ABUSES, considered in the Commons

in various committees, 106. Address to the Lords by Bacon, 330, 331, 332.

Advancement of Learning, Bacon's tract upon duty in, 60; division of the work, 125; passage from, on the pleasure of knowledge, 379; see Learning.

Advantages, the several, of learning, 130.

Affirmative table, Bacon's mode in the search after truth, 285; Bacon's plan of discovering truth, 269. Alienation office, posthumous tract by Bacon upon, 43; valuable farm of, granted to Bacon, 258. Alexander, story of, illustrative of the paltriness of human affairs, 155. Ambition, Bacon and Burke's opinions upon the nature of, and high honours, 195.

Ambition, learning the destruction of,

common, 201; the paltriness and selfishness of common, 201. Amendment of the law, Bacon's plan for, 27.

Analysis, of the distempers of learning, see note, 131; of history, see note, 133; of human philosophy, see note, 134.

Ancients, Wisdom of, Bacon's publication, a species of parabolical poetry, 150; see Syren's extract from. Ancients, the high honours conferred upon the authors of inventors, by, note 193.

Anecdotes of Bacon during the charge of bribery, 329.

Anthony Bacon, King James's regard for, 109.

Antipathy, medical, 275; of divines, 275; of politicians, 275; of sailors, of lawyers, 275.

Aphorisms, the favorite style of Bacon,

see Novum Organum, and tract upon universal justice, 123. Apology, Bacon's, characters of the Queen and Essex as shown in, 45; republication of Essex's, and his trial for before the privy council, 66; Essex's, Bacon's witty conversation with Queen Elizabeth, showing her

familiarity with the trial by torture, note (c), 175. Apothecaries and grocers' cause, answer to charge of receiving presents, 367; cause between, see Grocers. Aristotle, popularity of his philosophy at Cambridge, 7; Bacon's aversion to his philosophy, 8.

Atlantis, see Bacon's magnificent plan of a college in, 13, 14, 15. Atterbury, see extract from, upon the contempt of censure in a judge, 247; see independent conduct of Judge Jenkins, 247.

Attorney general, Bacon appointed, 154; Bacon's letters to the King and Lord Salisbury respecting the appointment of, see note (b), 154; Bacon's fitness for the office, 154; the eligibility of, to sit in parliament discussed, 158.

Aubrey, answer to the charge in the case of, 364.

Aubrey and Egerton charge Bacon with bribery, 313.

Aubrey and Bronker, presents to Bacon by Counsel in the cause of and decision against, 238; cause of, absurd charge of bribery against Bacon in, note (b), 238. Augmentis Scientiarum, Bacon's observations upon cyphers in, 17. Autograph, Lord Bacon's, see note (c),

21.

BACON, his tour to France and residence in Poictiers, 17; his work upon cyphers, 17; his meditations upon the laws of sound and imagi nation, see note 17; death of his father, and its influence upon his future life, 19; his aversion to the study of law, the only road with politics open to, 19; his letter to Lord Burleigh, praying his recommendation to the Queen, see note 19; his letter to Lady Burleigh, praying her influence with Lord Burleigh to hasten his suit, see note 20; his admission to Gray's Inn, 21; his perseverance in and works upon the law, 21; his researches in science not diverted by his profes

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sional duties, 22; his popularity at Gray's Inn, 23; his improvement of Gray's Inn gardens and buildings, 23; his autograph there, 21; his promotion to the bench of Gray's Inn, 23; his letter to the Lord Treasurer to be called to the bar, see note 23; his union with the Leicester party, 25; his affection for Essex, 25; his application to Lord Burleigh for an appointment, with an eye to his favorite pursuits, 26; grant of a reversion to, by Burleigh's influence, 26; his first speech upon the improvement of the law, 27; his favorite opinion of the duty of lawyers to strengthen and improve the law, 27; his plan for a digest and amendment of the whole law, 27; his conscientious speech upon the delay of the subsidies and the anger of the Queen, 27; Ben Jonson's opinion of the eloquence of, 28; his application to the Queen for the solicitorship, 28; Essex's intercession for with the Queen respecting the solicitorship, 30; Lord Keeper Puckering's misrepresentations against, to the Queen, 30; his letter to the Queen for the solicitorship, accompanied by a jewel according to custom, 32; his intercession with the Queen upon her dissatisfaction with Essex during his absence in Ireland, 49; his advice to Essex during his confinement, with respect to his management of the Queen, 53; his steady friendship to Essex, 59; his conference with the Queen, and objections to the public proceeding against Essex, 56, 57; chosen counsel against Essex, upon the public proceedings in the Star Chamber, 59; his relative duties to the Queen, to Essex, and to himself, upon her order as to his being counsel against Essex, 59, 60, 61; his admiration and friendship for Essex, 59; his motives for acceding to the Queen's order with respect to Essex, 64; his letter to the Queen upon the subject, 64; his application to King James upon the death of the Queen, 98; knighted by King James, his opinion of the honour, 99; Lady Bacon, first mention of, by, 102; his first session, elected for both St. Albans and Ipswich, 106; his exer

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tions, sat on twenty-nine committees, 107; nominated by the House to attend privy counsels, upon the abuses complained of, and report thereon, 107; appointed a mediator between the Commons and Lords, 107; address to the King not resented by him, 108; appointed King's counsel, with a pension, 108; his love of knowledge unchecked by politics, 109; his letter to Sir H. Saville upon education, 109; his tract upon the intellectual powers, 111; his arrangement of knowledge respecting the body, 111; his work upon the greatness of Britain, 114; his legal and political exertions, 119; his publication of the advancement of learning, 120; his aversion to method, 124; his low estimate of the study of words, 129; his observations in his advancement upon the advantages of learning, and the distempers of learning, see analysis, note, 131; his essay upon government, extract from, 131; his investigation of philosophy, (in the second book of his advancement), divine, natural, and human, 133; see analyses of history and man, 133, 134; his beautiful and happy illustration of his subjects, 135; his exertions to improve the law, 138; his exertions to improve the condition of Ireland, and tract upon, 137, 138; his endeavours to promote the union with Scotland, and speeches upon, 139, 140; his exertions to promote church reform.-See his tracts upon the subject, 141; appointed solicitor-general upon Coke's promotion, 142; his quarrel with Sir Edward Coke (nd) and letter of expostulation, 143; his reproof of Sir Edward Coke's cruel treatment of prisoners, 145; his encouragement of merit upon his promotion to the solicitorship, 147; his improvement of the law, 147; see note C C at the end; his perseverance in the Novum Organum during his political and professional labours, 147; his composition of detached parts of the Novum Organum in his youth, 147; his publication of the wisdom of the ancients, 148; his appointment as judge of a new court to extend the jurisdiction of the Marshalsea, 151;

BACONhis protest against capital punishment, 151; his argument against the legality of the foundation of the Charter-house, 151; his publication of a new edition of the essays, 152; his prosecution of Lord Sanquhar on behalf of the Crown, and his great mildness, 153; his letter to Šir J. Constable, dedicating the essays to him, see note, 153; his appointment to the office of attorneygeneral, 154; his letter to Lord Salisbury and to the King, respecting the appointment, see note (b), 154; his general, legal, and politi. cal knowledge and fitness for the office, 154; his political exertions, 155; his great lenity as public prosecutor, see note (b), 155; his opinions upon severe punishments, 156; his work for compiling and amending the laws, 156; his advice to the King upon his unconstitutional expedient to raise supplies, see his letter, note (c), 157; his tract upon duelling, see note (a), for the mischief, cause, and origin of, 159; his powerful speech upon the absurdity of the supposed confederacy to control the House of Commons, see outline in note, 162; his speech against Mr. O. St. John, upon his trial for the publication of a letter reflecting upon the King's demand of presents, see outline in note, 165; bis prosecution, as attorney-general, of Mr. Peacham, Mr. Owen, and Mr. Talbot, for high treason, 167, 168; his letters to the King respecting Peacham's case, 169, 170; his private conference with Sir Edward Coke upon the law of Peacham'scase, and removal of his scruples upon his objection, 171, 172; Judge Foster's hasty censure upon his conduct in Peacham's case, 173; his vigorous advances, in the teeth of prejudice, in the advancement of knowledge, 175; his real opinions as to Peacham's case, 175; his witty conversation with Queen Elizabeth concerning Essex's apology, showing her acquaintance with the torture, note (c), 175; his reprobation of the custom of importuning the judges, 176; his letter to the King respecting Owen's case, 176; letter to the King respecting his case, see note (a), 178; speech

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against, for high treason, see note (b), 178; his speeches upon Owen and Talbot's trials for high treason, see notes (b) and (c), 178; Villiers's friendship for, 180; his letter to Villiers, with directions for the regulation of his conduct at court, 181; his speech upon the prosecution of Sir J. Hollis, Mr. Lumsden, and Sir J. Wentworth, respecting the Earl and Countess of Somerset's case, 184; his temperate speech upon the trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 185; his letter to Villiers respecting the dispute upon the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, 186; his letter to Villiers alluding to Chancellor Brachley's opinion of his powers, 187; his letter to Villiers respecting a motion to swear him Privy Councillor, 187; his appointment as Privy Councillor, 188; his prosecution of Mr. Markham in the Star Chamber for sending a challenge to Lord Darcy, 189; his appointment as Chancellor by the King with four admonitions, 189 his letter to Villiers upon his appointment as Chancellor, 190; his motives in accepting office, 191; his fitness for the office of Chancellor as a lawyer, a judge, a statesman, and patron, 197}; his essays upon the duties of a judge, 198; his letter to an old clergyman presenting him to a living. 199; his conscientious appointment of judges, 200; anecdotes respecting his rejection of presents, note (b), 205; presents to, from the suitors upon his being appointed Lord Keeper, 209; appointed head of the council about a week after his creation as Lord Keeper, 211; his constant communication with Buckingham during the King's progress, 213; his procession in state to Westminster as Lord Keeper, and address to the bar, 213, 214, 215, 216; his contempt for the pomp office, see letter to Buckingham, 217; his opposition to Buckingham's marriage, and quarrel in consequence, 219; his reconciliation with Buckingham, 220; his attempt to retrench the royal expences, see letters to the King and Buckingham,

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221; his conscientious fulfilment of the office of Lord keeper in the staying of grants and patents, 222; appointed Lord High Chancellor and Barron of Verulam, 223; his just conduct with respect to the Dutch merchants, 225; his letter respecting the Dutch merchants, 225; his letter to Buckingham respecting the reform of the King's household, 231; his unprecedented exertions as Chancellor, 232; his warning to Buckingham upon his interference with causes, 233; his letter to the King respecting Bertram's murder of Sir J. Tindal, 239; his letters to Buckingham, interceding for Lord Clifton, note (r), 241; his opinion upon the duty of a judge to resist bribery, 245; his structure of a house of retirement at Verulam, 257; his patent for converting Lincoln's Inn Fields into gardens, 257; his delight in the pleasures of nature, see his Essay on Gardens, 257; Alienation Office and York House granted to Bacon, 258; his abandonment of the completion of the Novum Organum according to his original design, 260; his aversions to system, 270; created Viscount St. Alban, 303; contempt of the charges against him, see his speech in the committee, note, 315; defended against the charge of bribery, 316; presides for the last time in the House of Lords, 320; his written address to, upon the charge of bribery, 320; his state of mind during the enquiries against him, various accounts, 328; anecdotes of, during the enquiries against him, 329; his letters of complaint of the virulence of his enemies, 330, 331; his preparations for his defence, 333; his sentiments respecting the custom of receiving presents, 334; imagined defence of, 336; his interview with the King respecting the charge against him, 344.-See entry in the journals of the House of Lords, 246; his letter to the King, thanking him for his interview, note (a), 349; his letter of submission and supplication to the Lords (first submitted to the King and Buckingham, 349), 351; his defence against the several charges of bribery communicated to

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him by the Lords, 359, et seq.; his confession and humble submission to the Lords answering the charges against him, 359; the Lords' dissatisfaction with, upon his letter of submission, and the particular charges against him sent to by, 354; deserts his defence after conference with the King, 372; grief at being compelled to desert his defence, 372; his letter to the King, defending himself from the charge of bribery, 373; his love of knowledge the ruling passion, see note (b), 378; his letter to the Bishop of Winchester upon his retirement, 380; sent to the Tower, 382; his letters from the Tower, 382; his liberation and retirement to Gorhambury, 383.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, Bacon's father, 1. Baconiana, extract from, exposing the absurdity of the charges against Buckingham with respect to the Chancellor Egerton, and his supposed enmity to Bacon, note (b), 209.

Bar, Bacon's call to the, see letter in

note (a) to the Lord Treasurer of Gray's Inn, 23; the duty of a judge to the, 254.

Barker and Hill, present to Bacon in,

after decree rebutting bribery, note (c) 339; refutation of charge in, 367. Barometer, Bacon's invention of a, 34. Beccaria, his opinions upon the trial by torture, see note, 164.

Benevolences, parliament summoned

to raise, in the King's distresses, 302. Ben Jonson, his opinion of Bacon's eloquence, 28, 199; Bacon's friend and translator of his essays, 39; a bricklayer, see anecdote of, note (e) 257; his ode in honour of Bacon's birthday, 259.

Bertram, his murder of Sir F. Tindal,

a Master of the Court, see Bacon's account and letter to the King respecting, 239, see note, 240.

Birth and parentage of Bacon, 1. Bodley, Sir T., his opinion of Bacon's

views in his Cogitata et Visa, 148. Brackley, Lord Chancellor, death of, 189; his opinion of Bacon's powers, see note (c), 187. Bribery, absurd charges of, against Bacon, in Fisher and Wraynham, Hody and Hody, Egerton and Egerton, Awbrey and Brenker, and the