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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

the utmost of my wits and adventure my fortune with the Queen to have reintegrated his and so continued faithfully and industriously till his last fatal impatience for so I wil call it after which day there was not time to work for him though the same my affection when it could not work on the subject proper went to the next with no ill effect towards som others who I think do rather not know it then not acknowledge it And this I will assure your Lordsh I wil leave nothing untold that is truth for any enemy that I hav to add on the other side I must reserve much which makes for me in many respects of duty which I esteem above my credit and what I have here set down to your Lordsh I protest as I hope to have any part in God's favour is true It is well known how I did many years since dedicate my travels and studies to the use and as I may tearm it service of my Lord of Essex which I protest before God I did not making election of him as the likeliest mean of mine own advancement but out of the humor of a man that ever from the time I had any use of reason whether it were reading upon good books or upon the example of a good father or by nature I loved my Country more then was answerable to my fortune and I held at that time my L. to be the fitter instrument to do good to the State and therefore I applied my self to him in a manner which I think hapneth rarely among men for I did not onely labour carefully and industriously in that he set me about whether it were matter of advice or otherwise but neglecting the Queens service mine own fortune and in a sort my vocation I did nothing but advise and ruminate with my self to the best of my understanding propositions and memorials of any thing that might concern his Lordships honor fortune or service And when not long after I entred into this course my brother Mr. Anthony Bacon came from beyond the Seas being a Gentleman whose ability the world taketh knowledge of for matters of State specially forraign I did likewise knit his service to be at my L ds disposing And on the otherside I must and will ever acknowledge my Lords love trust and favour towards me last of all his liberality having infeofed me of land which I sold for eighteen hundred pounds to Master Reynold Nicholas and I think was more worth and that at such a time and with so kinde and noble circumstances as the manner was as much as the matter which though it be but an idle digression yet because I am not willing to be short in commemoration of his benefits I will presume to trouble your Lordship with the relating to you the manner of it After the Queen had denied me the Solicitors place for the which his Lordship had been a long and earnest sutor on my behalf it pleased him to come to me from Richmond to Twicknam Park and brake with me and said Mr. Bacon the Queen hath denied me the place for you and hath placed another I know you are the least part of your own matter but you fare ill because you have chosen me for your mean and dependance you have spent your time and thoughts in my matters I die these were his very words if I do not somewhat towards your fortune you shall not deny to accept a peece of Land which I will bestow upon you My answer I remember was that for my fortune it was no great matter but that his Lordships offer made me call to minde what was wont to be said when I was in France of the Duke of Guise that he was the greatest usurer in France because he had turned all his Estate into obligations meaning that he had left himself nothing but onely had bound numbers of persons to him Now my Lo. said I I would not hav you immitate his course nor turn your state thus by great gifts into obligations for you wil find many bad debtors He bad me take no care for that pressed it whereupon I said my Lor. I see I must be your homager and hold land of your gift but do you know the manner of doing homage in law Alwaies it is with a saving of his faith to the King and his other Lords and therefore my L. said I I can be no more yours then I was and it may be with the ancient savings and if I grow to be a rich man you will give me leave to give it back to some of your unrewarded followers But to return sure I am though I can arrogate nothing to my self but that I was a faithful remembrance to his Lordship that while I had most credit with him his fortune went on best And yet in two main points we alwaies directly and contradictorily differed which I will mention to your Lordship because it giveth light to all that followed The one was I ever set this down and that the onely course to be held with the Queen was by obsequiousness observance and I remember I would usually engage confidently that if he would take that course constantly and with choise of good particulars to express it the Queen would be brought in time to Assuerus question to ask What should be done to the man that the King would honour meaning that her goodness was without limit where there was a true concurrence which I knew in her nature to be true My Lord on the otherside had a setled opinion that the Queen could be brought to nothing but by a kinde of necessity and authority and I will remember when by violent courses at any time he had got his will he would ask me Now Sir whose principles be true And I would again say to him My Lord these courses be like to hot waters they will help at a pang but if you use them you shall spoil the stomack and you shall be fain still to make them stronger and stronger and yet in the end they will less their operation with much other variety wherewith I used to touch that string Another point was that I alwaies vehemently disswaded him from seeking greatness by a military dependance or by a popular dependance as that which would breed in the Queen jealousie in himself presumption and in the State perturbation and I did usually compare them to Icarus two wings which were joyned on with wax and would make him venture to soar too high and then fail him at the height And I would further say unto him My Lord stand upon two feet and fly not upon two wings The two feet are the two kinds of Justice Commutative and Distributive use your greatness for advancing of merit and vertue and relieving wrongs and burdens you shall need no other art or fineness but he would tell me that opinion came not from my minde but from my robe But it is very true that

that year no great or heavy punishment was laid upon her Popish Subjects by the Lawes precedent but now the vast projects and ambitions of Spain for subduing of this Kingdom began to be detected whereof a principal part was that a new fangled Faction should be raised in the bowels of this State which should not onely be ready to receive a forraign invader but also under pretence of the Roman Religion and power of the Popes Bull should absolve her Subjects from their Faith and Allegiance and prepare their Spirits for dangerous innovasions About that time Ireland was assaulted with open Armes scandalous Libels were cast out against the fame and government and the Queen and all things seemed to swell up in presage of greater motions I would rather think that many of the Preists were made wicked instruments of other mens malice then that all were privy to their Councel yet this is true and verified by sundry confessions That almost all the Priests that were sent over into this Kingdom from the three and twentieth to the thirtieth of this Queens raign in which year that Popish and Spanish design was put in execution had private instructions to divulge abroad that this Estate could stand thus no longer that within a while they should see a new face of things and notable alterations That the good of England was cared for by the Pope and popish Princes if they would not be wanting to themselves yea some of the Priests were manifestly found guilty of those Plots and Machinations which tended to the subversion of the State And that which moved most the carriage of their secret Councels was disclosed by letters intercepted importing that all the watchfulness of the Queen and Councel over the Papists would be utterly deluded for albeit they laboured much that no man of note or nobility should be head of the Faction yet a course was taken to effect the work by men of meaner and inferiour rancks whose mindes though they knew not one another should be linked together by secret confessions without need of Assembly Such arts were then used and of late in a case not unlike resumed which it seems are familiar with those men Thus clangor approaching like a storme put a Law of necessity upon the Queen It being now high time that such part of her subjects as were estranged from her love impoisoned without hope of cure and yet grew rich withall in a private life which freed them from publick charge should be kept under and restrained with Lawes of a more heavy nature The course of all this misery still increasing was imputed to the Priests who carried into forraign Countries and fed by the crums of stranger Princes professed enemies to this State were brought up onely in such places where the name of the Queen their Soveraign was never heard of but as an heretick and excommunicate person torn with curses and excommunications If these men were not inticed with treacherous designes they were surely known to be familiar with such as were who with the venom of their arts had pernitiously depraved the minds of many Papists and sowred their whole Lump with a new malignant livery which was sweeter and less timerous before Now therefore no safer reremedy could be found then to debar these unnatural men from all entrance into this Kingdom which was likewise decreed under penalty of their lives in the seven and twentieth of her raign Not long after when the tempest rose and fell upon this land the event well declared what love remained in these mens brests towards their dearest Country for so were they blinded with hate and envy that they rested neither night nor day binding themselves with Vowes and Sacraments to bring it into bondage of a forraign Enemy Hereupon albeit the clouds of Spain which caused this severity were blown over and vanished yet the remembrance of danger passed struck deep in the mindes of men and because it would have been accounted levity to have repealed those Lawes and unfaithfulness to neglect them once established The Queen was so drawn with weight of affairs that it was no more in her power to set them in that former estate wherein they were before in the twenty third of her raign Hereunto may be added that although there was not wanting the industry of divers Ministers to increase her exchequer and justice of others to urge exemption of the Lawes wherein they onely saw the publike safety to consist yet constant to her natural clemency she debated the keenness of their edge that the Priests who suffered death were very few in regard of their exceeding number These things I rehearse not as points of her defence this cause needeth no justification whereas both the safety of this Kingdom required no less and the whole course of this severity fell far short of the bloody examples amongst the Papists which rather flowed from pride and malice then any necessity But I am not forgetful of my first affection having by this time sufficiently shown that this Prince was moderate in cause of Religion and if any sharpness happened therein that it proceeded not from her nature but from the iniquity of the times Of her great care and constancy in true religion this may be a certain Argument that albeit popery had been established by much power and study in her sisters raign and had taken deep root by time and was still confirmed by the writ and assent of all in Authority yet since that it neither agreed with the word of God nor the primitive pureness nor her own conscience she pluck'd it up with little help and abolished it with great courage and resolution which was not done upon a rash impetuous fancy but with maturity and advice whereof among many other things we may take a conjecture by an answer so made upon a by-occasion In the beginning of her raign when Prisoners as the manner is were released for a boon of her new inauguration A certain Courtier who by custome had taken up a boldness of speech and jestingly waited for her as she went to Chappel when either of himself or set on by wiser men he put an humble petition crying out aloud withall That yet there remained four or five honest Prisoners who were unjustly detained beseeching he Majesty to set them at Liberty and they were the four Evangelists and Saint Paul the Apostle who had been long shut up in a strange language as in a Prison and kept from conversing among the people to whom she wisely answered That full inquiry should be made of themselves whether they would be released yea or no whereby she put off a sudden question with a suspended answer and stil reserved the interest of things in her own freedom and decision In which business she proceeded not by peeces or with trepidation but in a grave and setled order First calling the Synods to conference and the States to Parliament and then within compass of one year so reformed