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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28024	Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical now for the first time faithfully published ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1679 (1679)	Wing B269; ESTC R9006	137,175	384

prudentia summâ eloquentia tenaci memoriâ sacris consiliis alterum columen Of person very corpulent most quick Wit singular Prudence admirable Eloquence special Memory and another Pillar to the Privy-Council Of his Death this is said * This Account is inserted by the Publisher who took it out of a Paper of the Lord Bacon's to be the occasion He had his Barber rubbing and combing his Head And because it was very hot the Window was open to let in a fresh Wind. He fell asleep and awaked all distemper'd and in a great sweat Said he to the Barber Why did you let me sleep Why my Lord said he I durst not wake your Lordship Why then saith my Lord Keeper you have killed me with Kindness So he removed into his Bed-Chamber and within a few days died Whereupon being Interred on the South-side of the Quire in St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London he had a noble Monument r Hist. of St. Paul's Cath. p. 71. there erected to his Memory with this Epitaph Hic Nicolaum ne Baconem conditum existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni secundum columen Exitium malis Bonis Asylum caeca quem non extulit ad hunc honorem sors sed Aequitas Fides Doctrina Pietas unica Prudentia Neu fortè raptum crede qui unica brevi vitâ perenni emerit duas agit vitam secundam caelites inter animas Fama implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est Hac positum in arâ est Corpus olim animi Domus Ara dicata sempiternae Memoriae That is * This Translation is done by the Publisher for the benefit of the English Reader Think not that this Shrine contains that Nicholas Bacon who was so long the second Pillar of Great Britain the Scourge of the Vicious and the Sanctuary of the Good Whom blind Fortune did not exalt to that height of Honour but his Equity Fidelity Learning Piety singular Prudence Neither believe him to be by chance snatch'd away who by one short Life purchased two in Life Eternal He lives his second Life among the Heavenly Spirits His Fame filleth the World which is his third Life In this Altar is reposed his Body sometime the House of his Soul an Altar dedicated to his perpetual Memory Thus much touching the Parentage of this Francis his Birth s Li●e of c. by Dr. Rawley being at York-House in the Strand upon the twenty second day of Ianuary Anno 1560. 2 Eliz. It is observed t Life of c. by Dr. Rawley that in his tender Years his Pregnancy was such as gave great indication of his future high Accomplishments in so much as Queen Elizabeth took notice of him and called him The young Lord-Keeper also that asking him how old he was though but a Boy he answered that he was two years younger than her Majesties most happy Reign As to his Education he was u Ibid. of Trinity College in Cambridg under the tuition of Doctor Iohn Whitgift then Master there but afterwards the renowned Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Where having with great proficiency spent some time he was sent x Ibid. into France with Sir Amias Paulet her Majestie 's Leiger Ambassador and thence intrusted with a Message y Ibid. to the Queen which he performed with much approbation and so returned After this coming from Travail and applying himself to the study of the Common Law he was seated z Ibid. in Grays-Inn Where in short time he became so highly esteemed for his Abilities as that in 30 Eliz. being then but 28 years of Age that honourable Society chose a Orig. Iurid p. 295. a. him for their Lent Reader And in 32 Eliz. was made b Pat. 32 Eliz. p. 11. one of the Clerks of the Council In 42 Eliz. being c Orig. Iu. 295. b. double Reader in that House and affecting much the Ornament thereof he caused d Ib. 272. b. that beautiful Grove of Elms to be planted in the Walks which yet remain And upon the 23 of Iuly 1 Iac. was Knighted e MS. in offic Arm. at White-Hall Shortly after which viz. in 2 Iac. he was made f Pat. 2 Jac. p. 12. one of the King's Council learned having therewith a grant g Pat. 2 Jac. p. 12. of forty Pounds per annum Fee and in 5 Iac. constituted h Pat. 11. Jac. p. 5. his Majestie 's Solicitor General In 9 Iac. he was made i Pat. 9. Jac. p. joynt Judge with Sir Thomas Vavasor then Knight Marshal of the Knight Marshal's Court then newly erected within the Verge of the King's House and in 11 Iac. 27 Octob. being made k Pat. 5 Jac. p. 14. Attorney General was sworn l Annal. R. Jac. per Cambd. of the Privy Council In 14 Iac. he was constituted m lb. in an 1617. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 7 Martii being then fifty four years of Age. ‖ An Insertion by the Publisher It is said in a * The Court of King James p. 115 116. Libel in which are many other notorious Slanders that the Duke of Buckingham to vex the very Soul of the Lord Chancellour Egerton in his last Agony did send Sir Francis Bacon to him for the Seals and likewise that the dying Chancellor did hate that Bacon should be his Successor and that his Spirit not brooking this usage he sent the Seals by his Servant to the King and shortly after yielded his Soul to his Maker In which few words there are two palpable Untruths For first The King himself sent for the Seal not the Duke of Buckingham And he sent for it not by Sir Francis Bacon a Aulicus ●cquinariae p. 171. but by Secretary Winwood with this Message that himself would be his Under-Keeper and not dispose of the Place of Chancellour while he lived Nor did any receive the Seal out of the King's sight till the Lord Egerton died which soon fell out Next The Lord Chancellour Egerton was willing that Master Attorney Bacon should be his Successor and ready to forward his Succession So far was he from conceiving hatred against him either upon that or any other Account The Lord Egerton was his Friend in the Queen's time and I find Mr. Bacon making his acknowledgements in a Letter to him in these words which I once transcribed from the unpublish'd Original For my placing your Lordship best knoweth that when I was most dejected with her Majestie 's strange dealing towards me it pleased you of your singular favour so far to comfort and encourage me as to hold me worthy to be excited to think of succeeding your Lordship in your second Place Signifying in your plainness that no Man should better content your self Which your exceeding favour you have not since carried from both in pleading the like signification into the hands of some of my best Friends and also in an honourable and