OF

AND THE LIFE

FRANCIS BACON

INCLUDING ALL HIS

OCCASIONAL WORKS

NAMELY

LETTERS SPEECHES TRACTS STATE PAPERS MEMORIALS DEVICES
AND ALL AUTHENTIC WRITINGS NOT ALREADY PRINTED AMONG HIS
PHILOSOPHICAL LITERARY OR PROFESSIONAL WORKS

NEWLY COLLECTED AND SET FORTH

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

WITH A

COMMENTARY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL

BY

JAMES SPEDDING

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER.

1868.

270. e. 238

J. E. TAYLOR AND CO., PRINTERS,

LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

CONTENTS

OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I.

A.D. 1607-8, OCT.-APRIL. ETAT. 47.

1. John Constable, married to a younger sister of Bacon's wife,

knighted at his request (Oct. 5, 1607). Suit made for Mr.

Temple

A LETTER TO MR. MURRAY, OF THE KING'S BEDCHAMBER

2. Flight of Tyrone and Tyrconnel from Ireland

A LETTER TO MR. PERCE, SECRETARY TO THE DEPUTY OF

IRELAND

A LETTER TO SIR JOHN DAVIS, HIS MAJESTY'S ATTORNEY

GENERAL IN IRELAND (Oct. 23, 1607)

3. Increase of Judges' salaries. Fee granted to Bacon. Delays in

the Exchequer

A LETTER OF EXPOSTULATION TO SIR VINCENT SKINNER

(24 Dec. 1607).

4. Conversion of Toby Matthew to the Romish Church. Com-

mitted to custody on his return to England. Allowed to visit

Bacon.

Page

1

5

5

6

7

SIR FRANCIS BACON TO A FRIEND, ABOUT READING AND

GIVING JUDGMENT UPON HIS WRITINGS

8

Matthew refuses to take the oath and is committed to the Fleet

prison

5. Relation between Bacon and Salisbury.

A LETTER TO THE EARL OF SALISBURY, OF COURTESY UPON

A NEW YEAR TIDE

6. Lady Packington (Bacon's wife's mother) and her sons-in-law 13

TO MY LADY PACKINGTON, IN ANSWER OF A MESSAGE BY

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14

16

7. Question whether the Postnati were naturalised by law, argued

before all the Judges in the Exchequer, and settled that they

were.

8. Bacon's views as to the foreign policy of England. His fragment

on the true greatness of Britain

CHAPTER II.

A.D. 1608. JULY. ETAT. 48.

1. Book of private memoranda. General survey of the contents
COMMENTARIUS SOLUTUS, SIVE PANDECTA, SIVE

MEMORIE

TRANSPORTATA EX COMMENTARIO VETERE, July 25

ANCILLA

Ditto, July 26

1. Abuses of informers upon penal laws

THE CERTIFICATE TO HIS MAJESTY TOUCHING

JECTS OF SIR STEPHEN PROCTOR

2. Letters to Salisbury.

TO THE RT. HONBLE. HIS VERY GOOD L. THE L. HIGH

TREASURER OF ENGLAND (Aug. 24, 1608) .

To THE SAME (Oct. 2, 1608)

TO THE SAME

. 107

3. Popish libels against the memory of Queen Elizabeth. Bacon's

memorial of her felicities

110

To SIR GEORGE CARY IN FRANCE UPON SENDING HIM HIS

WRITING IN FELICEM MEMORIAM ELIZABETHÆ

4. Commencement of the colonisation of Ulster. Opinion of the
law officers as to the disposal of confiscated lands

ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS SENT INTO ENGLAND FROM

THE LORD CHIEF BARON OF THE EXCHEQUER IN IRELAND 111

Commissioners appointed to prepare a scheme. Bacon's treatise

A LETTER TO THE KING UPON PRESENTING MY DISCOURSE

TOUCHING THE PLANTATION IN IRELAND

114

CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE PLANTATION IN
IRELAND PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY

Page

. 116

1. Dispute as to the jurisdiction of the Provincial Council of Wales
over the four shires argued by Counsel before the Judges.

Bacon's arguments for the jurisdiction.

2. LETTER TO MR. BOWYER (Feb. 27, 1608)

3. TO THE EARL OF SALISBURY (6 July, 1609)

TO THE SAME (10 Aug. 1609)

TO THE SAME (13 Sept. 1609)

4. TO SIR MICHAEL HICKES (6 Aug. 1609)

5. Progress of the great Instauration.

. 127

. 128

. 129

130

130

131

A LETTER TO MR. MATTHEW, TOUCHING INSTAURATIO MAGNA 132

A LETTER TO MR. MATTHEW, UPON SENDING TO HIM PART

OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA (10 Oct. 1609)

. 137

. 139

140

Death of Sir Thomas Smith. The last letter rewritten.

TO MR. MATTHEW

6. Bishop Andrewes and Cardinal Bellarmin

A LETTER TO THE BISHOP OF ELY, UPON SENDING HIS WRITING

ENTITLED COGITATA ET VISA

7. Bacon's book on the wisdom of the Ancients. Probable motive
for publishing it at this time. Modern views of the meaning
of the old myths

A LETTER TO MR. MATTHEW, UPON SENDING HIM HIS BOOK
DE SAPIENTIA VETERUM (17 Feb. 1610)

8. Bacon invites Isaac Casaubon, then in Paris, to a correspondence 145

A LETTER TO CASAUBON

1. State of the Exchequer. Ordinary income of the Crown insuffi-

cient for its ordinary outlay. Decrease in the value of Subsidies.

Death of the Lord Treasurer and condition of the Treasury.

Salisbury succeeds to the office. His first measures. His de-

vice of the Great Contract .