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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

many wayes And namely to make a Breach between Scotland and England her Majesties Forces were again in the year 1582. by the Kings best and truest Servants sought and required And with the Forces of her Ma●esty prevailed so far as to be possessed of the Castle of Edenborough the principall part of that Kingdome which neverthelesse her Majesty incontinently with all Honour and Sincerity restored After she had put the King into good and faithfull Hands And so ever since in all the Occasions of Intestine Troubles whereunto that Nation hath been ever subject she hath performed unto the King all possible good Offices and such as he doth with all good Affection acknowledge The same House of Cuise under Colour of Alliance during the Raign of Francis the second and by the Support and pract●●● of the Queen Mother who desiring to retain the Regency under her own Hands during the Minority of Charles the ninth used those of ●uise as a Counterpoise to the Princes of the Bloud obtained also great Authority in the Kingdome of France whereupon having raised and moved Civill Warrs under pre●ence of Religion But indeed to enfeeble and depresse the Ancient Nobility of that Realm The contrary Part being compounded of the Bloud Royall and the Greatest Officers of the ●rown opposed themselves onely against their Insolency And to their Aides called in her Majesties Forces giving them for security the Town of New-Haven which neverthelesse when as afterwards having by the Reputation of her Majesties Confederation made their Peace in Effect as they would themselves They would without observing any Conditions that had passed have had it back again Then indeed it was held by force and so had been long but for the great Mortality which it pleased God to send amongst our Men. After which time so far was her Majesty from seeking to sowe or kindle New Troubles As continually by the Sollicitation of her Embassadours she still perswaded with the Kings both Charles the 9th and Hen. the 3d to keep and observe their Edicts of Pacification and to preserve their Authority by the Union of their Subjects which Counsell if it had been as happily followed as it was prudently and sincerely given France had been at this day a most Flourishing Kingdome which is now a Theater of Misery And now in the end after that the Ambitious Practises of the same House of Guise had grown to that Ripeness that gathering further strength upon the weakness and Misgovernment of the said King Hen. 3d He was fain to execute the Duke of Guise without Ceremony at Bloys And yet neverthelesse so many Men were embarqued and engaged in that Conspiracy as the Flame thereof was nothing asswaged But contrarywise that King Hen. grew distressed so as he was enforced to implore the Succours of England from her Majesty Though no way interessed in that Quarrell Nor any way obliged for any good offices she had received of that King yet she accorded the same Before the Arrivall of which Forces the King being by a sacrilegious Iacobine murthered in his Camp near Paris yet they went on and came in good time for the Assistance of the King which now raigneth The Justice of whose Quarrell together with the long continued Amity and good Intelligence which her Majesty had with him hath moved her Majesty from time to time to supply with great Aides And yet she never by any Demand urged upon him the putting into her Hands of any Town or Place So as upon this that hath been said let the Reader judge whether hath been the more Just and Honourable Proceeding And the more free from Ambition and Passion towards other States That of Spain or that of England Now let us examine the proceedings reciproque between themselves Her Majesty at her Comming to the Crown found her Realm entangled with the Wars of France and Scotland her nearest Neighbours which Wars were grounded onely upon the Spaniards Quarrell But in the pursuit of them had lost England the Town of Calice Which from the 21. year of King Edward 3 had been possessed by the Kings of England There was a meeting near Burdeaux towards the end of Queen Maries Raign between the Commissioners of France Spain and England and some Overture of Peace was made But broke off upon the Article of the Res●itution of Callice After Queen Maries Death the King of Spain thinking himself discha●ged of that Difficulty though in ho●our he was no lesse bound to it then before renewed the like Treaty wherein her Majesty concurred so as the Commissioners for the said Princes met at Chasteau Cambra●ssi near Cambray In the proceedings of which Treaty it is true that at the first the Commissioners of Spain for form and in Demonstration onely pretended to stand firm upon the Demand of Callice● but it was discerned indeed that the Kings Meaning was after ●ome Ceremonies and perfunctory Insisting thereupon to grow apart to a ●eace with the French excluding her Majesty And so to leave her to make her own Peace after her People Had made his Wars Which Covert Dealing being politickly looked into her Majesty had reason being newly invested in her Kingdom And of her own Inclination being affected to Peace To conclude the same with such Conditions as she mought And yet the King of Spain in his Dissimulation had so much Advantage as she was fain to do it in a Treaty apart with the Fr●nch whereby to one that is not informed of the Counsels and Treaties of State as they passed it should seem to be a voluntary Agreement of her Majesty whereto the King of Spain would not be party whereas indeed he left her no other choice And this was the first Assay or Earnest penny of that Kings good affection to her Majesty About the same time when the King was sollicited to renew such Treaties and Leagues as had passed between the two Crowns of Spain and England by the Lord Cobham sent unto him to acquaint him with the Death of Queen Mary And afterwards by Sir Thomas Challenor and Sir Thomas Chamberlain successively Embassadours Resident in his Low Countries Who had order divers times during their Charge to make Overtures thereof both unto the King and certain principall persons about him And lastly those former Motions taking no effect By Viscount Montacute and Sir Thomas Chamberlain sent unto Spain in the year 1560 no other Answer could be had or obtained of the King but that the Treaties did stand in as good Force to all Intents as new Ratification could make them An Answer strange at that time but very conformable to his Proceedings since which belike even then were closely smothered in his own Breast For had he not at that time some hidden Alienation of Mind and Design of an Enemy towards her Majesty So wise a King could not be ignorant That the Renewing and Ratifying of Treaties between Princes and States do adde great Life and Force both of Assurance to the parties themselves

nevertheless an extra-ordinary Grace in telling Truth of the Time to come Or as if the Effect of the Popes Curses of England were upon better Ad-vise adjourned to those dayes It is true it will be Misery enough for this Realm whensoever it shall be to leese such a Soveraign But for the rest we must repose our selves upon the good pleasure of God So it is an unjust Charge in the Libeller to impute an Accident of State to the Fault of the Government It pleaeth God sometimes to the end to make Men depend upon him the more to hide from them the clear sight of future Events And to make them think that full of Vncertainties which proveth Certain and Clear And sometimes on the other side to crosse Mens expectations and to make them full of Difficulty and Perplexity in that which they thought to be Easie and Assured Neither is it any New Thing for the Titles of Succession in Monarchies to be at Times lesse or more declared King Sebastian of Portugall before his Journey into Affrick declared no Successor The Cardinall though he were of extream Age and were much importuned by the King of Spain and knew directly of 6. or 7. Competitours to that Crown yet he rather established I know not what Interims then decided the Titles or designed any certain Successor The Dukedome of Ferrara is at this Day after the Death of the Prince that now liveth uncertain in the point of Succession The Kingdom of Scotland hath declared no Successor Nay it is very rare in Hereditary Monarchies by any Act of State or any Recognition or Oath of the People in the Collaterall Line to establish a Successor The Duke of Orleans succeeded Charles the 8th of France but was never declared Successor in his time Monsieur d' Angoulesme also succeeded him but without any Designation Sonnes of Kings themselves oftentimes through desire to raign and to prevent their Time wax dangerous to their Parents How much more Cousens in a more Remote Degree It is lawfull no doubt and Honourable if the Case require for Princes to make an establishment But as it was said it is rarely practised in the Collaterall Line Trajan the best Emperor of Rome of an Heathen that ever was At what time the Emperours did use to design Sucessours Not so much to avoid the Vncertainty of Succession as to the end to have Participes Curarum for the present Time because their Empire was so vast At what Time also Adoptions were in use and himself had been Adopted yet never designed a Successour but by his Last Will and Testament Which also was thought to be suborned by his Wife Plotina in the Favour of her Lover Adrian You may be sure That nothing hath been done to prejudice the Right And there can be but one Right But one thing I am perswaded of that no King of Spain nor Bishop of Rome shall umpire nor promote any Beneficiary or Feodatory King as as they designed to do Even when the Scottish Queen lived whom they pretended to cherish I will not retort the matter of Succession upon Spain but use that Modesty and Reverence that belongeth to the Majesty of so great a King though an Enemy And so much for this Third Branch The Fourth Branch he maketh to be touching the Overthrow of the Nobility And the Oppression of the People wherein though he may percase abuse the Simplicity of any Forreiner yet to an English Man or any that heareth of the present Condition of England he will appear to be a Man of singular Audacity and worthy to be employed in the defence of any Paradox And surely if he would needs have defaced the generall State of England at this time he should in wisdome rather have made some Friarly Declamation against the Excesse of Superfluity and Delicacy of our Times then to have insisted upon the Misery and Poverty and Depopulation of the Land as may sufficiently appear by that which hath been said But neverthelesse to follow this Man in his own steps First concerning the Nobility It is true that there have been in Ages past Noblemen as I take it both of greater Possessions and of greater Command and Sway then any are at this day One Reason why the possessions are lesse I conceive to be because certain Sumptuous Veins and Humours of Expence As Apparell Gaming Maintaining of a kind of Followers and the like Do raign more then they did in times past Another Reason is because Noblemen now a dayes do deal better with their younger Sons then they were accustomed to do heretofore whereby the principall House receiveth many Abatements Touching the Command which is not indeed so great as it hath been I take it rather to be a Commendation of the Time then otherwise For Men were wont factiously to Depend upon Noblemen whereof ensued many Partialities and Divisions besides much Interruption of Iustice while the great Ones did seek to bear out Those that did depend upon them So as the Kings of this Realm finding long since that kind of Commandement in Noblemen Vnsafe unto their Crown and Inconvenient unto their People thought meet to restrain the same by Provision of Lawes whereupon grew the Statute of Reteiners So as men now depend upon the Prince and the Lawes and upon no other A Matter which hath also a Congruity with the Nature of the Time As may be seen in other Countries Namely in Spain where their Grandees are nothing so Potent and so absolute as they have been in Times past But otherwise it may be truly affirmed that the Rights and preheminences of the Nobility were never more duly and exactly preserved unto them then they have been in her Majesties Times The Precedence of Knights given to the younger Sons of Barons No Subpena's awarded against the Nobility out of the Chancery but Letters No Answer upon Oath but upon Honour Besides a Number of other Priviledges in Parliament Court and Countrey So likewise for the Countenance of her Majesty and the State in Lieutenancies Commissions Offices and the like there was never a more Honourable and Gracefull Regard had of the Nobility Neither was there ever a more Faithfull Remembrancer and exacter of all these particular preheminences unto them Nor a more Diligent Searcher and Register of their Pedegrees Alliances and all Memorialls of Honour then that MAN whom he chargeth to have overthrown the Nobility Because a few of them by immoderate Expence are decayed according to the Humor of the time which he hath not been able to resist no not in his own House And as for Attainders there have been in 35 years but Five of any of the Nobility whereof but Two came to Execution and one of them was accompanied with Restitution of Blood in the Children Yea all of them except Westmerland were such as whether it were by Favour of Law or Government their Heirs have or are like to have a great Part of their Possession And so much

and Duties for the most part were common to my Self with him though by design as between Brethren dissembled And therefore most high and mighty King my most dear and dread Soveraign Lord since now the Corner Stone is laid of the mightiest Monarchy in Europe And that God above who hath ever a Hand in brideling the Flouds and Motions of the Seas and of Peoples Hearts hath by the miraculous and universal consent the more strange because it proceedeth from such Diversity of Causes in your comming in Given a Sign and Token of great Happinnesse in the Continuance of your Reign I think there is no Subject of your Majesties which loveth this Island and is not hollow or unworthy whose Heart is not set on fire Not onely to bring you Peace-Offrings to make you propitious But to sacrifice himself a Burnt-Offring or Holocaust to your Majesties Service Amongst which number no Mans Fire shall be more pure and fervent than mine But how farr forth it shall blaze out that resteth in your Majesties Imployment So thirsting after the Happinesse of Kissing your Royal Hand I continue ever To Mr. Faules in Scotland upon the Entrance of his Majesties Reign SIR The Occasion awaketh in me the Remembrance of the constant and mutual good Offices which passed between my good Brother and your Self wherunto as you know I was not altogether a Stranger Though the Time and Design as between Brethren made me more reserved But well doe I bear in minde the great opinion which my Brother whose Judgement I much reverence would often expresse to me of your Extraordinary Sufficiency Dexterity and Temper which he had found in you in the Business and Service of the King our Soveraign Lord This latter bred in me an Election as the former gave an Inducement for me to address my Self to you And to make this Signification of my Desire towards a mutual Entertainment of good Affection and Correspondence between us Hoping that both some good Effect may result of it towards the Kings Service And that for our particulars though Occasion give you the precedence of furthering my being known by good note unto the King So no long time will intercede before I on my part shall have some means given to requite your Favours and to verify your Commendation And so with my loving Commendations good Mr. Faules I leave you to Gods Goodness From Graies Inne the 25th of March. A Letter commending his Love and Occasions to Sir Thomas Challoner then in Scotland upon his Majesties Entrance SIR For our Money matters I am assured you received no Insatisfaction For you know my Minde And you know my Means which now the Openness of the time caused by this blessed Consent and Peace will encrease And so our Agreement according to your time be observed For the present according to the Roman Adage That one Cluster of Grapes ripeneth best besides another I know you hold me not unworhty whose mu●ual Friendship you should cherish And I for my part conceive good hope that you are likely to become an acceptable Servant to the King our Master Not so much for any way made heretofore which in my Judgement● will make no great difference as for the Stuff and Sufficiency which I know to be in you And whereof I know his Majesty may reap great Service And therefore my general Request is that according to that industrious Vivacity which you use towards your Friends you will further his Majesties good Conceit and Inclination towards me To whom words can not make me known Neither mine own nor others but Time will to no Disadvantage of any that shall fore-runn his Majesties Experience by your Testimony and Commendation And though Occasion give you the Precedence of Doing me this special good O●fice yet I hope no long time will intercede before I shall have some means to requite your Favour and acquit your Report More particularly having thought good to make Oblation of my most humble Service to his Majesty by a few Lines I doe desire your loving care and help by your Self or such Means as I referr to your Discretion to deliver and present the same to his Majesties Hands Of which Letter I send you a Copy that you may know what you carry And may take of Mr. Matthew the Letter it Self if you be pleased to undertake the Delivery Lastly I doe commend to your Self and such your Curtesies as Occasion may require this Gentleman Mr. Matthew eldest Sonne to my Lord Bishop of Duresm and my very good Friend Assuring you that any Curtesy you shall use towards him you shall use to a very worthy young Gentleman and one I know whose Acquaintance you will much esteem And so I ever continue A Letter to Mr. Davis then gone to the King at his first Entrance MR. Davis Though you went on the sudden yet you could not goe before you had spoken with your Self to the purpose which I will now write And therefore I know it shall be altogether needless save that I meant to shew you that I was not asleep Briefly I commend my Self to your Love and the well using my Name As well in repressing and answering for me if there be any Biting or Nibling at it in that Place As by imprinting a good Conceit and Opinion of me chiefly in the King of whose favour I make my Self comfortable Assurance As otherwise in that Court And not onely so but generally to perform to me all the good Offices which the Vivacity of your Wit can suggest to your minde to be performed to one with whose Affection you have so great Sympathy And in whose Fortune you have so great Interest So desiring you to be good to concealed Poets I continue A Letter to Mr. Faules 28 Martii 1603. MR. Faules I did write unto you yesterday by Mr. Lake who was dispatched hence from their Lordships a Letter of Revivour of those Sparks of former Acquaintance between us in my Brothers time And now upon the same Confidence finding so fit a Messenger I would not fail to salute you Hoping it will fall out so happily as that you shall be one of the Kings Servants which his Majesty will first employ here with us where I hope to have some means not to be barren in Friendship towards you We all thirst after the Kings Comming accounting all this but as the Dawning of the Day before the Rising of the Sun till we have his Presence And though now his Majestie must be Ianus Bifrons to have a Face to Scotland as well as to England yet Quod nunc instat agendum The Expectation is here that he will come in State and not in Strength So for this time I commend you to Gods Goodness A Letter to Mr. Robert Kempe upon the Death of Queen Elizabeth MR. Kempe This Alteration is so great as you might justly conceive some Coldness of my Affection towards you if you should hear nothing from me I living in this Place It