The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works

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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

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

ANCILLA

1. Abuses of informers upon penal laws

THE CERTIFICATE TO HIS MAJESTY TOUCHING THE PRO-

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) .

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

memorial of her felicities

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TO SIR GEORGE CARY IN FRANCE UPON SENDING HIM HIS

WRITING "IN FELICEM MEMORIAM ELIZABETH E

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
of advice.

A LETTER TO THE KING UPON PRESENTING MY DISCOURSE

TOUCHING THE PLANTATION IN IRELAND.

CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE PLANTATION IN

IRELAND PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY

CHAPTER IV.

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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

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.

A LETTER TO MR. MATTHEW, TOUCHING INSTAURATIO MAGNA 132

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

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OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA (10 Oct. 1609)

Death of Sir Thomas Smith. The last letter rewritten.

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

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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

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

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2. Meeting of Parliament (9 Feb. 1609-10). Conference between

the Houses

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REPORT OF PART OF THE SPEECH MADE BY THE EARL OF

SALISBURY AT THE CONFERENCE OF THE TWO HOUSES, 18TH

FEBRUARY 1609-10

Contribution and Retribution. What the King demanded, and
what he offered in exchange

3. Proceedings of the Commons against Dr. Cowell for unconstitu-
tional doctrines published in a law dictionary. Suppression of
the book by Proclamation

4. Further conferences concerning the Great Contract. Whether
Wards and Tenures were to be part of the retribution

A SPEECH OF THE KING'S SOLICITOR USED UNTO THE LORDS

AT A CONFERENCE BY COMMISSION FROM THE COMMONS;

MOVING AND PERSUADING THE LORDS TO JOIN WITH THE

COMMONS IN PETITION TO THE KING TO OBTAIN LIBERTY

TO TREAT OF A COMPOSITION WITH HIS MAJESTY FOR WARDS

AND TENURES

Liberty to treat granted (March 12).

Offer made by the Commons (March 26)

5. Dilatory proceeding of the Government. Apparent impolicy and

probable motive of it

6. Pretended misunderstandings. Salisbury's new version of the

Government proposal (April 26). Rejected (May 3). Negotia-

tion broken off.

7. Collection of Grievances. Impositions. Message from the King

to the Commons received through the Council

A SPEECH OF THE KING'S SOLICITOR, PERSUADING THE HOUSE

OF COMMONS TO DESIST FROM FURTHER QUESTION OF RE-

CEIVING THE KING'S MESSAGES BY THEIR SPEAKER AND

FROM THE BODY OF THE COUNCIL AS WELL AS FROM THE

KING'S PERSON

Resolved not to receive messages from the Council as messages

from the King, but the resolution not recorded

8. The King warns the Commons not to dispute his power to lay

impositions upon merchandises; though willing to put a limit

upon the exercise of it

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NOTES OF BACON'S SPEECH IN COMMITTEE, ADVISING THEM

NOT TO RAISE THE QUESTION

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Petition of Right presented, graciously received, and granted (May

24).

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9. Assassination of Henry IV., Negotiation of the Great Contract
resumed. Salisbury urges expedition (June 8). Tries to get
a grant of subsidies at once (June 11), but without success 185

10. Debate on Impositions (June 23-July 2)

AN ARGUMENT OF THE KING'S SOLICITOR IN THE LOWER

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT, PROVING THE KING'S RIGHT OF

IMPOSITIONS

11. Conference concerning the Contract. Better offer from the King
(June 26). Petition of Grievances presented (July 7)

Pago

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A SPEECH USED TO THE KING BY HIS MAJESTY'S SOLICI-

TOR, BEING CHOSEN BY THE COMMONS AS THEIR MOUTH

AND MESSENGER, FOR THE PRESENTING TO HIS MAJESTY

THE INSTRUMENT OR WRITING OF THEIR GRIEVANCES

The King offers (July 10) to consent to an Act suspending his

power to impose for the future without consent of Parliament.

Dissatisfaction of the Commons. Grant of one subsidy and

one fifteen (July 11).

12. Great Contract resumed, terms agreed upon (July 17), and me-

morials exchanged (July 21). Answer given to the remaining

Grievances (July 23), and Parliament prorogued till October. 206

Terms of the Contract, as affecting the people, considered

1. Clauses inserted by Bacon in a manuscript copy of Camden's
Annals of Elizabeth.

TO SIR ROBERT COTTON (April 7, 1610)

2. Petition for the new founding of St. John's Hospital in Bedford.
Bacon's report.

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211

TO THE RIGHT HONBLE SIR JULIUS CÆSAR, KNIGHT, CHAN-

CELLOR OF HIS MAJESTY'S EXCHEQUER (Aug. 23, 1610). 215

3. Death of Bacon's mother. Probable condition of her latter years 216

TO SIR MICHAEL HICKES (Aug. 27, 1610) .

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4. A LETTER TO THE KING, UPON THE SENDING UNTO HIM A

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF HIS MAJESTY'S TIME

5. Conference with the Judges concerning certain Proclamations
complained of in the petition of Grievances. Upon their opinion
given, the Proclamations withdrawn (Sept. 24, 1610)

6. Effect of discussion of the Great Contract during the recess.

Loss and gain variously estimated; and both parties afraid of

the result

Parliament meets again (Oct. 16). Conference between the

Houses, by invitation of the Lords (Oct. 25).

True copy

the King's answer to the Petition of Grievances sent for by the

Commons. A resolute and speedy answer whether they would

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proceed with the Contract, required of the Commons by the
King (Oct. 31).
Debate in the House upon the answer to be sent. Provisions
without which the Contract would not be safe for the people
(Nov. 3). Terms demanded by the King (Nov. 5). Refusal
of the Commons to proceed upon those terms (Nov. 9). Ne-
gotiations broken off (Nov. 14).