Personal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers

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The Questions proposed for Illustration
9
Careers of his chief Political Contemporaries
10
His chief Legal Contemporaries
11
Popular Demand for her Execution
12
CHAPTER II
13
Moral Beauty of his Early Life
14
Session of 1589 Bacons Speech on Subsidies
15
The Bacon Household Lady Ann and her two Sons
16
The Brothers at Grays Inn Square 18
18
25
25
29
27
formed 138
31
Sir Nicholas Bacon Dealings with the Jews
33
A Queens Ward
34
The Brothers set up a Coach Lady Anns Objections to it
37
Raleigh proposes a Compromise 25 Defeat of the Government
38
THE EARL OF ESSEX 1 A Candidate for Office
47
Anthony and Francis enter the Earls Service
58
Essexs Patch of Meadow
76
LETTERS BY THE EARL OF ESSEX
84
News from Cadiz
89
Session of 1597 Bacon Member for Ipswich
101
THE IRISH PLOT 1 Roman Catholic Conspiracy at Essex House
109
Plan of the Plotters
110
Irish Insurrection
111
Movement of English Troops
112
Essex gains the Command
113
Edward Coke
114
Catherine Carey Her Grandson Robert Devereux Earl of Essex
115
The Jesuits approve the Plot
116
Roman Catholics in Command
117
Lord Southampton
118
Essex confers with ONeile
119
Shakespeares Richard the Second Essex arrested
121
Essex deserted by all save Bacon
123
Bacons Generosity
124
Bacon ignorant of Essexs real Crimes
125
Intercedes with the Queen
126
Haywards seditious Tract
127
Scandals against Queen Elizabeth 47
128
Essex liberated The Queens Pledge
129
CHAPTER VI
132
Catesby Wright and Winter
133
Proposal to assassinate the Queen
134
Points of Thomass Confession
135
The Secret kept
136
Attempt on Raleigh
137
Elizabeth at Whitehall
139
Essex put on Trial
141
Bacons Speech
142
Essex confesses against his Accomplices
145
Elizabeths Gifts to Bacon
146
Mysterious Escape of Monteagle from Justice
148
Contemporary Opinions Double Elections for Ipswich and St Albans
150
CHAPTER VII
152
Bacon and the New Court
153
The Session of 1604 Election of Speaker
154
Grievances of the Commons Union with Scotland
155
Bacons Position in the House
157
Lord Campbells Errors
158
Alice Barnham
159
Alice Barnhams Mother and Sisters
160
Sir John Pakington
161
Westwood Park
164
Bacon in Love
165
The Powder Plot
166
Bacons Tolerance Case of Tobie Mathews
168
Sir John and the Ladies in London
169
Differences between Sir John and Bacon Bacons Political Views
171
Cecil consults him on the MoneyBills
174
Warm Debate on Subsidies
175
Bacons Fears of a Division
176
Bacon to Cecil March 22 1606
177
CHAPTER VIII
190
Cecils Riches and Prosperity
191
Bacons ceremonial Politeness with his Cousin
192
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193
Sir John Pakingtons Quarrel with Lord Eure
195
Bacon argues against Pakington
196
Bacon one of the Founders of America
197
Spanish Designs against Virginia Fleet under Gates and Summers
198
The City of Raleigh
200
Crown Privileges for Sale
201
Coke against Bacon
202
Bacons Speech on the Feudal Burdens
203
Death of Cecil Bacons Answer to James
204
Bacon proposed for Secretary of State
205
Court of Wards
206
Wards and Liveries
207
Sir Arthur Chichesters Government
208
Irish Members in London Bacons Advice
210
Bacon made AttorneyGeneral Coke indignant
212
A new Session Bacon returned for Cambridge Ipswich and St Albans Sits for Cambridge
213
Curious Debate on these Elections Vast Popularity of the AttorneyGeneral
215
CHAPTER IX
218
St John sent to the Tower
220
His amazing Abjectness
221
Lord Campbells Mistakes
223
The Case of Peacham
224
His infamous Character
225
Difficulty suggested by Hallam Peacham libels his Bishop
226
Condemned by Archbishop Abbott
227
Discovery of his Political Libels
228
Commission of Examination
229
Question by Torture
231
Character of the Age
233
Bacon opposed to Judicial Torture
234
Peachams Condemnation
235
Confession
236
Macaulays Assertion on the Practice of consulting the Judges
238
The Precedent of Legate
239
Charge against Paulett abandoned
240
Character and Policy of Somerset
241
Bacon pleads for Clemency
247
Bacons Efforts to save them Cokes Animosity
253
The Judges on their Trial
259
Bacon sick His Remarks on the Accusation Declaration
266
Bacon receives the Seals
267
Egerton opposes the Patent to Mompesson
275
Bacon refuses Lady Buckinghams Request for Warrants
281
Desire to change the System
300
Suffolk prosecuted and ruined
302
Prosecuted in Star Chamber
304
Yelverton Condemned
305
Montagu becomes Treasurer
306
Character of Cranfield
307
His Ambition and Unscrupulousness
308
Lady Buckinghams Lover John Williams
309
The Confederacy against Bacon
311
John Churchill
312
The New Session
313
CHAPTER XIII
314
Agitation in England
316
Bacon proposes Reform
317
Preliminaries of the Session
318
Writs go out James alarmed by the Elections
323
Coke heads the Fanatics
324
Bacons Tolerance unpopular
325
Coke takes advantage of it
326
Quarrel of Scrope and Berkshire Bacon offends Lady Buckingham
327
Cranfield attacks the Chancery
328
Aubrey and Egertons Cases brought forward
330
Bacons Proposals
336
Ley delivers Sentence
343
EXTRACTS FROM THE PRIVY COUNCIL REGISTERS VIII REPORT BY BACON AND OTHERS TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL
424

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Página 340 - I stopped at the seal, I never took penny for any commission or things of that nature, I never shared with any servant for any second or inferior profit.
Página 144 - I have never yet seen in any case such favour shown to any prisoner; so many digressions, such delivering of evidence by fractions, and so silly a defence of such great and notorious treasons. May it please your Grace, you have seen how weakly he hath shadowed his purpose and how slenderly he hath answered the objections against him. But, my Lord, I doubt the variety of matters and the many digressions may minister occasion of forgetfulness, and may have severed the judgments of the Lords; and therefore...
Página 340 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
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Página 53 - I hope your ladyship will think and accept of it accordingly : beseeching you to believe that being so near and dear part of me as he is, ' that cannot but be a grief unto me to see a mind that hath given so sufficient proof of wit (?) in having brought forth many good thoughts for the general to be overburdened and cumbered with a care of clearing his particular estate.
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Página 344 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Página 71 - Crown on a rent of seven pounds ten shillings a year, payable at the feasts of St. Michael the Archangel, and of the Annunciation of the Virgin.
Página 252 - For it is much more likely we have occasion to receive you being cast off, if you remember what is passed.

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