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

THE REMAINES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS Lord VERULAM Viscount of St. Albanes sometimes Lord Chancellour of England BEING Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published A Table whereof for the Readers more ease is adjoyned LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his Shop neer the Savoy in the Strand 1648. THE TABLE AN Essay of a King pag. 1. An Explanation what manner of persons they should be that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative pag. 3. Short Notes of civill conversation pag. 6. An Essay on Death pag. 7. His Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered to King James pag. 13. A Letter of advice written to Sir Edward Cooke Lord chief justice of the Kings Bench pag. 20. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer in excuse of his speech in Parliament agrinst the treble subsedy pag. 28. A Letter to my Lord Treasurer recommending his first suite tonching the Sollitours place pag. 29. A Letter of Ceremony to Queene Elizabeth upon the sending of a new years guift pag. 31. Another to the Queen upon the like Ceremony pag. 31. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex to take upon him the Care of the Irish businesse when Mr. Secretary Cecill was in France pag. 32. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598 before my Lord was nominated for the charge of Ireland pag. 34. Another Letter of advice to my Lord immediatly before his going into Ireland pag. 37. A Letter to the said Earle of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex-house pag. 41. Two Letters to be framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earle of Essex the other as the Earles answer thereunto delivered with the advice of Mr. Anthony Bacon and the privity of the Earle to be shewed to the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance pag. 42. My Lord of Essex his answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter pag. 46. A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland pag. 47. Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland pag. 48. A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few days before Queen Elizabeths death pag. 54. A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in pag. 55. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Sco land upon the entrance of his Majesties Raign pag. 56. A letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance pag. 58 A letter commending his love and occasions to Sir Thomas Challenor in Scotland upon his Majesties entrance pag. 59. A letter to Mr. Davies then gone to the King at his first entrance pag. 62. A letter to Mr. Fauls 28 March 1603. pag. 62. A letter to Dr. Morrison a Scottish Physitian upon his Majesties coming in pag. 63. A Letter to Mr. Robert Kenny upon the death of Queen Elizabeth pag. 61. A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation for the King c. pag. 62. A letter to my Lord 〈◊〉 Southampton upon the Kings coming in pag. 66. A letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King pag. 66 A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place pag. 67. A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the advancement of learning pag. 68. A letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the like Argument pag. 69 A letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook pag. 69. A letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument pag. 72 A letter to the King concerning the Sollicitour place pag. 73 Aletter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon New yeers guift pag. 73 A Secaod letter to the Lord Chancellour pag. 73. Another letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former argument pag. 74 An expostulatory Letter 〈◊〉 Vincent Skinner pag. 75. A Letter to Mr. Davis his Majesties attourney in Ireland pag. 76 A letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland pag. 77 A letter to Mr. Murrey pag. 78 A Letter to my Lady Packington pag. 78. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Religion pag. 79 Sir Tho. Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogitata visa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same pag. 80. The Characters of a believing Christian in Paradoxes and seeming contradictions pag. 88 A Confession of the Faith written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soveraign Lord King James pag. 95. A Prayer made and used by the Lord Bacon pag. 101. BACONS REMAINES 1. AKING is a mortall God on earth unto whom the Living GOD hath lent his own Name as a great honor but withall told film he should die like a man least he should be proud and flatter himself that GOD hath with his Name imparted unto him his Nature also 2. Of all kind of men GOD is the least beholding unto them for he doth most for them and they doe ordinarily least for him 3. A King that would not feel his Crown too heavie for him must weare it every day but if he think it too light he knoweth not of what metall it is made of 4. He must make Religion the Rule of Government and not to Ballance the Scale for he that casteth in Religion onely to make the Scales even his own weight is couteined in these Characters Tekel uprasin he is found too light his Kingdom shall be taken from him 5. And that King that holds not Religion the best reason of of State is void of all Piety and Justice the supporters of a King 6. He must be able to give Counsell himself but not to rely thereupon for though happy events justifie their Counsells yet it is better that the evill event of good advice be rather imputed to a Subject then a Soveraigne 7. Hee is the fountaine of Honor which should not run with a waste pipe lest the Courtiers sell the waters and then as Papists say of their holy wells to loose the vertue 8. Hee is the life of the Law not onely as he is Lex loquens himselfe but because he animateth the dead letter making it active towards all his subjects premio poena 9. A wise King must doe lesse in altering his Laws then he may for new government is even dangerous it being true in the body politick as in the corporall that omnis subditi imitatio est periculosa and though it be for the better yet it is not without a fearfull apprehension for he that changeth the fundamentall Lawes of a Kingdome thinketh there is no good title to a Crown but by conquest 10. A King that setteth to sale seates

that as it is most fit for you to desire convenient liberty of instruction So is it no lesse fit for you to observe the due limits of them remembring that the exceeding of them may not only procure in case of adverse accidents a dangerous disadvow But also in case of prosperous successe to be subject to interpretation as if all were not referred to the right end Thus I have presumed to write these few lines unto your Lordship in methodo ignorantiae which is when a man speaketh of a Subject not according to the parts of the matter but according to the modell of his own knowledge And most humbly desire your Lordship that the weaknesse thereof may be supplyed in your Lordship by a benigne acceptation as it is in me by my best wishing F. BACON A Letter to the Earl of Essex of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex house My Lord NO man can expound my doings better then you Lordship which makes me need to say the lesse only J pray you to believe that I aspire unto the Conscience and commendation of Bonus civis and Bonus vir and that J love something J confess better then J love your Lordship yet J love few persons better both for gratitudes sake and for your vertues which cannot hurt but by accident of which my good affection it may please your Lordship to assure your self of all the true effects and offices J can yeeld For as I was ever sorry your Lordship should fly with many Wings doubting Iearus fortune So for the growing up of your own Feathers be they Ostriges or other kind no man shall be more glad And this is the Axeltree whereupon I have turned and shall turn which having already signified to you by some near means having so fit a messenger for mine own Letter J thought good to redouble also by Writing And so commend you to Gods goodnesse My Lord Yours in all humblenesse FRAN. BACON From Grays Inne c. Two Letters framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earl of Essex the other as the Earls Answer thereunto delivered with the advise of Mr. Anthony Bacon and tho privity of the Earl to be shewed the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance My singular good Lord THis standing at a stay doth make me in my love towards your Lordship zealous least you do somewhat or omit somewhat that amounteth to a new errour For I suppose of all former matters there is a full expectation wherein for any thing that your Lordship doth I for my part who am remote cannot cast nor devise wherein any errour should be except in one point which I dare not censure nor disswade which is that as the Prophet saith in this affliction you look up ad manum percutientem and so make your peace with God And yet I have heard it noted that my Lord of Liecester who could ●…ver get to be taken for a Saint yet in the Queens disfavour waxed seeming Religious which may be thought by some and used by others as a case of resembling yours if men do not see or will not see the differences between your two dispositions But to be plain with your Lordship my fear rather is because I hear some of your good and wise friends not unpractised in the Court and supposing themselvs not to be unseen in that deep and unscrutable Center of the Court which is her Majesties mind do not only tole the Bell but even ring out peales as if your fortune were dead and buried and as if there were no possibility of recovering her Majesties favour and as if the best of your condition were to live a private and retyred life out of want out of perill and out of manifest disgrace and so in this perswasion of theirs include a perswasion to your Lordship wards to frame and accommodate your actions and mind to that end I fear I say that this untimely dispair may in time bring forth a just dispair by causing your Lordship to slack and break off your wise loyall and seasonable endeavour and industry for reintegration into her Majesties favour in comparison whereof all other circumstances are but as Attomi or rather as vacuum without any substance at all Against this opinion it may please your Lordship to consider of these reasons which I have collected and to make judgment of them neither out of the melancholly of your patient fortune nor out of the insusion of that which cometh to you by others relation which is subject to much tincture But ex rebus opis but of the nature of the persons and actions themselves as the truest and lesse deceiving grounded of opinion For though I am so unfortunate as to be a stranger to her Majesties eye much more to her nature and manners yet by that which is extant I do manifestly discern that she hath that Character of the divine nature and goodnesse as quos amavit amavit usque ad finem And where she hath a creature she doth not deface it nor defeat it insomuch as if I observe rightly in these persons whom she hath heretofore honoured with her speciall favour she hath covered and remitted not only defections and ingratitudes in affections but errour in State and service Secondly if I can Scholar-like spell and put together the parts of her Majesties proceedings now towards your Lordship I cannot but make this construction that her Majesty in her Royall intention never purposed to call your Lordships doings into publick question but only to have used a Cloud without a showr and censuring them by some restraint of liberty and debarring from her presence For both the handling the cause in the Star-Chamber was inforced by the violence of libelling and Rumours wherein the Queen thought to have satisfied the World and yet spared your appearance And then after when that means which was intended to quench Malicious Bruites turned to kindle them Because it was said your Lordship was condemned unheard and your Lordships sister wrote that private Letter Then her Majestie plainly saw that these winds of rumours could not be commanded downe without a handling of the cause by making your party and admitting your defence and to this purpose I do assure your Lordship that my brother Francis Bacon who is to wise to be abused though he be both reserved more then is needfull yet in generality he hath ever constantly and with Asseveration assirmed unto me that both those dayes that at the Star-chamber and that at my Lord keepers were won from the Queene meerly upon necessity and point of honour against her own inclination Thirdly in the last proceedings I note three points which are directly significant that her Majestie did expresly forbear any point which was errecuperable or might make your Lordship many degree uncapable of the returne of her favour or might fixe any character indeleble of

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