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A28024	Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical now for the first time faithfully published ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1679 (1679)	Wing B269; ESTC R9006	137,175	384

given to his Majesty which seemed then to stand upon doubtful Terms and passed upon this Speech b P. 47. The Eighth 12 Iacobi when the House was in great Heat and much troubled about the Vndertakers who were thought to be some able and forward Gentlemen who were said to have undertaken that the King's Business should pass in that House as his Majesty could wish c P. 48. His Speeches in the House of Lords are Two The First To the Lords at a Conference in the Parliament 7 Iacobi by him then Solicitor moving them to joyn with the Commons to obtain liberty to treat of a Composition with his Majesty for Wards and Tenures d P. 42. The Second when he was Chancellor to Mr. Serjeant Richardson chosen then Speaker of the House of Commons be-being a Reply to his Excuse aud Oration e P. 94. His Speeches to King Iames were also Two The First A Speech by him chosen by the Commons to present a Petition touching Purveyors deliver'd to his Majesty at White-Hall in the second Year of his Reign f P. 5. The Second a Speech used to the King by him then Solicitor and chosen by the Commons for the presenting of the Instrument of their Grievances in the Parliament 7 Iacobi g P. 41. His Speeches in the Chancery are Two likewise The First At the taking of his Place in Chancery when made Lord-Keeper h P. 79. The Second To Sir William Iones upon his calling to be Lord Chief Justice of Ireland Anno 1617. i P. 89. In the Star-Chamber he used a Speech to the Judges and others before the Summer Circuits being then Lord-Keeper and also Lord-Protector for his Majesty was at that time in Scotland Anno 1617. k P. 87. In the Common-Pleas he used a Speech to Justice Hutton when he was called to be one of the Judges in the Common-Pleas l P. 93. In the Exchequer-Chamber he used a Speech to Sir Iohn Denham when he was call'd to be one of the Barons of the Exchequer m P 91. There also he used an Argument being Solicitor General in the Case of the Post-nati of Scotland n Publ. first in 4 ● Lon. 1641. before the Lord-Chancellor and all the Judges of England o 〈…〉 ● in Resusc. part 2. p. 37. The Question in this Case was Whether a Child born in Scotland since King Iames's coming to the Crown of England was Naturaliz'd in England or no His Lordship argued for the Affirmative For his Charges they were these following First His Charge at the Sessions holden for the Verge in the Reign of King Iames declaring the Latitude and Jurisdiction thereof p Pub. in 4 ● Lon. 1662. and reprinted in the 2d part of Resusc. By the Verge is meant a Plat of twelve Miles round laid to the King 's settled Mansion-House subject to special exempted Jurisdiction depending upon his Person and great Officers This his Lordship called an Half-pace or Carpet spread about the King's Chair of Estate and he judged that it ought to be cleared and void more than other places of the Kingdom that Offences might not seem to be shrowded under the King's Wings Secondly His Charge in the Star-Chamber against Duels q See Resusc. 2d Part. p. 1. to which may be added the Decree of the Star-Chamber in the same Case r In part 2. of Resusc. p. 9. Thirdly His Charge in the Star-Chamber against William Talbot touching the Doctrine of Suarez concerning the Deposing and Killing of Excommunicated Kings s Res. 1 part p. 53. Fourthly His Charge in the same Court against Mr. I. S. for Scandalizing and Traducing in the Public Sessions Letters sent from the Lords of the Council touching the Benevolence t P. 60. Fifthly His Charge in the same Court against M. L. S. W. and H. I. for Traducing the King's Justice in the proceedings against Weston one of the Instruments in the empoysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury u P. 72. Sixthly His Charge in the Kings-Bench against Owen for affirming conditionally That if the King were Excommunicated it were lawful to kill him w P. 68. Seventhly His Charge in the Kings-Bench against the Lord Sanquere x In part 2. of Resusc. p. 15. a Scotish Nobleman who in private Revenge had suborned Robert Carlile to murther Iohn Turner a Master of Fence Eighthly His Charge before the Lord High Steward Lord Elesmere and the Peers against the Countess and Earl of Somerset y Now first publ at the beginning of these Remains His Lordship's Seventh Writing touching Civil Policy in Special is his Reading on the Statute of Vses z Pub. in 4 ● Lon. 1642. The Eighth is call'd Observations upon a Libel publish'd Anno 1592 in Defamation of the Queen's Government a Resusc p. 103. In these Observations his Lordship hath briefly set forth the present State of those Times but he hath done the same thing more at large in his Memorial of Queen Elizabeth The Ninth is A true Report of the Treason of Dr. Roderigo Lopez a Spaniard and a Physician attending upon the Person of the Queen who was in Confederacy with certain Spanish Agents and hired by the King of Spain to poyson her Majesty b Pag. 151. The Tenth is His Apologie touching the Earl of Essex in which he cleareth himself of Ingratitude by the plain reasons of the Case and doth not as many others have done increase the suspicion by the very Excuse c Publ. in 4 ● Lon. 1642. and in 16 ● An. 1651. and reprinted in the 2d part of Resusc. The Eleventh is Advice to King Iames touching Mr. Sutton's Estate in the settling of which in the Hospital of the Chartreaux the Event sheweth that his Lordship was mistaken when he called it A Sacrifice without Salt d Reusc p 265. He proposed four other Ends of that great heap of Alms to the King's Majesty As first The Erection of a College for Controversies for the encountring and refuting of Papists Secondly The Erection of a Receipt for the word Seminary he refus'd to make use of for Converts from the persuasions of Rome to the Reformed Religion Thirdly A settlement of Stipends for Itinerary Preachers in Places which needed them as in Lancashire where such care had been taken by Queen Elizabeth And lastly An increase of Salary to the Professors in either University of this Land Wherefore his Lordship manifesting himself not against the Charity but the manner of disposing it it was not well done of those who have publickly defam'd him by declaring their jealousies of Bribery by the Heir The Twelfth is A Proposition to King Iames touching the Compiling and Amendment of the Laws of England written by him when he was Attourney General and one of the Privy-Council e Pag. 271. The Thirteenth is An Offer to King Iames of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England

Weston touching Overbury's state of Body or Health were ever sent up to the Court though it were in Progress and that from my Lady such a thirst and listening this Lord had to hear that he was dispatched Lastly There was a continual Negotiation to set Overbury's Head on work that he should make some recognition to clear the honour of the Lady and that he should become a good Instrument towards her and her Friends All which was but entertainment For your Lordships shall plainly see divers of my Lord of Northampton's Letters whose hand was deep in this Business written I must say it in dark Words and Clauses That there was one thing pretended and another intended That there was a real Charge and there was somewhat not real a main drift and a dissimulation Nay further there be some passages which the Peers in their wisdom will discern to point directly at the Impoisonment After this Inducement followed the Evidence it self The Lord Bacon's Letter to the University of Cambridg Rescriptum Procuratoris Regis Primarii ad Academiam Cantabrigiensem quando in Sanctius Regis Consilium cooptatus fuit GRatae mihi fuere Literae vestrae atque Gratulationem vestram ipse mihi gratulor Rem ipsam ita mihi Honori voluptati fore duco si in hâc mente maneam ut Publicis Utilitatibus studio indefesso perpetuis curis puro affectu inserviam Inter partes autem Reipublicae nulla Animo meo charior est quàm Academiae Literae Idque vita mea anteacta declarat scripta Itaque quicquid mihi accesserit id etiam vobis accessisse existimare potestis Neque vero Pacrocinium meum vobis sublatum aut diminutum esse credere debetis Nam ea pars Patroni quae ad consilium in causis exhibendum spectat integra manet Atque etiam si quid gravius accideri● ipsum perorandi Munus licentiâ Regis obtentâ relict●m est Quodque Iuris Patrocinio deerit id auctiore potestate compensabitur Mihi in votis est ut quemadmodum à privatorum clientelarum negotiis ad Gube●nacula Reipublicae translatus jam sum Ita postrema Aetatis meae pars si vita suppetit etiam à publicis curis ad otium Literas devehi possit Quinetiam saepius subit illa Cogitatio ut etiam in tot tantis Negotiis tamen singulis annis aliquos dies apud vos deponam Vt ex majore vestrarum rerum notitiâ vestris utilitatibus melius consulere possim 5. Julij 1616. Amicus ves●er maximè Fidelis Benevolus Fr. Bacon The same in English by the Publisher The Answer of the Lord Bacon then Attorney General to the University of Cambridg when he was sworn of the Privy Council to the King YOur Letters were very acceptable to me and I give my self joy upon your Congratulation The thing it self will I suppose conduce to my Honour and Satisfaction if I remain in the mind I now am in by unwearied study and perpetual watchfulness and pure affection to promote the Publick Good Now among the Parts of the Common-wealth there are none dearer to me than the Vniversities and Learning And This my manner of Life hitherto and my Writings do both declare If therefore any good Fortune befalls me you may look upon it as an accession to your selves Neither are you to believe that my Patronage is either quite removed from you or so much as diminished For that part of an Advocate which concerneth the giving of Counsel in Causes remaineth entire Also if any thing more weighty urgent falleth out the very Office of Pleading the King's leave being obtained is still allow'd me And whatsoever shall be found wanting in my Juridical Patronage will be compensated by my more ample Authority My wishes are that as I am translated from the Business of private Men and particular Clients to the Government of the Common-wealth so the latter part of my Age if my Life be continued to me may from the Publick Cares be translated to leisure and study Also this thought comes often into my mind amidst so many Businesses and of such moment every year to lay aside some days to think on You That so having the greater insight into your Matters I may the better consult your Advantage Iuly the 5th 1616. Your most faithful and kind Friend Fr. Bacon Sir Francis Bacon's Letter to King Iames touching the Chancellors Place It may please Your most Excellent Majesty YOur worthy Chancellour * Chaenc Egerton I fear goeth his last day God hath hitherto used to weed out such Servants as grew not fit for Your Majesty But now He hath gather'd to Himself one of the choicer Plants in Your Majesties Garden But Your Majesties Service must not be mortal Upon this heavy Accident I pray your Majesty in all humbleness and sincerity to give me leave to use a few words I must never forget when I moved your Majesty for the Attorney's Place that it was your own sole Act and not my Lord of Somerset's who when he knew your Majesty had resolv'd it thrust himself into the Business to gain thanks And therefore I have no reason to pray to Saints I shall now again make Oblation to your Majesty first of my Heart then of my Service thirdly of my Place of Attorney and fourthly of my Place in the Star-Chamber I hope I may be acquitted of Presumption if I think of it both because my Father had the Place which is some civil inducement to my desire and I pray God your Majesty may have twenty no worse years than Queen Elizabeth had in her Model after my Father's placing and chiefly because the Chancellor's place after it went to the Law was ever conferred upon some of the Learned Counsel and never upon a Judg. For Audley was raised from King's Serjeant my Father from Attorney of the Wards Bromlie from Sollicitor Puckering from Queen's Serjeant Egerton from Master of the Rolls having newly left the Attorney's place For my self I can only present your Majesty with Gloria in Obsequio yet I dare promise that if I sit in that Place your Business shall not make such short turns upon you as it doth But when a Direction is once given it shall be pursued and performed And your Majesty shall only be troubled with the true Care of a King which is to think what you would have done in chief and not how for the Passages I do presume also in respect of my Father's Memory and that I have been always gracious in the lower-Lower-House I have some interest in the Gentlemen of England and shall be able to do some good Effect in rectifying that Body of Parliament which is Cardo Rerum For let me tell your Majesty That that part of the Chancellor's place which is to judg in equity between Party and Party that same Regnum Iudiciale which since my Father's time is but too much enlarged concerneth your Majesty

least more than the acquitting of your Conscience for Justice But it is the other Parts of a Moderator amongst your Council of an Overseer over your Iudges of a Planter of fit Iustices and Governors in the Country that importeth your Affairs and these Times most I will add likewise that I hope by my Care the Inventive Part of your Council will be strengthned who now commonly do exercise rather their Iudgments than their Inventions and the Inventive Part cometh from Projectors and Private Men which cannot be so well In which kind my Lord of Salisbury had a good Method To conclude If I were the Man I would be I should hope that as your Majesty of late hath won Hearts by Depressing you should in this lose no Hearts by Advancing For I see your People can better skill of Concretum than Abstractum and that the Waves of their Affection flow rather after Persons than Things So that Acts of this nature if this were one do more good than twenty Bills of Grace If God call my Lord Chancellor the Warrants and Commissions which are requisite for the taking of the Seal and for working with it and for reviving of Warrants under his Hand which die with him and the like shall be in readiness And in this Time presseth more because it is the end of a Term and almost the beginning of the Circuits so that the Seal cannot stand still But this may be done as heretofore by Commission till your Majesty hath resolved on an Officer God ever preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most humble Subject and bounden Servant F. Bacon A Letter written * About a year and half after his Retirement by the Lord Bacon to King James for Relief of his Estate May it please your most Excellent Majesty IN the midst of my misery which is rather asswaged by Remembrance than by Hope my chiefest worldly comfort is to think That since the time I had the first Vote of the Commons House of Parliament for Commissioner of the Union until the time that I was this last Parliament chosen by both Houses for their Messenger to your Majesty in the Petition of Religion which two were my first and last Services I was ever more so happy as to have my poor Services graciously accepted by your Majesty and likewise not to have had any of them miscarry in my Hands Neither of which points I can any ways take to my self but ascribe the former to your Majestie 's Goodness and the latter to your prudent Directions which I was ever careful to have and keep For as I have often said to your Majesty I was towards you but as a Bucket and a Cistern to draw forth and conserve your self was the Fountain Unto this comfort of nineteen years prosperity there succeded a comfort even in my greatest adversity somewhat of the same nature which is That in those offences wherewith I was charged there was not any one that had special relation to your Majesty or any your particular Commandments For as towards Almighty God there are Offences against the first and second Table and yet all against God So with the Servants of Kings there are Offences more immediate against the Sovereign Although all Offences against Law are also against the King Unto which Comfort there is added this Circumstance That as my Faults were not against your Majesty otherwise than as all Faults are so my Fall was not your Majesties Act otherwise than as all Acts of Justice are yours This I write not to insinuate with your Majesty but as a most humble Appeal to your Majesties gracious remembrance how honest and direct you have ever found me in your Service whereby I have an assured belief that there is in your Majesties own Princely Thoughts a great deal of serenity and clearness to me your Majesties now prostrate and cast-down Servant Neither my most gracious Sovereign do I by this mention of my Services lay claim to your Princely Grace and Bounty though the priviledg of Calamity doth bear that form of Petition I know well had they been much more they had been but my bounden Duty Nay I must also confess that they were from time to time far above my merit over and super-rewarded by your Majesties Benefits which you heaped upon me Your Majesty was and is that Master to me that raised and advanced me nine times thrice in Dignity and six times in Office The places indeed were the painfullest of all your Services But then they had both Honour and Profits And the then Profits might have maintained my now Honour if I had been wise Neither was your Majesties immediate liberality wanting towards me in some Gifts if I may hold them All this I do most thankfully acknowledg and do herewith conclude That for any thing arising from my self to move your Eye of pity towards me there is much more in my present Misery than in my past Services save that the same your Majesties Goodness that may give relief to the one may give value to the other And indeed if it may please your Majesty this Theme of my Misery is so plentiful as it need not be coupled with any thing else I have been some Body by your Majesties singular and undeserved favour even the prime Officer of your Kingdom Your Majesties Arm hath been over mine in Council when you presided at the Table so near I was I have born your Majesties Image in Metal much more in Heart I was never in nineteen years Service chidden by your Majesty but contrariwise often overjoyed when your Majesty would sometimes say I was a good Husband for you though none for my self sometimes That I had a way to deal in Business suavibus modis which was the way which was most according to your own Heart And other most gracious speeches of Affection and Trust which I feed on to this day But why should I speak of these things which are now vanished but only the better to express the Downfal For now it is thus with me I am a year and an half old in Misery though I must ever acknowledg not without some mixture of your Majesties Grace and Mercy For I do not think it possible that any you once loved should be totally miserable Mine own Means through mine own Improvidence are poor and weak little better than my Father left me The poor Things which I have had from your Majesty are either in Question or at Courtesy My Dignities remain Marks of your Favour but Burdens of my present Fortune The poor Remnants which I had of my former Fortunes in Plate or Jewels I have spread upon poor Men unto whom I owed scarce leaving my self a convenient Subsistence So as to conclude I must pour out my Misery before your Majesty so far as to say Si deseris tu perimus But as I can offer to your Majesties compassion little arising from my self to move you except it be my extream Misery which I

have truly laid open so looking up to your Majesty 's own self I should think I committed Cain's fault if I should despair Your Majesty is a King whose Heart is as unscrutable for secret motions of Goodness as for depth of Wisdom You are Creator-like Factive and not Destructive You are the Prince in whom hath been ever noted an aversation against any thing that savoured of an hard Heart as on the other side your Princely Eye was wont to meet with any motion that was made on the relieving part Therefore as one that hath had the happiness to know your Majesty near hand I have most Gracious Sovereign Faith enough for a Miracle much more for a Grace that your Majesty will not suffer your poor Creature to be utterly defaced nor blot that Name quite out of your Book upon which your Sacred Hand hath been so oft for new Ornaments and Additions Unto this degree of compassion I hope God above of whose Mercy towards me both in my Prosperity and Adversity I have had great Testimonies and Pledges though mine own manifold and wretched unthankfulnesses might have averted them will dispose your Princely Heart already prepared to all Piety And why should I not think but that thrice Noble Prince who would have pulled me out of the Fire of a Sentence will help to pull me if I may use that homely phrase out of the Mire of an abject and sordid condition in my last days And that excellent Favorite of yours the goodness of whose Nature contendeth with the greatness of his Fortune and who counteth it a Prize a second Prize to be a good Friend after that Prize which he carrieth to be a good Servant will kiss your Hands with joy for any Work of Piety you shall do for me And as all commiserable Persons especially such as find their Hearts void of all malice are apt to think that all Men pity them I assure my self that the Lords of your Council who out of their Wisdom and Nobleness cannot but be sensible of humane Events will in this way which I go for the Relief of my Estate further and advance your Majesty's Goodness towards me For there is as I conceive a kind of Fraternity between Great Men that are and those that have been being but the several Tenses of one Verb. Nay I do further presume that both Houses of Parliament will love their Justice the better if it end not in my ruin For I have been often told by many of my Lords as it were in excusing the severity of the Sentence that they knew they left me in good Hands And your Majesty knoweth well I have been all my life long acceptable to those Assemblies not by flattery but by moderation and by honest expressing of a desire to have all things go fairly and well But if it may please your Majesty for Saints I shall give them Reverence but no Adoration my Address is to your Majesty the Fountain of Goodness your Majesty shall by the Grace of God not feel that in Gift which I shall extreamly feel in Help For my Desires are moderate and my Courses measured to a Life orderly and reserved hoping still to do your Majesty honour in my way Only I most humbly beseech your Majesty to give me leave to conclude with those words which Necessity speaketh Help me dear Sovereign Lord and Master and pity me so far as I that have born a Bag be not now in my Age forced in effect to bear a Wallet nor I that desire to live to study may not be driven to study to live I most humbly crave pardon of a long Letter after a long silence God of Heaven ever bless preserve and prosper your Majesty Your Majesties poor ancient Servant and Beadsman Fr. St. Alb. Certain Apothegms of the Lord Bacon's hitherto unpublished 1. PLutarch said well It is otherwise in a Common-wealth of Men than of Bees The Hive of a City or Kingdom is in best condition when there is least of noise or Buzze in it 2. The same Plutarch said of Men of weak Abilities set in Great Place that they were like little Statues set on great Bases made to appear the less by their Advancement 3. He said again Good Fame is like Fire When you have kindled it you may easily preserve it but if once you extinguish it you will not easily kindle it again at least not make it burn as bright as it did 4. The Answer of Apollonius to Vespasian is full of excellent * This Apothegm is also found in his Essay of Empire P. 107 Instruction Vespasian asked him What was Nero's overthrow He answered Nero could touch and tune the Harp well but in Government sometimes he used to wind the Pins too high sometimes to let them down too low And certain it is that nothing destroyeth Authority so much as the unequal and untimely enterchange of Power pressed too far and relaxed too much 5. Queen Elizabeth seeing Sir Edward in her Garden look'd out at her Window and asked him in Italian What does a Man think of when he thinks of nothing Sir Edward who had not had the effect of some of the Queen's Grants so soon as he had hop'd and desir'd paused a little and then made answer Madam He thinks of a Woman's Promise The Queen shrunk in her Head but was heard to say Well Sir Edward I must not confute you Anger makes dull Men witty but it keeps them poor 6. When any Great Officer Ecclesiastical or Civil was to be made the Queen would enquire after the Piety Integrity Learning of the Man And when she was satisfied in these Qualifications she would consider of his Personage And upon such an Occasion she pleas'd once to say to me Bacon How can the Magistrate maintain his Authority when the Man is despis'd 7. In Eighty Eight when the Queen went from Temple-Bar along Fleetstreet the Lawyers were rank'd on one side and the Companies of the City on the other said Master Bacon to a Lawyer that stood next him do but observe the Courtiers If they bow first to the Citizens they are in Debt if first to us they are in Law 8. King Iames was wont to be very earnest with the Country Gentlemen to go from London to their Country Houses And sometimes he would say thus to them Gentlemen at London you are like Ships in a Sea which show like nothing but in your Country Villages you are like Ships in a River which look like great things 9. Soon after the death of a great Officer who was judged no advancer of the King's Matters the King said to his Sollicitor Bacon who was his Kinsman Now tell me truly what say you of your Cousin that is gone Mr. Bacon answered Sir since your Majesty doth charge me I 'le e'ne deal plainly with you and give you such a character of him as if I were to write his Story I do think he was no fit Counsellor to make your

the Fire which is but by congregation of Homogenial parts The second is by drawing them down by some Body that hath consent with them As Iron draweth down Copper in Water Gold draweth Quick-Silver in vapour whatsoever is of this kind is very diligently to be inquired Also it is to be inquired what time or age will reduce without help of fire or body Also it is to be inquired what gives impediment to Union or Restitution which is sometimes called Mortification as when Quick-Silver is mortified with Turpentine Spittle or Butter Lastly It is to be inquired how the Metal restored differeth in any thing from the Metal rare as whether it become not more churlish altered in colour or the like Doctor Meverel's Answers touching the Restitutions of Metals and Minerals REduction is chiefly effected by Fire wherein if they stand and nele the imperfect Metals vapour away and so do all manner of Salts which separated them in minimas partes before Reduction is singularly holpen by joyning store of Metal of the same nature with it in the melting Metals reduced are somewhat churlish but not altered in colour The Lord Verulam's Inquisition concerning the Versions Transmutations Multiplications and Effections of Bodies written by him originally in English but not hitherto published in that Language EArth by Fire is turned into Brick which is of the nature of a Stone Quere the Manner and serveth for Building as Stone doth And the like of Tile Naphtha which was the Bituminous Mortar used in the Walls of Babylon grows to an entire and very hard Matter like a Stone In Clay Countries where there is Pebble and Gravel you shall find great Stones where you may see the Pebbles or Gravel and between them a Substance of Stone as hard or harder than the Pebble it self There are some Springs of Water wherein if you put Wood it will turn into the nature of Stone So as that within the Water shall be Stone and that above the Water continue Wood. The slime about the Reins and Bladder in Man's Body turns into Stone And Stone is likewise found often in the Gall and sometimes though rarely in Venâ Portâ Quere what time the substance of Earth in Quarries asketh to be turned into Stone Water as it seems turneth into Crystal as is seen in divers Caves where the Crystal hangs in Stillicidiis Try Wood or the Stalk of Herbs buried in Quicksilver whether it will not grow hard and stony They speak of a Stone engendred in a Toad's head There was a Gentleman digging in his Moat found an Egg turned into Stone the White and the Yolk keeping their Colour and the Shell glistring like a Stone cut with corners Try somethings put into the bottom of a Well As Wood or some soft Substance but let it not touch the Water because it may not putrify They speak that the White of an Egg with lying long in the Sun will turn Stone Mud in Water turns into shells of Fishes as in Horse-Muscles in fresh Ponds old and overgrown And the substance is a wondrous fine substance light and shining A Speech touching the recovering of Drowned Mineral Works prepared for the Parliament as Mr. Bushel affirmed by the Viscount of St. Albans then Lord High Chancellor of England a See Mr. Bee's Extract p. 18 19. My Lords and Gentlemen THe King my Royal Master was lately graciously pleased to move some Discourse to me concerning Mr. Sutton's Hospital and such like worthy Foundations of memorable Piety Which humbly seconded by my self drew his Majesty into a serious consideration of the Mineral Treasures of his own Territories and the practical discoveries of them by way of my Philosophical Theory Which he then so well resented that afterwards upon a mature digestion of my whole Design he commanded me to let your Lordships understand how great an inclination He ●ath to further so hopeful a Work for the Honour of his Dominions as the most probable means to relieve all the Poor thereof without any other Stock or Benevolence than that which Divine Bounty should confer on their own Industries and honest Labours in recovering all such Drowned Mineral Works as have been or shall be therefore deserted And my Lords All that is now desired of his Majesty and your Lordships is no more than a gracious Act of this present Parliament to authorize Them herein adding a Mercy to a Munificence which is the Persons of such strong and able Petty-Felons who in true penitence for their Crimes shall implore his Majesty's Mercy and Permission to expiate their Offences by their Assiduous Labours in so innocent and hopeful a Work For by this unchangeable way my Lords have I proposed to erect the Academical Fabric of this Island 's Salomon's House modelled in my New Atlantis And I can hope my Lords that my Midnight Studies to make our Countries flourish and outvy European Neighbours in mysterious and beneficent Arts have not so ingratefully affected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Intellects that you will delay or resist his Majesty's desires and my humble Petition in this Benevolent yea Magnificent Affair Since your Honourable Posterities may be inriched thereby and my Ends are only to make the World my Heir and the learned Fathers of my Salomon's House the successive and sworn Trustees in the dispensation of this great Service for God's Glory my Prince's Magnificence this Parliaments Honour our Countries general Good and the propagation of my own Memory And I may assure your Lordships that all my Proposals in order to this great Architype seemed so rational and feasable to my Royal Soveraign our Christian Salomon that I thereby prevailed with his Majesty to call this Honourable Parliament to Confirm and Impower me in my own way of Mining by an Act of the same after his Majesty's more weighty Affairs were considered in your Wisdoms both which he desires your Lordships and you Gentlemen that are chosen as the Patriots of your respective Countries to take speedy care of Which done I shall not then doubt the happy Issue of my Vndertakings in this Design whereby concealed Treasures which now seem utterly lost to Mankind shall be confined to so universal a Piety and brought into use by the industry of Converted Penitents whose wretched Carcases the Impartial Laws have or shall dedicate as untimely Feasts to the Worms of the Earth in whose Womb those deserted mineral riches must ever lie buried as lost Abortments unless those be made the active Midwives to deliver them For my Lords I humbly conceive Them to be the fittest of all Men to effect this great Work for the Ends and Causes which I have before expressed All which my Lords I humbly refer to your Grave and Solid Iudgments to conclude of together with such other A●sistances to this Frame as your own Oraculous Wisdom shall intimate for the Magnifying our Creator in his inscrutable Providence and admirable Works of Nature Certain Experiments made by the Lord Bacon about Weight in Air and