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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LLARIES

BOULDER, COLORADO

G. WOUDFALL, PRINTER, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET, LONDON,

CONTENTS

OF THE

SIXTH VOLUME.

LETTERS, SPEECHES, CHARGES,

ADVICES, &c.

OF

LORD CHANCELLOR BACON,

First published by Dr. Birch in one Volume Octavo, in 1763.

Tue dedication to Mr. Yorke,

Page v

The Preface,

xi

To Mr. Robert Cecil,

1

To the earl of Essex,

2

To Sir John Puckering, lord keeper,

ibid.

To alderman John Spencer,

3

To Mr. Bacon from the earl of Essex,

4

To Mr. Bacon from lord treasurer Burghley, 5

To Mr. Bacon from Sir Robert Cecil

ibid.

To the Queen,

6

To Robert Kemp, of Gray's-Inn, esq.

7

To the earl of Essex,

To Mr. Bacon from the earl of Essex,

To Mr. Bacon from the earl of Essex,

10

To the earl of Essex,

11

To Sir Robert Cecil,

12

Sir Robert Cecil's answer,

13

Earl of Essex to Mr. Bacon,

ibid.

The same to the same,

14

8

23

25

29

Foulke Grevill, esq. to Mr. Bacon,

15

To the Queen,

16

To Mr. Bacon's brother Antony,

17

Earl of Essex to Mr. Bacon,

ibid.

To Mr. Bacon's brother Antony,

18

To Sir Robert Cecil, sent with the preceding to Mr.

Antony Bacon,

20

The speeches drawn up by Mr. Bacon for the earl of

Essex in a device exhibited by his lordship before

queen Elizabeth, on the anniversary of her acces-

sion to the throne, November 17, 1595,

22

The squire's speech,

ibid.

The hermit's speech in the presence,

The soldier's speech,

The statesman's speech,

26

The reply of the squire,

To Sir Thomas Egerton, lord keeper of the great seal,

32

To the earl of Essex, on his lord ship's going on the ex-

pedition against Cadiz,

38

The earl of Essex to Mr. Bacon,

39

To Mr. Bacon's brother Antony,

40

To Sir Thomas Egerton, lord keeper of the great seal,

41

To Sir Robert Cecil, secretary of state,

43

The substance of a letter Mr. Bacon wished the earl

of Essex should write to her majesty, ibid.

Mr. Secretary Cecil,

46

A true remembrance of the abuse Mr. Bacon received

of Mr. attorney general publicly in the Exchequer

the first day of term,

ibid.

To Robert, lord Cecil,

47

To the same,

49

To Sir John Davis, his majesty's attorney general in
Ireland,

50

To Isaac Casaubon,

51

The beginning of a letter immediately after my lord

treasurer's decease,

52

To the King, immediately after the lord treasurer's

death,

ibid.

To the King,

54

2

To the King,

55

To the King,

56

In Henricum principem Wallive elogium Francisci Ba-

coni,

58

A translation of the eulogy on Henry prince of Wales,

61

To the King,

63

The charge against Mr. Whitelocke,

65

Robert earl of Somerset to Sir Thomas Overbury, 69
To the King,

70

Reasons why it should be exceeding much for his ma-

jesty's service to remove the lord Coke from being

attorney general to be chief justice of England, 71

To the King,

: 73

TO John Murray of the bed-chamber to the king, 76

To Mr. Murray,

77

To Mr. Murray,

ibid.

To the King,

78

Supplement of two passages in Mr. Bacon's speech in

the king's bench against Owen,

To Mr. Murray,

81

To lord Norris,

82

To the King,

To Sir George Villiers,

To Sir George Villiers about the examination of Sir

Robert Cotton,

89

Mr. Tobie Matthew to Sir Francis Bacon, 91

To the judges,

94

Questions legal for the judges, in the case of the earl

and countess of Somerset,

ibid.

Questions of convenience, whereupon his majesty may

cònfer with his council,

95

A particular remembrance for his majesty, 96

The heads of the charge against Robert earl of Somer-

set,

97

To Sir George Villiers,

101

The charge of the attorney general, Sir Francis Ba-

con, against Frances, countess of Somerset, intended

to have been spoken at her arraignnent, on May 24,

1616, in case she had pleaded not guilty, 104

80

83

88