war or peace they are ready to begin and undertake any enterprize before they enter into consideration thereof and yet weary of it before it be well begun they are generally poor and weak and subject to sickness at Sea divided and subdivided into sundry heads and several f●●tions not onely between Hugonites and Papists but also between the Memorancis Guises and Migonominies the people being opressed by all due hate so that for a well setled and established Government and common-wealth as your Majesties is I see no grounds why to misdoubt or fear them but onely fo farforth as

the carriage of my self in that service I have many honorable witnesses that can tel that the next day after my Lords arraignment by my diligence and information touching the quality and nature of the offendors six of nine were stayed which otherwise had been attainted I bringing their Lordships letter for their stay after the Jury was sworn to pass upon them so neer it went and how careful I was and made it my part that whosoever was in trouble about that matter assoon as ever his case was sufficiently known and defined of might not continue in restraint but be set at liberty and many other parts which I am well assured of stood with the duty of an honest man But indeed I will not deny for the case of Sir Thomas Smith of London the Q. demanding 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 seen only his accusation and had never been present at any examination of his and the matter so standing I had been very untrue to my service if I had not delivered that opinion But afterwards upon a re-examination of som that charged him who weakned their own testimony especially hearing himself viva voce I went instantly to the Q. out of the soundness of my conscience not regarding what opinion I had formerly delivered told her Majesty I was satisfied and resolved 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 Majesty taking a liking of my pen upon that which I had done before concerning the proceeding at York house and likewise upon some other declarations which in former times by her appointment I put in writing commanded me to pen that book which was published for the better satisfaction of the world which I did but so as never Secretary had more perticular and express directions and instructions in every point how to guide my hand in it and not onely so but after that I had made a first draught thereof and propounded it to certain principal Councellors by her Majesties appointment it was perused weighed censured altered and and made almost anew writing according to their Lordships better consideration wherein their Lordships and my self both were as religious and curious of truth as desirous of satisfaction and my self indeed gave onely words and form of stile in pursuing their direction And after it had passed their allowance it was again exactly perused by the Queen her self and some alterations made again by her appointment nay and after it was set to print the Queen who as your Lordship knoweth as she was excellent in great matters so she was exquisite in small and noted that I could not forget my ancient respect to my Lord of Essex interming him ever my Lo. of Essex my Lord of Essex almost in every page of the Book which she thought not fit but would have it made Essex or the late Earl of Essex whereupon of force it was printed de novo the first copies suppressed by her peremptory commandment And this my good Lord to my furthest remembrance is all that passed wherein I had part which I have set down as neer as I could in the very words and speeches that were used not because they are worthy the repetition I mean those of mine own but to the end your Lordship may lively and plainly discern between the face of truth and a smooth tale And the rather also because in things that passed a good while since the very words and phrases did sometimes bring to my remembrance the matters wherein I report me to your honorable judgement whether you do not see the traces of an honest man and had I been as well beleeved either by the Queen or by my Lord as I was well heard by them both both my Lord had been fortunate and so had my self in his fortune To conclude therefore I humbly pray your Lordship 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 have deserved or finde that I shall deserve the contrary and even so I continue At your Lordships Honorable commandments very humbly THE Ld. BACON HIS LETTER TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND most Excellent Prince CHARLS Prince of Wales Duke of Corn-Wal Earl of Chester c. It may please your Highness IN part of my acknowledgement to your highness I have endevoured to do honor to the memory of the last King of England that was Ancestor to the King your Father and your self and was that King to whom both unions may in a sort refer that of the Roses being in him consummate and that of the Kingdoms by him begun besides his times deserve it for he was a wise man and an Excellent King and yet the times very rough and full of mutations and rare accidents and it is with times as it is with wayes some are more up hill and down hill and some are more flat and plain and the one is better for the liver and the other for the writer I have not flattered him but took him to life as well as I could sitting so far of and having no better light it is true your Highness hath a living patern incomparable of the King your Father but is not amiss for you also to see it one of these Ancient Pieces God preserve your Highness Your Highness most humble and devoted Servant Francis S t Alban FINIS THE Lord Treasurer BUR LEIGH HIS Advice to Queen ELIZABETH in matters of Religion and State Most Gratious Soveraign CARE one of the true bred Children of my unfained affection awaked with the late wicked and barbarous attempts would needs exercise my pen to your sacred Majesty not onely encouraging me that it would take the whole fault of boldness upon it self but also that even the world should not doubt to appear in your Highness presence in their kindly rudeness For that if your Majesty with your voice did but read them your very reading would grace them with eloquence Therefore laying aside all self guilty conceits of ignorance knowing that the Sign is not angry with the well meaning Astronomer though he hap to miss his course I will with the same sincerity display my humble conceits wherewith my life shall be amongst the foremost to defend the blessings which God in you hath bestowed upon us So far then as can be perceived by my humane judgment Dread Soveraign you may judge that the happiness of your present Estate can no ways be encumbred with one of these two means viz Either by your 1 Factious Subjects or 2 Forraign Enemies Your strong and Factious Subjects are the Papists strong I account them both in number and nature