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A58844	Scrinia Ceciliana, mysteries of state & government in letters of the late famous Lord Burghley, and other grand ministers of state, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James, being a further additional supplement of the Cabala.; Scrinia Ceciliana.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Throckmorton, Nicholas, Sir, 1515-1571.	1663 (1663)	Wing S2109; ESTC R10583	213,730	256

I know your Son Mr. William and other your servants hereto doth advertise you and therefore I pray you to bear with my shortness for I am almost smothered with business We look to hear of the apprehension of more of the Rebels I send you extracts of our letters out of the North as of late time they have come Yours assuredly W. Cecil Windsor-Castle 7. Jan. 1569. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador c. Advertisements from Lyexham 22. Decemb. 1569. THe two Rebellious Rebels went into Liddesdale in Scotland yester-night where Martin Elwood and others that have given pledges to the Regent of Scotland did raise their forces against them being conducted by black Ormeston an Out-law of Scotland that was a principal murtherer of the King of Scots where the fight was offered and both parties lighted from their horses and in the end Elwood said to Ormeston he would be sorry to enter deadly send with him by bloodshed but he would charge him and the rest before the Regent for keeping of the Rebels and it he did not put them out of the Country the next day he would do his worst against them whereupon the two Earls were driven to leave Liddesdale and to flye to one of the Armestronges a Scot upon the batable on the borders between Liddesdale and England the same day the Liddesdale men stole the horses of the Countess of Northumberland and her two women and ten others of their Company so as the Earls being gone the Lady of Northumberland was left there on foot at John of the Sides house in a Cottage not to be compared to many a Dog-kennel in England at their departing from her they went not above fifty horse and the Earl of Westmerland to be the more unknown changed his Coat of Plate and sword with John of the Sides and departed like a Scotish Borderer The rest of the Rebels are partly taken in the West Borders of England and partly spoiled by the English and Scotish Borderers By letters of the 24 The Rebels be driven to change their names their Horses and apparel and to ride like Liddesdale men The Regent of Scotland will be this night upon the Borders of Liddesdale The Earl of Cumberland the Lord Scroop and Mr. Leonard Dacre have shewed themselves very Honorable and diligent in their service at the Rebels entring into the West Marches and upon the scaling of the Rebels there be great numbers of them taken there There be in every of the Marches against Scotland sundry Bands of Horsemen and shot laid if they shall enter into the Realm again By letters of the last of December The Regent of Scotland is gone from Jedworth to Edenburgh and hath taken the Earl of Northumberland and six of his men with him Before his departure from Jedworth he sent for the Gentlemen of Tividale to come before him where all came saving the Lord of Farnehurst and the Lord of Bucklugh whereupon the Regent rode towards them but they hearing thereof suddainly rode away Robert Collingwood Ralph Swynton with others of their company were taken in East Tividale and delivered to the Regent who re-delivered them to their takers and charged them for their safe keeping Egremont Ratcliff with certain with him remain about Liddesdale And it is thought the Countess of Northumberland the Earl of West-merland Norton Markenfield Swynborne and Tempest are removed out Liddesdale to the Lords of Fernhurst and Buckclugh SIR I Doubt not but the report of the cruel murther of the Regent in Scotland will be diversly reported in those parts and diversly also received by some with gladness and by some with grief as I am sure it shall be of you the manner of it was thus as I have been advertised the 22. of the last moneth the Regent coming thorough the Town of Lithgo which is in the midway between Sterling and Edenburgh having in his company about a hundred persons was stricken with a Courrier about the Navell with the Pellet coming out about his Hucklebone which also slew a horse behinde him and of this wound he dyed the next day afterward within night the murtherer was one Hambleton of Bothwell-Hall who lay secretly in a house to attempt this mischief having shut the doors towards the street in such sort as no man could enter on the foreside to take him and so he escaped on the backside where he had a horse to serve his turn although he was pursued what is like to follow miserably to that Land I dare not judge but do fear that the death of so good a man will prove Initium multorum malorum At the writing hereof I know not what is done or intended but some write from thence That the Earls of Marr and Morton and other friends to the young King are come to Edenburgh and do in the Kings name preserve the State and do purpose to have the Land ruled by four Regents and one to be a Lieutenant for the wars to execute their directions a matter more probable in talk than in effect as I shall hereafter understand more so will I write It happend that at this time Sir Henry Gates and the Marshal of Berwick were at Edenburgh having been at Sterling with the Regent the Fryday before for the demanding in the Queens Majesties name of the Earl of Northumberland and other the Rebels and by direction of the Regent they attended at Edenburgh for answer to be given the day of his death which now is as our Lawyers call it sine die Mr. Randolph went from hence towards Scotland the 29. upon knowledge of the hurt and doubt of his life The same day also came Montlnet to her Majesties presence with the French Ambassador bringing his letters dated the 27. of December at which time I think they understand not of the stay of our Rebellion The sum of Montlnets message consisted upon these two heads request for restitution and liberty of the Queen of Scots and a declaration of the Kings inclination to peace with his subjects and their disguising with him by treating and suing for peace and yet amassing of new Forces in Almaine and seeking also to surprise the Kings Towns as Burdeaux and otherlike whereupon the King requireth the Queens Majesty not to favor his Rebels if they should seek any further succours from hence as they have done as persons unworthy of any favor They have made great instance to be answered for the first matter but the Queens Majesty hath hitherto deferred them but I think upon Monday next they shall have audience I forgat to shew you that in the request for the Queen of Scots he desired liberty to go to her and from thence to pass into Scotland which thing would not be granted unto him Upon the death of the Regent the Earl of Sussex and Mr. Sadler were admonished to stay there for that it was thought good that Mr. Sadler should have gone from thence into Scotland

write not of My self am like the Miller of Huntington that was wont to pray for peace amongst the willowes for while the winds blew the wind-mills wrought and the water-mill was less customed So I see that Controversies of Religion much hinder the advancement of Sciences Let me conclude with my perpetual wish towards your self that the approbation of your self by your own discreet and temperate carriage may restore you to your Country and your friends to your society And so I commend you to Gods goodness Graies Inne this 10th of October 1609. Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew touching Instauratio Magna Mr. Matthew I heartily thank you for your Letter of the 10th of Feb. and am glad to receive from you matter both of encouragement and advertisment touching my writings For my part I do wish that since there is almost no lumen siccum in the world but all Madidum Maceratum infused in affections and bloods or humours that these things of mine had those separations that might make them more acceptable so that they claim not so much acquaintance of the present times as they be thereby the less like to last And to shew you that I have some purpose to new mould them I send you a leaf or two of the Preface carrying some figure of the whole work Wherein I purpose to take that which is real and effectual of both writings and chiefly to add pledge if not payment to my promise I send you also a Memorial of Queen Elizabeth to requite your Elogie of the late D. of Florences felicitie Of this when you were here I shewed you some Model though at that time me-thought you were as willing to hear Julius Caesar as Q. Elizabeth commended But this which I send is more full and hath more of the Narrative and further hath one part that I think will not be disagreeable either to you or that place being the true tracts of her proceeding towards the Catholicks which are infinetly mistaken And though I do not imagine they will pass allowance there yet they will gain upon excuse I find Mr. Lezure to use you well I mean his tongue of you which shews you either honest or wise But this I speak meerly For in good faith I conceive hope that you will so govern your self as we may take you as assuredly for a good Subject and Patriot as you take your self for a good Christian and so we may again enjoy your Company and you your Conscience if it may no otherwise be For my part assure your self that as we say in the Law Mutatis mutandis my love and good wishes to you are not diminished And so I remain A Letter to Mr. Matthew upon sending his Book De Sapientia Veterum Mr. Matthew I do very heartily thank you for your Letter of the 24th of Aug. from Salamanca and in recompence thereof I send you a little work of mine that hath begun to pass the world They tell me my Lattin is turn'd into Silver and becom currant Had you been here you had been my Inquisitor before it came forth But I think the greatest Inquisitor in Spain will allow it But one thing you must pardon me if I make no hast to beleive that the world should be grown to such an extasie as to reject truth in Philosophy because the Author dissenteth in Religion no more then they do by Aristcle or Averrois My great work goeth forward and after my manner I alter ever when I add So that nothing is finished till all be finished Th s I have written in the midst of a Term and Parliament thinking no time so precious but that I should talk of these matters with so good and dear a friend And so with my wonted wishes I leave you to Gods goodness From Grayes-Inne Febr. 17. 1610. Sir Francis Bacon to M. Savill Mr. Savill Coming back from your Invitation at Eaton where I had refreshed my self with company which I loved I sell into a consideration of that part of Policie whereof Philosophy speaketh too much and Laws too little And that is of education of youth whereupon fixing my mind a while I found straitwayes and noted even in the discourses of Philosophers which are so large in this argument a strange silence concerning one principal part of that subject For as touching the framing and seasoning of youth to moral vertues tolerance of labour continency from pleasures obedience honour and the like they handle it but touching the improvement and helping of the intellectual powers as of conceit memory and judgement they say nothing whether it were that they thought it to be a matter wherein Nature only prevailed or that they intended it as referred to the several and proper Arts which teach the use of Reason and speech But for the former of these two reasons howsoever it pleaseth them to distinguish of habits and powers the experience is manifest enough that the motions and faculties of the will and memory may be not only governed and guided but also confirmed and enlarged by custome and exercise duly applyed as if a man exercise shooting he shall not only shoot nearer the mark but also draw a stronger bow And as for the latter of comprehending these precepts within the Arts of Logick and Rhetorick if it be rightly considered their office is distinct altogether from this point for it is no part of the doctrine of the use or handling of an instrument to teach how to whet or grinde the instrument to give it a sharper edge or how to quench it or otherwise whereby to give it a stronger temper Wherefore finding this part of knowledge not broken I have but tanquam aliud agens entred into it and salute you with it dedicating it after the ancient manner first as to a dear friend and then as to an apt person forasmuch as you have both place to practise it and judgment and leisure to look deeper in it then I have done Herein you must call to mind Though the argument be not of great height and dignitie nevertheless it is of great and universal use And yet I do not see why to consider it rightly that should not be a learning of heighth which teacheth to raise the highest and worthiest part of the minde But howsoever that be if the world take any light and use by this writing I will that the Gratulation be to the good friendship and acquaintance between us two And so I commend you to Gods divine protection Sir Francis Bacon to the King touching the Sollicitors place HOW honestly ready I have been most gracious Sovereign to do Your Majesty humble Service to the best of my power and in a manner beyond my power as I now stand I am not so unfortunate but Your Majesty knoweth For both in the Commission of Union the labour whereof for men of my Profession rested most upon my hand and this last Parliament in the Bill of the Subsidie both body and preamble in the

1569. Postscript SIR IT is now accorded that three of the Merchants shall pass over to Rohan to prove what restitution the French will make there and the like shall be here Because I doubt your slack servants I do presently send away this bearer otherwise I would have staid him to have seen what manner of news this Ambassador hath to declare upon Tuesday next at which time he hath required to be heard I am ready as I told your Son Mr. William Norris to do any thing in my power to pleasure you in your particular causes or suites here as the last Term I did deal for you in such as I was required Yours assuredly W. Cecil To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR YOur last letters are of the 8 of June brought by a Merchant residing at Rhoan and now our daily expectation is to hear either of the joyning of the Duke Vypont with the Admiral or else that they have been kept asunder by sight we have no news here being contented with continuance of quietness which we think to possess except the motions of the contrary shall come from thence whereof we have great cause to fear and the like to prevent Upon a Reprizal made by Mr. Winter here of certain Portugals goods We hear for certainty that King of Portugal hath Arrested the goods of our Merchants there whereof will follow some ja●● which we think our foes will increase The Queen of Scots hath sent one Borthick by whom at his request I wrot yesterday and her Secretary Rowlye into France co procure from the King and his brother 〈◊〉 some satisfaction to the Queens Majesty for avoiding of the opinion conceived of her transaction with Mounsieur D' Anjou how they shall well satisfie her Majesty I cannot tell but as of late I wrote to you her Majesty would have you explore by all means that you can what hath been in truth done heretofore in that case besides the advertisement for her Majesty hath seen letters passed betwixt no mean persons of Authority there being adversaries to the Religion by which it manifestly appeareth that such matters have been secretly concluded and yet the more tryals are made hereof the better it is We have at length accorded with the French Ambassador here as as you shall see by a Copy of writing herewith sent you and so I take my leave of you I wish that you would always when you send any with your letters write what you imprest to them for their charges for I make full allowance to them all And so with my hearty commendations to you and my Lord I end Our Progress is like to be to Southampton Your assured friend at command W. Cecil Greenwich 18 June 1569. To the right honorable Sir Henrry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR THis bearer Mr Borthick servant to the Queen of Scots hath required me to have my letters unto you to signifie the cause of his coming wherein I can certifie of my knowledge no other than thus the Queen of Scots of late time amongst other things to move the Queens Majesty to be favoureble unto her in her causes offered to do any thing reasonable to satisfie her Majesty concerning her surety in the right of this Crown as she now possesseth it to her self and her issue whereupon answer was given that though there was no need for the Queens Majesties assurance to have any Act pass from her yet as things were understood the Queen of Scots was not now a person able or meet to contract therein for it was understood that she had made a Concession of all her Title to this Crown to the Duke of Anjou with which answer we finde the Queen of Scots much moved as a thing devised by her enemies in France and thereupon she advertiseth the cause to be of the sending of her 〈◊〉 into France to the King his Brother Uncles c. to make perfect testimony in what sort this surmise is untrue and so as I am informed this is the occasion of the coming of Mr. Borthick this Bearer who truly I have found always a good servant to the Queen his Mistriss and a tractable Gentleman at all times and so I pray you accept him upon my commendations Yours assuredly W. Cecil Westm. 16. June 1569. To the right honorable Sir Henry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR YOur advertisement of the Duke of Bipont came hither so speedily as untill seven days after the French Ambassador could not understand thereof but when he did he used no sparing to divulge it abroad where the Count Ernest of Mansfelt is we cannot as yet understand but from Rochell we hear that he is well allowed of the Army and not inferior in knowledge to the Duke The will of God must be patiently received and obeyed and what shall ensue hereof to his glory we must if it be good affirm it to be beyond our deserts if otherwise not so evil as we have deserved Of late about the 15. of June a Rebellion began in the West part of Ireland about Cork wherein we care not for the force of the inhabitants so they be not aided with some Spainards or Portugals whereof we are not void of suspicion and therefore we do presently send certain Captains with a Force by Sea from Bristoll to Cork meaning to provide for the worst as reason is Our Rochell Fleet is safely returned with Salt and I think the Merchants have not as yet brought their whole accomplement Upon your last advertisement of the delays used in giving you Pasports I did peremptorily admonish the French Ambassador That if he did not procure you some better expedition at the Kings hands there he should have the like measure there and therefore I think you shall hear some what whereof I pray you advertise me And so I take my leave Yours assuredly W. Cecil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Postscript An unfortunate Accident is befaln to my Lord of Shrewsbury being first stricken with a Palsey and now stricken lamentably with a Phrensie God comfort him It is likely the Queen of Scots shall remove to Belvoir in the charge of my Lord of Bedford To the right honorable Sir Henrry Norris Knight the Queens Majesties Ambassador Resident in France SIR AS my leisure is small to write much so have I not much matter to write unto you at this time but onely to send away this bearer your servant unto you because I think in this time you have cause to use them all Your Son Mr. John Norris I think shall be the next by whom you shall understand all our matters here better then I can express in my letters and therefore I do forbear to write divers things at this present unto you which by him you shall more certainly understand onely at this time I wish that you could find the means to send some trusty person

abolishing of the priviledges of Sanctuaries in case of Treason and that not before he had obtained it by way of suit from Pope Alexander which Sanctuaries nevertheless had been the forges of most of his troubles In his Government he was led by none scarcely by his Laws and yet he was a great observer of formality in all his proceedings which notwithstanding was no impediment to the working of his will 〈…〉 the suppressing and punishment of the Treasons which during the whole time of his Reign were committed against him he had a very strange kind of interchanging of very large and unexpected pardons with severe executions which his Wisdom considered could not be imputed to any Inconstancy or Inequality but to a discretion or at least to a principle that he had apprehended that it was good not obstinately to pursue one course but to try both ways In his Wars he seemed rather confident than enter prizing by which also he was commonly not the poorer but generally he did seem inclinable to live in peace and made but offers of War to mend the conditions of peace and in the quenching of the commotions of his Subjects he was ever ready to atchieve those Wars in Person sometimes reserving himself but never retiring himself but as ready to second Of nature he coveted to accumulate treasure which the People into whom there is infused for the preservation of Monarchies a natural desire to discharge their Princes though it be with the unjust Charge of their Councellors and Ministers did impute unto Cardinal Morton and Sir Reynold Bray who as it after appeared as Councellors of ancient Authority with him did so second his humour as nevertheless they tempted it and refrained it whereas Empson and Dudley that followed being persons that had no reputation with him otherwise than the servile following of his own humour gave him way and shaped him way to these extremities wherewith himself was touched with remorse at his death and with his Successor disavowed In expending of Treasure he never spared Charge that his Affairs required and in his Foundations was Magnificent enough but his Rewards were very limited so that his Liberality was rather upon his own state and memory than towards the deserts of others He chose commonly to employ cunning persons as he that knew himself sufficient to make use of their uttermost reaches without danger of being abused with them himself The rest is wanting A Copy of a Letter from His Majesty to the Lords read at Board Novemb. 21. 1617. touching the abatement of His Majesties Houshold Charge MY Lords no worldly thing is so precious as Time Ye know what task I gave you to work upon during my absence and what time was limited unto you for the performance thereof This same Chancellor of Scotland was wont to tell me twenty four years ago that my house could not be kept upon Epigrams long discourses and fair tales will never repair my estate Omnis vertus in Actione consistit Remember that I told you the shooe must be made for the foot and let that he the Square of all your proceeding in this business Abate super-fluities in all things and multitudes of unnecessary Officers where ever they be placed But for the houshold Wardrope and Pensions cut and carve as many as may agree with the possibility of my means Exceed not your own rule of 50000 l. for the houshold If you can make it lesse I will account it for good service And that you may see I will not spare mine own person I have sent with this bearer a note of the superfluous charges concerning my mouth having had the happy opportunities of this Messenger in an errand so nearly concerning his place In this I expect no answer in word or writing but only the real performance for a beginning to relieve me out of my miseries For now the Ball is at your feet and the world shall bear me witness that I have put you fairly to it and so praying God to bless your labours I bid you heartily farewell Your own James R. A Copy of His Majesties second Letter MY Lords I received from you yesternight the bluntest Letter that I think ever King received from his Councel Ye write that the Green Cloth will do nothing and ye offer me advice Why are ye Councellors if ye offer no Councel an ordinary Messenger might have brought me such an answer It is my pleasure that my charges be equalled with my Revenue and it is just and necessary so to be For this a project must be made and one of the main branches thereof is my house This Project is but to be offered unto you and how it may be best laid then to agree with my honour and contentment ye are to advise upon and then have my consent If this cannot be performed without diminishing the number of the Tables diminished they must be and if that cannot serve two or three must be thrust into one If the Green Cloth will not make a Project for this some others must do it If ye cannot find them out I must Only remember two things That time must no more be lost and that there are twenty wayes of abatement besides the house if they be well looked into And so farewell James R. A Letter from the King to his Lordship by occasion of a Book It was the Organon MY Lord I have received your Letter and your Book then which ye could not have sent a more acceptable Present unto Me how thankful I am for it cannot better be expressed by Me then by a firm resolution I have taken first to read it through with care and attention though I should steal some houres from My sleep having otherwise as little spare time to read it as ye had to write it and then to use the liberty of a true friend in not sparing to ask you the question in any point thereof I shall stand in doubt Nam ejus est explicare cujus est condere As for the other part I will willingly give a due Commendation to such places as in My Opinion shall deserve it In the mean time I can with Comfort assure you that ye could not make choice of a Subject more befitting your place and your universal and Methodick knowledge and in the general I have already observed that ye jump with me in keeping the middle way between the two extreams as also in some particulars I have found that ye agree fully with my opinion and so praying God to give your work as good success as your heart can wish and your labours deserve I bid you heartily farewell James R. To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Thomas Coventry Our Attorney General TRusty and Well-beloved We greet you well whereas our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cosen the Viscount of St. Alban upon a sentence given in the Upper-house of Parliament full three years since and more hath endured loss of his place Imprisonment and Confinement