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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

the carriage of my self in that service I have many honorable witnesses that can tel that the next day after my Lords arraignment by my diligence and information touching the quality and nature of the offendors six of nine were stayed which otherwise had been attainted I bringing their Lordships letter for their stay after the Jury was sworn to pass upon them so neer it went and how careful I was and made it my part that whosoever was in trouble about that matter assoon as ever his case was sufficiently known and defined of might not continue in restraint but be set at liberty and many other parts which I am well assured of stood with the duty of an honest man But indeed I will not deny for the case of Sir Thomas Smith of London the Q. demanding my opinion of it I told her I thought it was as hard as many of the rest but what was the reason because at that time I had seen only his accusation and had never been present at any examination of his and the matter so standing I had been very untrue to my service if I had not delivered that opinion But afterwards upon a re-examination of som that charged him who weakned their own testimony especially hearing himself viva voce I went instantly to the Q. out of the soundness of my conscience not regarding what opinion I had formerly delivered told her Majesty I was satisfied and resolved in my conscience that for the reputation of the action the plot was to countenance the action further by him in respect of his place then they had indeed any interest or intelligence with him It is very true also about that time her Majesty taking a liking of my pen upon that which I had done before concerning the proceeding at York house and likewise upon some other declarations which in former times by her appointment I put in writing commanded me to pen that book which was published for the better satisfaction of the world which I did but so as never Secretary had more perticular and express directions and instructions in every point how to guide my hand in it and not onely so but after that I had made a first draught thereof and propounded it to certain principal Councellors by her Majesties appointment it was perused weighed censured altered and and made almost anew writing according to their Lordships better consideration wherein their Lordships and my self both were as religious and curious of truth as desirous of satisfaction and my self indeed gave onely words and form of stile in pursuing their direction And after it had passed their allowance it was again exactly perused by the Queen her self and some alterations made again by her appointment nay and after it was set to print the Queen who as your Lordship knoweth as she was excellent in great matters so she was exquisite in small and noted that I could not forget my ancient respect to my Lord of Essex interming him ever my Lo. of Essex my Lord of Essex almost in every page of the Book which she thought not fit but would have it made Essex or the late Earl of Essex whereupon of force it was printed de novo the first copies suppressed by her peremptory commandment And this my good Lord to my furthest remembrance is all that passed wherein I had part which I have set down as neer as I could in the very words and speeches that were used not because they are worthy the repetition I mean those of mine own but to the end your Lordship may lively and plainly discern between the face of truth and a smooth tale And the rather also because in things that passed a good while since the very words and phrases did sometimes bring to my remembrance the matters wherein I report me to your honorable judgement whether you do not see the traces of an honest man and had I been as well beleeved either by the Queen or by my Lord as I was well heard by them both both my Lord had been fortunate and so had my self in his fortune To conclude therefore I humbly pray your Lordship to pardon me for troubling you with this long Narration and that you will vouchsafe to hold me in your good opinion till you know I have deserved or finde that I shall deserve the contrary and even so I continue At your Lordships Honorable commandments very humbly THE Ld. BACON HIS LETTER TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND most Excellent Prince CHARLS Prince of Wales Duke of Corn-Wal Earl of Chester c. It may please your Highness IN part of my acknowledgement to your highness I have endevoured to do honor to the memory of the last King of England that was Ancestor to the King your Father and your self and was that King to whom both unions may in a sort refer that of the Roses being in him consummate and that of the Kingdoms by him begun besides his times deserve it for he was a wise man and an Excellent King and yet the times very rough and full of mutations and rare accidents and it is with times as it is with wayes some are more up hill and down hill and some are more flat and plain and the one is better for the liver and the other for the writer I have not flattered him but took him to life as well as I could sitting so far of and having no better light it is true your Highness hath a living patern incomparable of the King your Father but is not amiss for you also to see it one of these Ancient Pieces God preserve your Highness Your Highness most humble and devoted Servant Francis S t Alban FINIS THE Lord Treasurer BUR LEIGH HIS Advice to Queen ELIZABETH in matters of Religion and State Most Gratious Soveraign CARE one of the true bred Children of my unfained affection awaked with the late wicked and barbarous attempts would needs exercise my pen to your sacred Majesty not onely encouraging me that it would take the whole fault of boldness upon it self but also that even the world should not doubt to appear in your Highness presence in their kindly rudeness For that if your Majesty with your voice did but read them your very reading would grace them with eloquence Therefore laying aside all self guilty conceits of ignorance knowing that the Sign is not angry with the well meaning Astronomer though he hap to miss his course I will with the same sincerity display my humble conceits wherewith my life shall be amongst the foremost to defend the blessings which God in you hath bestowed upon us So far then as can be perceived by my humane judgment Dread Soveraign you may judge that the happiness of your present Estate can no ways be encumbred with one of these two means viz Either by your 1 Factious Subjects or 2 Forraign Enemies Your strong and Factious Subjects are the Papists strong I account them both in number and nature

that year no great or heavy punishment was laid upon her Popish Subjects by the Lawes precedent but now the vast projects and ambitions of Spain for subduing of this Kingdom began to be detected whereof a principal part was that a new fangled Faction should be raised in the bowels of this State which should not onely be ready to receive a forraign invader but also under pretence of the Roman Religion and power of the Popes Bull should absolve her Subjects from their Faith and Allegiance and prepare their Spirits for dangerous innovasions About that time Ireland was assaulted with open Armes scandalous Libels were cast out against the fame and government and the Queen and all things seemed to swell up in presage of greater motions I would rather think that many of the Preists were made wicked instruments of other mens malice then that all were privy to their Councel yet this is true and verified by sundry confessions That almost all the Priests that were sent over into this Kingdom from the three and twentieth to the thirtieth of this Queens raign in which year that Popish and Spanish design was put in execution had private instructions to divulge abroad that this Estate could stand thus no longer that within a while they should see a new face of things and notable alterations That the good of England was cared for by the Pope and popish Princes if they would not be wanting to themselves yea some of the Priests were manifestly found guilty of those Plots and Machinations which tended to the subversion of the State And that which moved most the carriage of their secret Councels was disclosed by letters intercepted importing that all the watchfulness of the Queen and Councel over the Papists would be utterly deluded for albeit they laboured much that no man of note or nobility should be head of the Faction yet a course was taken to effect the work by men of meaner and inferiour rancks whose mindes though they knew not one another should be linked together by secret confessions without need of Assembly Such arts were then used and of late in a case not unlike resumed which it seems are familiar with those men Thus clangor approaching like a storme put a Law of necessity upon the Queen It being now high time that such part of her subjects as were estranged from her love impoisoned without hope of cure and yet grew rich withall in a private life which freed them from publick charge should be kept under and restrained with Lawes of a more heavy nature The course of all this misery still increasing was imputed to the Priests who carried into forraign Countries and fed by the crums of stranger Princes professed enemies to this State were brought up onely in such places where the name of the Queen their Soveraign was never heard of but as an heretick and excommunicate person torn with curses and excommunications If these men were not inticed with treacherous designes they were surely known to be familiar with such as were who with the venom of their arts had pernitiously depraved the minds of many Papists and sowred their whole Lump with a new malignant livery which was sweeter and less timerous before Now therefore no safer reremedy could be found then to debar these unnatural men from all entrance into this Kingdom which was likewise decreed under penalty of their lives in the seven and twentieth of her raign Not long after when the tempest rose and fell upon this land the event well declared what love remained in these mens brests towards their dearest Country for so were they blinded with hate and envy that they rested neither night nor day binding themselves with Vowes and Sacraments to bring it into bondage of a forraign Enemy Hereupon albeit the clouds of Spain which caused this severity were blown over and vanished yet the remembrance of danger passed struck deep in the mindes of men and because it would have been accounted levity to have repealed those Lawes and unfaithfulness to neglect them once established The Queen was so drawn with weight of affairs that it was no more in her power to set them in that former estate wherein they were before in the twenty third of her raign Hereunto may be added that although there was not wanting the industry of divers Ministers to increase her exchequer and justice of others to urge exemption of the Lawes wherein they onely saw the publike safety to consist yet constant to her natural clemency she debated the keenness of their edge that the Priests who suffered death were very few in regard of their exceeding number These things I rehearse not as points of her defence this cause needeth no justification whereas both the safety of this Kingdom required no less and the whole course of this severity fell far short of the bloody examples amongst the Papists which rather flowed from pride and malice then any necessity But I am not forgetful of my first affection having by this time sufficiently shown that this Prince was moderate in cause of Religion and if any sharpness happened therein that it proceeded not from her nature but from the iniquity of the times Of her great care and constancy in true religion this may be a certain Argument that albeit popery had been established by much power and study in her sisters raign and had taken deep root by time and was still confirmed by the writ and assent of all in Authority yet since that it neither agreed with the word of God nor the primitive pureness nor her own conscience she pluck'd it up with little help and abolished it with great courage and resolution which was not done upon a rash impetuous fancy but with maturity and advice whereof among many other things we may take a conjecture by an answer so made upon a by-occasion In the beginning of her raign when Prisoners as the manner is were released for a boon of her new inauguration A certain Courtier who by custome had taken up a boldness of speech and jestingly waited for her as she went to Chappel when either of himself or set on by wiser men he put an humble petition crying out aloud withall That yet there remained four or five honest Prisoners who were unjustly detained beseeching he Majesty to set them at Liberty and they were the four Evangelists and Saint Paul the Apostle who had been long shut up in a strange language as in a Prison and kept from conversing among the people to whom she wisely answered That full inquiry should be made of themselves whether they would be released yea or no whereby she put off a sudden question with a suspended answer and stil reserved the interest of things in her own freedom and decision In which business she proceeded not by peeces or with trepidation but in a grave and setled order First calling the Synods to conference and the States to Parliament and then within compass of one year so reformed