and honest endeavours More we will not write of this subject but have dispatched this Gentleman to visit both your Lord and condole with you in the true sense of your love and to pray you that the world may see that what time cureth in weak minds that discretion and moderation may help in you in this accident where there is so opportune occasion to demonstrate true patience and true moderation Thomas Duke of Norfolk to Queen Elizabeth O Most dear and dread Soveraign and Lady Queen and most gracious Mistress when I consider with my self how far I have transgressed my duty to your most gracious Majesty I dare not now presume to look up or hope for your gracious favour I confess my self so far unworthy thereof but again when I look into your Highness manifold mercifull and most pitifull nature of which so many have so abundantly tasted of since your Majesties most prosperous reign I am emboldened with penitent and sorrowfull heart to make my trembling hand to offer unto your Highness my most ruful lowly submission having none other means to ease my oppressed mind I am for my sins and disobedience to ask pardon that is of Almighty God and of your most excellent Majesty the first I have done to Almighty God and so I by the grace of him will continue with a new heart and full mind of amendment not doubting but asking mercy to receive it according to the Scripture he that knocketh at the door shall have it opened unto him Now do I prostrate my self at your Highness most gracious feet my poor children and all that I have hoping more in your Majesties most gracious clemency then in any of mine unadvised deserts I seek to excuse my self no way but wholly submit my self to what shall please your most mercifull heart like a most gracious Queen to a man that hath been astray who finding mercy hath afterwards with bad service oftentimes redoubled his former folly O most noble Queen it is in your most gracious power to make of my wretched mould what it pleaseth you my faith and religion reserved to my Saviour my body being already to your Highness subject and imprisoned for my most just desert I dedicate my mind and heart to be hereafter as it shall please your Majesty to direct it I do not seek favour at your Majesties hands in respect of my former good service I confess undutifulness hath now blotted the same out neither dare I remmeber which heretofore was my greatest comfort because I deserve not that honor which was that it hath pleased your Highness to account me indeed your unworthy kinsman Wo wretch that day when I entred into that matter which hath made such alteration of your Majesties most gracious favour unto me and hath heaped upon my self these intolerable troubles O unworthy that I am that in all the days of my life counting upon nothing but a quiet life I take God to witness whatsoever some have judged the contrary of me I was so unhappy to give ear to that which hath done and ever was like to bring me to the contrary A Defiance sent by the Grand Seigniour to Maximilian the second BY the sufferance of the great God We Solyman God in earth great and high Emperour of all the world Patron and Distributer of all Christians We send and declare unto thee Maximilian all wrath and ill fortune and infidelity and to all thy Princes subjects and helpers We give it known unto thee That We by the sufferance of the great God named the Perpetuall and Universall God in earth most mighty Emperour Soldan in Babylon Lord of Armenia the most mightiest in Persipolis and Numidia the great helper of God Prince from the Rode of Barbary unto the mountains of Achaia King of Kings from the Meridian to the Septentrian of the earth from the rising place of the Sun to the setting of it the first and chiefest placed in the Paradise of Mahomet the destroyer of all Christendom and of all Christians and that do profess Christianity the keeper and defender of the Sepulcher of thy God crucified the onely victorious and triumphant Lord of all the world and of all Circuits and Provinces thereof Thou Maximilian which writest thy selfe King of our Kingdom of Hungary which is under our Crown and obeysance We will visit thee for that cause and also perswade thee that with our strength and force of thirteen Kingdoms with might and strength to the number of one hundred thousand as well Horsemen as Footmen prepared for war with all the power and strength of Turkish munition and with such power as thou nor none of thy servants have seen heard or had knowledge of even before thy chief Citie Vienna and the Countrey thereabouts We Solyman God on earth against thee with all thy assisters and helpers with our Warlike strength do pronounce protest your uttermost destruction and depopulation as we can by all means possible devise it And this we we will signifie unto thee to the which thou and thy miserable people may prepare your selves With us it is determined with our men appointed thee and all thy German Kingdoms and Provinces altogether to spoyl This misery we have consented unto against thee and thy Princes and have thou no doubt but we will come Dated in the City of Constantinople out of the which we did expulse your predecessors their wives children and friends and made them most miserable slaves and captives the year of our reign fourty seven Sir John Perrots Commission for Lord Deputy of Ireland ELizabetha Dei gratia c. omnibus ad quos presentes literae pervenerint salut Sciatis quod nos certis urgentibus causis considerationibus nos specialiter movendis de provida circumspectione industria praedilecti fidelis nobis Johannis Perrot milit plenius confidentes de advisamento Concilii nostri assignavimus fecimus ordinavimus constituimus deputavimus per praesentes assignavimus c. eundem Johannem Perrot milit Deputat nostrum Generalem Regni nostri Hiberniae habend tenend gaudend exercend occupand officium praedict eidem Johanni Perrot milit durante beneplacito nostro dantes concedentes eidem Deputat nostro Generali plenam tenore praesentium potestatem ad pacem nostram ac ad leges consuetudines regni nostri praedict custodiend custodirifaciend ad omnes singulas leges nostras c. The whole Contents of the Commission for the Lord Deputy TO conserve the peace to punish offenders to make Orders and Proclamations to receive offenders to grace to give pardons and impose fines to levy forces to fight and make peace to dispose Rebels lands to pardon all treasons saving touching the Queens person and counterfeiting of coyn to give offices saving the Chancellor Treasurer two chief Justices chief Baron and Master of the Rolls to dispose of Ecclesiasticall livings except Archbishops and Bishops to receive homage and the oath to make
preceding and succeeding wrongs offered me that I am and will be Your Majesties most humble and loyall subject FR NORRIS A Patent for the Admiralty of Ireland RIght trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Councellor We greet you well Whereas we are graciously pleased as well for the increase of our Navy and Navigators as also for the better enabling and enriching of our subjects in our Realm of Scotland to give way and liecnce unto our loving subjects of Scotland and so many of them as may make a full able and compleat company for Traffick and Merchandizing into the East Indies to erect and set up among themselves a Company to be called The East Indian Company of Scotland making their first Magazin Storehouse for the said Company in some parts of our Realm of Ireland But for that our Ports and Seas upon the Coasts of our said Realm of Ireland have of late and still are likely without our speciall aid and assistance to be much troubled and annoyed with Pirats and other Sea-Robbers to the great discouragement of our loving Subjects and Merchants passing that way We for the avoyding of those inconveniences and for the better heartning of the said Company in their intended voyage and traffick have for reasons to us best known resolved notwithstanding any other imployments of our Ships there by our Letters Patents under our great Seal of England and at the humble request and Petition of our loving Subjects of the said Company to nominate and appoint A. B. our trusty servant to be imployed in those Seas and Coasts of Ireland as fully and amply as our servant Sir F.H. is now for our narrow Seas And to the end he may with more courage and less prejudice to our said servant Sir F. H. by his diligence and industry in the said imployment free those Seas from the said annoyances our pleasure is That you by your Deed Poll do give unto our said Servant such and the like power and authority for the Irish Seas and Chanell of St. George as the said Sir F. H. hath for the Narrow Seas So always as the power and authority of the said A. B. may begin where the power and authority of the said Sir F. H. doth end that is to say from our Island of Scilie in our Realm of England unto and alongst the Coast of Ireland and the Chanell of St. George So not doubting of your speedy effecting of what is here required for the furtherance of so good a work We bid you heartily farewell From our Court at c. A Commission to divers Lords c. for the delivery of Ulushing Brill c. May 14. Jac. 14. IAMES by the grace of God King of England c. To the right Reverend Father in God our right trusty and welbeloved Councellor George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and to our right trusty and welbeloved Councellor Tho. Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and to our right trusty and welbeloved Cousins and Councellors Tho. Earl of Suffolk Lord Treasurer of England Edward Earl of Worcester Lord Keeper of our Privy-Seal Lodowick Duke of Lennox Lord Steward of our houshold Charls Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral of England William Earl of Pembroke Lord Chamberlain of our houshold Tho. Earl of Exeter John Earl of Mar and Alexander Earl of Dumfermlin and to our right trusty and right welbeloved Councellors Tho. Viscount Fenton Tho. Bishop of Winton Edward Lord Zouch Lord Warden of our Cinque-Ports William Lord Knowls Treasurer of our houshold John Lord Stanhop and Tho. Lord Bannings and to our right trusty and welbeloved Councellors Sir John Digby Knight our Vice-Chamberlain Sir John Herbert Knight one of our principal Secretaries of State Sir Fulk Grevil Knight Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer Sir Tho. Parry Knight Chancellor of our Dutchy of Lancaster Sir Edward Coke Knight Chief Justice of our Bench and Sir Julius Cesar Knight Master of our Rolls greeting Whereas the States-Generall of the United Provinces of the Low-Countries have divers times sollicited us by their resident Ambassador Sir Noel Caron Knight that we would be pleased to render into their hands the Towns of Flushing in Zeland with the Castle of Ramakins and of Bril in Holland with the Forts and sconces thereunto belonging which we hold by way of caution untill such sums of money as they owe unto us be reimbursed upon such reasonable conditions as should be agreed on between us and them for the reimbursing and repayments of the said monies And whereas we have recommended the consideration of this so mighty and important an affair to the judgment and discretion of you the Lords of our Privy-Councel and have received from you after long and mature deliberation and examination of the circumstances an advice That as the present condition of our State now standeth and as the nature of those Towns is meer cautionary wherein we can challenge no interest of propriety it would be much better for our service upon fair and advantagious conditions to render them then longer to hold them at so heavy a charge Now forasmuch as in our Princely wisdom we have resolved to yield up our said Towns with the said Castle and Sconces belonging unto them upon such conditions as shall be most for our advantage as well in point of honour as of profit Know ye therefore that we have assigned and appointed you the said Archbishop L. Treasurer L. Privy-Seal L. Steward L. Admiral L. Chamberlain E. of Exeter E. of Mar E. of Dunfermlin Vicount Fintons L. Bishop of Winton L. Zouch L. Knowls L. Stanhop L. Banning Sir John Digby Sir John Herbert Sir Ralph Winwood Sir Tho. Lake Sir Fulk Grevil Sir Tho. Parry Sir Edw. Coke Sir Julius Cesar our Commissioners and do by these presents give full power authority unto you or the more part of you for us and in our name to treat and conclude with the said Sir Noel Caron Knight Ambassador from the States of the United Provinces being likewise for that purpose sufficiently authorized from the said States his superiors touching the rendition and yielding up of the said Town of Flushing with the Castle of Ramakins in Zeland and of the Town of Bril in Holland with the Forts and Sconces thereto belonging and of the Artillery and Munition formerly delivered by the States with the same which are now remaining in them or any of them and have not been spent and consumed And for the delivery of them into the hands of the said States on such terms as by you shall be thought fit for our most honour and profit and for the manner thereof to give instructions to our said several Governours of the said Garrisons according to such your conclusion And this our Commission or the enrollment or exemplification thereof shall be unto you and every of you a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf In witness c. Witness our self at Westminster the 31 day of May in the 14 year of our
the Earl of Essex when Sir Ro. Cecil was in France P. 42 Sir Fr. Bacon to the Earl of Essex concerning the Earl of Tyrone P. 43 Another to the Earl before his going to Ireland P. 45 Another to him after his enlargement P. 48 Sir Fr. Bacon to Sir Ro. Cecil after defeat of the Spaniards in Ireland ibi Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland P. 49 Sir Fr. Bacon to the L. Treasurer touching his Speech in Parliament P. 54 Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Northampton P. 55 To the Lord Kinloss upon the entrance of King James P. 56 To King James ibid. To the Earl of Northumberland concerning a Proclamation upon the Kings entry P. 58 To the Earl of Southampton ibid. To the Earl of Northumberland P. 58 To Sir Edward Coke expostulatory P. 60 To the same after L. Chief Justice and in disgrace ibid. To Sir Vincent Skinner expostulatory P. 66 Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Chancellor P. 71 To King James P. 72 Mr. Edmond Andersons Letter to Sir Francis Bacon P. 73 Sir Thomas Bodeley to Sir Francis Bacon upon his new Philosophy P. 74 Mr. George Brook to a Lady in Court P. 79 To his Wife P. 80 King James to the Major and Aldermen of London after he was proclaimed Mar. 28. 1603. P. 81 The Roman Catholiques Petition to King James for Toleration P. 82 Sir Walter Raleigh to King James before his Trial. P. 85 Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Car after Earl of Somerset P. 86 Sir Tho Egerton Chancellor after L. Ellesmere to the E. of Essex P. 87 Lord Chancellor Ellesmere to King James ibid. Again to the same King P. 88 Sir Francis Norris to King James P. 89 A Patent for the Admiralty of Ireland P. 90 A Commission to divers Lords c. for the delivery of Flushing Brill c. May 14. Jac. 14. P. 92 A Commission to Visc Lisle Governour to deliver them up May 22. J. 14. P. 93 Countess of Nottingham to the Danish Ambassador P. 94 Sir Charls Cornwallis Lieger in Spain to the Spanish King July 23. 1608. ibid. Again to the Spanish King Jan. 16. 1608. P. 98 Again to the Spanish King P. 100 101 K James to the Vniversity of Cambridge Mar. 14. 1616. P. 105 Mr. Ruthen to the Earl of Northumberland P. 106 Sir Henry Yelvertons submission in the Star-chamber P. 107 Ferdinand the second Emperor to the Catholique King P. 109 Ferdinand Emperor to Don Balthazar de Zuniga Octob. 15. 1621. P. 110 K. James to Ferdinand Emp. concerning the Palatinate Nov. 12. 1621. P. 113 His Imperial Majesty to King James Jan. 14. 1621. P. 116 Earl of Bristol to King James P. 117 Ab ignoto to Conde Gondomar concerning the death of Philip 3. P. 125 K. James to the Earl of Bristol Ambassador in Spain Octob. 3. 1622. P. 127 Earl of Bristol to King James Octob. 21. 1622. P. 129 K. Philip the third of Spain to the Conde of Olivarez P. 133 Conde Olivarez his answer to the King ibid. K. James to the Earl of Bristol Octob. 8. 1623 P. 136 Earl of Bristol in answer to King Iames Octob. 9. 1623. P. 137 Again to King Iames Novemb. 1. 1623. P. 141 King Iames to the Palsgrave P. 143 The Palsgraves answer to King Iames P. 145 Ab Ignoto from Madrid P. 151 A Memorial to the King of Spain by Sir Walter Ashton Ambassador in Spain Aug. 29. 1624. P. 152 The Petition of Francis Philips to King Iames for the release of Sir Robert Philips prisoner in the Tower P. 155 Oliver St. John to the Major of Marlborough against the Benevolence P. 159 The Justices of Peace in Com. Devon to the Lords of the Councel P. 182 The Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishops concerning K. James his Directions for Preachers with the Directions Aug. 14. 1622. P. 183 King James his Instructions to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning Orders to be observed by Bishops in their Dioceses 1622. P. 187 Bishop of Winchester to his Archdeacon to the same effect P. 189 The Bishop of Lincoln Lord Keeper to the Bishop of London concerning Preaching and Catechising P. 190 Instructions for the Ministers and Churchwardens of London P. 193 Mons Bevayr Chancellor of France discharged to the French King ibid. Mons Richere forced recants his opinions against the Papal supremacie over Kings P. 196 Car. Richlieu to the Roman Catholicks of Great Britain Aug. 25. 1624. P. 197 Mons Balsac to the Cardinal de la Valette ibid. Mons Balsac to the King Louis P. 200 Mons Toyrax to the Duke of Buckingham P. 201 Ab ignoto concerning the estate of Rochel after the surrender P. 202 The Protestants of France to Charles King of Great-Britain P. 204 The Duke of Rohan to his Majesty of Great-Britain Mar. 12. 1628. P. 208 Pope Greg. 15. to the Inquisitor-general of Spain April 19. 1623. P. 210 Pope Urban to Lewis the 13. Aug. 4. 1629. P. 211 The Duke of Buckingham Chancellor Elect to the Vniversity of Cambridge Iune 5. 1626. P. 213 King Charles to the Vniversity of Cambridge in approbation of their election Iune 6. 1626. P. 214 The Vniversity of Cambridge its answer to the Duke Iune 6. 1626. P. 215 The Vniversity of Cambridge its answer to the King P. 216 A Privy-Seal for transporting of Horse Iune 6. 1624. P. 217 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Duke P. 218 The Dukes answer P. 219 The Vice-chancellor of Cambridge to the King upon the Dukes death ib. King Charles to the Vniversity of Cambridge for a new election P. 220 The Earl of Holland to the Vniversity P. 221 The Vnimersity of Cambridge to the King P. 222 An Order made at Whitehall betwixt the Vniversity and Town of Cambridge Decemb. 4. 1629. P. 223 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Archbishop of York P. 224 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Earl of Manchester P. 225 The Vniversity of Cambridge to Sir Humphrey May P. 226 Instructions by K. Charles to the Vicechancellor and Heads of Cambridge for Government c. Mar. 4. 1629. P. 127 The Vniversity of Cambridge to the Lord chief Iustice Richardson P. 228 The Bishop of Exeter to the Lower-House of Parliament P. 229 King Charles to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal P. 230 A Councel-Table Order against hearing Mass at Ambassadors houses March 10. 1629. P. 232 The King of Spain to Pope Urban Sept. 11. 1629. P. 234 The Councel of Ireland to King Charls in defence of the Lord Deputy Faulkland Aug. 28. 1629. P. 235 Ab ignoto Of the affairs of Spain France and Italy June 5. 1629. P. 239 The Lords of the Councel of England to the Lords of the Councel of Ireland Jan. 31. 1629. P. 240 The Lord Faulklands Petition to the King P. 242 The Duke of Modena to the Duke of Savoy July 30. 1629. P. 243 Sir Kenelm Digby to Sir Edward Stradling P. 244 Mr. Gargrave to the Lord Davers P. 253 A Declaration of Ferdinand
Lordship once before my opinion that methought his Majesty rather asked counsell of the time past then of the time to come But it is yet early to be found in any setled opinion For other particularities I refer to conference having in these generals gone further in these tender arguments then I would have done were not the bearer hereof so assured So I continue your c. FR. BACON To Sir Edward Coke expostulatory Mr. Attorney I Thought best once for all to let you know in plainness what I find of you and what you shal find of me To take to your self a liberty to disgrace and disable my Law experience discretion what it pleases you I pray think of me I am one that know both mine own wants and other mens and it may be perchance that mine may mend when others stand at a stay And surely I may not in publike place endure to be wronged without repelling the same to my best advantage to right myself You are great and therefore have the more enviers which would be glad to have you paid at anothers cost Since the time I missed the Sollicitors place the rather I think by your means I cannot expect that you and I shall ever serve as Attorney and Sollicitor but either to serve with another upon your remove or to step into some other course So as I am more free then ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming my self to you more then generall good manners or your particular good usage shall provoke And if you had not been short-sighted in your own fortune as I think you might have had more use of me but that tide is past I write not this to shew any friends what a brave Letter I have writ to Mr. Attorney I have none of those humours but that I have written is to a good end that is to the more decent carriage of my Masters service and to our particular better understanding one another This Letter if it shall be answered by you in deed and not in word I suppose it will not be worse for us both else it is but a few lines lost which for a much smaller matter I would adventure So this being to your self I for my part rest Your c. FR. BACON To the same after Lo. Chief Justice and in disgrace My very good Lord THough it be true that who considereth the wind and the rain shall neither sow nor reap Eccles 9.15 yet there is a season for every action And so there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence there is a time when the words of a poor simple man may profit and that poor man in the Preacher which delivered the City by his wisdom found that without this opportunity the power both of wisdom and eloquence lose but their labour and cannot charm the deaf Adder God therefore before his Son that bringeth mercy sent his servant the Trumpeter of repentance to level a very high hill to prepare the way before him making it smooth and streight And as it is in spiritual things where Christ never comes before his Way-maker hath laid even the heart with sorrow and repentance since self-conceited and proud persons think themselves too good and too wise to learn of their inferior and therefore need not the Physitian so in the rules of earthly wisdom it is not possible for nature to attain any mediocrity of perfection before she be humbled by knowing her self and her own ignorance Not only knowledge but also every other gift which we call the gifts of fortune have power to pull up earthly Afflictions only level these Mole-hils of pride plough the heart and make it fit for Wisdom to sow her seed and for Grace to bring forth her increase Happy is that man therefore both in regard of heavenly and earthly wisdom that is thus wounded to be cured thus broken to be made straight thus made acquainted with his own imperfections that he may be perfected Supposing this to be the time of your affliction that which I have propounded to my self is by taking this seasonable advantage like a true friend though far unworthy to be counted so to shew you your true shape in a glass and that not in a false one to flatter you nor yet in one that should make you seem worse then you are and so offend you but in one made by the reflexion of your own words and actions from whose light proceeds the voice of the people which is often not unfitly called the voice of God but therein since I purposed a truth I must intreat liberty to be plain a liberty that at this time I know not whether or no I may use safely I am sure at other times I could not yet of this resolve your self it proceedeth from love and a true desire to do you good that you knowing the generall opinion may not altogether neglect or contemn it but mend what you find amiss in yourself and tain what your judgment shall approve for to this end shall truth be delivered as naked as if your self were to be anatomized by the hand of opinion All men can see their own profit that part of the wallet hangs before A true friend whose worthy office I would perform since I fear both your self and all great men want such being themselves true friends to few or none is first to shew the other and which is from your eyes First therefore behold your errors In discourse you delight to speak too much not to hear other men this some say becomes a pleader not a Judge for by this sometimes your affections are intangled with a love of your own arguments though they be the weaker and rejecting of those which when your affections were setled your own judgment would allow for strongest Thus while you speak in your own Element the Law no man ordinarily equals you but when you wander as you often delight to do you then wander indeed and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires This is not caused by any naturall defect but first for want of election when you having a large and fruitfull mind should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken rich soils are often to be weeded Secondly you cloy your auditory when you would be observed speech must either be sweet or short Thirdly you converse with Books not men and Books specially humane and have no excellent choyce with men who are the best Books for a man of action and imployment you seldome converse with and then but with your underlings not freely but as a Schoolmaster with his Scholars ever to teach never to learn But if somtimes you would in your familiar discourse hear others and make election of such as know what they speak you should know many of these tales you tell to be but ordinary and many other things which you delight to repeat and serve in for novelties to be but
place it seems you have no such caution But my writing to you now is to know of you where now the stay is without being any more beholden to you to whom indeed no man ought to be beholden in those cases in a right course And so I bid you farewell FR. BACON To Mr. Toby Matthews Mr. Matthews DO not think me for get full or altered towards you But if I should say I could do you any good I should make my power more then it is I do fear that which I am right sorry for that you grow more impatient and bâ—sie then at first which makeâ— me exceedingly fear the issue of that which seemeth not to stand at a stay I my self am out of doubt that you have been miserably abused when you were first seduced and that which I take in compassion others may take in severity I pray God that understands us all better then we understand one another continue you as I hope he will 〈◊〉 least within the bounds of loyalty to his Majesty and natural piety to 〈◊〉 our Country And I intreat you much to meditate sometimes upon the effect of Superstition in this last Powder-Treason fit to be tabled and pictur'd in the chambers of Meditation as another Hell above the ground and well justifying the censure of the Heathen that Superstition it far worse then Atheism by how much it is less evil to have no good opinion of God at all then such as are impious towards his divine Majesty and goodness Good Mr. Matthews receive your self back from these courses of perdition Willing to have written a great deal more I continue Your c. FR. BACON To the Lord Treasurer concerning the Sollicitors place AFter the remembrance of my humble duty though I know by late experience how mindfull your Lordship vouchsafeth to be of me and my poor fortune and since it pleased your Lordship during your indisposition when her Majesty came to visit your Lordship to make mention of me for my imployment and preferment yet being now in the Country I do presume that your Lordship who of your self had an honorable 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 Majesty was somwhat gravelled upon the offence she took at my Speech in Parliament your Lordships favourable endeavour who hath assured me that for your own part you construe that I spake to the best will be as a good tide to remove her from that shelf And it is not unknown unto your good Lordship that I was the first of the ordinary sort of the lower House that spake for the Subsidie and that which I after spake in difference was but in circumstance of time which methinks was no great matter since there is variety allowed in Councel as a Discord in Musick to make it more perfect But I may justly doubt her Majesties impression upon this particular as her conceipt otherwise of my insufficiencie and unworthiness which though I acknowledge to be great yet it will be the less 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 business only hoping that a whole man meanly able may do as well as half a man better able And if her Majesty thinketh that she shall make an adveuture in using one that is rather a man of study then of practice and experience surely I may remember to have heard that my Father an example I confess rather ready then like was made Sollicitor 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 Dutchy when he had practised little or nothing and yet hath discharged his place with great sufficiencie But those and the like things are as her Majesty shall be made capable of them wherein knowing what authority your Lordships commendations 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 yet as your Lordship knoweth I have made offer of such as I could yield For as God hath given me a mind to love the publique 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 Ally you shall but tueri opus which you have begun and your Lordship shall bellow your benefit upon one that hath more sense of obligation then of self-love Thus humbly desiring pardon of so long a Letter I wish your Lordship all happiness Your Lordships in all humbleness to be commanded FR. BACON June 6. 1595. To the Earl of Salisbury concerning the same It may please your Lordship I Am not privy to my self of any such ill deserving towards your Lordship as that I should think it an impudent thing to be a Suitor for your favour in a reasonable matter your Lordship being to me as with your good favour you cannot cease to be but rather it were a simple and arrogant part in me to forbear it It is thought Mr. Attorney shall be Chief Justice of the Common-Place in case Mr. Sollicitor rise I would be glad now at last to be Sollicitor chiefly because I think it will increase my practice wherein God blessing me a few years I may mend my state and so after fall to my studies and ease whereof one is requisite for my body and the other serveth for my mind wherein if I shall find your Lordships favour I shall be more happy then I have been which may make me also more wise I have small store of means about the King and to sue my self is not fit and therefore I shall leave it to God his Majesty and your Lordship for I must still be next the door I thank God in these transitory things I am well resolved So beseeching your Lordship not to think this Letter the less humble because it is plain I rest c. FR. BACON Again to the Earl of Salisbury It may please your good Lordship I Am not ignorant how mean a thing I stand for in desiring to come into the Sollicitors place For I know well it is not the thing it hath been time having wrought alteration both in the profession and in that special place Yet because I think it will increase my practice and that it may satisfie my friends and because I have been voiced to it I would be glad it were done Wherein I may say to your Lordship in the confidence of your poor Kinsman and a man by you advanced In idem
of the government of our said University Our will and pleasure is by these presents that you doe also command them and every of them to forbeare coming to any such houses otherwise or at other times then by the said statute others of inferiour order and degree are allowed to doe any statute or concession whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding And if any refuse to obey you herein that you proceed against them as contumacious and if there be cause that you also signifie their names to us or the Lords of our privy Counsel 4. That you doe severely punish all such of your body of what degree or condition soever as shall contemne their superiors or misbehave themselves either in word or deed towards the Vice-Chancellour or Proctors or any other officers of our University especially in the executing of their office 5. Lastly we will and command that a Copy of these our directions be delivered to the Master of every Colledge and that he cause the same to be published to those of his Colledge and then to be Registred in the Registers of their Colledges and duly observed and kept by all persons whom they concern Examinatur et concordat cum Originali Ita attestor Jacobus Fabor Registrarius The University of Cambridg to the Lord Chief Justice Richardson Honoratissimo Domino Thomae Richardson Commmunium Placitorum Proto Justiciario Proedro amico Academiae Patrono singulari AMplissime et honoratissime Domine superiori et Termino et Annâ— te nostris literis negotiis graviter defatigavimus nunc novas afferre molestias neutiquam dubitamus sed tu pro candore quo polles maximo hanc nostram morositatem benignè interpretare da veniam inâ—patienti nostrae occasioni ad Sacerdotium Hallingburii quod de cujusdam papicolae lapsu in manus nostras ex diplomate serenissimi Regis Jacobi nobis iudulto et per Senatum Regni solennem confirmato venit Hunc Magistrum Love Collegii divi Petri promovimus virum fide doctrinâ integritate sanctimoniâ praeclarum qui Procuratoris Officium magistratum apud nos amplissimum insigniter administravit et non sine magna laude fasces ante biennium deposuit unde liquido constet dominationi tuae quibus opulentiis abundat Alma mater cum virum consularem et de republica nostra tam bene meritum tali sacerdotiolo auctum remuneratum dimittimus Vtinam tamen vel tantillum hoc quod est beneficii homini nestro placidè concederent mortales Dii et se precibus ad aequanimitatem flicli paterentur Enim vero nescimus quomalo fato nostro id comparatum sit et inter sacrum sacrum semper haereamus quemadmodum in proverbio est Inter sacrum quod ambimus et hominum praecordia saxo duriâ—ra nihil nos sine controversia impetrare possumus sed cogimur virtute nostrâ nos involvere probam pauperiem sine dote quaerere cum Poeta Horatio nam in tanta dominorum et captatorum turba difficile est ad omnes articulos sic excubare ut qui modeste prensat in lutum non detrudatur et certe usque adeo praeclusus est industriae nostrae ad eadem honoris et emolumenti aditus at multi repudia literis in aeternum renunciare mallent quam post tot laboribus consumptam juventutem et senectam studiis immature acceleratam vanae spei cassa nuce ludificari cum non solum sua nobis negare beneficia sed et nostra abripere terrarum Domini slagitiosè contendant Quid ad te haec verba spectant facile conjicias Nos te Patronum appellamus quem adversarii nostri Judicem et per omnia patrocinia tua nobis ante hac gnaviter concessa ut huic Alumno nostro jus suum et Academiae dignitatem sarctam tectam authoritate tuâ conservare velis et cum tua merita non aliâ re consequi valeamuâ— quam debiti agnitione cui sumus impares memorisque animi gratà tâ—stificatione utramque tibi sempiternam religiose pollicemur Dat' è frequenti Senatu nostro pridie Galend Maii 1630. Honoris tui Clientes assidui Procancel ' et Senatus integer Academ ' Cantabrig Bishop of Excester to the lower House of Parliament Gentlemen FOR Gods sake be wise in your well meant zeale why doe we argue away precious time that can never be revoked or repaired Wo is me whilst we dispute our friends perish and we must follow them Where are we if we break and I tremble to thinke it we cannot but break if we hold too stiffe Our Liberties and properties are sufficiently declared to be sure and legal our remedies are cleare and irrefragable what do we fear Every subject now sees the way chalked out before him for future Justice and who dares henceforth tread besides it certainly whilst Parliaments live we need not misdoubt the like violation of our freedomes and rights may we bee but where the loanes found us we shall sufficiently enjoy our selves and ours It is now no season to reach for more O let us not whilst we over rigidly plead for a higher straine of safety put our selves into a necessity of ruine and utter despair of redresse let us not in a suspicion of evil that may be cast our selves into a present confusion if you love your selves and your Country remit something of your owne Terms and since the substance is yeilded by your noble compatriots stand not too curiously upon points of circumstance fear not to trust a good King who after the strictest Law made must be trusted with the execution think that your Country yea Christendom lyeth in the mercy of your present resolution relent or farewell Farewell from him whose faithful heart bleeds in a vowed sacrifice for his King and Country King Charles to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal WEE being desirous of nothing more then the advancing of the good peace and prosperity of our people have given leave to free debates of higest point of our prerogative Royal which in the times of our Predecessors Kings and Queens of this Realm were ever restrained as matter they would not have disputed and in other things we have been willing so farre to descend to the desires of our good subjects as might fully satisfie all moderate minds and free them from all just feares and jealousies which those messages we have sent unto the Commons House wil well demonstrate to the world and yet we find it stil insisted on That in no case whatsoever should it never so neerly concerne matters of State and Government we or our privy Counsel have power to commit any man without the cause be shewed The service it selfe would be thereby destroyed and deseated and the cause it selfe must be such as may be determined by our Judges of our causes at Westminster in a legal and ordinary way of Justice whereas the cause may be such as these Judges have not capacity of
advancement of the Crowne Revenues and lastly in the competent number of Bishops and other able and Learned Ministers of the Church of England of all sorts which we especially attribute to the blessednesse of your time and to the Industryes Zeale Judgment and moderation of your Deputy as well in your Majesty service as towards this peopleâ— having now well learned this great office and to the good beginnings of the two last precedent Deputies under direction of your most Renowned Father Secondly we understand that your Deputy and Councel are blamed for the present surcharge of your Revenues here far beyond the support thereof Herein your Royal Majesty may be pleased to cause a review of our dispatch from hence in August 1627. wherein it wil appear that their part in that offence hath been only obedience to extraordinary warrants from thence and that if those warrants had not beene fully performed out of your Revenues you had had about 40000 pound Irish to pay pensioners in your Coffers and answer other necessities which have since increased So as we humbly crave pardon freely to affirme that the fault hath not been here and further also to say for your Majesties honour and our comfort that during 200 years last past England hath never been so free of the charge of Ireland as now it is Thirdly we understand that your Deputy is accused for miscarriage in the legal prosecution of Phelim Mach Frâ—gh and others adhering to him in certain treasonable Acts and Practises Herein we most humbly beseech your Majesty that a review may be of a declaration sent from hence about the beginning of your Deputies government signed hy him and all the Counsel then here whereby wil appear how the parts of Lemster at least have been from age to age infested by him and his predecessors and the inhabitants of the territory of Ranelagh wherein he tooke upon him a Chiefery and therein will also appeare that it was the special affection and endeavour of several worthy Deputies here to have cleared that offensive plot which no wise State could suffer so neer the seat thereof and that they also severally attempted it by force the said Phelims Father being slain by actuall Rebellion by Sir William Russels prosecution but the generall Rebellion of the Kingdome alwaies interrupted the settlement thereof This being at that time the declaration of the State moved your Deputy being a stranger to have a wary aspect upon the people for the Common peace which he hath carefully performed Afterwards at the time when the general voice was amongst the Irish that the Spaniards would be here your Deputie had cause to examine several persons and causes concerning that Rumour wherby fell out to be discovered to him among others that this Phelim had confederated for raising a Commotion in Lemster and murthering a Scottish Minister and Justice of peace a ready instrument in Crown Causes inhabiting about the border of the said territory Before which time we never heard of any displeasure or hard measure born by your said Deputy to him or offence taken by him at any particular done to him unless he were offended that your Deputy refused his mony offered to blanch your Majesties title to the Lands in Ranlagh now granted to undertakers discovered and prosecuted at first by his brother Redmond and his Councel Peter de la Hoyd We do also herein in all humility testifie and declare that he acquainted several Privy Councellors here and others of Judgment with the same And also in every Act and passage thereof used the labour and presence either of your Majesties Privy Concellours Judges or learned Councel alwaies professing publickly and privately which we also in our consciences do believe that he had no particular envy or displeasure to Phelims's person or any of his neither had any end in what might fall out upon that discovery or pains or any act done concerning that Country other then the reducement thereof to the conformity of other civil parts the common peace of your Majesties good Subjects adjacent and the legal and plenary effecting of that which by so many good governours in times of disturbance could not be done there being no power in him to make any particular benefit of the Escheate either in lands or goods and before any thing was to be done for the tryal of him and the rest for their lives he made a speedy and immediate address to your Majesty dated 27. August 1628 upon the indictment found to inform you of the then present estate of that businesse which we have seen not doing it before as he affirms for that he had formerly received gracious approbations of his proceedings in the like discoveries We also in all humblenesse and duty do declare and protest that if upon their evil demerits and the due proceedings of Law those now questioned may be taken away and the Territory settled in legal Government and English order towards which a strong Fort is already almost built in the midst of it by your Majesties Undertakers lately planted there It will be a service of the greatest importment to bridle the Irish assure the inhabitants of other Parts and strengthen the generall peace of the Kingdom next to the great Plantation of Vlster that hath been done in this age If otherwise they shall by fair tryall acquit the course of your Majesties free and indifferent justice it will make them wary in point of duty and loyalty hereafter And we do further in all submission declare That in these discoveries the persons and Causes considered it was of necessity that the personal pains of your Highness Deputy should be bestowed the rather for that the Evidences being to be given for the most part by persons involved in the same confederacyes and who were to become actors they would not be drawn to confess truths to any inferior Ministers being of stubborn and malign spirits besides the disswasions of Priests and of the Dependants and manifold Allies of the said Phelim if they had not been warily look'd after Lastly We in all humblenesse of heart and freedom of faithful servants do beseech your most sacred Majesty to consider how much the sufferings of your zealous servants may prove to your disservice especially in this place where discouragement of your most dextrous service is most aimed at by multitudes of several qualities and cannot but soon perplex the present happy state of your affairs Wee beseech the eternall God to guide and prosper your Majesties advices and designes 28. April 1629. Your most humble and obedient Subjects and Servants Signed by L. Primate V. Valentia V. Kilmallock V. Ranelagh L. Dillon L. Cauffeild L. Aungier L. Pr. of Munster L. Chief Justice St Adam Loftus Mr of the Wards L. Chief Baron Sr Charles Coote Ab Ignoto Of the Affairs of Spain France and Italy 5 Jan. 1629. SIR THough it be now full three months since I received any line from you yet I dare not nor will I
Indeavours to appease the Bohemian tumults 113 Offers Conditions to the Emperour on the behalfe of the Palatine 114. his Propositions to the Palatine 143 144. acknowledged Protectour of the Germane Protestants 149. his directions concerning Preachers 183. makes Romano Martyrs 199 Janin President of the Parliament of Paris 195 Infantasque Duke 98 Inquisition of Spaine 97 Instructions to Sir John Perot Deputy of Ireland 15 16 By King Charles for the Vniversity of Cambridg 227 Ireland in what condition in Sir John Perots time 16 17 18 In the beginning of King Charles 235 236 237 238 239 Irish delight in change 17. barbarous 46. murder theft c. legall with them 51. renegadoes in Spaine 100 101 Isabella Clara Eugenia Infanta of Spain 127 128 Isabella Infanta of Savoy 243 Isidore Spanish Saint 125 126 Italians dangerous to France 195 196 Justinian made Lawes concerning the Clergy 5 K Kings no man above them 6. like the Sun 36. of France and Spaine 198 L Lady of Antiochia 125 Lawes of England most jealous for the safety of her Kings 85 Leicester Earle out of favour turns religious 31 Lecturers dangerous 186 Lerma Duke in the life of Phil. the third moves the Spanish Match 117 c. 121 Lincoln Bishop Lord Keeper 190 Lisle Viscount after Earle of Leicester governour of Vlushing c. 93 Loanes denyed the King 182 London sometime the chamber of her Kings 81 Louis the thirteenth in his minority 123 c. enters Rochel 203. see Urbane Pope Louvre of France the prison of her King 194 Low Countries 149 Luenza Don John 126 M Mac Frogh Phelim 237 Magick 75 Magog a renegado Irishman guilty of thirteen murders 101 Manchester Earle 225 Manheim besieged 127 Mansfield Count 116 131 Maried men seven yeares older the first day 71 Mantua Duke 204 234. defended by the French and Venetians 239 Maria Donna Infanta of Spaine 126 133 134. deserved well of the Prince of Wales 140 Gives over learning English 151 Match with France 117 118. with Spaine 117 118 119 120 121 122 123. never intended by the Spaniards 133 Mathews Sir Toby 67 May Sir Humphrey 226 Merchants in Spaine see Spaniards Merit is worthier them fame 47 Monmorencie Duke 195 Monpensier Duke 36 Montauban in rebellion 204 Monteri Spanish Embassadour 210 Mountjoye Lord after Earle of Devon 35 36 Munster in Ireland marked for the Spanish invasions 17 N Nevers Duke see Mantua Duke Newburgh Duke 147 Norfolk Duke sues to the Queen for his life 11 Norris Sir Thomas 17. Sir John 42. Sir Francis 89 Northumberland Earl 58 59 Nottingham Countess 95 O Oath of Supremacy why urged 39 Odonnel 44 Ognate Spanish Embassadour at Rome 240 Oleron Iland 203 Olivarez Conde 130 131 139 Contrives to compose the Palatine differences without the Match 135 Order submitting the Town of Cambridge to the Vniversity 223 See Charles King Ordination of Priests c. how to be 187 Ormond Earl 42 44 45 Ossuna Duke 125 126 P Palatinate a motive of the Spanish match 129 134. Without which the Kings of England will do nothing 136 138 141 143 151. Dismembred 147 Parliaments tumultuous 229 230 Pastrana Duke 142 Patent for the Admiralty of Ireland 90 Perez Don Antonio Secretary to Philip the Second of Spain 100 Perrot Sir John Deputy of Ireland 13. His care of that Kingdome 17 Philip the Second of Spain transplants whole Families of the Portugese 51 Philip the Third of Spain upon his death-bed 125 c. Philips Sir Robert 155. Francis his brother ibid. Physick modern 75 Pius Quintus his Excommunication of the Queen because of the Rebellion in the North 39 Polander defeats the Turks 198 Pope not more holy then S. Peter 8 Tyranny of Popes 29 Powder plot 67 Pretence of conscience 38 Preachers Licences to preach 183 Directions for preaching 184 Presbytery as mischievous to private men as to Princes 41. See Puritans Priesthood how to be honoured 4 5 Princes to be obeyed and by whom ibid. by Christs Law 7. Supreme Heads 5. Driven out must not give their Vsurpers too long time to establish themselves 147 Privy Seal for transporting of Horse 217 Puritans in the time of Queen Elizabeth 40. Would bring Democracie into the Church promise impossible wonders of the Discipline 41. Fiery Rebellious contemn the Magistrate ibid. Feared not without cause by King James 193 Q Quadrivials 75 R Ranelagh in Ireland 237 Rawleigh Sir Walter 85 86 Ree Iland 203 Rich Baronness sister to Essex writes to the dishonour of the Queen and advantage of the Earl 32 Richardson Chief Justice of the Bench 228 Richer forced by Richlieu recants his opinions against the Papal Supremacy over Kings 196 Richlieu Cardinal greatly solicitous for the English Romane Catholicks 197 Rochel 200. in what condition at the surrender 202 203. Fifteen thousand dye of the famine ibid. Rohan Dutchess in Rochel during the siege 202. Duke 204 206 208 210 Romish Priests seduce the subjects from their obidience their practices against the Queens sacred person 39 40 Roman Catholickâ—â— sue to King James at his entrance for toleration 82 83. great lovers of him the only good subjects witness the Mine then plotted 82 their Religion upon their own words 83 84 Russel Sir William 237 Ruthuen after Lord Ruthuen unhandsomely used by the Earl of Northumberland 106 107 S St. John Oliver against Taxes contrary to Magna Charta c. would not have Oathes violated in which the divine Majesty is invocated fearful of the Arch-Bishops Excommunication 160 Saxonie Elector 114 Scandal what 97 Scriptures how to be expounded 2 3 Seminaries blossom 39 in Ireland seditious appear in their habits 240 241 Serita Don John 125 Sin immortal to respect any of the English Church 101 Southampton Earl 58 Spaniards designe upon Ireland 17 spoil base Bologne 37. lose their Apostles 47. wrong and oppress the English Merchants 97 98 99 102 103. suits in Spain immortal ibid. give pensions to the Irish renegadoes 100 101. unreasonable in the businesse of the Match 127 137 146. swear and damn themselves yet never intended it 132 c. their unworthy sleights to make K James jealous of the Prince and others 152 153. oppose the rights and succession of the Duke of Nevers to Mantua and Montferrat 234 lose their silver Fleet poor 240 Spencer Edmund see Fairy Queen his worth and Learning 45 252 Spinola Marquess 198 199 Spiritualia how to be taken 5 6 Stanley Sir William 18 Superstition worse then Atheisme 160 Supreme Head the Kings Title 1 2 c. 39 T Tilly Count 131 Toirax Governor of the Fort in the I le of Ree 201 Toledo Cardinal 123 Toleration of Religion in Ireland necessary 52 Treason of the Papists in the clouds 40 cannot beget fâ—ir passions 86 Treaty with Tyrone 43 44. of Bruxels 127 128 Trimouille Duke 37 Turks against the Pander 198 Tyrone 43 44 101 V Valette Cardinal 197 Venetians side with the Mantouan 239 240 Villeroye Secretary of France 195 Urban the Eight encourages Louis the Thirteenth to fall upon the Hugonots 211 212. against the Spaniards 240 Usurpers exhalations 37 W Wallop Sir Henry has ill Offices done him to the Queen 19 Walsingham Sir Francis his reasons why the Queene sometimes restrains and punishes the Puritans 38 Warham Archbishop of Canterbury 98 Warrants of the Queen to the Lords of Ireland at the going over of Sir John Perot 14 15 Weston Sir Ridhard Chancellour of the Exchequer after L. Treasurer and Earl of Portland 128 Wilks Sir Thomas 36 37 Willoughby Lord 90 Winchester Bishop 189 Words are to be construed to make truth 8 Y Yelverton Sir Henry censured in the Starchamber 107 108 109 Ynoiosa Marquesse 152. his base carriage to King James 153 Z. Zunige Don Balthazar 109 112 c. 130 FINIS