encounter the main Battell the Wings are yet unbroken they may charge you at an instant as Death therefore walk circumspectly And if at length by the means of our good Masters and Governours you recover the favour you have lost give God the glory in actions not in words only and remember us with some of your past misfortune whose estate and undoings hath doth and may hereafterly in the power of your breath There is great mercy in dispatch delayes are tortures where-with by degrees we are rent out of our estates Do not you if you be restored as some others do fly from the service of vertue to serve the time as if they repented their goodnesse or meant not to make a second hazard in Gods house But rather let this crosse make you more zealons in Gods cause sensible in ours and more sensible in all that expresse thus You have been a great enemy of the Papists if you love God be so still but more indeed then heretofore for much of your zeal before was wasted in words call to remembrance they were the Persons that thus prophesied of this Crosse of yours long before it hapned they saw the storm coming being the principall contrivers and furtherers of the Plot these men blew the coals heat the irons and make all things ready they owe you a good turn and will if they can pay it you you see their hearts by their deeds prove you your Faith so to the best good work you can do is to do the best you can against them that is to see the Laws severely justly and diligently executed And now we beseech you My Lord seem sensible both of the stroke and hand that strikes you learn of David to leave Shemy and look upon God he hath some great work to do and he prepares you for iâ— he would not have you faint nor yet bear this Crosse with a Stoicall resolution there is a Christian mediocritie worthy your greatnesse I must be plain perhaps rash had every note you had taken at Sermons bin written in your heart to practise this work had been done long since without the errour of your enemies but when we will not mend our selves God if we belong to him takes us in hand and because he sees maius nitus dolem us per hoc quod foris patimur He therefore sends us outward Crosses which while they cause us to mourn they do comfort us being assured testimonies of his love that sends them To humble our selves therefore to God is the part of a Christian but for the World and our Enemies that councell of the Poet is apt Rebus angustus animosus atque forte apparere sapienter item contrahes vento in nostrum secundo turgida vela The last part of this you forgot yet none need to be ashamed to make use of it and so being armed against casualties you may stand firm against the assaults on the right hand and on the left for this is cerâ—ain the mind that is most prone to be puffed up with prosperity is most weak and apt to be dejected with the least touch of adversity indeed she is able to stagger a strong man striking terrible blowes especially Immerito veniens paena dolonda venit but true Christian wisdom gives us armour of proof against all these assaults and teacheth us in all estates to be contented for though she cause our trencher friends to declare themselves our enemies though she give heart to the most coward to strike us though an hours continuance countervails an Age of prosperity though she cast in our dishes all the evils that ever we have done yet hath she no power to hurt the humble and wise but only to break such as too much prosperity hath made stift in their own thoughts but weak indeed and fit for ruine when the wise from thence rather gather profit and wisdom by the example of David who saith Before I was chastisâ—d I went wrong Now then he knows the right way and will look better to his footing Cardansâ—… saith that weeping fasting and sighing are three great purges of grief Indeed naturally they help to assway Sorrow but God in this Case is the best and only Physician the means he hath ordained are the advice of friends the amendment of our selves for amendment is both the Physick and the Cure For friends though your Lordship be scanted yet I hope you are not altogether destitute if you be look on good books they are true friends that will neither slatter nor dissemble be you betwixt your self applying what they teach to the party grieved and you shall need no other comfort nor Counsellours To them and to Gods holy spirit directing you in the reading of them I commit your Lordship beseeching him to send a good issue of these your troubles and from henceforth to work a Reformation in what hath been amiss and a resolute perseverance proceeding and growth in all that is good and that for his glory the benefit of your self this Church and Common-wealth whose faithfull Servant while you remain I remain a faithfull Servant to you Suppose this boldnesse occasioned by something I hear which I dare not write be not so secure though you see some Clouds break up all crosses and damages may be compared to a Woolf which coming upon a man suddenly causeth his voice and heart to fail but the danger that is expected is toothlesse and half prevented A Letter to my Lord Treasurer in excuse of his Speech in Parliament against the Treble Subsidie It may please your good Lordship I Was sorry to find by your Lordships Speech yesterday that my hastie Speech in Parliament delivered in discharge of my Conscience my duty to God her Majesty and my Countrey was offensive If it were misreported I would be glad to attend your Lordship to disavow any thing I said not If it were misconstrued I would be glad to expound my words to exclude any sense I meant not if my heart be mis-judged by imputation of popularity or opposition I have great wrong and the greater because the manner of my Speech did most evidently shew that I spake simply and only to satisfie my conscience and not with any advantage or policie to sway the cause And my terms carryed all signification of duty zeal towards her Majesty and her service It is very true that from the beginning whatsoever was a double Subsidie J did wish might for presidents sake appear to be extraordinary and for discontents sake might not have been levyed upon the poverty though otherwise J wished it as rising as J think this will prove and more this was my mind J confesse it And therefore J do most humbly pray your good Lordship First to continue me in your own good opinion and then to perform the part of an Honourable friend towards your poor humble and obedient Servant and Allyance in drawing Her MAJESTIE to accept of the sinceritie and simplicitie of my zeal and
disgrace upon you for she spared the publick places which spared ignomine she limited the charge precisely not to touch disloyalty no record remaineth to memory of the charge or sentence Fourthly the very distinction that was made of sequestration from the places of service in State and leaving your Lordship the place of the Mr. of the Horse do they in my understanding point at this that her Majestie meant to use your Lordships attendence in Court while the exercise of other places stood suspended Fifthly I have heard your Lordship knoweth better that now since you were in your own custody her Maiesty in verboregio and by his mouth to whom she counteth her royall grants and decrees hath assured your Lordship she wiâ—… forbid and not suffer your ruine Sixtly as I have heard her Majestie to be a Prince of that mainanimity that she will spare the service of a meaner then your Lordship where it shall depend meerly upon her Choice and will Seventhly I hold it for a principle that those diseases are hardest to cure whereof the cause is obscure and these rafiest whereof the cause is manifest whereupon I conclude that sine 〈◊〉 hath beene your errour in your lownesse towards her Majestie which have preiudiced you that your reforming and conformity may restore you may be faber fortunae propriae Lastly considering your Lordship is removed from dealing in causes of State and left only to a place of attendance Me thinks the ambition of any which can endure no Partners in State-matters may be so quenched as they should not laboriously oppose themselves to your being in Court So as upon the whole matter I cannot find neither in her Majesties Person nor in your own Person nor in any third Person neither in former Presidents nor in your own case any cause of peremptory dispair Neither do I speak this but that if her Majesty out of her resolution should design you to a private life you should vpon the appointment be as willing to go in the Wildernesse as into the Land of Promise Only I wish that your Lordship will not preoccupate dispaire but put trust next to God in her Majesties grace and not be wanting to your self I know your Lordship may justly interpret that this which I perswade may have some reference to my particular because I may truly say testante non virebo for I am withered in my self But manebo or terebo I shall in some sort be or hold out But though your Lordships years and health may expect return of grace and fortune yet your eclipse for 〈◊〉 while is an ultimum vale to my fortune and were it not that I desired hope to see my Brother established by her Majesty as I think him well worthy for that he hath done and suffered it were time J did take that course from which J disswaâ—ed your Lordship Now in the mean time I cannot chuse but perform those honest duties unto you to whom I have been so deeply bound unto c. My Lord of Essex his Answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter Mr. Bacon I Thank you for your kind and carefull Letter it perswadeth that which I wish strongly and hope for weakly that is possibility of restitution to her Majesties favour your Arguments that would cherish hope turn into despair You say the Queen never meant to call me to publick Censure which sheweth her goodness But you see I passed it which sheweth others power I believe most stedfastly her Majesty never intended to bring my cause to a publick Sentence and I believe as verily that since the Sentence She meant to restore me to attend upon her Majesties Person But they that could use occasions which it was not in me to let and amplifie occasions and practise occasions to represent to her Majesty a necessity to bring me to the one can and will do the like to stop me from the other You say my errours were my prejudice and therefore I can mend my self It is true But they that know I can mend my self and that if I ever recover the Queen that I will never lose her again will never suffer to obtain interest in her favour And you say the Queen never forsook utterly where she inwardly favoured But I know not whether the Hour glass of Time hath altered her But sure I am the false Glass of others information must alter her when I want access to plead mine own cause I know I ought double infinitly to be her Majesties both jure creationis for I am her Creature and jure redemptionis for I know she hath saved me from overthrow But for her first love and for her last protection and all her great benefits I can but pray for her Majesty and my endeavours is now to make my prayers for her and for my self better heard For thanks be to God they that can make her Majesty believe I counterfeit with her cannot make God believe I counterfeit with him And they which can let me from coming neer unto her cannot let me from drawing neer to him as I hope I do daily For your Brother I hold him an honest Gentleman and wish him all good much rather for your sake your self I know hath suffered more for me and with me then any friend I have But I can but lament freely as you see I do and advise you not to do as I do that is dispair you know Letters what hurt they have done me and therefore make sure of this And yet I could not as having no other pledge of my love but communicate openly to you the ease of my heart and yours Your loving friend ROBERT ESSEX A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland inciting him to embrace the cares of reducing that Kingdom to civility with some Reasons sent enclosed IT may please your Lordship as one that wisheth you all increase of honour and as one that cannot leave to love the State what interest soever I have or may come to have in it and as one that now this dead vacation time have some leisure ad aliud agendum I wil presume to propound unto you that which though you cannot but see yet I know not whether you apprehend and esteem it in so high a degree that is for the best action of importation to your self of sound honour and merit of her Majesty And this Crown without ventosity or popularity that the riches of any occasion or the tyde of any opportunity can possible minister or offer and that is the causes of Ireland if they be taken by the right handle For if the wound be not ripped up again c. I think no Physitian will go on with much letting of bloud in declanatione morbi but will intend to purge and corroborate to which purpose I send you mine opinion without labour of words in the inclosed And sure I am that if you shall enter into the matter according to the
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
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 Lpâ— 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
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 â—…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
and then that the Pattenties be tyed to build on those places only and to fortifie as shall be thought convenient And lastly it followeth of course in Countries of new Populations to invite and provoke inhabitants by ample Liberties and Charter A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few dayes before Queen Elizabeths death May it please your good Lordship AS the time of the sowing of a Seed is known but the time of coming up and disclosing is casuall or according to the Season So I am witnesse to my self that there hath been covered in my mind a long time a Seed of affection and zeal towards your Lordâ—… sown by the estimation of your vertues and your particulaâ—â—â—our and favour to my Brother deceased and to my self which Seed still springing now bursteth forth into this possession And to be plâ—in in with your Lordship it is very true and no winds not noises of evill matters can blow this out of my head and heâ—rt that your great capacity and love towards Studies and contemplations of an higher and worthier nature then popular a matter raâ—e in the World and in a person of your I ordships quality a most singular is to me a great and chief motive to draw my affection and admiration towards you And therefore good my Lord if I may be of any use to your Lordship by my hand tongue pen means or friends I humbly pray your Lordship to hold me your own and there withall not to do so much disadvantage to my good mind as to conceive this my commendation of my humble service proceedeth out of any straights of my occasions but meerly out of an election and indeed the fulnesse of my heart and so wishing your Lordship all prosperity I continue A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in May it please your most excellent Majesty IT is observed upon a place in the Canticles by some Ego sum Flos Campi Lillium Convalium it is not said Ego sum Flos horti Lillium Montinum because the Majesty of that person is not inclosed for a few nor appropriated to the great And yet notwithstanding this Royall vertue of accesse which nature and judgment have planted in your Majesties mind as â—ortall of all the rest could not of it self my imperfections considered have animated me to have made oblation of my self immediatly to your Majesty had it not been joyned with a habite of like liberty which I enjoyed with my late dear Soveraign Mistresse a Prince happy in all things but most happy in such a Successour And yet further and more nearly I was not a little encouraged not only upon a supposall that unto your Majesties cares open to the Ayr of all Vertues there might have come some small breath of the good memory of my Father so long a principall Councellour in your Kingdom but also by the particular knowledge of the infinite devotion and incessant endeavours beyond the strength of his body and the nature of the times which appeared in my good Brother towards your Majesties service and near on your Maâ—esties part through your singular benignity by many most gracious and lively significations and favours accepted and acknowledged beyond the merit of any thing he could effect All which endeavours and duties for the most part were common to my self with him though by design between Brethren dissembled And therefore most high and mighty King my most deare and dread Soveraign Lord since now the corner stone is laid of the mightiest Monarch in Europe and that God above who is noted to have a mighty hand in bridling the Flouds and Fluctuations of the Seas and of Peoples hearts hath by the miraculous and universall consent the more strange because it proceedeth from such diversity of causes in your coming in giving a sign and token what he intendeth in the continuance I think there is no Subject of your Majesties who leaveth this Islaâ—â— and is not hollow and unworthy whose heart is not set on fire nâ—… only to bring you Peace-offerings to make you propitious but to sacrifice himselfe a burnt offering to your Majesties service amoâ—â—st which number no mans fire shall be more pure and fervent But how farre forth it shall blaze out that resteth in your Majesties employment For since your fortune in the greatnesse thereof hath for a time debarred your Majesty of the fruitly vertue which one calleth the principall Principiâ—s est voritus maxima c. Because your Majesty hath many of yours which are unknown unto you I must leave all to the tryall of further time and thirsting after the happinesse of kissing your Royall hand continue ever c. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Scotland upon the entrance of his Majesties Reign SIR THe occasion awaketh in me a remembrance of the constant and mutuall good offices which passed between my good Brother and your self whereunto as you know I was not altogether a stranger though the nature of the time and design betweene us Brethren made me more reserved But well do I bear in mind the great opinion which my Brother whose judgment I much reverence would often expresse to me of your extraordinary sufficiency dexterity and temper which he found in you in the business and service of the King our Soveraign Lord This latter bred in mâ— an election as the former gave an inducement forme to make this signification of my desire of a mutuall entertainment of my good affection and correspondence between us hoping both that some good effect may result of it towards the Kings service and that for our particulars though occasion give you the precedency of furthering my being known by good note to the King So wee shall have some means given to requite your savours and verifie your commendations And so with my loving recommendation good Mr. Foules I leave you to Gods goodnesse From Grays-Inne this 25 of March A Letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance My Lord THe present occasion awaketh in me a remembrance of the constant amity and mutuall good offices which passed between my Brother deceased and your Lordship whereunto I was lesse strange then in respect of the time I had reason to pretend and withall I call to mind the great opinion which my Brother who seldom failed in judgment of person would often expresse to me of your Lordships great wisdom and soundnesse both in head and heart towards the service of our Lord the Soveraigne King The one of those hath bred in me an election and the other a confidence to addresse my good wâ—ll and sincere affection to your Lordship not doubting in regard that my course of life hath wrought me not to be altogether unseene in the matters of the Kingdom that I may be in some use both in point of service to the King and in your Lordships particular And on the other side
upon the like Argument May it please your Lordship I Have finished an argument touching the advancement of Learning which I have dedicated to his Majesty the most learned of a Soveraign temporall Prince that time hath known and upon reason not unlike I humbly present one of them Books to your Lordship not only as a Chancellour of the University but as one that was excellently bred in all learning which I have ever noted to shine in all your speeches and behaviour and therefore your Lordship will yeeld a gratious aspect to your first lover and take pleasu ein the adorning of that wherewith your selfe is so much adorned and so humbly desiring your favourable acceptation thereof with signification of humble Duty to remaine c. Yours c. A Letter of the like argument to the Lord Chauncellour Egerton May it please your good Lordship I Humbly present your Lordship with a worke wherein as you have much commandement over the Author so your Lordship hath also great interest in the argument for to speak without flattery few have the like use of Learning or like judgement in Learning as I have observed in your Lordship hath beene a gteat planter of learning not onely in these places in the Church which have been in your own guift but also in your commendatory vote no man hath more constantly held detur digniori and therefore both your Lordship is beholding to learning and your Lordship which maketh me presume with good assurance that your Lordship will accept well of these my labours the rather because your Lordship in private speech hath often begun to me in expressing your admiration of His Majesties learning to whom I have dedicated this work and whose vertue and perfection in that kind did chiefly move me to a work of this nature and so with signification of my humble duty and affection towards your Lordship I remaine A Letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook Mr. Attourney I Thought best once for all to let you know in plainesse what J finde of you and what you shall find of me to take to your selfe a liberty to disgrace and disable my law my experience my discretion what it please you I pray think of me I am one that know both my own wants and other mens and it may be perchance that mine may amend when others stand at a stay and surely I may not endure in publique place to be wronged without repelling the same to my best advantage to right my self you are great therefore have the more enviours which would be glad to have you paid at anothers Cost since the time I missed the Sollicitours place the rather I think because your meanes I cannot expect that you or I shall evâ—r serve as Attourney 〈◊〉 Soll citor 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 more then generall good means or our perricular goâ—… usage shall provoke if you had not beene short sighted in your owne fortune as I thinke you might have had more use of me out that tide is past I write not this to shew my 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 Mrs. service and to a perticular better understanding out of another This Letter if it shall be answered by you in deed 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 A Letter to my Lord of Salisbury touching the Sollicitours place It may please your good Lordship I Am not ignorant how mean a thing I stand for desiring to come into the Sollicitours place for I know well it is not the thing it hath been time having wrought alteration both in the profession and in the speciall place yet because I thinke it would encrease my practise that it may satisfie my friends because I have beene 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 of a man by you advanced Tuidem fer opem qui spem dedisti for I am sure it was not possible for a man living to have received from any other more significant comfortable words of hope your Lordship being pleased to tell me during the course of my last service that you would raise me that when you were resolved to raise a man you were more carefull of him then himself that what you had done for me in my marriage was a benefit to me but ofâ—…â—…nse to your Lordship therefore I might assure my self you would not leave me there with many like speeches which I know well my duty then to take any other hold of then the hold of a thankfull remembrance I know all the world knoweth that your Loâ—dship is no deâ—…er of holy-water but noble reall on my part I am on a sure ground that I have committed nâ—thing that may deserve any alteration and if I cannot observe you as I would yâ—ur Lordship will impute it to my want of experience which I shall gather better when I am once setled and therefore my hope is your Lordship wiâ—… finish a good work and consider that â—ime groweth precious and tha I am now vergentibus annis and although I know your for une is not to need an hundred such as I am yet I shall ever be ready to give you my best and first fruits and to suppâ—y as much as in me â—yeth a worthinesse by thankfulnesse A Letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument It May please your good Lordship AS I conceived it to be a resolution both with his Majesty and among your Lordships of his Councell that I shnuld be placed Sollicitour and the Sollicitour removed to be the Kings Sergeant so I most humblie thank your Lordships furtherance and forwardnesse therein your Lordship being the man that first devised the mean wherefore my humble request unto your Lordship is that you would set in with some strength to finish this your work which assure your Lordship I desire the rather because being placed I hope by for many favours to be able to do y a some better service for as I am your Lordship cannot use mee nor scarcely indeed know me not that I think I shall be ablâ— to do any greater matters but certainely it will frame me to use a more industrious observance and application to such as I honour so much as I do your Lordship and not I hope without some good offices which may deserve your thanks And herewithall good my Lord I humbly pray
your Lordship to consider that time groweth precious with me and that a married man is seven yeares elder in his thoughts the first day and therefore what a discomfortable thing it is for me to be unsettled still for surely were it not that I think my self born to do my Soveraign service and therefore in that station I will live and dy otherwise for my own private comfort it were better for me that the King did blot me out of his Book or that I should turne to endeavour to serve him in some other kind then for me to stand thus at a stop and to have that little reputation which by my industry I gather to be scattered and taken away by continuall disgraces every new man comming above me and sure I am J shall never have fair promises and hope from all your Lordships For J know not what service saving that your Lordships all told me were good and J would believe you in a much greater matter and if it were nothing else J hope the modesty of my suit deserveth somewhat For J know well the Sollicitours place is not as your Lordship lest it time working alteration somewhat in the profession much more in that speciall place and were it not to satisfie my wives friends and to get my self out of being a Common gaze and a speech J protest before God I would never speak word for it But to conclude as my honourable Lady was a mean to make me to change the name of another So if it please you to help me as you said to change my owne name I cannot be but more and more bounden to you and I am much deceived if your Lordship find not the King well inclined as for my Lord of Salisbury forward and affectionate A Letter to the King touching the Sollicitours place It may please your excellent Majesty HOw honestly ready I have beene most gratious Soveraign to do your Majesty humble service to the best of my power and in manner beyond my power as I now stand I am not so unfortunate but your Majesty knoweth for both in the Commission of union the labour whereof for men of my profession rested most upon my hands and this last Parliament in the Bill of the Subsidie both Body and preamble in the Bill of Attaindors both Tresham and the rest in the matter of purveiance in the Ecclesiasticall petitions in the grievances and the like as I was ever carefull and not without good successe sometimes to put forward that which was good sometimes to keep back that which was good sometimes to keep back that which was worse So your Majesty was pleased kindly to accept of my service and to say to me such conflicts were the wars of Peace and such victories the victories of Peace and therefore such servants that obtained them were by Kings that raign in peace no lesse to be esteemed the conquerours in the Wars in all which neverthelesse I can challenge to my selfe our sufliciency but that I was diligent and reasonable happy to execute those directions which I received either immediatly from your royall mouth or from my Lord of Salisbury at that time it pleased your Majesty also to assure me that upon the remove of the then Attourney I should not be forgotten but be brought into ordinary place and this was after confirmed nuto me by many of my Lords and towards the end of the last term the mannet also in perticular â—poken of that is That Mr. Sollicitour should be made your Maiesties Sergeant and I Sollicitour For so it was thought best to sort with both our gifts and faculties for the good of our service and of this resolution both Courtand Counâ—ry tooke knowledge Neither was this my invention or project of mine own but moved from my Lord I think first from my Lord Chancellour whereupon resting your Majesty well knoweth I never opened my mouth for the greater place although I am sure I had two circumstances that Mr. Attourney that now is could not all adge the one nine years service of the Crown the other being couzen Germain to the Lord of Salisbury for of my Fathers service I will not speak but for the lesse place I conceive c. But after this Mr. Attorney Habbard was placed I heard no more oâ— my preferment but it seemed to be at a stop to my great disgrace and discontentment For Gracious Soveraign if still when the matters are stirred another shall put in before me your Majesty had need to work a miracle or else I shall be a â—ame man to do you services And therefore my most humble suit unto your Majesty is That this which seemed to me intended may speedily be performed and I hope my former service shall be but as beginnings to better when I am better strengthened For sure I am no mans heart is suller I say not but many may have greater hearts but I say not fuller of love and duty towards your Majesty and your children as I hope time will manifest against envie and detraction if any be To conclude I humbly câ—ave pardon for my boldnesse A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon a New-yeers guift It may please your good Lordship HAving no guift to present you within my degree proportionable to my mind I desire neverthelesse to take the advantage of a Ceremony to expresse my self to your Lordship it being the first time I could make the like acknowledgment out of the person of a Suitor wherefore I most humbly pray your Lordship to think of me that now it hath pleased you by many effectuall and great benefits to add the assurance and comfort of your love and savour to the precedent disposition which was in me to admire your vertue and merit I do esteem whatsoever I have or may have in this world but as trash in comparison of having the honour and happinesse to be a neer and well accepted Kinsman to so rare and worâ—hy a Councellour Governour and Patriot For having been a studious is not a curious observer as well of Antiquity of Vertue as of late Peace I forbeare to say to your Lordship what I find and conceive but to another I would thinke to make my self believed But not to be tedious in that which may have the shew of a complement I can but wish your Lordship many happy yeares many more then your Father had but even so many more as we may need you more So I remain Yours c. A second Letter to the Chancellour May it please your Lordship HAving finished an argument touching the advancement of learning which I have formerly dedicated to his Majesty I humbly presume once more to present one of them Books to your Lordship not only as a Chancellour of the University but as one that was excellently bred in all learning which I have ever noted to shine in all your speeches and behaviour and therefore your Lordship will yeeld a gratious aspect to your first
lover and take pleasuâ—e in the adorning of that wherewith your selfe is so much adorned and so humbly desiring your favourable acceptation thereof with signification of humble Duty to remaine Yours c. Another Letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former Argument My Lord AS I conceived it to be a resolution both with his Majesty and among your Lordships of his Councell that I should be placed Sollicitour and the Solliciâ—our removed to be the Kings Sergeant so I most humblie thank your Lordships furtnerance and forwâ—rdnesse therein your Lordship being the man that first devised the mean wherefore my humble request unto your Lordship is that you would set in with some strength to finish this your work which assure your Lordship I desire the rather because being placed I hope by for many favours to be able to do you some better service for as I am your Lordship cannot use mee nor scarceâ—y indeed know me no that I think I shall be able to do any greater matters but certainely it will frame me to use a more industrious observance and application to such as I honour so much as I do your Lordship and not I hope without some good offices which may deserve your thanks And here withall good my Lord I humbly pray your Lordship to consider that time groweth precious with me and that a married man is seven yeares elder in his thoughts the first day and therefore what a discomfortable thing it is for me to be unsettled still for surely were it not that I think my self born to do my Soveraign service and therefore in that station I will live and dy otherwise for my own private comfort it were better for me that the King did blot me out of his Book or that I should turne to endeavour to serve him in some other kind then for me to stand thus at a stop and to have that little reputation which by my industry I gather to be scattered â—nd taken away by continuall disgraces every new man comming above me and sure I am J shall never have fair promises and hope from all your Lordships For J know not what service saving that your Lordships all told me were good and J would believe you in a much greater matter and if it were nothiâ—g else J hope the modesty of my 〈◊〉 deserveth somewhat For J know well the Sollicitours place is not as your Lordship lest it tâ—me working alteration somewhat in the profession much more in that speciall place and were it not to satisfie my wives friends and to get my self out of being a Common gaze and a speech J protest before God I wâ—uâ—d never â—peak word for it But to concluâ—e as my honourable Lady was a mean to make me to change the name of another So if it please you to help me as you said to change my owne nâ—me I cannot be but more and more bounden to you and I am much deceived if your Lordship find not the King well inclined So remaining Yours c. An expostulatory Letter to Sir Vincent Skinner SIR I See that by your need esse delayes this matter is growne to a new question wherein for the matter it self if it had beene stayed at the begâ—nning my Lord Treasurer and Mr. Chancellour I should not sâ— mucâ— have â—tood upon it For the great and dayly travails which I take in his Majesties service either are rewarded in themselvs 〈◊〉 â—hat they aâ—e but my duty or else may deserve a much greater matter Neither can I think amisse of any man that in furtherance of the Kings benefit moved the doubt that knew not what warrant you had But my wrong is that you having had my Lord Treasurers and Mr. Chancellours Warrant for payment of above a moneth since you I say making your payments be like upon such differences as are better known to your selfe then agreeable to due respect of his Majesties service have declared it all this time otherwise then I might have expected either from our ancient acquaintance or from that regard which one in your place may owe to one in mine by occasion whereof there ensueth unto me a great inconvenience That now my name in a sort must be in question amongst you as if I were a man likely either to demand that which were unreasonable or to be denyed that which is reasonable and this must be because you can pleasure men at pleasure But this J leave with this that it is the first matter wherein J had occasion to discern of your Lordship which I see to fall to this That whereas Mr. Chancellour the last time in my mans hearing very honourably said that he would not discontent any in my place it seems you have no such occasion But my writing to you now is to know of you where the stay now is without being any more beholding to you to whom indeed no man ought to be beholding in those cases in a right course and so I bid you farewell Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Davies His Majesties Attourney in Ireland Mr. Attourney I Thank you for the Letter and the discourse of this new accident you sent me as things then appeared I see manifestly the beginning of better or worse but me thinks it is first a tender of the better and worse following But upon refusall or difficult I would have been glad to have seen you here but I hope occasion reserveth our meeâ—ing for a vacation I would have more fruit of conference to requite your Proclamation which in my judgment is wisely and seriously penned I send you another with us which happened to be in my hands when yours came I would be glad to hear often from you and be advertized how things passe whereby to have some occasion to think â—…me good thought though I can do little at least it will be a continuance in exercize of friendship which on my part remaine 〈◊〉 reased by that I hear of your service and the good respect I find towards my self And so I continue Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland Mr. Pierce I Am glad to hear of you as I do and for my part you shall find me ready to take any occasion to further your credit and preferment and I dare assure you though I am no undertaker to prepare your way with my Lord of Salisbury for any good fortune which may befall you You teach me to compâ—aâ—n of business whereby I write more briefly yet I am so unjust as that which I alleadge for my own excuse I cannot admit for yours For I must by expecting exact your Letters with this fruâ—t of your sufficiency as to understand â—ow things passe in that Kingdome and therefore having begun I pray continue This is not meerly curiosity for I have ever I know not by what instinct wished well to that un olished part of this Crown And so with my very loving commendations I remain Yours
I will not omit to desire humbly your Lordships favour in furthering a good conceit and impression of my most humble duty and true zeal towards the King to whose Majesty words cannot make me known neither mine own nor others But time will to no disadvantage of any that shall fore run his Majesties experience by their humanity and commendations And so I commend your good Lordship to Gods providence and protection From Grays-Innâ— c. A Letter commending his love and occasions to â—ir Thoâ— Châ—lenor in Scotland upon his Majestâ—es enâ—… SIR FOr our present affaires I am assured you conceive no insatisfaction for you know my mind and you know my meanes which now the apâ—nesse of the time caused by this blessed conâ—eâ—t and peace will increase and so our agreement according to your time be observed â—or the present according to the Roman Addage that one cluster of grapes ripeneth best against another so I know you hold me not unworthy whose mutuall friendship you should cherrish And I for my part conceive good hope that you are like to be come an acceptable servanâ— to the King our Mr. not so much for any way made which in my judgement will make no great difference as for the stuffe and sufficiency which I know to be in you and whereof I know his Majesty may reap great service and thereof my generall request is that according to that industrious vivacitie which you use towards your friend you will further his Majesties good conceipt and inclination towards one to whom words cannot make me known neither my own nor others but time will to no disadvantage of any that shall fore-runne his Majesties experience by their testimony and commenadtion though occasion give you the precedencie of doing me this speciall good office yet I hope no long time will intercede before I shall have some means to require your favour and acquiâ—e your repoâ—â— more perticulerly having thoughâ— good to make Oblation of my most humble service to his Majesty by a few lines I do desire your loving care and helpe by your selfe or such means as I refer to your discretion â—to deliveâ— presentthis to his Majesties hands of which Letter I â—end you a Coppy that you may know what you carry and may take of Mr Mathews the Letter it selfe if you be pleased to undertake the delivery Lastly I do commend to your self and to such your courtesies as occasion may require this Gent. Mr. Mathewâ— eldâ—st Sonne to my Lord Bishop oâ— Durham anâ— my very good friend assuâ—ing you that any couâ—… tâ—at you shall use towards him you shall use to a worthy young gent and one I know whose acquaintance you will much esteeme and so J ever continue A Letter to Mr. Davies then gone to the King at his first entrance Mr. Davies THough you went on the suddain yet you could not go before you had spoken with your self to the purpose whereof I will now write And therefore I know not but that it was altogether needlesse save that I meant to shew you that J was not asleepe Besides J commend my self to your love and to the well using of my name as in reposing and answering for me if there be any biting or bibbling at it in that place as in impressing a good opinion of me chiefly in the King of whose favour I make my selfe comfortable assurance as otherwise in that Court and not only but generally to perform to me all the good offices which the vivacity of your wit can suggest to your mind to be performed to one in whose affection you have so great sympathy and in whose fortune you have so great interest So desiring you to be good to concealed Poets I continue Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Fauls 28. March 1603. Mr Faules I Did write to you yesterday by Mr. Lake who was dispatched hence from their Lordships with a Letter of revivour of those sparks of acquaintance between us in my Brothers time and now upon the same case finding so fit a messenger I could not faile to salute you hoping it will fall ouâ— so happily as that you shall be one of the Kings servants which his Majesty will apply here about us where I hope to have some means not to be barren in friendship towards you We all thirst for the Kings coming accounting all this but as the dawning of the day before the rising of the Sun till we have his presence And though his Majesty must be now Ianus Bysrons to have a face to Scotland as well as to England yet Quod num instat agendum The expectation is here that he will come in state and not in strength So for this time I commend you to Gods goâ—dnesse and remain Yours c. A Letter to Doctor Morrison a Scottish Physitian upon his â—aiesties coming in Mr Doctor Morrison I Have thought good by this my Letter to renew this my ancient acquaintance which hath passed between us signifying my good mind to you to perform to you any good office for your particular and my expectation and a firm assurance on the like on your part towards me wherein I confesse you may have the start of me because occasion hath given you the precedency in investing you with opportunity to use my name well and by your loving testimony to further a good opinion of me in his Majesty and the Court But I hope my experience of matters here will with the light of his Mâ—jesties favour enable me speedily both to requite your kindnesse and to acquir and mâ—ke good your testimony and report So not doubting to see you here with his Majesty considering that it belongeâ—â— to your Art to feel pulses And I assure you Galen doth not set down greater variety of pules then do vent here in mens hearts I wish you all prosperity and remain Yours c. From my Chamber at Gray-Inne c. A Letter to Mr. Robert Kenney upon the Death of Queen Elizabeth Mr. Kenney THis alteration is so great as you might justly conceive some readiness of my affection towards you if you should hear nothing from me I living in this place it is in vain to tell you with what wonderfull skill and calm this wheel is turnd round which whether it be a remnant of her felicity that is gone or a fruit of his reputation that is coming I will not determine for J cannot but divide my self between her memory and his name yet wee account it but as a fair morning before Sun-rising before his Majesties presence though for my part I see not whence any weather should arise the Papists are conceived with fear enough and hope too much the French is thought to turn his practises upon procuring some disturbance in Scotland where Crowns may doe wonders But this day is so welcome to that Nation and the time so short as I do not fear the effect My Lord of Sou hampton expectâ—th release by the next dispatch and
is already much visited and much well-wished There is continuall posting by men of good quality towards the King the rather I think because this Spring time it s but a kind of sport it is hoped that as the Sâ—are here have performed the parts of good Attornies to deliver the King quiet possession of his Kingdoms so the King will re-deliver them quiet possession of their places rather filling places void then removing men placed A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation drawn for the King at his entrance It may please your good Lordship 〈◊〉 Do hold it a thing formall and necessary for the King to fore-run his coming be it never so speedy with some gracious Declaration for the cherishing entertaining and preparing of mens affections for which purpose I have conceived a draught it being a thing familiar to me in my Mistresse her times to have my Pen used in politick Writings of satisfaction the use of this may be of two sorts First properly if your Lordship think convenient to shew the King any such draught because the veins and pulses of this State cannot but be best known here which if your Lordship should do then I would desire your Lordship to withdraw my name and only signifie that you gave some heads of direction of such a matter to one of whose stile and pen you had some opinion The other collaterall that though your Lordship make no other use of it yet it is a kind of poâ—tâ—acture of that which I think worthy to be advised to the King to expresse himself according to those points which are therein conceived and perhaps more compendious and significant then if J had set them down in Article I would have attended your Lordship but for some little Physick I took to morrow morning I will wait upon you So I ever continue c. A Letter unto my Lord of Southampton upon the Kings coming in It may please your Lordship I Would have been very glad to have presented my humble service to your Lordship by my attendance if I could have foreseen that it should not have been unpleasing unto you and therefore because I would commit no errour I chose to write assuring your Lordship how credible soeveâ— yet it is as true as a thing that God knoweth that this great change in me hath wrought no other change towards your Lordship then this that I may safely be now that which I was truly before And so craving no other pardon then for troubling you with this letter I do not now begin to be but continue to be Your Lordships humble and much devoted FRAN. BACON A Letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King It may please your Lordship I Would not have lost this journey and yet I have not that I went for For I have had no private conference to purpose with the King no more hath almost any other English For the speech his Majesty admitteth with some Noble men is rather matter of grace then matter of businesse With the Attorney hee spâ—…ing urged by the Treasurer of Scotland but no more then needes must after I had received his Majesties first welcome and was promised private accesse yet not knowing what matter of service your Lordships Treasurer carryed for 〈◊〉 saw it noâ— and knowing that privinesse in adverâ—iâ—emâ—nt is much I chose rather to deliver it to Sir Thomas Horeskins then to coole it in my hands upon expectation of accesse your Lordship shall find a Prince the furtherest from vain-glory that may be And rather like a Prince of the ancient form then of the latter time his speeches swift and cursarie and in the full dialect of his Nation and in speech of buisinesse short in speech of discourse large he affecteth popularity by gracing such as he hath heard to be popular and not by any fashions of his own he is thought somewhat generall ofhis favours and his vertue of accesse is rather because he is much abroad and in presse then that he giveth easie audience he hastneth to a mixture of both Kingd mâ—s â—nd Nations faster perhaps then pollicie will bâ—are J told your Lordship once before my opinion that we thought his Majesty raâ—her asked counsell of the time past then of the time to come but it is yet early to be sâ—und in any setled opinion for other perticularities J referre conference having in those generalls gone further in so tender an Argument then J would have done were not the Bearer hereof so assured So J continue c. A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place at what times he stood but in doubtfull termes of favour with his Lordship It May please your Lordship I Am not privy to my selfe of any such ill deserving towards your Lordship as that J should think it any mpudent thing to be a suitor unto your favour in a reaâ—oâ—able mâ—tter your Lordâ—â—â—p being to me as with your good favour you cannot cease to be but rather it were a simpâ—e and arrogant part in me to forbeare â—t tâ—s thought Mr. Attoâ—rney shall be cheif justice of the Common place in case Mr. Sollicitour rise I would be glad now at last to be Sollicitour Chiefly because I think it will increase my practise wherein God blessing me a few yeares I may amend my state and so after fall to my studies and ease whereof the one is requisire for my Body and the other serveth to my mind wherein if I shall find your Lordships favovr I shall be more happy then I have been which may make me also more wise I have small store of meanes about the King and to sue my selfe 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 thanke God in these transitory things J am well resolved So beseeching your Lordship not to think this Letter the lesse humble because it is plain J rest A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury upon sending him one of his Bookes of advancemeat of Learning It may please your good Lordship I Present your Lordship with a work of my vacant time which if it had been more the work had been better it appertaineth to your Lordship Besides my particular respect in some propriety in regard you be a great Governour in the Province of Learning and that which is more you have added to your place affection towards Laarning and to your affection judgment of which the last I could be content were for the time lesse that you might the lesse exquisitly censure that which I offer unto you But sure I am the Argument is good if it had lighted on a good Author But I shall content my self to awake better Spirits like a Bell-ringer which is first up to call others to Church So with my humble desire of your Lordships good acceptance J remain Yours c. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst
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A Letter to Mr. Murrey of the Kings Bed Chamber Mr. Murrey IT is very true that his Majesty most graciously at my humble request knighted the last Sunday my Brother in law a towardly young Gentleman for which favour I think my selfe more â—ound to his Majesty then for the benefit often Knights And to tell you truly my meaning was not that the suit of this other Gentleman Mr. Temple should have beene moved in my name For I should have been unwilling to have moved his Majesty for more then one at once though many times in his Majesties Courts of justice if we move once for our friends we are allowed to move again for our Fee But indeed my purpose was that you might have been pleased to have moved it as for my self Nâ—verthelesse since it is so far gone and that the Gentlemans friends are in some expectation of successe I leave it to your kind regard what is further to be done as waâ—ling to give satisfaction to thâ—se which have put me in trust and loath on the other side to presse abâ—ve good manners And so with my loving commendations I remain Yours c. A Letter to my Lady Pagington in answer of a Message by her sent Madam YOu shall with right good will be made acquainted with any thing which concerneth your Daughters if you bear a mind of love and concord otherwise you must be content to be a stranger unto us For I may not be so unwise as to suffer you to be an Author or occasion of dissension betweene your Daughters and their Husbands having seen so much misery of that kind in your self And above all things I will turn back your kindnesse in which you ay you will receive my wife if she be cast off For it is much more likely we have occasion to receive you being cast off if you remember what is passed But it is time to make an end of those follies And you shall at this time pardon me this one fault of writing to you For J mean to do it no more till you use me and respect me as you ought So wishing you better then it seemeth you will draw upon your self I rest Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Relâ—gion Mr Matthews DOe not hink me forgetfull or altered towards you but if I should say that I should do you any good I should make my power more then it is I doe hear that which I am right â—orry for that you grow more impatient and busie then at first which maketh me to fear the issue of that which seemeth not o 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 at the least within the bounds of loyalty to his Majesty and naturall piety towards your Country and I entreat you much to meditate sometimes upon the extreame effect of Superstiâ—ion in this last Powder Treason fit to be tabled and pictured in the Tables of meditation as another Hell above the ground and well justifying the Censure of the Heathen that Superâ—â—ition is far worse then Atheism by how much it is lesse evill to have no opinion of God at all then such as are impious towards his divine Majesty and goodnesse Good Mr. Mathews receive your self back from these courses of perdition and being willing to have written a great deale more I continue Yours c. Sir Thomas Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogita vâ—sa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same SIR ASsoon as the Term was ended supposing your leisure was more then before I was coming to thank you two or three times rather chusing it by word then by letter but I was stiâ—… disappointed of my purpose as I am at this present upon an urgent occasion which doth tyme last to Fulham and hath made me now determine to impart my mind in writing I think you know I have read your Cogita visa which I protest I have done with great desire reputing it a token of your singular love that you joyned me with those your chiefest friends to whom you would commend your first perusall of your draught For which I pray you give me leave to say but this unto you First that if the depth of my affection to your person and spirit to your works and your words and to all your abilities were as highly to be valued as your affection is to me it might wâ—…k with yours arme in arme and claim your love by just desert But there can be no comparison where our states are so uneven and our means to demonstrate our affections so different insomuch as for my own I must leave it to be prized in the nature that it is and you shall evermore find it most addâ—cted to your worth As touching the subject of your Book you have set a foot so many rare and noble speculations as I cannot chuse but wonder and I shall wonder at it ever that your expence of time considered in your publike profession which hath in a manner no acquaintance with any Scholarship or Learning you should have culled out the quintessence and sucked up the sap of the chiefest kind of Learning For howsoever in some points you do vary altogether from that which is and hath been ever the received Doctrine of our Schools and was alwayes by the wisest as still they have been deemed of all Nations and Ages adjuâ—ged the truest Yet it is apparent that in those very points and in all your Proposals and Plots in that book you shew your self a Master-Workman For my self I must coâ—…esse and I speak it ingenue that for the matter of learning I am not worthy to be reckoned in the number of Smatterers And yet because it may seem that being willing to communicate your Treatise with your friends you are likewise willing to listen to whatsoever I or otheâ—…can except against it I must deliver unto you for my prâ—… 〈◊〉 I am one of that crew that say there is and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…r greater hold-fast of certainty in your Scienâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your â—…course will seeme to acknowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ill successe and errours of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you know as well they do proceed of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…e 〈◊〉 â—…d doth obey his Physician in observing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or by mis-inâ—…tion of their owne indisposiâ—… For 〈◊〉 are able in this kind to explicate themselvs or by reason their disease are by nature uncurable which is incident you know to many sorts of malladies or for some other hid cause which cannot be diâ—covered by course of conjecture howbeit J am full of this belâ—ese 〈◊〉 as phisick is ministred now a daies by phisitians it is much to be ascribed to their negligence or