Palmer, at the Crown in Westminster-Hall, withis
“ a preface by one Griffithe I have the book ; and
" the preface is mentioned in the title page, but is
: wanting. Lootus OSTEOTAQ o

om
0020 sxselt I am your assured friend,

50 kaina Tamac 500D 13:00 T. TENISON.

66 "If more sheets of Dr. Spencer's are done, pray send them.

" For Mr. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London.

Cum oii7

The other letter of which I have a copy taken by :3 the late Richard Rawlinson, LL.D. from bishop Tanner's manuscripts, in Christ-Church;. Oxford, Vol. XXXV. p. 152, was addressed to archbishop Sancroft in these terms :

doo “ May it please your Grace. “ I have received your grace's letter touching my

HAVE « course of preaching in Lent, which I shall be « ready, God assisting me, to do my duty at that

1 “ time according to my poor talent. tlour care

" I did forget on Tuesday to acquaint your grace; " that I had, by a strange providence, lately found *** « “ « out in this town a great many original papers of " the lord Bacon. When I have looked over them

hay 66 and sorted them, I will be bold to present your grace a catalogue of them. They came to

with " me from the executor of the executor of Sir Thomas

HOL “ Meautys, who was his lordship's executor. Amongst “ his lordship’s papers are letters from king James, 66 “ the queen of Bohemia, count Gondomar, and

,

)

others. Amongst his dordship's own letters, there

* is one in Latin to Isaac Casaubon. * Heneage Finch, earl * « One just now come from my lord Chancellor's ** of Notting. 66 assured me he was not indeed dead, but just

dying. day of the letter, aged

66 I am your Grace's most obliged servant, Decemb. 18, 1682.

66 T. TENISON."

died on the 66

date of this

61 years.

The reason of the rule, which I prescribed to my. self in the former edition, of publishing only what was new, not subsisting in the present, which forms a part of a complete collection of the author's writ. ings, I have inserted in it such letters from and to him, as I had published in 1754 in the Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

London, January 1, 1765.

This letter seems to

ten to Mr.

while he was upon

MR. FRANCIS BACON TO MR. ROBERT CECIL* * From the

original

draught in 16 SIR,

the library

of Queen's I am very glad, that the good affection and friend. College

,

Oxford. ship, which conversation and familiarity did knit be- Arch. D. 2. tween us, is not by absence and intermission of $0

Ociety discontinued; which assureth me, it had a far- be of a

early date, ther root than ordinary acquaintance. The signifi- and to have cation whereof, as it is very welcome to me, so it been writmaketh me wish, that, if you have accomplished Rob. Cecil, yourself, as well in the points of virtue and experience, which you sought by your travel, as you have his travels. won the perfection of the Italian tongue, I might

I have the contentment to see you again in England, that we may renew the fruit of our mutual good will; which, I may truly affirm, is, on my part, much increased towards you, both by your own demonstration of kind remembrance, and because I discern the like affection in your honourable and nearest friends.

Our news are all but in seed; for our navy is set forth with happy winds, in token of happy adventures, so as we do but expect and pray, as the husbandman when his corn is in the ground.

Thus commending me to your love, I commend you to God's preservation.

MR. FRANCIS BACON TO THE EARL OF ESSEX *.

* Among the papers of Antony Bacon, Esq. vol. III.

the Lambeth li

My Lord, fol. 14, in I did almost conjecture by your silence and coun

tenance a distaste in the course I imparted to your brary. lordship touching mine own fortune; the care whereof

in your lordship as it is no news to me, so nevertheless the main effects and demonstrations past are so far from dulling in me the sense of any new, as contrariwise every new refresheth the memory of many past. And for the free and loving advice your lordship hath given me, I cannot correspond to the same with greater duty, than by assuring your lordship, that I will not dispose of myself without your allowance, not only because best wisdom in any man in his own , in the wisdom of a friend (for who can by often looking in the glass discern and judge so well of his own favour, as another, with whom he converseth?) but also because my affection to your lordship hath made mine own contentment inseparable from your satisfaction. But, notwithstanding, I know it will be pleasing to your good lordship, that I use my liberty of replying; and I do almost assure myself, that your lordship will rest persuaded by

e answer of those reasons,
which your lordship vouchsafed to open. They were
two, the one, that I should include ***
1593, April.

TO
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oric MR. FRANCIS BACON TO SIR JOHN PUCKERING,

☺ LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL(a).

My Lord, It is a great grief unto me, joined with marvel, that her majesty should retain an hard conceit of my

(a) Harl. MSS. Vol. 286. No. 129. fol. 232.

speeches in parliament (a). It might please her sacred majesty to think what my end should be in those speeches, if it were not duty, and duty alone. I am not so simple, but I kpow the common beaten way to please. And whereas popularity hath been objected, I muse what care I should take to please many, that take a course of life to deal with few. On the other side, her majesty's grace and particular

i favour towards me hath been such, as I esteem no worldly thing above the comfort to enjoy it, except it be the conscience to deserve it. But if the not seconding of some particular person's opinion shall be presumption, and to differ upon the manner shall be to impeach the end ; it shall teach my devotion not to exceed wishes, and those in silence. Yet nota withstanding, to speak vainly as in grief, it may be her majesty hath discouraged as good a heart, as ever looked toward her service, and as void of self-love. And so in more grief than I can well express, and much more than I can well dissemble, I leave your lordship, being as ever,

2. Your lordship's intirely devoted, &c.

* Among the papers of Antony

Bacon, Esq. huolto vol. III.

fol. 186, in

MR. FRANCIS BACON TO ALDERMAN JOHN

SPENCER*

CRES Mr. Alderman Spencer (), THOUGH I be ready to yield to any thing for my the Lambrother's sake, so yet he will not, I know, expect, no beth

lipor permit me, that I should do myself wrong.

For

brary. (a) On Wednesday the 7th of March, 1595, upon the three subsidies demanded of the house of commons; to which he assented, but not to the payment of them under six years, urging the necessities of the people, the danger of raising public discontentment, and the setting of an evil precedent against themselves and their posterity. See Sir Simonds D'Ewes's Journals, p. 493. He sat in that parliament, which met November 19, 1592, and was dissolved 10 April, 1593, as one of the knights of the shire for Middlesex.

(b) Sir John Spencer, lord mayor of London in 1594. His vast fortune came to his only daughter, Elizabeth, married to William lord Compton, created earl of Northampton, in August 1618.