J. E. TAYLOR AND CO., PRINTERS, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

CONTENTS

OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I.

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EXPOSTULATION

A.D. 1607-8, Oct.-APRIL. ΕΤΑΤ. 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

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.

SIR FRANCIS Bacon TO A FRIEND, ABOUT READING AND

GIVING JUDGMENT UPON HIS WRITINGS

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

prison

To MR. MATTHEW IMPRISONED FOR RELIGION

His banishment

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

TO MY LADY PACKINGTON, IN

MESSAGE BY

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argued

7. Question whether the Postnati were naturalised by law,

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

were.

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

on the true greatness of Britain

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

MEMORIÆ

TRANSPORTATA EX COMMENTARIO VETERE, July 25

Ditto, July 26

Ditto, July 27

Ditto, July 28

Ditto, July 29

Ditto, Aug. 6

Ditto, Oct. 28, 1609

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73

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· 107

1. Abuses of informers upon penal laws

96

THE CERTIFICATE TO HIS MAJESTY TOUCHING THE PRO-

JECTS OF SIR STEPHEN PROCTOR

97

2. Letters to Salisbury.

To THE Rr. HONBLE. HIS VERY GOOD L. THE L. HIGH

TREASURER OP ENGLAND (Aug. 24, 1608).

105

TO THE SAME (Oct. 2, 1608)

· 106

TO THE SAME

106

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

memorial of her felicities

To SIR GEORGE CARY IN FRANCE UPON SENDING HIM HIS

WRITING IN FELICEM MEMORIAM ELIZABETH A

. 109

4. Commencement of the colonisation of Ulster. Opinion of the

law officers as to the disposal of confiscated lands

110

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

of advice.

A LETTER TO THE KING UPON PRESENTING MY DISCOURSE

TOUCHING THE PLANTATION IN IRELAND

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CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE PLANTATION IN

IRELAND PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY

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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 .

. 127

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

. 128

3. To the EARL OF SALISBURY (6 July, 1609)

. 129

TO THE SAME (10 Aug. 1609)

. 130

TO THE SAME (13 Sept. 1609)

. 130

4. To Sir MICHAEL HICKES (6 Aug. 1609)

131

5. Progress of the great Instauration.

A LETTER TO MR. MATTHEW, TOUCHING INSTAURATIO Magna 132

TO THE SAME

134

To THE SAME

135

Redargutio Philosophiarum

136

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

OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA (10 Oct. 1609)

137

Death of Sir Thomas Smith. The last letter rewritten.

To MR. Matthew

. 139

6. Bishop Andrewes and Cardinal Bellarmin

140

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

ENTITLED COGITATA ET VISA

141

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

142
A LETTER TO MR. MATTHEW, UPON SENDING HIM HIS BOOK
DE SAPIENTIA VETERUM (17 Feb. 1610)

144

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

A LETTER TO CASAUBON

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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

148