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Sir Francis Bacon's Journals Sir Francis Bacon’s Journals Also by author In Remembrance (Noble House, 2003) Closing Stages (Noble House, 2004) The Elenpilates Stockpile Workbook (iUniverse publications, 2004) Arrow to the Moon (Selected as a quarterfi nalist in the American Screenwriter Association’s 9th Annual International Screenplay Competition, 2006) Sir Francis Bacon’s Journals The Rarest of Princes Lochithea iUniverse, Inc. New York Lincoln Shanghai Sir Francis Bacon’s Journals The Rarest of Princes Copyright © 2007 by Lochithea All rights reserved. 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ISBN: 978-0-595-46034-2 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-595-90335-1 (ebk) Printed in the United States of America In memory of Sr FRANCIS BACON Lord VERVLAM Vyccount St. ALBANS Ld Chancellor of ENGLAND Signatur ne perdatur MENTE.VIDEBORI He, that concealed things will fi nd, must look before him, and behind —Henry Peacham If Shakespeare wrote these plays, he most probably did so between the years 1586 and 1611; if Bacon wrote them, he most probably did so between the years 1580 and 1607 —W. H. Smith If there was a Shakespeare of earth (as I suspect), there was also one of heaven; and it is of him we desire to know something —Hallam, 1842 Contents Preface/Sir Francis Bacon’s Pardon ....................................................................................xi Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................xvii Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 1 Genesis 1560 (61) his birth to 1584 of the age twenty-three ........................................11 King Of Pleasure 1584 (85) of the age twenty-four to 1590 of the age twenty-nine ...102 Moniti meliora 1591 (92) of the age thirty to 1594 of the age thirty-three ................ 135 The Heart 1595 (96) of the age thirty-four to 1599 of the age thirty-eight ................207 Trials Be Trials 1600 (01) of the age thirty-nine to 1610 of the age fourty-nine ......... 249 Part I ................................................................................................................ 249 Part II ...............................................................................................................309 Trials Be Trials 1611 (12) of the age fi fty to 1616 of the age fi fty-fi ve ........................ 348 Part III ............................................................................................................. 348 Quirinus 1617 (18) of the age fi fty-six to 1622 of the age sixty-one ...........................408 Father Of Salomon’s House 1623 (24) of the age sixty-two to 1625 of the age sixty-four ..........................................................................................483 To Live Twice A Day 1626 of the age sixty-fi ve and the future ...................................514 ix x Sir Francis Bacon’s Journals Epilogue ...................................................................................................................... 559 The Spedding Collection of Baconiana .................................................................... 559 The Northumberland Manuscript .......................................................................... 575 Law Sports at Grey’s Inn ......................................................................................580 Author’s Epilogue .........................................................................................................581 My Lord Verulam’s Death .................................................................................... 581 The Capias Utlagatum ........................................................................................ 587 The Slow Poisoners .............................................................................................. 590 Queen Elizabeth I., Lord Verulam’s Mother .............................................................597 Lord Verulam, The Royal Intelligencer ................................................................... 597 William Shakespeare’s Will & Testament ................................................................ 600 Promus Of Formularies and Elegancies ................................................................... 604 Afterword Baconians/In Memory ....................................................................................617 About the Author ......................................................................................................... 639 Lord Verulam’s Lexicon ................................................................................................. 641 Bibliography Contents/Author’s Library ..........................................................................651 Preface/Sir Francis Bacon’s Pardon I To Sir Humphrey May, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Good Mr. Chancellor, I did wonder what was become of you, and was very glad to hear you were come to court; which methinks, as the times go, should miss you as well as I. I send you another letter, which I writ to you of an old date, to avoid repetition; and I continue my request then to you, to sound the Duke of Buckingham’s good affection towards me, before you do move him in the particular petitions. Only the present occasion doth invite me to desire that his Grace would procure me a pardon of the King of the whole sentence. My writ for Parliament I have now had twice before the time, and that without any express restraint not to use it. It is true that I shall not be able, in respect of my health, to attend in Parliament; but yet I mought make a proxy. Time hath turned envy to pity; and I have had a long cleansing week of fi ve years’ expiation and more. Sir John Bennet hath his pardon; my Lord of Somerset hath his pardon; and, they say, shall sit in Parliament. My Lord of Suffolk cometh to Parliament, though not to Council. I hope I deserve not to be the only outcast. God keep you. I ever rest your most affectionate friend to do you service. I wish you a good new year. Fra. Bacon The above letter was written at the beginning of the New Year 1626, and in contem- plation of the meeting of a new Parliament that met on February 6th. Francis Bacon was well enough to come to London; three months later, he died. The 1622 records of Parliament show that the circumstances of Francis Bacon’s convic- tion encouraged suitors to attempt to get his decrees set aside; that several such attempts were made, but that they all failed; this is strongly suggested by Aubrey: “His decrees in Chancery stand fi rm. There are fewer of his decrees reversed than of any other Chancellor,” and is strongly seen in Francis Bacon’s own words to Buckingham in a letter from the Tower, 31st May, 1621: To the Marquis of Buckingham Good My Lord, procure the warrant for my discharge this day. Death, I thank God, is so far from being unwelcome to me, as I have called for it (as Christian resolution would permit) any time these two months. But to die before the time of his Majesty’s grace, and in this disgraceful place, is even the worst that could be; xi xii Sir Francis Bacon’s Journals and when I am dead, he is gone that was always in one tenor, a true and perfect servant to his master, and one that was never author of any immoderate, no, nor unsafe, no (I will say it) not unfortunate counsel; and one that no temptation could ever make other than a trusty, and honest and thrice loving friend to your Lordship; and howsoever I acknowledge the sentence just, and for reformation sake fi t, the justest Chancellor that hath been in the fi ve changes since Sir Nicholas Bacon’s time. God bless and prosper your Lordship, whatsoever become of me. Your Lordship’s true friend, living and dying. Fra. St Alban. Spedding comments on the letter: “Dr. Rawley, whose affectionate reverence preserved the record, took the precaution to write it in a cipher, and never published or alluded to it in print. It is found in a commonplace book, begun apparently soon after Bacon’s death and containing memoranda of various kind, most of them especially in the earlier part, relating to him and his works. The fi rst few pages are fi lled almost entirely with Apophthegms; two or three of which are written in a kind of simple cipher, the Greek character being used for the consonants, and the fi rst fi ve numerals for the vowels; the rest in Rawley’s usual hand. Opposite to many of them is written, “stet,” with a number affi xed; which means no doubt that they were to be included in the collection of Bacon’s Apophthegms which were afterwards printed in the second edition of the Resuscitatio. At the top of the fi rst page stands this sentence, written in the cipher and not marked or numbered;
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