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A28370	The remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount of St. Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being essayes and severall letters to severall great personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published : a table whereof for the readers more ease is adjoyned.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.; Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. Characteristicks of a believing Christian.	1648 (1648)	Wing B318; ESTC R17427	72,058	110

the like whose condition being of a better sort then loose people and beggars deserveth both a more liberall stipend and some proper place of reliefe not intermingled and coupled with the basest sort of people which project though spacious yet in my judgment will not answer the designment in the event in these our times for certainly few men which have been some body and beare a mind somewhat according to the Conscience and remembrance of that they have been will ever descend to their condition as to professe to live upon Almes and to become a Corporation of declared Beggars but rather will chuse to live obscurely and as it were to hide themselves with some private friends so that the end will be of such an intention that it will make the place a receptacle of the worst idlest and most desolate persons of every profession and to become a Cell of Loyterers and cast Serving-men and Drunkards which will rather give a scandall then yeeld any fruit of the Common-wealth And of this kind I can find but one example with us which is the Almes Knights of Winsor which particular would give a man small encouragement to follow that president Therefore the best effect of Hospitality is to make the Kingdom if it were possible capable of that Law that there be no Beggar in Israel for it is that kind of people that is a burden an eye-sore a scandal and a sort of peril and tumult in a State but chiefly it were to be wished that such a Beneficencie towards the relief of the poore were so bestowed as not onely the needy and naked poore should be sustained but also that the honest person which hath had meanes to live upon with whom the poor are now charged should be in some sort eased for that were a work generally acceptable to the Kingdome if the publick hand of Almes migh spare the private hand of Taxe And therefore of all other employments of that kind I commend most the Houses of reliefe and correction which are mixt Hospitals where the impotent person is relieved and the sturdy Beggar buckled to work and the unable person also not maintained to be idle which is ever joyned with drunkennesse and impurity but is sorted with such worke as he can mannage and perform and where the uses are not distinguished as in other Hospitals whereof some are for aged and imp●…tent and some for children and some for correction of Vagabond hutare generall and permiscous that must take of every for from the Country as the Country breeds them And thus the poor themselves shall find the provision and other good people the sweetnesse of the abatement of the Tax Now if it be objected that houses of correction in all places have not done the good expected as it cannot be denyed but in most places they have done much good it must be remembred that there is a great difference between that which is done by a setled Ordinance subject to regular Visitation as this may and besides this the want hath been commonly in houses of correction of a competent sum and certain estate for the materials of the labour which in this case may be likewise supplyed Concerning the advancement of Learning I do subscribe to the opinion of one of the wisest and greatest men of your Kingdom That for Grammar Schools there are already too many and therefore it is no providence to add where there is excesse For the great number of Schools within your Highnesse Realm doth cause a want and likewise causeth an overflowing both of them being inconvenient and one of them dangerous for by meanes whereof they find want in the Country and Towns both of Servants for Husbandry and Apprentices for Trade and on the other side there being more Schollers bred then the State can prefer and employ and the active part of that life not bearing proportion to the preparative it must needs fall out that many persons will be bred unfit for other vocations and unprofitable for that which they are brought up which fills the Realm full of indigent idle and wanton people which are but materia rerum nova Therefore in this point I could wish Mr. Suttons intention were exalted a degree higher that that which he meant for Teachers of children your Majesty should make for Teachers of men wherein it hath been my ancient opinion and observation that in the Vniversities of this Realm which I take to be both of the best pol●…ed and of the best endowed Universities of Europe there is nothing more wanting towards the flourishing state of Learning then the honourable and plentifull Salaries of Readers in Arts and Professions In which point as your Majesties bounty hath already made a beginning so this occasion is offered of God to make a proceeding Surely Readers in the Chair are as Parents in Sciences and desire to enjoy a condition not inferiour to the children that embrace the particular part else no man will sit longer in the Chair then he can walk to a better preferment and it will come to passe as Virgil saith Vt Patrum invalidi referant tenina nati for if the principall Readers through the means of their entertainment be but men of superficiall Learning and that they shall take their place but ju passage it will make the masse of Sciences want the chief and solid dimension which is death and to become but pretty and compendious habits of practise Therefore I could wish that in both the Universities the Lectures as well of the three Professions Divinity Law and Physicke as of the Arts of Speech the Mathimatiques and others were raised in their Pensions to 100. l. per annum a piece which though it be not neer so great as they are in some other places where the greatnesse of the reward doth wish for the ablest men out of all Forrain Parts to supply the Chair yet it may be a portion to content a worthy and able man if he be contemplative in nature as most of those spirits are that are fittest for Lectures Thus may Learning in your Kingdom be advanced to a further heigth for Learning which I say under your Majesty the most learned of Kings is so cherished may also claim some degree of Elevation thereby Concerning propagation of Religion I shall in few words set before your Majesty three Propositions none of them devices of mine own otherwise then as Fever approved them two of which have been in agitation of speech and the third acted 1. The first is a Colledge for controversies whereby we shall not still proceed single but shall as it were double our files which certainly will be found good in the encounter 2. The second is a Receipt not Seminary in respect of the vain vowes and implicite obedience and other things tending to the perturbation of States involved in that term of Converts to the Reformed Religion either of youth or otherwise for I like not the word Seminary in respect

THE REMAINES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS Lord VERULAM Viscount of St. Albanes sometimes Lord Chancellour of England BEING Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published A Table whereof for the Readers more ease is adjoyned LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his Shop neer the Savoy in the Strand 1648. THE TABLE AN Essay of a King pag. 1. An Explanation what manner of persons they should be that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative pag. 3. Short Notes of civill conversation pag. 6. An Essay on Death pag. 7. His Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered to King James pag. 13. A Letter of advice written to Sir Edward Cooke Lord chief justice of the Kings Bench pag. 20. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer in excuse of his speech in Parliament agrinst the treble subsedy pag. 28. A Letter to my Lord Treasurer recommending his first suite tonching the Sollitours place pag. 29. A Letter of Ceremony to Queene Elizabeth upon the sending of a new years guift pag. 31. Another to the Queen upon the like Ceremony pag. 31. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex to take upon him the Care of the Irish businesse when Mr. Secretary Cecill was in France pag. 32. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598 before my Lord was nominated for the charge of Ireland pag. 34. Another Letter of advice to my Lord immediatly before his going into Ireland pag. 37. A Letter to the said Earle of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex-house pag. 41. Two Letters to be framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earle of Essex the other as the Earles answer thereunto delivered with the advice of Mr. Anthony Bacon and the privity of the Earle to be shewed to the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance pag. 42. My Lord of Essex his answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter pag. 46. A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland pag. 47. Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland pag. 48. A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few days before Queen Elizabeths death pag. 54. A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in pag. 55. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Sco land upon the entrance of his Majesties Raign pag. 56. A letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance pag. 58 A letter commending his love and occasions to Sir Thomas Challenor in Scotland upon his Majesties entrance pag. 59. A letter to Mr. Davies then gone to the King at his first entrance pag. 62. A letter to Mr. Fauls 28 March 1603. pag. 62. A letter to Dr. Morrison a Scottish Physitian upon his Majesties coming in pag. 63. A Letter to Mr. Robert Kenny upon the death of Queen Elizabeth pag. 61. A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation for the King c. pag. 62. A letter to my Lord 〈◊〉 Southampton upon the Kings coming in pag. 66. A letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King pag. 66 A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place pag. 67. A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the advancement of learning pag. 68. A letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the like Argument pag. 69 A letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook pag. 69. A letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument pag. 72 A letter to the King concerning the Sollicitour place pag. 73 Aletter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon New yeers guift pag. 73 A Secaod letter to the Lord Chancellour pag. 73. Another letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former argument pag. 74 An expostulatory Letter 〈◊〉 Vincent Skinner pag. 75. A Letter to Mr. Davis his Majesties attourney in Ireland pag. 76 A letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland pag. 77 A letter to Mr. Murrey pag. 78 A Letter to my Lady Packington pag. 78. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Religion pag. 79 Sir Tho. Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogitata visa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same pag. 80. The Characters of a believing Christian in Paradoxes and seeming contradictions pag. 88 A Confession of the Faith written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soveraign Lord King James pag. 95. A Prayer made and used by the Lord Bacon pag. 101. BACONS REMAINES 1. AKING is a mortall God on earth unto whom the Living GOD hath lent his own Name as a great honor but withall told film he should die like a man least he should be proud and flatter himself that GOD hath with his Name imparted unto him his Nature also 2. Of all kind of men GOD is the least beholding unto them for he doth most for them and they doe ordinarily least for him 3. A King that would not feel his Crown too heavie for him must weare it every day but if he think it too light he knoweth not of what metall it is made of 4. He must make Religion the Rule of Government and not to Ballance the Scale for he that casteth in Religion onely to make the Scales even his own weight is couteined in these Characters Tekel uprasin he is found too light his Kingdom shall be taken from him 5. And that King that holds not Religion the best reason of of State is void of all Piety and Justice the supporters of a King 6. He must be able to give Counsell himself but not to rely thereupon for though happy events justifie their Counsells yet it is better that the evill event of good advice be rather imputed to a Subject then a Soveraigne 7. Hee is the fountaine of Honor which should not run with a waste pipe lest the Courtiers sell the waters and then as Papists say of their holy wells to loose the vertue 8. Hee is the life of the Law not onely as he is Lex loquens himselfe but because he animateth the dead letter making it active towards all his subjects premio poena 9. A wise King must doe lesse in altering his Laws then he may for new government is even dangerous it being true in the body politick as in the corporall that omnis subditi imitatio est periculosa and though it be for the better yet it is not without a fearfull apprehension for he that changeth the fundamentall Lawes of a Kingdome thinketh there is no good title to a Crown but by conquest 10. A King that setteth to sale seates

nor desire any greater place then the front of good opinion I make not love to the continuance of dayes but to the goodnesse of them nor wish to dye but referre my self to my houre which the great Dispenser of all things hath appointed me yet as I am fraile and suffered for the first fault were it given me to chuse I should not be earnest to see the evening of my age that extremity of it self being a disease and a meer return into infancie So that if perpetuity of life might be given me I should think what the Greek Poet said Such an Age is a mortall evill And since I must needs be dead I require it may not be done before mine enemies that I be not stripe before Ibe cold but before my friends the night was even now but that name is lost it is not now late but early mine eyes begin to discharge their watch and compound with this fleshly weaknesse for a time of perpetuall rest and I shall presently be as happy for a few houres as I had dyed the ●…t houre I was borne The Lord Chancellour Bacon his Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered unto King JAMES May it please your Majesty I Find it a positive precept of the Old Law that there should be no Sacrifice without salt the morall whereof besides the Ceremony may be that God is not pleased with the body of a good intention except it be seasoned with that spirituall wisdome and judgment as it be not easily subject to be corrupted and perverted for Salt in the Scripture is a figure both of wisdome and Learning This cometh into my mind upon this Act of Mr. Suttons which seemeth to me as a Sacrifice without Salt having the materials of a good intention but not powdered with any such Ordinances and institutions as may preserve the same from turning corrupt or at the least from becoming unsavorie and of little use for although the choyce of the Feo●…es be of the best yet neither they can live alwayes and the very nature of the work it selfe in the vast and unfit proportions thereof being apt to provoke a mis-employment it is no diligence of theirs except there be a digression from that modell that can excuse it from running the same way that gifts of the like condition have heretofore done For to designe the Charter house a house ●…r a Princes habitation for an Hospitall as some should give an Almes of a rich embroydered cloak to a Beggar And certainly a man see tanquam quae o●…is ceruantur that if such an Edifice with sixe thousand pounds Revenue be ●rected into an Hospitall it will in small time degenerate to be made a preferment of some great person to be Master and he to take all the sweet and the poor to be stinted and take but the crums as it comes to passe in divers Hospitals of this Realm which have but the name of Hospitals and are but wealthy Benefices in respect of the Mastership but the poor which is the propter quid little relieyed And the like hath been the fortune of much of the Almes of the Roman Religion in their great Foundations which being in vain-glory and ostentation have had their judgment upon them in the end in corruption and abuse This meditation hath made me presume to write these few lines to your Majesty being no better then good wishes which your Majesties great wisdom may make something or nothing of wherein I desire to be thus understood that if this foundation such as it is be perfect and good in Law then I am too well aequainted with your Majesties disposition To advise my course of power or profit that is not grounded upon a right nay further if the defects are such as a Court of Equity may remedy and cure then I wish that as St. Peters shaddow did cure Diseases so the very shadow of a good intention may cure defects of that nature But if there be a right and birth-right planted in the Heire and not remediable by Courts of Equity and that right be submitted to your Majesty whereby it is both in your power and grace what to do then I doe wish that this rude Masse and Chaos of good deed were directed rather to a solid merit and durable charity then to a blaze of glory that will not crackle a little in talk and quickly extinguish And this may be done observing the species of Mr. Suttons intent though varying individuo For it appears that he had in notion a triple good an Hospitall a School and maintaining of a Preacher which individuals resort to●…ee generall head viz. Reliefe of the Poore Advancement of Learning And the propagation of Religion Now then if I shall see before your Majesty in every of these three kinds what it is that is most wanting in your Kingdom and what is like to be the most fruitfull and effectuall use of Beneficence and like to be least perverted That I think should be no ill scope of any labour how meanly soever performed for out of variety presented election may be best grounded Concerniug the relief of the Poor I hold some number of Hospitals with competent good then any Hospitall of an exorbitant greatnesse for though the course will be the more seen yet the other will be the more felt For if your Majesty erect many besides observing the ordinary maxime bonum quo communius deo melius choice may be made of those Towns and places where there is most need and so the remedy may be distributed as the Disease is dispiersed Again greatnesse of relief accumulated in one place doth rather invite a swarm and surcharge of Poor then relieve those that are naturally bred in that place like to ill tempered medicines that draw more humour to the part then they evacuate from it But chiefly I rely upon the reason that I touched in the begining that in those great Hospitals the Revenue will draw the use and not the use the Revenues and so through the mass of their wealth they will swiftly tumble down to a mis-employment And if any man say that in the two Hospi●als of London there is a president of greatnesse concurring with good employment let him consider that these Hospitals have Annuall Governours that they are under the superiour care and policy of such a State as the City of London and chiefly that the Reuenues consist not upon certainties but upon casualties and free gifts would be missing if they appeared once to be perverted so as it keeps them in a continuall good behaviour and awe to employ them aright none of which points do match with the present Case The next consideration may be whether this intended Hospital as it hath a more ample endowment then other Hospitals should not likewise work more in a better subject then other poor as that it should be converted to the use of maymed Souldiers decayed Merchants and Housholds Age and destitute Church-men and

c. which are now not the lapses of perticular persons but the very Laws of the Nation They are incompetible with religion ref●…ed with pollicie there is no doubt but to wrastle with them now is directly opposite to their reclaime and cannot but continue their Alienation of made from this government Besides one of the principall pretences whereby the heads of the rebellion have prevayled both with the people and with the forraigner hath beene the defence of the Catholique religion And it is that likewise hath made the forraigner reciprocally more plausible with the Rebell Therefore a tolleration of religion for a time not definite except it be in some principall townes and precincts after the manner of some French edicts seemeth to me to be a matter warrantable by religion and in policy of absolute necessity and the hesitation in this point I feare hath been a greater casting back of the affairs there Neither if any English papist or Recusant shall for liberty of his Concience transfer his person familie and fortunes thither do J hold it a matter of Danger but expedient to draw an undertaking and to further population Neither if Rome will cosen it self by conceiving it may be some degree to the like tolleration in England do I hold it a matter of any moment but rather a good mean to take off the sciences and eagernesse of the humour of Rome and to stay further excommunications and ininterdictions of Ireland but there would go hand in hand with this same course of advantage Religion Indeed where the people is capable thereof is the sending over of some good Preachers especially of that sort which are vehement and zealous perswaders and not Scholasticall to be resident in the principall Towns allowing them some stipend out of her Majesties Revenues as her Majesty hath most religiously and graciously done in Lancashire and the great recontinuing and replenishing the Colledge begun at Dublin the placing of good men to be Bishops the taking care of the versions of Bibles Catechisms and other books of instruction into the Irish language and the like Religious courses both for the honour of God and for the avoiding of scandall and in satisfaction here by a toleration of Religion there For instance the Barbarism and desolation of the Country considered it is not possible they should find any sweetnesse at all of it which hath been the errour of times past formal and fetched far off from the State because it will require running up and down for proces of polling and exactions by fees and many o●her delayes and charges and therefore there must be an intrim in which the justice must be only summary the rather because it is fit and safe for a time the Country do participate of a Marshal Government and therefore I could wish in every principall town or place of habitation there were a Captain or Governour and a Judge such as Recorders and learned Stewards are here in Corporations who may have a Prerogative Commission to hear and determine Secundum saenam discretione and as near as may be to the Customs and Laws of England and that by Bill or Plaint without originall Writ reserving from their sentence matter of Free-hold and inheritance to be determined before a superiour Judge itener●…t and both sentences aswell the Bayliwick Judg as the itenerant to be reversed if cause be before the Councel of the Prince to be established with fit informations For obligation and reward it is true no doubt which was anciently said that a State is contained in two words Praemium and paena and I am perswaded if a peny in the pound which hath been spent in paena For this kind of War is but paena a chastisement of Rebels without other fruit or emolument of this State had beene spent in praemio that is in rewarding things had never grown to this extremity But to speak forwards the keeping of the principall Irish persons in tearms of contentment and without particular complaint and generally the carrying of an even course between the English and the Irish whether it be in competition or whether it be controversie as if they were one Nation without the same partiall course that hath been held by the Governours and Councellours that some have savoured the Irish and some contrary is one of the best Medicines of that State And as for the points of governing their Nobility aswell in this Court as there of Knighthood if education of their Children there and the like points of comfort and allurement they are things which fall into every mans consideration For the extirpating of the seeds of trouble I suppose the main roots are but three The first the ambition and absolutenesse of the chief of the Families and Sects Secondly the licentious id●enesse of their Kerns and Souldiers thatly upon the Country by Sesses and such oppressions And the third the barbarous customs in habit of apparel in these Poets or Heraulds that inchant them in savage manners and sundry other such dregs of Barbarism Rebellion which by a number of politick Statutes of Ireland meet to be put in execution are already forbidden unto which such addition may be made as the present time requireth But the deducing of this Barbarism requireth a more particular notice of the state and manners there ther fals within my compas For Plantations and Buildings I do find it strange that in the last Plot for the population of Munster there were limitations how much in Demeasnes and how much in Farm and Tenantry how many Buildings should be erected how many Irish in mixture should be admitted but no restraint that they might not build parsim at their pleasure much lesse any condition that they should make places fortified and defensible The which was too much securenesse to my understanding so as for this last point of Plantations and Buildings ●ere be ●wo considerations which I hold most materiall the one of quickning the other for assuring The first is that choice be made of such persons for the Government of Towns and Places and such Undertakers be produced as be men gracious and well-beloved and are like to be well fellowed wherein for Munster it may well be because it is not res intigra but that the former Undertakers stand interessed there will be some difficulty But surely in mine opinion either by agreeing with them or by over-ruling them by a Parliament in Ireland which in this course of a politick proceeding infinite occasions will require speedily to be held it will be fit to supply fit qualified Persons for undertakers The other that it be not best as heretofore to the pleasure of the undertakers and adventurers where and how to build and plant but that they do according to a prescript or formilary For first the places both Maritine and in Land which are fittest for Collonies and Garisons aswell for doubt of Forraigners as for keeping the Country in Bridell would be found surveyed and resolved upon