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same subject, 76; of Bacon, for Essex, to the Queen, see note (a), 77; of Bacon, as from Anthony Bacon, to Essex, and the reply to be shown to the Queen, 79, see note 4 E at the end; of Essex, to the Queen, for a renewal of the patent for sweet wines, 83; of Bacon to the King, upon his accession, 99; to the Earl of Northumberland, to second Bacon's application to the King, 99; to Sir H. Saville, upon education, 109; of Bacon to Sir Edward Coke, upon his unworthy conduct to him in the Exchequer, 143, 144; of Bacon, to Sir J. Constable, dedicating the essay to him, see note, 153; Bacon's, to King James, respecting his appointment as attorney general, see note (b), 154; of Bacon to the King, upon his unconstitutional expedient to raise supplies, see his letter, note (c), 157; of Bacon to the King, respecting Owen's case, 176, see note (a), 178; of Bacon, to Villiers, upon the regulation of his conduct at Court, being an essay on various subjects, 181; of Bacon to Villiers, upon his appointment to the chancellorship, 190; of Villiers to Bacon, upon the regulation of his conduct, note (a), 180; of Bacon to Villiers, upon the dispute between the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery, 186; of Bacon to Villiers, containing Chancellor Brackley's opinion of him, 187; of Bacon to Villiers, respecting a motion to swear him privy councillor, 188; of Bacon to an old clergyman, presenting him to a living, 199; of Bacon to Buckingham, upon his taking his seat as Lord Keeper, showing his contempt for the pomp of office, 217; of Bacon to the King and Buckingham, upon the subject of retrenching the royal expenses, &c., 220; of Buckingham to Bacon, upon his stay of the patents, note (b), 222; of Bacon to Buckingham, showing his sacrifice as a judge to his political feelings, 223; of Bacon to Buckingham, upon Suffolk's case, note, 224; of Bacon, respecting the Dutch merchants, 225; first and second, of Sir H. Mountagu to Buckingham, negotiating for the lord treasurership,

227, 229; of Sir H. Mountagu to Sir Edward Villiers, respecting the treasurership, 229; of Sir H.Villiers, to Buckingham, respecting Sir H. Mountagu's offer for the treasurership, 229; of Bacon, to Buckingham, upon the reform of the King's household, 231; of Bacon, to the King, respecting Bertram's murder of Sir J. Tindal, 239; from Digby to Fermat, describing Bacon's indifference to the charges against him, 314; to the King, from Bacon, desiring the cup may pass from him, 370, note B; to Buckingham, after his fall relying upon his friendship, 380; to Bishop of Winchester from Bacon, 380; first and second, of Bacon to Buckingham, interceding for Lord Clifton, see note, 241. Letters of Bacon, complaining of the virulence of his enemies, 330, 331; to the King, entrusted to Buckingham, 331; from Bacon, in great agony, from the Tower, to Buckingham, 373; of Bacon from the Tower, 382.

Levity, reprehensible, in a judge, note Fuller, 144.

Liberation of Bacon from the Tower,383. Libraries, Bacon's praise of, and of public institutions in general, 7. Lieutenancy, lord, Essex's solicitation of, 45; Bacon's dissuasion of Essex's acceptance of, 47; Essex appointment to, 48.

Life, dangers of retirement from active, see Table of Gondomar, 122. Life and Death, extract from Bacon's

History of, see note (z), 17. Literate experience, see Experience. Literature, the contempt of the Court for, in the time of Bacon, during Burleigh's ascendancy, 25; ancient, the beneficial effects of the study of, upon the mind and character, 129. Locke, extract from, upon the warps

of the understanding, note (a), 272. Lodgings, Lord Bacon's, an elegant

structure built by Bacon, 23. Lord Keeper, presents to Bacon from

the suitors upon his appointment as, 209; Bacon's procession in state to take his seat as, and address to the Bar, 213, 214, 215, 216; Hacket's account of Archbishop William's humility when taking his seat as, 213.

Lord Treasurer, of Gray's Inn, Ba

con's letter to, to be called to the Bar, see note (a), 23. Lords, dissatisfaction of, upon Bacon's letter of submission, 354; the particular charges against Bacon sent to him by, and answers ordered, note (a), 355; Bacon's confession and humble submission to, answering the charges against him, 359; pass sentence upon Bacon, 372. Lumsden, Mr., trial of, see Hollis, Sir J.

MADDOX'S account of presents to judges in the reign of King John, 318. Manchester, Earl of, his observations to Bacon after his fall, 329. Markham, Mr., Bacon's prosecution of, in the Star Chamber, for sending a challenge to Lord Darcy, 189. Market, idols of, warping the mind in

the search after truth, 274. Marriage, Bacon's unsuccessful proposals of, to Lady Hatton, 42, see note 3 N at the end; letter from Essex to Lady Hatton's friends, in favour of Bacon's proposals of, 42, see note 3 N at the end; King James treaty of, with the wily Gondomar, and Bacon's wise counsels against, 218;

of Buckingham with the daughter of Sir Edward Coke, 219. Martial valour, see valour.

Maxima et minima, or extremes in nature sought, 293.

Minima et maxima, or extremes in nature sought, 293. Meautys, Sir Thomas, his speech to the House in favor of Bacon, see note B, 325.

Medical antipathy, see Hunter, note (a) 275.

Meditationes sacræ, first published

with the small 12mo. edition of essays, 35; partly incorporated into the subsequent editions of the essays and the Advancement of Learning, 41. Merchants, Dutch, Bacon's just conduct upon the writs issued against, for exporting gold, 226. Method, Bacon's aversion to, 124. Minute philosopher, see Philosopher. Michell and Mompesson, impeachment of, 308.

Moderns, their superior advantages in the discovery of truth, 136. Mompesson, Sir Giles, and Michell, 308; judgment against, 326.

Monk, Bacon's defence against the charge of bribery in, the money being received after the decree, 361.

Mountague, answer to the charge of, 364.

Montesquieu, extract from, upon the

origin of the custom of presents to the judges in France, 207. More, Sir Thomas, anecdote of, by Bacon, upon his inflexibility to bribery, 205; refusal of presents, 318.

Mother, the great learning of Bacon's, see note (a) 2.

Motives in the search after truth, 277. Music, Bacon's acquaintance with the principles of, 44.

NAPOLEON, anecdote of, illustrating the humility of true greatness, note (b), 201.

Narrative, Bacon's, of the proceedings against Essex before the Privy Council, 71.

Natural History, Bacon's observations upon music in his, 44.

Nature, Bacon's early enquiries into the laws of, 9.

Nature of the work, [see note (a), arrangement, 121], 120; style of, 121.

Nature in motion, observation of, in search after a cause, 290. Negative table, Bacon's plan of discovering truth, 269; Bacon's mode in the search after truth, 286. New Atlantis, extract from, upon the

comparative merits of the statesman, hero, and philosopher, engaged in the impartial investigation of truth, note, 193, 194.

Novum Organum, Bacon's early design of, 9; Bacon's doctrine in, upon the discovery of truth, 62; Bacon's perseverance in, during his political and professional duties, 148; Temporis partus maximusFilum Labyrinthi-Cogitata et visa -detached parts of, collected and arranged by Bacon when a youth, 148; Sir Edward Coke's comment upon, 147; Bacon's abandonment of the completion of, according to his original design, 260; impressive opening of, 265; outline of Bacon's intended great work in, (see Division, 267), 266; preliminary review in, of the barren state of learning,

266; a treatise upon the conduct of the understanding in the discovery of truth, the second part of Bacon's intended great work, 267; division of the work, 269; extract from, upon the idols of the den, 274; extract from, upon the proper motives in the investigation of truth, 277; style of, 297; various editions and translations of, see note B B B at the end; attainment of the right road to truth the object of, 282; extract from, upon eradication of idols, 335.

OPINION, tenacity in retaining the parent of prejudice, 273; formation of, facts the groundwork of, 283. Overbury, Sir Thomas, trial of Weston for the murder of, 182; trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset for the murder of, 184.

Oxford, Gibbon's opinion of, see note (a), 7.

PALEY, extract from, upon the inde-
pendency of a judge, 245.
Pan, table of, 279.
Parentage of Bacon, 1.

Parliament, Bacon's first speech in, upon the improvement of the law, at. 32, 27; Bacon's speech upon the delay of the subsidies, 27; Bacon's eloquence in, 28; Bacon's brilliant career in, 44; 1599, Bacon's exertions and frequent speeches in, 44; Bacon's first session elected for St. Alban's and Ipswich, 106; 1605, Bacon's exertions in, and frequent speeches, 119; 1614, the question as to the eligibility of the attorney-general to sit in, discussed, 148; disturbances in, in consequence of certain rumours respecting a confederacy to control the House, 161; Bacon's exertions in, 155; Bacon's powerful speech in, respecting the absurdity of the alleged confederacy to control the House, 161, see outline in note; dissolution of, in consequence of the King's failure to procure supplies, 1614, 163; 1620, summoning of, advised by Bacon to procure benevolences, 302; King's address to, see note A, 305; adjourned, in the hope of defeating the popular discontent, 327; 1621, meeting of, and allusion to the King's interview with Bacon, 348.

Party, division of the court into the
Cecil and Leicester, 25; Leicester,
Bacon's union with, 26.
Passions, query as to the enquiry into
the nature of, 114.

Patent for Dulwich College, Bacon's
stay of, from the conviction that
education was the best charity, 222.
Patent and latent instances or ob-
servations of extremes in the search
after a nature, 292.
Patents, extract from Bacon's address
to the bar upon his intended caution
with respect to, 214; Bacon's con-
scientious stay of, uninfluenced by
the King's poverty and Bucking-
ham's power, 222; rapacious, con-
trived by Buckingham, 306; re-
called by the King, 326.
Patience, the propriety of, in a good
judge, 250; amiable of Sir M. Hale,
upon interruption, 254.

Patron, Bacon's fitness as a, for the office of Chancellor, from his opinions upon his various duties, see note (a), 199; Bacon's advice to Villiers upon the duties of a, 199; Paley's opinions upon the duty of a, 202; Bacon's high conduct as a, see his appointment of an old clergyman and of the judges, 199, 200. Patronage, church, Bacon's opinions upon the duties of, see his advice to Villiers, 199; Bacon's honorable, of an old clergyman, see his letter, 199; of merit by Bacon and other great men of various ages, from their sympathy with intellect and their consciousness of the miseries resulting from ignorance, 201, 202; Paley's opinion upon the moral duty of impartial, note, 202; Sir Edward Coke and Lord Chancellor Wrottesley's opinions upon the subject of,

199.

Peachum, proceedings against, an old clergyman of 70, for certain treasonable passages in a sermon found in his study, 169; preliminary examination by torture to discover his intentions, 169; letters of Bacon concerning, to the King, 169, 170; private conference, by order of the King, with the judges, respecting the law of his case, 171; Chamberlain's account of his case, see note (b), 177. Pensions, Bacon's endeavour to curtail, note (c), 221.

Perpetuities, the celebrated case of,

argued by Bacon, 1599, æt. 39, 43. Philosopher, minute, extract from, upon the merits of a life devoted to the impartial search after truth, see note, 193, 194; in his study compared to a judge upon the bench, 269.

Philosophy, history, natural and experimental, the groundwork of a sound, 261; of Aristotle, popularity of, in the time of Bacon, at Cambridge, 7; Bacon's contempt of Aristotle's, 8; the pursuit of, Bacon's ultimate object, 25, 26; Bacon's opinion of the proper style of, 124; natural, human, divine, investigation of, in Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 2 book, 133; the superior utility and advantages of a life of, as compared with other pursuits, see note (d) 193, 194; signs of false, 280; causes of the errors of, 280; of Pythagoras, founded upon superstition, 283. Physicians, antipathy of, to improvement, see Hunter, note (a) 275. Plan of a college, Bacon's magnificent, 13, 14, 15.

Paulet, Sir Amias, Bacon's tour to France under the care of, 16. Pleasures, extract from Bacon upon, 150.

Plutarch, extract from, upon the custom of receiving presents from the suitors at Athens, by authority of law, 207. Poetry, parabolical, Bacon's wisdom

of the ancients a species of, 149. Politician, speculations in the field of contemplation frequently injurious to the efforts of, 195; union of contemplation and action in the character of a, incompatible, 195; the selfishness of the mere, 201; Bacon's sacrifice as a judge to his feelings as a, note (d) 223; the character of, irreconcileable with that of the impartial judge, 225. Politicians, objections of, to learning, 127; antipathy of, to improvement, 275.

Politics, Bacon's exertions in the field

of, 155; Burke's opinion upon the
impropriety of a judge's being con-
nected with, 243, see note, Hale's
life, 244.

Popular discontent, 102.
Portrait of Bacon, 17.

Powder of sympathy, Kenelm Digby,

284.

Power, the tendency of, to deprave ordinary minds, 155; its effect upon a great mind, see instance, Sir M. Hale, 155; worldly, contemptible as compared to the advancement of knowledge, 192.

Prejudice, removal of, first division of Bacon's Novum Organum, 269; tenacity in retaining opinion the parent of, 273. Prerogative instances, by which nature sought may be most easily discovered, 290.

Presents, the salary of chancellor composed partly of, from the suitors, 202; custom of receiving, common in the age of Bacon and his predecessors, 203, see note (c); letter to Lord Burleigh from the Bishop of Durham, 203, and note (a) 204, extract from a manuscript in the reign of Henry VI.; by Bacon to the Queen, according to custom upon his application for the solicitorship, 203; anecdotes of Bacon respecting his rejection of, note (b) 205; Sir T. More's inflexibility to, note (b) 205; to the chancellor, the custom common in the reign of Henry VI., note (a) 204; the custom of receiving from the suitors common in all nations approaching civilization, 206, see passage in Plutarch, Homer, Montesquieu, 206, 207; abolition of the custom of receiving, by the Chancellor d' l'Hôpital in France, 206; to Bacon, from the suitors, immediately upon his appointment to the great seal, 209;

to Bacon, according to custom by the suitor's counsel, see Wraynham's, Egerton's, Awbrey's, Hody's, and the apothecaries' causes, 237, 238, 239; advised by counsel, 316; custom to receive, 317; common to all civilized governments, 318; to Lord Bacon, upon accepting the great seal, 319; notes as to, 318, 319; furniture, &c. given openly in the time of Bacon, 334; given after judgment, 335. Prisoners, Sir E. Coke's brutal treatment of, 145; Bacon's mildness to, 153.

Privy Council, Essex's trial before,

upon the republication of his apology, 66.

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QUEEN ELIZABETH, her prediction with respect to Bacon, 21; her appointment of Bacon as her counsel extraordinary, 24; her anger with Bacon upon his speech for the delay of the subsidies, 28-30; Lord Keeper Puckering's misrepresentations to, against Bacon, 30; Bacon's dutiful letter to, upon his disappointment respecting the solicitorship, 31; Bacon's letter to, praying the solicitorship, 32; character of, as shown in Bacon's apology, 45; her dissatisfaction with Essex's administration in Ireland, 49; her reception of Essex upon his return, and her affection for him, 51; letter of Bacon to, respecting her choice of him as counsel against Essex, 64; her choice of Bacon as counsel against Essex, 66; her interview with Bacon after the sentence upon Essex, and her affection for Essex, 71; her letter to Essex respecting the creation of knights in Ireland, see note (b), 76; her disgust at Essex's application for the renewal of the patent for sweet wines, 83; Essex's bitter sarcasms upon, and violence in consequence of her refusal of his suit, 85; her total alienation from Essex, 85; her displeasure with Bacon upon his attempted interference for Essex, 85,

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RALEIGH, Sir W., Sir Edward Coke's

improper treatment of upon his trial, and vulgar invective, see note (c), 146.

Rawley and Tennison, their private

knowledge of Bacon's motives for deserting his defence, 374. Reasoning, worthless unless founded upon facts, 283.

Reform, insisted upon by the people,

103; Bacon's efforts towards general, 138; of the law, Bacon's efforts towards, 138; of the church, Bacon's efforts to promote, 140; see his tracts, 141; of abuses, committees to consider of, 307. Resemblances and differences, observation of, in search after a cause, 295.

Resignation, the duty of, early in a judge, see Hale's Life, note (r),

256.

Results, table of, of natures agreeing with nature sought, 289. Retirement from active life, error of common minds, 122; danger of, 122.

Revolutions, sudden only to the unthinking, 102.

Rex v. Knollys, Holt's, C. J. independent refusal to state the reasons of his judgment in, 249. Reynell and Peacock, charge against Bacon in, rebutted, see note (b) Bacon's defence, 339; answer to the charge of, touching a ring, 365. Riches, not greatness in a state, 117. Russwell, money received from, by Lord Bacon's servant, Hunt, 366.

SAILORS, antipathy of, 275.
Salisbury, Lord, Bacon's letter to, re-
specting his appointment as Attorney
General, see note (b), 154.

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