Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

in the Afternoon was read your Majesties Letters of Direction touching Peacham which because it concerneth properly the Duty of my Place I thought it fit for me to give your Majesty both a speedy and a private Account thereof That your Majesty knowing Things clearly how they pass may have the true Fruit of your own Wisdom and clear-Seeing Judgement in Governing the Business First for the Regularity which your Majesty as a Master in Business of Estate doth prudently prescribe in Examining and taking Examinations I subscribe to it Onely I will say for my Self that I was not at this time the Principal Examiner For the Course your Majesty directeth and commandeth for the feeling of the Iudges of the Kings Bench their Several Opinions by distributing our Selves and enjoyning Secrecy we did first finde an Encounter in the Opinion of my Lord Cooke who seemed to affirm that such particular and as he call'd it Auricular Taking of Opinions was not according to the Custom of this Realm And seemed to divine that his Brethren would never doe it But when I replyed that it was our Duty to pursue your Majesties Directions And it were not amiss for his Lordship to leave his Brethren to their own Answers It was so concluded and his Lordship did desire that I mought conferr with Himself And Mr. Serjeant Mountague was named to speak with Iustice Crooke Mr. Serjeant Crew with Iustice Houghton and Mr. Solliciter with Iustice Dodderidge This done I took my Fellows aside and advised that they should presently speak with the 3. Iudges before I could speak with my Lord Cooke for doubt of Infusion And that they should not in any case make any doubt to the Iudges as if they mistrusted they would not deliver any Opinion apart but speak resolutely to them and onely make their Comming to be to know what time they would appoint to be attended with the Papers This sorted not amiss For Mr. Solliciter came to me this Evening and related to me that he had found Iudge Dodderidge very ready to give Opinion in secret And fell upon the same reason which upon your Majesties first Letter I had used to my Lord Cooke at the Council Table which was that every Iudge was bound expresly by his Oath to give your Majesty Counsel when he was called And whether he should doe it joyntly or severally that rested in your Maiesties good pleasure as you would require it And though the Ordinary Course was to assemble them yet there mought intervene Cases wherein the other Course was more convenient The like Answer made Iustice Crook Iustice Houghton who is a soft Man seemed desirous first to conferr Alleging that the other 3. Iudges had all served the Crown before they were Iudges but that he had not been much acquainted with Business of this Nature We purpose therefore â—orthwith they shall be made acquainted with the Papers And if that could be done as suddainly as this was I should make small doubt of their Opinions And howsoever I hope Force of Law and President will bind them to the Truth Neither am I wholly out of hope that my Lord Cooke himself when I have in some dark manner put him in doubt that he shall be left alone will not continue singular For Owen I know not the reason why there should have been no Mention made thereof in the last Advertisement For I must say for my Self that I have lost no moment of Time in it as my Lord of Canterbury can bear me witness For having received from my Lord an Additional of great Importance which was that Owen of his own Accord after Examination should compare the Case of your Majesty if you were Excommunicate to the Case of a Prisoner Condemned at the Barr which Additional was subscribed by one Witness but yet I perceived it was spoken aloud and in the Hearing of others I presently sent down a Copy thereof which is now come up attested with the Hands of 3. more lest there should have been any Scruple of Singularis Testis So as for this Case I may say Omnia parata And we expect but a Direction from your Maâ—esty for the Acquainting the Iudges severally Or the 4. Iudges of the Kings Bench as your Majesty shall think good I forget not nor forslow not your Majesties Commandement touching Recusants Of which when it is ripe I will give your Majesty a true Account and what is possible to be done and where the Impediment is Mr. Secretary bringeth Bonam Voluntatem but he is not versed much in these things And sometimes urgeth the Conclusion without the premises and by haste hindreth It is my Lord Treasurer and the Exchequer must help it if it be holpen I have heard more wayes than oneâ— of an ofter of 20000 l. per Annum for farming the Penalties of Recusants not including any Offence Capital or of Premunire wherein I will presume to say that my poor Endeavours since I was by your great and sole grace your Atturney have been no small Spurrs to make them feel your Laws and seek this Redemption Wherein I must also say my Lord Cooke hath done his part And I doe assure your Majesty I know it somewhat inwardly and groundedly that by the Courses we have taken they conform daily and in great Numbers And I would to God it were as well a Conversion as a Conformity But if it should die by Dispensation or Dissimulation then I fear that whereas your Majesty hath now so many ill Subjects poor and detected you shall then have them rich and dissembled And therefore I hold this offer very considerable of so great an Increase of Revenew If it can pass the fiery Trial of Religion and Honour which I wish all Projects may pass Thus in as much as I have made to your Majesty somewhat a naked and particular account of Business I hope your Majesty will use it accordingly God preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most humble and devoted Subject and Servant A Letter reporting the State of my Lord Chancellers Health Jan. 29. 1614. It may please your excellent Majesty BEcause I know your Majesty would be glad to hear how it is with my Lord Chanceller And that it pleased him out of his antient and great Love to me which many times in Sickness appeareth most To admit me to a great deal of Speech with him this afternoon which during these three dayes he hath scarcely done to any I thought it mought be pleasing to your Majesty to certify you how I found him I found him in bed but his Spirits fresh and good speaking stoutly and without being spent or weary And both willing and Beginning of himself to speak but wholly of your Majesties Business Wherein I cannot forget to relate this particular That he wished that his Sentencing of I. S. at the day appointed mought be his last Work to conclude his Services and express his Affection towards your Majesty I â—old him I knew your Majesty would be

Athenians could rest which was if the Deputies of the Lacedemonians could make it plain unto them that after these and these things parted withall the Lacedemonians should not be able to hurt them though they would So it is with us As we have not justly provoked the Hatred or Enmity of any other State so howsoever that be I know not at this time the Enemy that hath the Power to offend us though he had the Will And whether we have given just Cause of Quarrell or Offence it shall be afterwards touched in the feurth Article Touching the true Causes of the Disturbance of the Quiet of Christenâ—ome As far as it is fit to justifie the Actions of so High a Prince upon the Occasion of such a Libell as this But now concerning the Power and Forces of any Enemy I do find that England hath sometimes apprehended with Jealousie the Confederation between France and Scotland The one being upon the same Continent that we are and breeding a Souldier of Puissance and Courage not much differing from the English The other a Kingdom very Opulent and thereby able to sustain Wars though at very great Charge And having a brave Nobility And being a Near Neighbour And yet of this Conjuncâ—ion there never came any Offence of Moment But Scotland was ever rather used by France as a Diversion of an English Invasion upon France then as a Commodity of a French Invasion upon England I confesse also that since the Vnions of the Kingdom of Spain and during the time the Kingdom of France was in his Entire A Conjunction of those two potent Kingdoms against us might have been of some Terrour to us But now it is evident that the State of France is such as both those Conjunctions are become Impossible It resteth that either Spain with Scotland should offend us or Spain alone For Scotland thanks be to God the Amity and Intelligence is so sound and secret between the the two Crowns Being strengthened by Consent in Religion Nearnesse of Blood and Continuall good Offices reciprocally on either side as the Spaniard himself in his own Plot â—hinketh it easier to alter and overthrow the present State of Scotland then to remove and divide it from the Amity of England So as it must be Spain alone that we should fear which should seem by reason of his Spacious Dominions to be a great Over-match The Conceit whereof maketh me call to mind the Resemblance of an Ancient writer in Physick who labouring to perswade that a Physician should not doubt sometimes to purge his Patient though he see him very weak Entreth into a Distinction of Weakness and saith there is a Weakness of Spirit and a Weakness of Body The latter whereof he compareth unto a man that were otherwise very strong but had a great pack on his Neck So greatâ— as made him double again So as one might thrust him down with his Finger Which Similitude and Distinction both may be fitly applyed to matter of State For some States are Weak through want of Means and some VVeak through Excesse of Burthen In which rank I do place the State of Spain which having outcompassed it self in embracing too much And being it self but a barren Seed-plot of Souldiers And much Decayed and Exhausted of Men by the Indies and by continuall wars and so to the State of their Treasure being endebted and engaged before such times as they waged so great Forces in France And therefore much more since Is not in brief an Enemy to be feared by a Nation Seated Manned Furnished and Pollyced as is England Neither is this spoken by guesse For the Experience was Substantiall enough and of Fresh Memoâ—y in the late Enterprise of Spain upon England What Time all that Goodly Shipping which in that Voyage was consumed was Compleat what Time his Forces in the Low Countries was also full and Entire which now are wasted to a fourth part What time also he was not entangled with the Matters of France But was rather like to receive Assistance then Impediment from his Friends there In respect of the great Vigour wherein the League then was while the Duke of Guise then lived and yet neverthelesse this great preparation passed away like a Dream The Invincible Navy neither took any one Barque of ours Neither yet once offered to land But after they had been well Beaten and Chased made a Perambulation about the Northern Seas Ennobling many Coasts with VVracks of Mighty ships and so returned home with greater Derision then they set forth with Expectation So as we shall not need much Confederacies and Succours which he saith we want for the breaking of the Spanish Invasion No though the Spaniard should nestle in Brittain and supplant the French and get some Port-Townes into their hands there which is yet far off yet shall he never be so commodiously seated to annoy us as if he had kept the Low-Countries And we shall rather fear Him as a wrangling Neighbour that may Trespass now and then upon some Stragling ships of ours then as an Invader And as for our Confederacies God hath given us both Meanes and Minds to tender and relieve the States of others And therefore our Confederacies are rather of Honour then such as we depend upon And yet nevertheless the Apostata's and Huguonets of France on the one part For so he termeth the whole Nobility in a manner of France Among the which a great part is of his own Religion which maintain the clear and unblemished Title of their Lawfull and Naturall King against the seditious popular And the Beere-Brewers and Basket-Makers of Holland and Zealand As he also termes them on the other have almost banded away between them all the Duke of Parma's Forces And I suppose the very Mines of the Indies will go low or ever the one be Ruined or the other recovered Neither again desire we better Confederacies and Leagues then Spain it self hath provided for us Non enim verbis faedera confirmantur sed jisdem vtilitatibus We know to how many States the King of Spain is odious and suspected And for our selves we have incensed none by our Injuries Nor made any Jealous of our Ambition These are in Rules of Pollicy the Firmest Contracts Let thus much be said in Answer of the Second Branch concerning the Number of Exteriour Enemies Wherein my Meaning is nothing lesse then to attribute our Felicity to our Pollicy Or to nourish our selves in the Humour of Security But I hope we shall depend upon God and be vigilent And then it will be seen to what end these False Alarums will come In the Third Branch of the Miseries of England he taketh upon him to play the Prophet as he hath in all the rest play'd the Poet And will needes Divine or Prognosticate the great Troubles whreunto this Realm shall fall after her Majesties Times As if he that hath so singular a Gift in Lying of the present Time and Times past had

lent your Reputation in this Case That is To pretend that if Peace go not on and the Queen mean to make not a Defensive Warr as in times past but a full Reconquest of those parts of the Countrey you would accept the Charge I think it would help to settle Tyrone in his seeking Accord and win you a great deal of Honour gratis And that which most properly concern's this Action if it prove a Peace I think her Majesty shall doe well to cure the Root of the Disease And to Professe by a Commission of Peaceable Men of Respect and Countenance a Reformation of Abuses Extortions and Injustices there And to plant a stronger and surer Government than heretofore for the Ease and Protection of the Subject For the Removing of the Sword or Government in Arms from the Earl of Ormond Or the sending of a Deputy which will ecclipse it if Peace follow I think it unseasonable Lastly I hold still my Opinion both for your better Inâ—ormation and the fuller Declaration of your Care in Medling in this urgent and meriting Service That your Lordship have a set Conference with the persons I named in my former Letter A Letter of Advice to my Lord of Essex immediately before his going into Ireland My sigular good Loâ—d YOur late Note of my Silence in your Occasions hath made me set down these few wandring Lines as one that would say somewhat and can say nothing touching your Lordships intended Charge for Ireland Which my Endeavour I know your Lordship will accept graciously whether your Lordship take it by the Handle of Occasion ministred from your Self or of the Affection from which it proceeds Your Lordship is designed to a Service of great Merit and great Peril And as the Greatness of the Peril must needs include a like proportion of Merit So the Greatnesse of the Merit may include no small Consequence of Peril if it be not temperately governed For all immoderate Successe extinguisheth Merit and stirreth up Distast and Envy The assured Forerunners of whole Charges of Peril But I am at the last point first Some good Spirit leading my Penn to presage to your Lordship successe Wherein it is true I am not without my Oracles and Divinations None of them Superstitious and yet not all Natural For first looking into the Course of Gods Providence in Things now depending And calling to consideration how great things God hath done by her Majesty and for her I collect he hath disposed of this great Defection in Ireland thereby to give an urgent occasion to the Reduction of that whole Kingdom As upon the Rebellion of Desmond there insued the Reduction of that whole Province Next your Lordship goeth against three of the unluckiest Vices of all others Disloyalty Ingratitude and Insolency Which three Offences in all Examples have seldom their Doom adjourn'd to the world to come Lastly he that shall have had the Honour to know your Lordship inwardly as I have had shall find Bona Exta whereby he may better ground a Divination of Good than upon the Dissection of a Sacrifice But that part I leave For it is fit â—or others to be confident upon the cause The Goodnesse and Justice whereof is such as can hardly be matched in any Exampleâ— It being no Ambitious Warr against Forreiners but a Recovery of Subjects And that after Lenity of Conditions often tryed And a Recovery of them not onely to Obedience but to Humanity and Policy from more than Indian Barbarism There is yet another Kinde of Divination familiar to Matters of State Being that which Demosthenes so often relyed upon in his time when he said That which for the time past is worst of all is for the time to come the best which is that things goâ— ill not by Accident but by Errours Wherein if your Lordship have been heretofore an Awaking Censour you must look â—or no other now but Medice Cura teipsum And though you shall not be the Happy Physician that commeth in the Declination of the Disease yet you embrace that Condition which many Noble Spirits have accepted for Advantage which is that you goe upon the greater Peril of your Fortune and the lesse of your Reputation And so the Honour countervaileth the Adventure Of which Honour your Lordship is in no small possession when that her Majesty known to be one of the most judicious Princes in discerning of Spirits that ever governed hath made choice of you meerly out of her Royal Iudgement her Affection inclining rather to continue your Attendance into whose hand and trust to put the Command and Conduct of so great Forces The Gathering the Fruit of so great Charge The Execution of so many Counsels The Redeeming of the Defaults of so many former Governers The clearing of the Glory of her so many happy years Reign onely in this part eclipsed Nay further how far forth the peril of that State is interlaced with the peril of England And therefore how great the Honour is to keep and defend the Approaches or Ave-newes of this Kingdom I hear many discourse And there is a great Difference whether the Tortoise gathereth her self within her shell hurt or unhurt And if any Man be of Opinion that the Nature of the Enemy doth extenuate the Honour of the Service being but a Rebell and a Savage I differ from him For I see the justest Triumphs that the Romans in their greatnesse did obtain And that whereof the Emperours in their Stiles took Addition and Denomination were of such an Enemy as this That is People Barbarous and not reduced to Civility magnifying a kind of lawlesse Liberty and prodigal of Life hardned in Body fortified in Woods and Boggs and placing both Justice and Felicity in sharpnesse of their Swords Such were the Germans and auncient Brittons and divers others Upon which kinde of People whether the Victory were a Conquest or a Reconquest upon a Rebellion or a Revolt It made no difference that ever I could find in Honour And therefore it is not the Enriching Predatory Warr that hath the preheminence in Honour Else should it be more Honour to bring in a Carick of rich Burthen than one of the 12. Spanish Apostles But then this Nature of People doth yield a higher point of Honour considered in Truth and Substance than any warr can yield which should be atchieved against a Civil Enemy If the End may be Pacique imponere morem to replant and refound the policy of that Nation To which nothing is wanting but a just and Civil Government which Design as it doth descend unto you â—rom your Noble Father who lost his life in that Action though he paid Tribute to Nature and not to Fortune So I hope your Lordship shall be as Fatal a Captain to this warr as Africanus was to the Warr of Carthage After that both his Uncle and Father had lost their Lives in Spain in the same warr Now although it be true that these Things which I

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