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REMAINS
O F
S"" Francis Bacon
Baron of V e R u l a h,
AND
Vifcount of St. Albans :;
In Arguments Civil and JMoral^ V^tural^
fiMedical^ Theological^ and bibliographi-
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^aconiana ToUtico-moralia.
Under this Head are Contained,
1. O / iJ Francis Bacon'/ Charge again fi
v^ Frances Countefs of Somerfet, a-
l?offt pojijbmng of SirTho, OvQrhury, p. 5.
2. His Charge againjl Robert, Earl of So-
mcrfet, touchwgthe fame matter. p. 14.
3. His Letter to the Unrverfity (?/Cambridg,
when he wat fvporn Privy-Coimfellor. In
Latine, p. 37. 7;^ Englifh, P« 39*
4. His Letter to Kiffg James, toftchirrg the
Chancellors T^ce. p« 4 1 •
A 5- His
393091
A Table of
5. His Letter to Kwg James, for tU Relief
of his EJiate. p. 45,
6. His Remaining k^o^^gms. p. 55.
7. A Supply of his Ornamenta Rationaliaj or
Judicious Sentences.
I. Out of the Mimi of Publius, in Latine
and Englifll. p. 60.
^. Out of his own Writings* ^ P« 65.
'Baconiana Thyjiolo^icay Containing
I. A Fragment of his Abecedarium Naturae,
in Latine, p. 77. and Englifh, p. 84.
I L His Inquifition, touching the Compound-
ing of ^letals. p. 92.
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A
DISCOURSE
BY WAY OF
INTRODaCTION,
Ift which the Publiftier eri-
deavoLircth an Account of the
Philosophy, Mechanic
Inventions, and Writings^
of Sir F^JNCIS SJCON^
Baron ot VendmH^ and Vifcount
of St, Jlbans . And particularly of
thefe REMAINS now fer
forth by him under the Title of
B A C O N I A N A.
LONDON,
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(T7
AN
ACCOUNT
Of all the ,
Lord B AGONES
WORKS.
IT is my purpofe to give a true and[
plain Account, of the DelTgns and
Labours of a very great Philofbpher
amongfl: us ; and to offer to the World,
in fome tollerable Method, thofe Re//^aws
of his, which to that end, wete put into
my Hands.
Something of this hath been done alrea-
dy by his LordOiip himlelf5 and (bmething
ifurther hath been added by the Reverend
Dr. Ravpley ; Biit their Remarks lay fcat-
tered in' divers Places --^ and here they are
b :2 pat
\/n Account of all
put under one View, and have received
very ailiple Enlargements.
In this laft and moft comprehenfive Ac-
count, I have, on purpofe, ufed a loo(e
and lAfiatk Style, and wilfully committed
that venial fault with which the Laconian
(^m Boccalim ) is merrily taxed, who had
(aid that in three vpoxds:^ which^ he might
poffibly have exprefs'd in./W I hop'd;,
by this means, to (erve the more eflfeftual-
ly, ordwary Readers^ who ftand chiefly in
need of thislntroduftions and whole Ca-
pacities can be no more reached by a clofe
and ftria Difcourfe, than Game can be ta-
ken by a Net unfpread.
For any praife upon the account of this
fiiiall Performance, it is not worth the while
to be felicitous about it. Yet fbmetimes,
mean Men get a ftock of Reputation, by
gathering up the Fragme77ts of the Learned --^
as Beggars ( they fay ) have gotten Eftates,
by faving together the ^//^/ of the, Rich.
If that falls not out here where' it' is not
expefted, -it will be abundantly enough to
me if the Inferiour Reader may have Bene-
fit, and any Honour may be done to the
Memory of his Lordftiip, whole more Ge-
fjerd Encomium I Ihall firft let down, and
then annex a partiadar Narrative of thole
Dcfigns and Labours of hisj which may be
laid,
the Lord Bacon's Works. 5
faid, not only to merit, buteven to exceed
^11 my Commendation^.
I begin ( as I faid ) with his Lordfhip's
Praife, in a more general way. And here
I affirm, with good aflurance (for Truth
is bold ) that amongft thofe few, who by
the ftrerigth of their private Rcafon, have
refifted popular Errors, and avanced real
and ufeful Learnings there has not arifen
a more Eminent Perfon, than the Lord
High Chancellor *\Baco?f. Such great Wits,
are not the common Births of Time: And
they, furely, intended to fignifie fo much
who faid of the Phoenix ( though in Hy-
perbole as well as Metaphor) that Nature
gives the World that hdwulnal Species^ but
once in five hundred Years.
It is true. There lived in part of the laft,
and this, Century, many memorable Ad-
vancers of Philofophical Knowledg. I
mean not here (uch as Patrkius^ or Te/eftus^
^rttrjus^ Sevcrwus the D.mc^ or Camfamlla,
Thcfe, indeed, departed from fome Errors
of the Ancients, but they did not frame
any folid Hjpot hefts of their own. They
only fpun new Cobwebs, where they had
brufh'd down the old. Nay, I intend not,
in this place, either de Charts or GuJJefidi,,
They were, certainly, great Men, but they
appeared fomcwhat later, and defcen^ecl
b 3 into
^ An Account of aU
into the depths of Philofophy, after the
Jce had been broken by others. And thofe
i take to have been chiefly Cefemicus^ Fa--
iher Paul the Venetian^ Galileo^ Harvey^ Gil--
bert^ and the Philofopher befbre-remem-
bred. Sir Francis Hiacon^ who, if all his
Circumftances be duly weighed, may (eem
to excel them all. He was by ProfeJJiof/^ a
common Lawyer 5 by Office^ in the ^eens
time, one of the Clerks of the Council 3
in the Reign of King James^ one of the
K7?7gs Counfel Learned, then Solicitor Ge-
neral, and one of the Jiidges in the Knight-
Klarihals Court 5 then Attorney General,and
one of the King's Privy-Council 5 then Lord-
"Keeper of the Great Seal, and during the
Kings abfence in Scotland^ Lord Prote&or :
And laft of all. Lord High Chancellor of
England. So that in fuch a Life as his, fb
thickly fet with Bufinefi of (uch Height, it
is a Miracle that all Seeds of Philofophy
were not daily overdropped, and in a ihort
time, quite choaked 5 and that any one of
them fprung up to Maturity. And yet his
profper d beyond thofe of the Philolbphers
before-mentioned, though they were not
prefled on with fuch a crowd of fecular Bu-
finefs. ' ' "
^ For Copernicus^ he concern'd himftlf efpe-
ciaijy in the Revolutions of the Heavenly i
Bodies,
the Lord Bacon's Worh. 7
Bodies, in revivingand perfcaing the ob-
folete Doftrine o(ThMws, touching the
motion of the Earth, and in fctting free
the Planets from thofe many Epicycles, Ec-
centrics, and Concentrics, in which P.'^^-
lomy, and others had entrangled them.
And he well undcrdood the Courfe of tlie
Stars, tfiough he di<(Jpot much ftudy tliat
natural motive Power which carries tlicu
about in their feveral FJlifins, The lijvc
Remark may be made concerning Mr. G//-
hert^ who applied himftlf particularly to
the confidcration of Magnetic Powers --,
as alfo concerning Dr. Harvcj, who hiqui-
red principally into the Generation of Ani-
mals, and the motion of the Heart : Sub-
jefts in which he made great progrefi,
though into the former, the help of Vlicro-
fcopes, would have given him further in-
fight (a) ^ and in both, he rather purfaed {x) See
the proofs of his Hypothecs, than the na- ,^^;,;^^,}-
ture of the Mechanic force, which pro- ceyier^t,,
duced thofe great EfFccls. ;^//- ^^^
Father Paul, was a more general Philo-
fopher, and the Head of vl Meeting ofVcr-
tmd in Vemcc. He excelled in Meckamcs,
mMathentatus of all kinds, in ?hjlological
Learning, in Amtomy. In his Anatomical
Studies, he exercised fuch Sagacitv, that he
made further difcoveries in the £\bnck of
b d. th:
8 \An Account of all
the Eye, and taught Aqua-petidetfte^ thofe
bew Speculations which he publilh'd on
that Subjeft ^ he found out (faith Fulgen-
iro ) the Vahul£ in the Veins ^ and began the
Doftrine of the Circulation of the Blood :
Though there is reafon to believe, that he
receiv d the hints of it from Sir Henry WbU
ion.; who himfelfifed taken them from
, . ., ,^ , _ V>x/narvey Ca\ But, the
(a) Carte? diJT. de Me- « n r v a rr •
thod6,^^. 4^. Hervco Uu6 b£c prefent Itatc of the Affairs
trsbMendacft juoifrimamtn o{ Venice fo requiring. Fa-
itt &c!"'' '^''"" ^"'" tker Paul bent his Studies to
/ Ecclefiaftical Polity , and
chiefly employed his Pen in detefting the
Ufurpations and Corruptions of the Pa-
pacy : Endeavouring ( fo far as Books could
do it ) to preferve the Neck of that Re-
publick , from the Bondage of Paul the
Fifth., who attempted to fet his Foot up-
on it.^
' Galileo further improved the Doftrine of
,-' Copernicus ^ difcover'd by Telefcopes, new
Stars in the Heavens 5 wrote Dialogues con-
cerning the Sy^em of the World:, and touch-
ing Local Motion ^ which latter is the Key
that openeth Nature. But he delcended
hot to the ftvcral Claffes of Bodies in Na-
ture, and the particulars contained in them,
and their refpeftive Motions, and Ufes.
Neither did he publilh any thing till many
'--•■•,-. Years
the Lord Bacon s Works.
Years had pafi'd, fince Mr. Bacm hadform'd
and modelled in his thoughts , his larger
Idea of Experimental Knowledg. His Sz^
dereus Nuftciu^, came not forth till towards
the midft of the Reign of Kmg James,
' And King Charles had late (bme Years on
his Throne, cr e he publifti'd his Dialogue
of the Syftem of the World. Whereas
Mr. Bacon had not only publifli'd two
Books of his Advancement^ in the beginning
of K. James s Reign,but early in the ^een*s
time, (as from his Letter to Fitlgentio^
plainly appeareth ) he had written his
Tewporh Partus Maximus. That Book
( pompous in its Title, but folid in its Mat-
ter 5 like a great Feather put fometimeson
a good Headpiece) contained in it, though
in imperfcft manner, and fo far as the
greennefi of his Years permitted, the prin-
cipal Rudiments of his InfiaHratwn. The
work therefore of the Injiauration^ was an
Original 5 and a Work fo vaft and com-
prehenfive in itsdefign, that though others
in that Age, might hew out this, or the
other ?Jllur 5 yet of him alone it feemeth
true, that he framed the 2pZ>^/eM(^Jc/of the
Uoufe of Wifdom,
In thofe days in which he began his
Studies, Ariflotle was, in effeft, the Pope
in Philofophy. The Leftures, both in his
private
IP An Account of all
private College, and in the publick Schook,
were generally Expofitions upon Ariftotles
Text. And every Opinion, wrote by him
as his own, was efteem'd as Authentick, as
if it had been given under the Seal of the
FiJJjer. It was, therefore, a very lingular
t'elicity in a young Gentleman to fee fur^
ther into Nature, than that celebrated Phi-
lofopher, at whofe feet he was plac*d. And
it was as happy as it was extraordinary,
that he took diftafte betimes at the Vulgar
Phyficks. life and Cuftome in that way,
might have reconciled it to him, as it had
done to others of great Learning. For a
Philofopher is like a Vine, of which they
iay. It muft be fet of a Plant, and not of
a Tree.
But, though there was bred in Mr. Bacon
fo early a diflike of the Phyfiologieof A/-
Jiotle^ yet he did not defpife him with that
Pride and Haughtinels, with which Youth
is wont tp be puffed up. He had a juft
efteem of that great Mafter
Qc)DeA^im SaentA.^, - Learning (r), and grea-
Sxtmto certe, ^, ob acumen ttX than that whlch Arijiotk
Sf'fc'-'^''^''^'^'' ^''^^''" hinifelf expreffed towards
the Philofbphers that went
before him. For he endeavour d ( fome
fay) to ftifle all their Labours , defign-
ing to himfelf an univerfal Monarchy ovcx
Opi-
the Lord Bacon s Wo'Ks. 1 1
Opinions, as his Patron Alextr?der did
over Men. Our Heroe owned what was
excellent in him^ but, in his Inquiries
into Nature, he proceeded not upon his
Principles. He began the Work a-new,
and laid the foundation of Philofophick
Theory in numerous Experiments.
By this Theory is not ( as I conceive )
(b much to be underftood, that mofl: ab-
ftraftedjand more narrow one, of the meer
nature and definition of Matter, Motion,
Place, Figure, Sight, Quantity, and the
like, which a Man s Reafon may find out,
by a few common and daily Appearances in
Nature , or Operations of Art : But we
are to underftand by it, a truer and fuller
Knowledg, of the Syfteme of the World,
of the fcveral Aftions and Paffions of Bo-
dies in it, and of the divers Ways where-
by, in themfelves, or by the application
of Art to them, they may be made fer-
yiceable to Humane Life.
Now this was a Work for a Man of a ,
thoufand Hands, and as many Eyes, and
depended upon a diftinft, and comprehen-
five, Kiftory of Nature. It was a way
laborious and tedious, yet ufeful and ho-
nourable, and in this, like that way of the
Snail, vj\i\d\Ji:)incth though it \sJlorv.
Such an ufeful and noble Philofophy did
our
II [An Accmit of all
our Author, defign, inftead of the Art of
Jiifpuhtwnl.y^xch then generally preyaila,
and which he compar'd to the condition of
Children : who are apt ^otTalk^^ but not
ioT .Generation. And certainly, that Cha-
rafter was moft due unto himfelf which he
gave to Xem)fharjcs^ of whom he faid, that
. he was a Man of a vajl Conceit^ and that
T(j&yn,ft,>^indednothif7gbHtJ^jffnJtiim (d), : ,
of'Life^- Eafieit is -m add to things already in-
p.Tf . ' "^'^^^^ 5 but to invent^ and to do it under
Difcouragement, when the World is pre-
judiced againft the Invention, and with
loud Clamour hooteth at the Projeftor 5
this is not an Undertaking for Dulnels, or
Cowardize. To do this, argues an In-
quifitive and Sagacious Wit'-) A mind free
from flavifli prepoffeffion 2, a piercing Jitdg-
ment^ able to fee through the mifts of Au-
thority 5 a great Vower in the Underftand-
ing, giving to a Man fiifficient Courage to
bear up the Head againft the common Cur-
rent of Philofophical Poftrines, and Force
to beat out its own way in untravelled
Places.
With fuch Intelleftual Ability, was the
Lord Vendam endow'd; And hQ Jiood on
the old Paths^ and pcrcciv'd, the unfound-
nefs of their Bottom 5 their intricate Wind-
' ings 5 their tendency to an ufeleis End, or
rather
the Lord Bacon's Works. \ }
rather to endlefs Difputation 5 and the dai-
ly Juftlings and Rencounters ofthofe who
travail'd in them : And he looked atten-
tively round about him, and he efpied a
new, and better , and larger , and (afer
way 5 and he journeyed far in it himftlf 3
and he left a Map of it for Pofterity, who
might further purfue it 5 and he has been
happy in being followed, by Men of the
ableft llnderftandings, with Angular fuc-
ce(s 3 and the Societies for improving of
Natural Knowledg-, do not at this day, de-
part from his Directions, though they tra-
vel further 'than Death would fiiffer him to
adventure.' ;' ' " ' ' • *• ■
lean, at preient, call- to- remembfahce'
but one Man, who hath underyaliiei'his'
Lordfhip's Method ^i and it is the (ame Man
who hathlibeird the Holy Scriptures them-
felves 3' the Infidel Sphwza
(e). This Man objefteth (^) b.d.s^woza in Ep.
againft his Way, that it fail- Ip.^Pcfii'. p.^3^98^399^' ""'^
eth in the very entrance of
it, through a miftake about the Origimlof
Error,
His Lordlhip s Opinion is the fame with
that which de Chart infiltethon, in his Litter
Philofophy. Both (hew that therefore Man
deceives himfelf, becaufe his Will (being
: Urger in its defires, than the Vriderjiuvd-
1^ Jfi Jccountof all
777 g is in its Comprehenfions, and haftning
its opinion of fach Objefis as it covets to
know, before it hath fufficiently attended
to them, and obtain d a clear and diftinft
perception of them ) does caufe it to yield
a blind and raQi, and therefore groundlefi
Affent to infjfficient Evidence.
His Lordfhip hath expreflfed it thus^ af-
ter his better way of faying things. " The
Q)Noy,^'-1Jj;dcrfia7iding (f) is not only made up
Jph"^^!' "of dry Light, but it receives an infufiori
P•44,4^ " from the Will and AfFeftions : And that
" begets fiich Sciences as the Heart defireth.
" For a Man fooneft believes that which
" he would have to be true. Wherefore
" he rejefts dificult Truths^ through impa-
''tience in inquiring 5 and fiber Truths^ be-
" caufe they reftrain his hope [ or defire 5 3
." and \he deeper U^tnral Truths^hy reafon of
'^ Superftition 5 and the Light ofExptriwerjts^
" by reafon of Arrogance and Pride, left the
*^ Mind fhould feem to be converfint in mean
" and tranfitory Things 5 and Paradoxes^ out
^'' of refpeft to the opinion of the Vulgar, In
^'fum,the Will feafons and infefts the Mind^
" by innumerable Ways, and by fuch as arc,
^' fometimes, not at all perceived.
Now, how, think you, doth Spimia^oivr
this opinion, to be a grofi and fundamen-
tal Mjfiake . by denying that there
M
the Lord Bacon's Works. 1 5
is any (uch thing in Man as a Will : (as if
that general name was ever ufed to fignifie
a particular Afl", and not rather to exprefi
the general notion of that Power O By-
telling us that all Volitions are particukr
Afts, and as fatally determined by a Chain
of Phyfical Caufes^as any efFefts whatfoever
of Natural Bodies. So that we are like to
learn well, from his Philofophy, how to a-
mend our Erroneous Affent, whilft it teach-
ethusthat it is neceffary,and not to be mend-
ed, unlefs Men could have other Bodies, and
there were another Scheme of Nature.
It muft be confefs'd, that the Lord I
write of, was not without Infirmities, In-
telleftual or Moral : And the latter of thcfe
have made the greater Noife from the
greatnefs of his Fall. I do not, here, pre-
tend to fpeak of an Angel, but of a Man:
And no Man, great in Wit^ and high in
Office^ can live free from fufpicion of both
kinds of Errors. For that Heat which is
inftrumental in making a great Wit^ is apt
to difbrder the attention of the Mind, and
the (lability of the Temper. And High
Place^ becaufe it giveth power to Oppor-
tunity, though no Athority to offend, is
ever look'd on with a jealous Eye: And
corrupt Men who mete by their own
Meafures, think no Man can be Great, and
Innocent too. His
1 6 ^jin Account of all
His Ldrdftip own'd it uhder his HanJ,
(§3^" C?) ^h^t, He was frail^ afjd did partake of
uiQn''"^^^^ ^^/f/?/ of the Times: And, furely, he
James, was a partaker of their Severities alfo 5
^^^^^^^^^- though they proved, by accident, happy
tbe^c'aL Crofles and Misfortunes. Mcthinks they
are refembled by thofe o^Sxr Qeorge Som^
mers^ who being bound, by his Employ-
ment, to another Coaft, was by Tempeft,
caft upon the Earmudas. And there, z
Shipwrack'd Man made full difcovefy of
a new temperate fruitful Region, which*
none had before inhabited 5 and which
Mariners , who had only feen its Rocks,
had efteemed an inacceffible and enchanted
Place. The great caufe of his Suffering,
is to fbme, a (ecret. I leave them to find
(ii)5fe it out, by his words to King James (A),
Mr. Bu- / 2^;^j ^ faid he ) that as I am thefrfi^ Jo I
^tlVa. pf ^^y ^^ ^^^ ^'^ ^/ Sacrifices in your Tim/'s,
19* And when from private Appetite, it is re-
folv'd, that a Creature fhall be lacrific'd s
it is eafie to pick up fticks enough, from
ant Thicket whither it hath flraid, to make
a Fire to offer it with.
But whatfbever his Errors were, or the
caufes of his Misfortunes, they are over-
ballanc'd by his Vertues, and will die with
Time. His Errors were but as fbme Excref-
ctncies, which grow on thole Trees that
are
the Lord Bacon's Works. 1 7
are fit to build the Palaces of Kings : For
though they are not proper and natural
Parts, yet they do not very much deprive
the Body of its u(e and value. And, fur-
ther, ( to expreft my felf by a more decent
Image, a Comparifon of his own 5 ) " His
"Fall will -be to Poflerity, but as a little
"Pifture of V^ght-vrork,^ remaining a-
" mongft the Fair and Excellent Tables of
^^h^sAas,rdWorks{i). J'lf.f
Thefe I diftinguifh, into two kinds^' Andrews
His Mcckamcal Inventions^ and his Wri-^
tings.
I doubt not but his Mechanical Inventi^
ons were many. But I can call to mind
but Three, at this time, and of them I can
give but a very broken Account ; And^'
for his Inftruments and Ways in recovering
defcrted M/z/e/, I can give no account at
all :, though certainly, without new Tools
and peculiar Inventions, he would never
have undertaken that new and hazardous
Work. Of the tliree Inventions which^
eome now to my Memory, the
Firjl was an Engine rcprefenting the ntO"
Hon of the Planets. Of this I can (ay no
more than what I find, in his own words,in
6ne of his Mifcellany Papers in Manulcript.
c The
1 8 Jn Account of all
The words ore thefe : " I did, once, caufe
" to be reprefented to me, by W/res^ the
*^ motion of feme P/^;?e^j, in facl as it is,
" without Theories of Orhs^ &c. And it
" feemed a ftrange and extravagant Motion.
" One while , they moved in Spires for-
" wards 5 another while they did unwind
" thcmfelvcB in Spires backwards : One while
" they made larger Circles , and higher 5
" another while fmaller Circles, and lower;
" One while they mov'd to the Norths in
" their Spires, another while to the South,
His Secofid Inve>jtion was a fecret Curio-
fjji of Nature^ whereby to htow tfje Sea--
^Jcn of every Hour of the Tear , by a Phi-
. lofopkical Glafs^ placed ( with a fmall propor-
tJ0?7 of Water ) in a Chamber, This Inven-
tion I defcribe in the words of him, from
whom I had the notice of it, Mr. Thomas
(^)sei Biffjel ({{'), one of his Lord (hips Menial
tra<^%. Servants ^ a Man skilful in difcovering and
17. opening of iVfwcj-, and famous for his curi-
ous Water-Works^ in Oxfordjlme^ by which
he imitated Rair?^ Hai/^ the Rain-bow^ Thun-
der and Lightning.
This fecret cannot be that Inftrument
which we call Vitrum Calevdare^ or the
Weather-Glafe ^ the Lord IBacon in his
Wri-
ehe Lord Bacon^s Works. 19
Writings (IX fpeaking of that as a thing ^ W^ ^jA
in ordinary ufe, and commending , not L^ jj^^b^
Water || but reftifi'd Spirit of Wine, in the P- -^•
uie of it. Nor ( being an Inftrument made J/cIudh
with Water ^ is it hkely to have fhewcd 5- M.p.
changes of the Air with fo much exaftnefs, ^^^*^'^'
as the later Barolcope made with Mercury.
And yet, it fhould feem to be a fecret of
high value by the Reward, it is faid to
have procured. For the Earl of £/^x ("as
he in his Extraff.pag. 1 7. reporteth ) when
Mr.'^aco^i had made a Prefent of it to him^
was pleas'd to be very bountiful in his
Thanks, and bcftow upon him Tivickiiam'
P'irk,^ and its Garden of Paradife, as a
place for his Studies. I confcis, I have not
Faith enough to believe the whole of this
Relation. And yet I believe the Earl of
Ejjex was extremely Liberal, and free even
to Profufenefi 5 that ke ivas a great lover of
Learned Me;/, bewg , ;;/ Jo/^ie fort , o//e of
them himfelf (m) 5 and that^ with lingular J^^ 5^*
Patronapje, he cherifti'd the hopeful Parts .^Elil
of Mr. T.iaco77^ who alfo ftudied hk For- ^ 3p-
tunes and Service. Yet Mr. Tiucon him-
felf, w^here he profefleth his unwillingne(5
tobefliort, in the commemoration of the (h^bs-
favours of that Earl 5 is, in this great one, ^on's^yoi;
perfedly filent (//). But there is, in his eT/u/^
.Jpologic, another Story^ which may feem ^^^^^^- P'
ci to^^^^^-
10 jfn Account of all
to have given to Mr. B///?je/, the occafion of
his Mifcake. " After the Queen had de-
" ny'd to Mr. Bacon^ the Sohcitor's Place,
" for the which the Earl of EJJca had been
'^ a long and earncft fuitor on his behalf, it
" pleafed that Earl to come to him, from
" Thdniond^ to Tivicliuam-Park^ 5, and thus
" to break with him: ^\v. Bacon ^ the^ee«
'' hath deny'd me the Place for you. '
" you fare ill, becaufe you have chofcn me
" for your Mean and Dependance ; You
"^ have fpent your thoughts and time in my
'^ Matters:, I die — if I do not do (bmewhat
'^towards your Fortune. You (hall not
" deny to accept a piece of Land which I
"will beftow upon you. And it was, it
feems, fo large a piece, that he under-fbld
it for no lefs than Eighteen Hundred
Pounds.
W\s,TUrd JnvoiUon v/as, a kind of Me-
chanical hdex of the Mwd. And of this,
(o^jn Mr. Bf/pcl (0) hath given us the following
rnrc7. p. Narrative and Defcription. " His Lord-
J7ii8. cc fi^jp pi'cfented to Prince Hemj^ Two Tri-
^^a7?gHldr Stones (as the Firft-fruits of his
" Phik^fophy) to imitate the Sympatheti-
" cal Motion of the Load-jione and Iron^
'^ although made up by the Compounds of
^•^ Meteors ( as Star-fhot Jelly ) and other
" like ?viagical Ingredients, with the refleft-
"ed
the Lord Bacon's JVorks. 1 1
'* ed Beams of the Sun , on purpoffe that
^' the warmth diftilFd intothem through the
" moift heat of the Hand, might discover
"the affedion of the Heart, by a vifible
"fign of their Attradion and Appetite to
" each other, like the hand of a Watch,
" within 4:en Minutes after they are laid on
" a Marble Table, or the Theatre of a great
" Looking-Glafs. I write not this as a
" feigned Story, but as a real Truth 5 for
" I was never quiet in my Mind, till I had
" procured thefc Jewels of my Lord's Phi-
" lofophy from Mr. Archji Primrofe , the
" Prince's Page.
Of this I find nothing , either in his
Lordfiips Experh/tevts (f) touching E/zz/JJi- (^p\ ^^^^
ot7^ or Immatcriate Virtues^ from the M/^ds f^iji- ^ent.
and Spirits of Men 5 or, in tho(e concern- l^'^^^l
ing the fecret Virtue of Sympathy arid Anti- p 205.
patky (q). Wherefore I forbear to fpeak (q) j^^^
further in an Argument about which I am ^^?. 9<5q.
fomAichinthedark. &c.p:^ii.
I proceed to fubjeds upon which I can
fpeak with much more ailurance, his Inimi-
table Writings,
Now, of the Works of the Lord Bacon^
many are extant , and (bme are loft , in
whole, or in part.
His Abecedarium Nutrn^e^ is in part loft,
and there remaincth nothing of it befides
c 3 - the
%% An Account of all
the Fragment, lately retrieved, and now
iirft publilh'd. But this lofs is the lefs to
be lamented, becaufe it is made up with
advantage^in the fecond and better thoughts
of the Author, in the two firll: Parts of
his Inftauration. The World hath fiiftain d
a much greater lols in his Hifioria Gravis d^
Levis ^ which ( I fear ) is wholly peri(hed.
It is true, he had gone no further than the
general Delineation of this Work, but
thofe Out-lines drawn by fo great an Ar-
tifl-, would have much diredted others, in
delcribing thofe important Phenomena of
Nature. ■
Alfo his Colledion of Wife and Acute
Sentences , entituled by him , Ornamcfifa
Ration iili a '^ is either wholly loft 5 or, in
fome obfeure place, committed to Moths
and Cobwebs. But this is, here in fome
fort fupplied, partly out of his own Works,
and partly out of thofe of one of the An-
cients.
Loft, likewife, is a Book which he wrote
(^^5•^^ in his Youth, he calFd it [Temporis Partus
ike Eiift/Maximus^] (r) the Greateft Birth of,
^{■"^^r' Time : Or rather, Tcntporis ^Partus Mifi
the ra?i ciiluf^ the Mafcuhne Birth of Time. For
7v2 J' fo Gruter found it calFd in fome of the
Scrpr4; Papers of Sir William Bo fivel (f). This
Phiiofo- ^-^g ^ j^-^j ^£ Embrio of the Inftauration :
'''"•■ .---■^■~^- And
the Lord Bacon s Works. 1 3
and if it had been preferved, it might have
delighted and profited Philofophical Pvea-
ders, who could then have ften the Gene-
ration of that great Work, as it were from
the firft Egg of it.
Of thofe Works of tlie Lord^ Bacons
which are Extant, fome he left impcrfcft,
, that he might purfue his Dcfign in others;
I As the V^w .Atlantis : Some he broke off
I on purpoie, being contented to have fct
! others on-wards in their way 5 asTZc Dia-
! IcgueofaHolyWar. In fome he was pre-
I vented by Death 5 as in the Hiftory of
' Henry the Eighth. Of fome he dcfpaired 5
I as of the PhJcfophia Prima, of which he left
I but fome few Axioms. And laftly, (bmc
! he perfefted ^ as fome parts of the Great
I Inftauration. And amongft all his Works,
[ that of his Infianration, deferveth the firft
I place. He thought fo himfelf, faying to
I Dr. Andrews, then Lord BilThop of ^T;;/-
chcjler (t), " Tliis is the Work, which, in C^ ^«
"my own judgment, (Si ^ii^^^qii^^^^^ p^^^^ f,'^;,,fj^
^' Imago J I do moft efteem. ^ hisAd-cr^
Indus Work, he defigned to take in;;;;^';^^
pieces the former Model of Sciences 5 to hoiyw.in'
lay afide the rotten Materials 5 to give it a
new Form, and much Enlargement 5 and
to found it, not upon Imagination, but
Reafon helped by Experience. Thj?
^^ c 4 Great
24 \A)i Account of all
Great Irjjlanration^ was to confift of Six
'Parts.
The Firfi Part propofed was, the Parti
i7077s of the S(7C77ces : And this the Author
perfeftcd in that Golden Treatife of the
Adva77c^777C7/t of Lcar 777 77 g , addreffed to
(u) In King Ja7y/es^ a Labour which he termed (liiy
hit Letter ([-^^ c6mfon oif his other Labours. This
Bodicy, 'p. he firft wrote in two Books, in the E77gl7jlj
j4. Refuf. Tongue, in which his Pen excelled. And
of this Firft Edition that is to be meant,,
which, with fome Truth, and more Mo-
defty, he wrote to the Earl of Salisharj 5
(^0 ^" ^ telling him (n?), "That, in his Book, he was
Refufc!" " contented to awake better Spirits, being
}'ii' " himftlf like a Bell-ringer, who is firft up
" to call others to Church. Afterwards h
enlargeth the Second of thofe Two DiP
courts, which contained efpecially the a
bovefaid Partition, and divided the Matter
of it into Eight Books. And, knowing
that this Work was defired beyond the Seas,
and being al(b aware, that Books writteii
in a modern Language, which receiveth
nuich change in a few Years, were out of
ufe^ he caus'd that part of it which he
had written in E77gljJI)^ to be tranflated in-
to the Latific Tongue, by Mr. Herbert^ and
fome others, who were eftcemed Mafters
in the "i^omat: Eloquence. Notwithftand-
ing
the Lord Bacon's Works. ^ 5
ing which, he (b luted the Style to his
Conceptions, by a ftrift Caftigation of the
whole Work, that it may defervedly (eem
his own. The Tranflation of this Work
( that is, of much of the Two Books writ-
ten by him in EngliJI?^ he firft com-
mended to Dr/P lajfer^ a Profeflbur of
Divinity in the Univerfity of C^e/, with the following ^^f/^.V^*
Excufe 5 That, if he had ftolen any time, ^^rt of
for the Compofure of it, from his Maje- ;^^^;^^;^;'^
ftie's other Affairs, he had made fome fort an Engl.
of Reftitution , by doing Honour to his ^'^fo""'
Name and his Reign. The King wrote to
him, then Chancellor, a Letter of thanks,
with his own Hand (r) 5 and this was the {<^)Ddted
firft part of it. " My Lord, I have rccei- ^^.f/l^;
" ved your Letter, and your Book, ihoincoiieh.of
^^the which you could not have fcnt, ^^^^1^'^;' '"
^' a more acceptable Prcfent, to me. How j>. 83. *
" thankful I am for it, cannot better be
^^ expreffed by me, than by a firm Refblu-
"tion I have taken:, Firft, to read it
" through with Care and Attention 5
" though I ftiould fteal (bme Hours from
" my Sleep 3 having , otherwife , as little
" fpare Time to read it, as you had to
^' write it : And then to ufe the liberty of
" a true Friend, in not fparing to ask you
'^the queftion in any Point, whereof I
" ftand in doubt, ( Nam ejus cji explicare^
^^ Ofjus eji condere 5 ) as, on the other part,
" I will willingly give a due commendation
" to luch Places, as in my Opinion, fhall
"de-
lo Ait Account of all
" dcferve it. In the mean time, I can with
" comfort, aflure you, that you could not
" have made choice of a Subjeft^ more be-
" fitting your Place, and your Univerfil,
" and Methodical Knovvlcdg.
Three Copies of this Org^;/;/^?/, werefent
by the Lord Bacon to S\x Henry Wot ton ^
one who took a pride ( as himfelf faith )
in a certain Congeniality with his Lord-
fhip's Studies. And how very much he va-
lued the Prefent^we may learn from his own
* sir H. "^ords. " You Lordfhip ( faid he"^ ) hath
vvottonv' "done a great and ever-living Benefit to
p.^'sr '^^^^ the Children of Nature, and to Na-
2P9. ' '^ ture her lltf in her uttermoft extent of
"Latitude: Who, never before, had fb
"noble, nor fo true an Interpreter, or
( as I am readier to ftyle your Lordfliip )
" never fo inward a Secretary of her Cabi-
^■^net. But of your Work (which came
" but this Week to my hands ) I (hall find
" occafion to fpeak more hereafter 5 ha-
*■' ving yet read only the Firft Book there-
" of, and a fevv Aphorifms of the Second.
'' For it is not a Banquet that Men may (u-
" perficially tafte, and put up the reft in;
"their Pockets 5 but, in. truth, a folid
"Feaft, which requireth due Mafticationo
" Therefore, when I have once, my (elf^
" perufcd the whole, I determine to have
" it
cc
the Lord Bacon's Works. j i
it read, piece by piece, at certain Hours,
*' in my Domeftic College, as an Ancient
'^ Author : For I have learned thus much
" by it already, that we are extremely miC-
" taken in the Computation of Antiquity,
"by ftarching it backwards 5 becaufe, in-
" deedo. the firft Times were the youngeft^
" efpecially in points of Natural Difcovery
" and Experience.
This Novum Orgamtm containeth in it,
Inftruftions concerning a better and more
perfeft u(e of Realbn in our Inquifitions
after things. And therefore the Second
Title which he gave it was, Direclm/s con--
ccrnwg hiterpretations of Nature. And, by
this Art, he defigned a Logick more uftful
than the Vulgar, and an Organcii apter to
help the Intelledual Powers, than that of
^rijlotle. For he propofed here, not fo
much the Invention of Arguments, as of
Arts 5 and in Demonftration, he ufed In-
duftion, more than Contentious Syllogifin 5
and in his Induftion, he did not ftraightway
proceed from a few particular Senfible No-
tions, to the moft general of all 5 but rai-
led Axioms by degrees, defigning the mod
general Notions for the laft place ^ and in-
lifting on fuch of them as are, not merely
Notional, but, coming from Nature, do
alfo lead to her.
This
}x Jin Account of dtt
This Book containeth Three Parts, Th^
Preface-^ the Diflribntkn of the Work of
the Great Inftauration 3 Apkorifms^ gui-
ding to the Interpretation of Nature.
The T^reface conlidereth the prefent un-
happy ftate of Learning, together with
Counfels and Advices to advance and im-
prove it. To this Preface therefore, are
to be reduced the Indicia^ and the T^roem
(^)script. in Gruter (d)^ concerning the Interpreta-
p-^85.^ tion of Nature^ the Firft Book de Ang-^
^'^^' rriQvtk SckiJtiamm ^ which treateth gene-
rally of their Dignity and Advancement 5
^J'crmfr ^"^^ his Lordftiip's CcptaU & Vifa (e),
amovg the writtcu by him, in Latme^ without Inten-
sciipta. tion of making them publick in that Form,
{i)j»nQ and fent to Dr. Aridrevps (/), as likewife
Rd"-ff ^ to Sir Thomas Bodely^ with a defire to re-
p. 55. * ccive their Cenfiires and Emendations. The
latter returned him a free and friendly Judg-.
ment of this Work, in a large and learned
Letter,publifhed in the Cabal a ^m the E?7gljjl)
(g) /»^fr Tongue, and by Gn//er in the Latwe (^);
^phifof The like, perhaps, was done bythe^m/er,
p ^2.' though his Anfvver be not extant.
To the Dijlribtttiof?^ belongeth that La-
(h) Inter tine Fragment in Grutcr (/)^, called. The
scnfta. Delineation, and Argument, of the Se-
^■'^^' cond Part of the Inftauration. So doth
^0)P'^g that (/) of the Philofophy of T.'ir^j;;7^c/
and
the Lord Bzcons Works. 35
I and Tele(itfs^ and ( efpecially ) Democritus.
For ( as he fheweth in the beginning of
! that Part) he dcfigned firft to confider the
Learning of which the World was poflcf-
fed 5 and then to pcrfeft that^ and that
being done, to open new Ways to further
Difcoverics.
To the ^phorifmf is reducible, his Letter
to Sir Hemy Savil^ touching Helps for the
IvtelleSual 'Powers , written by his Lord-
' (hip in the E^/gl/fi (k) Tongue. A part of ^^[^^^ ^^'
iKnowkdg then fcarce broken (/), Men 125* &c.
believing that Nature was here rather to ^^^')^''^/^
be followed than guided by Art 5 and as noza on
neceflary ( in his Lordfhip's Opinion ) as ^f^'^^ '^^^-
the grindingand wlietting ofan Inftrument, ''
or the quenching it, and giving it a ftron-
ger Temper.
Alfo there belong to this place , the
'Fragmcvt^ call'd Aphoiijm c^ Cor/(iUa^ de
Auxilik mentis. And Sentcntis Dnodedm
de hiterpretiit70?7e Niitur£ ^ both publifhed
by Grtiter in the Latmc Tongue, in which
his Lordiliip wrote them (;//). fm) see
In the bringing this Labour to Maturity, ^Isf r/*
he u(ed great and deliberate Care 5 info-
much that Dr. (;/) Raivley faith, he had feen (^n) d.r.
Twelve Copies of it, revifcd Year by Year, /« Lffe of
one after another 5 and every Year altered con.'^^^"
and amended in the Frame thereof, till at
d laft
34 An Account of all
laft it came to the Model in which it was
committed to the Prefs. It was hke a migh-
ty Pyramid, long in its Ereftion ^ and it i
will, probably, be like to it in its Conti-
nuance.
Now he received from many parts be-
yond the Seas, Teftimonies touching this^
Work, fuch, as beyond which he could
• In Ept^ not ( he faith, "^ ) expcd at the firft, in
Aiidl^ws. ^ abftrufe an Argument ^ yet neverthelels
(he faith again ) he had juft caufe to doubt
that it flew too high over Me?7s Heads :
He purposed therefore, ( though he broke
the order of Time ) to draw it down to
the (enfe by (bme Patterns, oi Natural Story
and hi qui fit ion.
And fo he proceeded to ^
The Third Part of the Injiattration^ which
he called the Phdcnome7hi of the Umverfc^
i)V the Hiftory Natural and Experimental,
fiibfcrvient to the building of a true Philo-
fophy.
This Work confifteth of leveral Sedli-..'
ons :
The Firfi is \\]i> T^^irajlcre^ or Prepara-
tory to the Hiftory Natural and Experi-
mental. It is a (hort Dilcourfe written in
Latine^ by the Author, and annexed to the
Novum Orgarmm Sciefitiuritnt, There is de- ,
livered in it, in Ten Aphorifms, the gene-..
ral
the Lord Bacon's Works. ^ y
ral manner of framing a Natural Hifl:ory»
After which foUoweth a Catalogue of par-
ticular Hiftories, of Coeleftial and Aereal
Bodies , and of thofe in the Terredrial
Globe, with the Species of them : Such
as Metals, Gems, Stones, Earths, Salts,
Plants, Filhes, Fowls, Infefts^ Man, in
his Body, and in his Inventions meclianic
and liberal.
A late Pen has travelled in the Tranda-'
tion of this little Defcription of Natui'al
I Hiftory 5 and it is extant in the Second Part
I of the RefufcitatWT2.
To this Parafieve^ it is proper to reduce
I the Fragment of the Aheccdarhim Nature 5
[ and a fhort Difcourfe written in Latine by
his Lordftiip, and publifhed by Gritter in) : (n) See
It being ( what alfo its Title (hews ) a ^^'^j ^'^"^
1^ re face to the Ph^mmetia of theUniverfe -^ U^. ^'
or, The Natural Hijlory.
Neither do we, here, unfidy place the
Fahlc of the 5\(Vn> yitlainis : For it is the
Model of a College to be Inftituted by
fome King who philofbphizeth , for the
Interpreting of Nature, and the Improving
of Arts. His Lordfhip did ( it fcems")
think of finifhing this Fable, by adding to
it a Frame of Laws, or a kind of Utopan
Commonwealth 5 but he was diverted by
his defire of CoUeding the Natural Hi-
d 2 ftory
3 6 j{n Account of all
flory which was firft in his efteem. This
Supplement has been lately made by ano-
(o) See ther Hand (o) : A great and hardy Adven-
^i'^o/'n] ^u^^^ ^^ fii^ifl^ ^ VxQCQ after the Lord Veru"
Atlantis Ums Pencil. This Fable of the 5^(j?21? Jn
1(5^0.^^"* ^^^^^^^ '" ^^^ Luthic Edition of it, and in
the Franc k fort Collection , goeth under
the fcilfe and abfurd Title of V\flvus ^tlas:
As if his Lordftiip had alluded to a Perfon,
or a Mountain, and not to a great Ifland,
which according to PUto^ periflied in the
Ocean.
The Second Se&ion is , the Hiftory of |
Winds , written in Latine by the Au-
thor, and by 7^. G. Gentleman, turned in-
to Engljjh, It was Dedicated to King
Charles^ then Prince, as the Firft-fruits of
his Lordfhips Natural Hiftory 5 and as a
grain of Muftard-feed, which was, by de-
grees, to grow into a Tree of Experimen-
tal Science. This was the Birth of the firft
of thofe Six Months, in which he deter-
minVl (God affifting himj to write Six
(everal Hiftorics of Natural Things. To
\v\t^o? Dcnje avd Rare Bodies ^oi^ Heavy and
Light Bodies 5 of Sjn/pathji and Antipathy 5
of Salt , Sidphw , and Mercury 3 of Life
and Death '^ and ( which he firft perfected)
that of IVindsj which he calls the Wings
by which Men flic on the Sea, and the
Beefoms
the Lord Bacon's JVorks. 3 7
Beefoms of the Air and Earth. And he,
rightly, obferveth concerning thofe Poji-
vati ( for , as he (aith , they are not a
part of the Six Days Works, or Primary
Creatures J that the Generation of them
has not been well iindcrftood , becaufe
Men have been Ignorant of the Nature
and Power of the Air , on which the
Winds attend, asJfiol//son Jinw,
The EriglijJ) Tranflation of this Book of
Winds, is printed in the Second Part of
the Refafcitatio^ as it is called, though im-
properly enough 5 for it is rather a Colle-
ftion of Books already Printed , than a
Refulcitation of any confiderable Ones,
which before flept in private Manu(cript.
The Third Se&ion is^ the Hiftory o? Den-
fit) and Rarity^ and of the Expanfion and
Coition of Matter in Space. This DiP-
courfe was written by his Lordfhip in La-
twe-^ and was publidi'd very imperfedly
by Gruter^ amongfl: other Trcati(es, to
which he gave the Title of Impetus Philofo-
fhkj (0) :, and veiy perfeftly and correct- : (^o^ sei
ly by Dr. Rarvley^ out of whofe Hands none ^^ruUr^nt
of his Lordfhip's Works came lame and ill J^'g';'-
(hapen into the World. 337,^scc'
In this Argument, his Lordfhip allow-
ing that nothing is fubftrafted, or added
to the total Sum of Miitter, does yet grant,
d 5 that
'|§ An Account of alt
that in the fame Space there may be much
more or lefs of Matter ^ and that ( for In-
ftance fake ) there is ten times more of Mat-
ter in one Tun of Water, than in one of
Air. By which his Lordftiip (hould feem
to grant, what yet I do not find he does
m any other place ^ either that there is a
Vdciitim in Nature, or Penetration of parts
in Bodies.
The Tlird Sc&ion js^ the Hiftory of Gr^-
T7ty and Ixzity ^ which fas before was
fiid ) was but defignd^ and remainet^
not ( iliat I can hear of J (b much as in
the rude draught of its Defignation. On-
ly, there are publifhed his Lordfhip's To-
ries, or Articles of Inquifition, touching
Gravity and Levity ^ in his Book of Ad-
(q) D? vancement (q) 3 and a brief ^ditus to this
famM. ^i^^^^'Yo annexed to the Hijior/a Vcntorum.
i.3.p386!ln thM Aditus, or Entrance, he rejefteth
the Appetite of heavy Bodies to the Cen-
ter of the Earth, as a Scholaftic Fancy :
He taketh it for a certain Truth, That Body
does not fufFer but from Body, or that
there is any local motion which is not foli-
cited, either from the parts of the Body
it felf which is moved ^ or from Bodies
adjacent , either contiguoufly , or in the
next Vicinity, or at lead within the Orb
of their Activity : Andlaftly, he commen-
deth
the Lord Bacon's Works. 3 9
deth the Magnetic Virtues introduced by
Gilbert, whom yet in this he difalloweth,
that he made himfelf as 'twere a Magnet,
and drew every thing to his Hypothefis.
The Fourth SeSm; is, the Hiftory oiSjm-
fathy and Antipathy. Of this we have on-
ly the Aditm annexed to that of Hrfiorh
Gravis & Ijrcis s and a few Inftances m ^
his Sylva Sylvanim (r). la this Hiftory he ^^y^f;;^^
defigned to avoid Masjical Fancies, which 9^, 97.
raife the Mind, in thefe things, to an un- 4^^^4S<^'
due height 5 and pretence of occultnefs of
Quahty, which layeth the Mind alleep,
and preventeth further Inquiry into thefe
ufeful fecrets of Nature.
The Fifth Scciion is, the Hiftory of 5^^/^
Sulphur, and Mercury, the tlirce Principles
of the common C/^wz/r j 5 of which thrce,he
•thought the firft to be no primordial Body,
but a Compound of the two others, knit
together by an acid Spirit. The Acinus (f) (C) ^^11
to\his is annexed to that ot HiJioriuSy^^^'^^fJf^-
pathi^ & Antipathic Renm 5 but the Trea- tra:,fj.w-
tifc it felf was ( I think ) never written. r.^!^h
of the Hi.
Th^ Sixth Se3ion is, the Hiftory of Life d^rj^oj
and Death '^ written by his Lordftiip in^'""''-
Latim 5 and firft turn d into Fngl/fi by an
injudicious Tranflator :, and rcndrcd much
better a fecoad time, by an abler Pen, made
d zi abler
40 \/f)i Account of all
abler ftill by the Advice and Affiftance of
Dr. Ravpley,
This Work, though ranked laft, araongfl:
the Six Monthly Defignations :> yet was
(et forth in the (Icond Place: His Lord-
(hip ( as he ftith ) inverting the Order,
in refpcft of the prime ufe of this Argu-
ment, in which the leafl: lots of time was,
by him , efteemed very precious. The
Subjeft of this Book ( which Sir Henry
(tj Re. Woiton (t) calleth, none of the kafl: of
ww/n/,p. i;iis LQj.(jQ^ip'g \Yorks) and the Argument
(lOPan- of which, (bme had before undertaken (//)5
^^^//,^!',l] but to much lefs purpofe is the firfl: of
o'cJo. Lip^. tho(c, which he put in his Catalogue of the
'^^^- Magfjalia NaUir£, And doublels,' his Lord-
fhip undertook both a great and a moft
defirable Work, of making Art fiort^ and
iJfe cafie and long, ^' And it was his Lord-
" (hip's wifh, that the nobler fort of Phy-
^^ ficians might not employ their times
*^' wholly in the fordidnefs of Cures, nei-
" ther be honoured for neceffity only 5 but
"become Coadjutors and Inftruments of/^
" the Divine Omnipotence and Clcmencc,
"in prolonging and renewing the Life of
^•^Man; And in helping ChriRians who
^' pant after the Land of Promise, fo to
^' journey through this World s Wildernefs,
"' as to have their Shoes and Garments,
"(thefe
the Lord Bacon's Works. 4 1
" ( thefe of their frail Bodies ) little worn
" and impaired.
The Sever?th and greateft Branch of the
Third Part of the b?Jiauratior7^ is hjs Sylva
Sylvarum, &r l\atiirJ Hifiory t^ which con-
taineth many Materials for the building of
Philofophy, as the Orgarmvt doth Dire&j^
ms for the Work, It is an Hiftory not on-
ly of Nature freely moving in her Courle,
(as in the produftion of Meteors, Plants,
Minerals)^ but alio of Nature in con-
ftraint, and vexed and tortur'd by Hu-
mane Art and Experiment. And it is not
an Hiftory of (iich things orderly ranged 5
but thrown into an Heap. For his Lord-
(liip, that he might not difcourage other
Colkdors, did not caft this Book into ex-
aft Method 5 for which reafon it hath the
left Ornament, but not much the left Ufc.
In thfs Book are contain d Experiments
of Light, and Experiments of life ( as his
Lordlliip was wont to diftinguifh J 5 and
amongft them fome Extraordimvy^ and o-
thers Commo77, He undcrftood that what
was Common in one Country, might be
a Rarity in another : For which Reafon,
Dr. Caiui^ when in haly^ thought it worth
his pains to make a large and Elegant De-
fcription oHOnrway of Brewing^vi Lordfhip
alfo knew well, that an Experiment mani-
feft
4^ Jn Account of all
feft to the Vulgar^ was a good ground for
the Wife to build further upon. And him-
felf rendred Common oms^ extraordinary by
Admonitions^ for farther Trials and Im^
provements. Hence his Lordfliip took oc-
H^ftxcZ] cafion to (ay (xv)^ that his writing of 5)/-
i.p. 2^ va Sjlvarum^ was C to (peak properly)
^^}e''9i- jnQt a Natural Hiftory, but a high kind of
Natural Magic : Becaufe it was not only
a de(cription of Nature , but a breaking
^ of Nature into great and ftrange Works.
'' This Book was written by his Lord(hip
in the Englifi Tongue, and tranflated by
an oblcure Interpreter, into French^ and
out of that Tranflation, into Latine^ by
James Gruter^ in (iich ill manner;, that they
darkned his Lord(hip's Sence, and deba(ed
his Exprcflion. James Gruter was fcnfible
of his Mifcarriage , being kindly adver-
ti(ed of it by Dr. Rarrley: And he left be-
hind him divers amendments, publi(hed by
his Brother Ifiac Gruter^ in a (econd Edi-
CO ^'''- tion (x). Yet ftill (b many Errors have
in 16". ' e(caped, that the Work requireth a Third
Hand.
MounpMir lElJtts Deodatus had once en-
gaged an able Perfon in the tranllation of
this Book 5 one who could have done his
Lord (hip right, and obliged (uch Readers
as underftood not the Engbjh Original. He
be-?
the Lord Bacon's Works. 4 }
began, and went through the Three firfi
Centuries^ and then defifted 5 being defi-
red by him who fet him on work, to take
his hand quite off from that Pen, with
which he moved fo flowly. His Tranfla-
tion of the Third Century is now in my
Hands ^ but that of the twofirft, I believe
is loft.
His Lordfhip thus began that Third Cen-
tury in EfigliJJ). " All Sounds ( whatlbe-
" ver ) move round 5 that is to fay, on all
" fides ^ upwards, downwards, forwards,
"and backwards. This appeareth in all
<^' Inftances.
'"■ Sounds do not require to be convey-
" ed to the (cnfe in a right Line, as VjfMes
" do, but may be arched. Though it be
" true, they move ftrongeft in a right Line 5
" which neverthelefs is not caufed by the
^^ rightnefs of the Line, but by the JI,wrt-
'^ nefs of the Diftance ^ Linea reBa brevif-
^^ ftma. And therefore we fee, if a Wall
''be between, and youfpeak on the one
^^ fide, you hear it on the other 5 which is
'*^ not becaufe the Sound pafieth through
'' the Wall , but archeth over the Wdl.
Thefe words are thus turned, by Jaj^jes
Grpiter^ in his laft Edition 5 and tollera-
bly well ; Efpecially it we compare with
fome other places in his Tranflation.
Omnes
44 ^^ Account of aU
Omms fom^ quakscutjq:^ (i77t^ in circulum
moventur 5 hoc eji^ in omncs partes^ farfam^
deorjiim^ antrorjum^ retrorfimt 5 quod omnes
decent injlanti£.
Soni no7i requirunt vt re&alinea ad fenfitm
devehantnr^ qnemadmodnm vifibilia^ fed po^
teji ejfe arcmta'-y quumvis Tjerum jit^ qiibd
fortijfime per reUam lineam moyeant : ^^^qh
tamen id lines dehetur re&itudini^ fed mi-
nori intervallo 5 Linea enim reUa. eji brevif
fima. Hinc^ (i quis ah altera interje&i Pa-
rietis parte vocem proferat , ah altera queat
exaudiri 5 72on qttbd vox Parietem tranfeundo
penetret ^ fed quod arcuata ultra parietem
afcendat.
But the Tranflator, employed by Moun-
(ieur Deodate^ turned them after this better
manner.
Omnes in univerfum Soni in Orhent fcrun-
tur : In omnem videlicet partem 5 fiirfum^ de-
orfum^ antrorfnm^ & retrorfnm. Hoc in om-
nibns exemplis cernitur,
Soni non in reUa tuntum linea ad Jenfim
dcferri necejfe hahent^ qnemadmodnm viflia 3
fed d^ inflexa (& arcnata devehi pojfiint:
^anqnam in reUa linea fortijfime movean-
tnr, Z)bi tamen non hoc imputandum Re&i-
tndini Lin£ , fed brevitati Jntervalli, Re-
&a enim linea eadem brevijjlma eft. Itaq'^
experimur^ muro interject vocem^ ex adverja
parte
the Lord Bacon s Works. 4 J
parte mhtj exaydiri^ qua ex alteri ejus parte
prolata fuerjt. Auditnr autem^ tion quod per
murum penetret , fed quod eum tranfiendat
motu flexuofo.
The Judicious Reader may difcern by
this little, how much this latter Tranflator
exceird the former, in comprehending and
expreffing his Lordfhip's Sence. And yet
I cannot (ayf^ that throughout thofc Three
Centuries in which he hath labour'd , he
hath every where truly hit his Conceit.
His Lordfhip had a very peculiar Vein with
him 5 and I may re(emble it to the fingu-
rity in the Face of Cardan^ who tells us, in
his own Life, that he fet to Painters of di-
\'ers Countries, yet could never have the
Air of 7/ taken by them.
Whilft I am fpeaking of this Work of
his Lordfliip's, of V^tural Hijiorj^ there
comes to my mind a very Memorable Re-
lation, reported by him who bare a part
in it, the Reverend Dr. Rarvley, One day,
his Lordftiip was dictating to that Doftor,
fome of the Experiments in his Sjilva. The
fame day, he had fent a Friend to Court,
to receive for him a final Anfwer, touch-
ing the efFeft of a Grant which had been
made him by King James, He had hither-
to, only hope of it, and hope deferr'd f
and he was defirous to know the event of
the
4<5 Jn Account of all
the Matter, and to be free'd, one way ot
other, from the fufpence of his thoughts.
His Friend returning , told him plainly,
that he muft thenceforth, defpair of that
Grant, how much foever his Fortunes need-
ed it. Be it jo , faid his Lordftiip ^ and
then he difmifled his Friend very chearful-
ly, with thankful acknowledgments of his
Service. His Friend being gRie, he came
flraightway to Dr. Rawley^ and (aid thus
to him. Well Sir ! Ton Bnf,mfs wont go
on ; let ii^s go on with this^ for this is in our
Poiver. And then he diftated to him a-
frefti, for fome Hours, without the lead he-
fitancie of Speech, or difcernible interrup-
tion of Thought.
To this Work of V^itural Hifiory^ may
be reduc'd his Lordihip s Treatifes, De Sond
& Ahditit^ De Metallis & MincruHLus^ De
Magnete^ De Verfionihns^ Tranfmitationihuf^
f^hltiplicaticnihJs ^ & Ejfe&ionibtts Corpo-
mm^ De Luce & Lttmine (y). All pub-
41 ^e '»^^'^J by Dr. Rawley, in the Coll eftioncaird
I uce & Opufcjfla Varici T'olthma Francilci Baconi.
l^aifTex- ^^^ ^^^^^y 1^-kewife reduce to the fame place,
tanf a- the Paper De Fhixu & Refiuxu ^aris^
^cn^T publifhed by Ijaac Gruter , amongft the
Philofo- Scripta (s6j); and tliat other De Ratiorte
485. (z) S-iipralhiloi^ihica./^. 178. &c.
the Lord Bacon s Works. 47
Inveniendi can fas Flux us ^T^ejluxus Marhi,
Ca ) as alfo the Bacomana , , . , . ^ , , , ,
Fhjijtologica and Medica^ m to EngjiOi (>y r. g. j $n Re.
thefe Remains. f"^^- ^^^^ *• P- 90. .
There may be further of the n^a. De Mow, 4«-
added, his Cogitationes^ De ^^>=e^ fo the Hiftor. Ventoi-.
Natura Rerum-^ De Se&i- ^'^''
one Corpornm 5 Continuo & Vacuo 5 and the
Fragment calkd Filum hahyrinthi five he-
gitima Inquidtio de Motn : All publiflh'd by
the (ame Mr. Gruter^ in the lame Book.
Likewife the Treatifes, De Motus Jive Fir-
Wis aSiv£ variis Speciebus^ d^ Hijioria Na-
iuraljs d^ Experiment alis de Forma Calidiy
joyned to the Hijioria Ven-
torum (h), and infertedal- (b) nif^, vent.^^. 129,
fo into thtOrganum (c)'^ ^^^- /«e as his Lordfhip noteth (e), too many of
ScfeTiX thefe Hiftories were at firft framed rather
C5P.135. for Delight, and Table-talk, than for Phi-
lofophy. Stories were feigned for the fake
of their Morals 5 and they were frequently
taken upon groundlefs Truft ^ and the la-
ter Writers borrowed out of the more An-
cient, and were not Experimenters, but
Tranfcribers ; And fuch a one was Pliny
himfelf, both in his larger and lefTer
Work 5 I mean that of Solims^ who is but
'Pliny contracted.
There are who have accufed the Lord
''Bacon himfelf^ for taking Experiments too
readily upon Truft, and without delibe-
rate and difcreet Choice. To fuch I will
return Anfvver in his own words. " The
(fj N^t. " Rejcftion (f) which I continually ufe,
f/p* ^'''^ " ^^ Experiments (though it appeareth
£Ar/>fr. 25. " not J is infinite, but yet, if an Experi-
" ment be probable in the Work, and of
" great ufe I receive it, but deliver it as
" doubtful.
T/je Fourth Part of the Injlauration de-
figned, was Scak Intelledtus.
To this there is fbme fort of entrance in
his Lordlhip's diftribution of the Novum
Organum^
the Lord Bacon's W^ksi ^§
Orgamnt^ and in a Page or two under that
Title oi Scala^ publilhed by Gruter (g): fgj Sfi
But the Work it felf pafled not beyond ^^''^'^»
the Model of it in the Head of the Noble
Author.
That which he intended, was a particular
Explication , and Application of the 5*e-
co^d Part of the hijiauratjon^ C which gi«
vcth general Rules for the Interpretation
of Nature ) by gradual Infkances and Ex-
amples.
He thought that his Rules, without fbme'
more (enfible Explication, were like DiP
courfes in Geometry, or Mechanics, with-
out Figures, and Types of Engines. He
therefore defigned to feleft certain Sub-
jefts in Nature, or Art 5 and as it were, to
draw to the Senfe a certain Scheme of the
beginning and progrels of Philofophical
Difquifition in them 5 (hewing by degrees,
where our confideration takes Root, and
how it fpreadeth and advanceth. And ,
fome fuch thing is done by thofe who, from
the Cicatricidu^ or from the T^im^JumSa^
Ikns^ obferve and regifter all the T^harjo-
metm of the Animal unto its Death, and
after it alfo in the Medical, or Culinarie,
or other ufe of its Body ^ together with
all the train of the Thoughts occafioned
e by
JO An Account of all
by thole T^h«6 But we have alfo a Verlion, much more
Accurate and Judicious, performed by
DocT:or
U^l,
the Lord Bacon ^s Works. 5 5
Doftor Ravpky (r)^ who was pleafed to ■['^yf}'
take that Labour upon him, becaufe he un-^'[i8x'^,&c.*
derftood the value his Lordfhip put upon
this Work 5 for it wasfiich, that I find//j^
Charge given concerning it, in his laft Will
uTidTeJiamerit. "In particular, I wiflithe
"Elogie which I writ, in Felkem Memo-
" riam Elizabeths ^ may be publifhed.
For the Occafion of it, his Lordfhip tel-
leth it thus, in a Letter to Sir George Carey
(fX then in Fra?7ce , to whom he fent fu|j,^^^^-'
it. "Becaufe one muft begin,! thought to
" provoke your- remembrance of me by
"a Letter: And thinking to fit it with
"fomewhat bcfides Salutations, it came
"to my mind, that this laft Summer-
" Vacation, by occafion of a faftious Book
" that endeavour'd to verifie Mifera Fami*
"//^, Cthe Addition of the Pope s Bull J
" upon Queen Elizabeth ^ I did write a few
" Lines in her Memorial, which I thought
" you would be pleafed to reade, both for
"the Argument 5 and becaufe you were
" wont to bear afFeftion to my Pen. Ve-
" rum nt aliud ex alio : If it came handfome-
" ly to paG, I would be glad the Prefident
" de "^ Thou ( who hath written an Hiftory, * xhua-
"as you know, of that Fame and Dili-^^-
" gence ) (aw it : Chiefly, becaufe I know
^' not whether it may not ferve him for
e 3 ^'-fomQ
'^± An Account of all
" fome afe in his Story : Wherein I would
"be glad he did right to the Truth, and
" to the Memory of that Lady ^ as I per-
"ceive by that he hath already written,
" he is well inclined to do.
The Fourth ^, the Begwnmg of the Hijlo-
ry of Great Britah?, This was an Eflay,
(cnt xoY^\n^Jamcs^ whofe Times it confi-
dered. A Work worthy his Pen, had he
proceeded in it :^ feeing
ft) 5^5 Cf^iieci.cf Letters ( 35 hc (0 ^^th) he (hould
in Rernk. p. :q. Lrtter to > ^.^ r T--
'/(j.^ um^^ And p : 8, ^p, have written of Times, not
\o. tie I etter to the Lord only fince hc could remem-
&%l'r«gr "' """'"' ber, but ilnce he could ob-
• ' ferve , and by way of In-
troduftion, of Times, fas he further no-
teth ) of ftrange Variety ^ the Reign of a
Child 3 the offer of an Ufurpation by the
Lady Jane^ though ft were but as a Diary
Ague 5 the Reign of a Lady married to a
Forreigner, and the Reign of a Lady (oli-
vary and unmarried.
His Lordfhip, who had given fiich proof
pf his Skill in writing an Hiftory of Ef7g-
jand^ leaving tlie World, to the unfpeak-
able lofs of the learned part of it ^ his late
Klajefty, a great favourer of that Work,
and wife in the choice of fit Workmenj
cncourag'd Sir Hcfiry Wotton to endeavour
ir. by his Royal Invitation, and a Penfion
' ■• ■"■ of
the Lord Bacon s Worhl 5 5
of 500 /. per anffum. This Propofal was
made to that Excellent Man, in his decli-
ning Years 3 and he died after the finilhing
fbme (hort Charafters of fome few Kings 5
which Charafters are publifli'd in his Ke-
mains (u). But this new Undertaking di- jj^'^Jf^!^]^
verted him from a Work, in which he had fZ!p.'ioo.
made (bme confiderable Progrels, the Life
of Luther^ and in it , the Hiftory of the
Reformation, as it was begun and carried
on'm Germafjy : Of which Work, the Pa-
pers (they (ay) are loft, and in a Current
of Time of no great depth, fiink beyond .^
all poffible Recovery.
The Fifth is^ the I/^ago Civilis JhIH C^-
faris.
The Sixt^ Imago Civilis Augufii defaris.
Both of them (xv) fhort perfonal Chara- C^) a^
fters, and not Hiftorics of their Empire : opufiuu
And written by hisLordlhip inthatTonguc, p. 195.
which in their Times, was at its height,
and became the Language of the World.
A while fince, they were tranflated into
EngUflj^ and inferted into the Firft Part of ^^^^^^
the Refftfcitation (x). Refufc.
Edvv. 3(f,
In the Seventh Place^ I may reckon his {y)%e
Book De Sapientia Vetemnt^ written by him ^^^^ft^r
in Latine (^ J, and fet forth a (econd time Matthews
with Enlargement 3 and tranllated into ^^^^fLifc,
e4 Ef;gl^J/j^'^^'
'56 [An Account of all
TrlJatt ^^y Sir ^Arthur Gorges (z) : A Book
c„,y late- in which the Sages of former Times, are
^^o'^tt'tr ^^^^^^^ vnoiQ Wife than it may be they
/ays%n were, by fo dextrous an Interpreter of
p^Ayo. their Fables. It is this Book which Mr.
Sa^idys means, in thofe words which he
hath put before his Notes, on the Meta-
t r4^' 18. morphop of Ozid ^. " Of Modern Wri-
'^ ters, I have received the greateft Light
'' from Geraldiis , T^oritamts , Fkwus , Vi-
•" ves , Comes , ScaUger , Sabirjus , T^/erws^
" and the Crown of the latter, the Vicount
^<^ of Saint Alha^s.
It is true, the defign of this Book was,
Inftruftion in Natural and Civil Matters,
either couched by the Ancients under thofe
Fictions:) or rather made to feem to be (b,
by his Lordfhip's Wit, in the opening and
applying of them. But becaufe the firft
ground of it is Poetical Story, therefiire
let it have this place, till a fitter be found
for it.
For his Lordfhip's T^oUtkal Wr7t7?7gs^
they are fuch as relate, either to Eccleii-
aftical, or Civil Polity. His Writings
which relate to Ecclefiankal 'Polity^ ( ion
h^ Fpi/He he was not willing (a') that all his Labours
to EifJyjp ihould go into the City, and none into the
Andrcvs. Q^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^J,^ ^l^^^^ following.
the Lord Bacon s Works. 57
The F/V/? is a Difcourfe (i), bearing the (^V" ,
Title of Certain Confideratiovs , touching ^'^^] ,\
the better Pacification and Edification oirpo^fuHi-
the Church of E/7gIand 5 and dedicated to ^'fjout^'
King James. The Second (r) is, an Adver- hu Lord-
tifement^ touching the Controverfies of the -^{^^ ^-^
Church of England, The Third is, a Dia- Quanoy
logue touching an Holy War : All written ^^Jw„
at firft in EngliJIj^ by his Lordfhip. The Refufc
Firji of thefe toucheth the Settlement of P* ^^^•
Doftrine : The Second^ the Settlement of
Difcipline amongft the Chrijiians in Eng-
land : The Third , of Propagation of the
Faith amongft Unbelievers. In all which
it is plain, that his Lordfhip dealt in the
Affairs of the Church, as he was wont to
do in Civil Matters, Suavihu^ Modis^ and
in the Mean. Accordingly he was wont
to compare himfclf to the Miller of Gran-
chejier^ a Village by Camhridg. Of him
his Lordfliip telleth, that he was wont to
pray for Peace among the Willorcs : For
whilft the Winds blew, the Wind-mills
wrought, and his Water-mill was lefs Cu-
ftom'd (dy His Lordfhip was for pacify- (a) $ce
ing Difputes, knowing that Controverftes^^^'^^ f''
of Religion^ would hinder the Advancement ^hew, jV
of Sciences. Refufc.
His Writings which relate to Civil Polity^ ^* ^^'
are very confiderable 5 and yet they fall
much
^S An Account of all
much (hort of that which he had fome-
times in defign. For he aimed at the com-
plete Model of a Commonwealth,though he
hath left only (bme preparations towards
it in his DoUrine of Enlargwg the houttds
of Empire ^ and in a few Aphorifnts con-
CO ^^ ccrning V^nverfal Jujlice (e). He alfb
iai7r made a Propofal to King James^ of a Di-
1.8 C.3. g^(^ of the Laws of Englatjd. But other
p! 6 jo',&f. Studies, together with want of Time and
Affiftaiice, prevented the ripening of thefc
Thoughts.
Now his Lordfhip s Writings in this Ar-
gument of Civil Polity, are either more
Gerjcrnl^ or fuch as have more Ejpedal re-
fptft to the (everal Dominions of the King
of E^!gb^/d. His Political Writings of a
more gc?/cral Nature, are his Apothegms^ and
Ejfays^ befidcstheExm-/'/^, out of the ^4^:/-
vancement above remenibred. Both thefe
contain much of that Matter which we
ufually call Moral ^ diftinguifhing it from
that which is Civil : In the handling of
which fort of Argument, his Lordfhip has
been efteemed (b far to excel, that he hath
hud a Comment written on him as on an
(-f ^ s^^. Author in Ethics (/), and an Advancer of
V. inaccii that moft udful part of Learning. Not-
Comment.
in 1- 7. Aug. Sclent, de Philrjophia Morali auginda, tn Oiflavo.
with-r
the Lord Bacon's Worksl 5 9
withftanding which^ I am bold to put thefe
Books under this Head of Mutter Political:
Both becaufe they contain a greater por-
tion of that Matter 5 and becaufe in true
Philoibphy, the Dodrine of Politics and
Ethics^ maketh up but one Body, and
fpringeth from one Root, the End of God
Almighty in the Government of the
World.
Th^ Apothegms (of which the ^^^(0 pofh.p1.'sn-
is the beft Edition ) were (what he faith j^^/^0^7.
alfo (K) ofhisEflhysJ) but as //?c JJrrre^- \°;;-^|;^5,
tions of his other Studies, They were die- ^^ EpijHe
tatedone Morning, out of his Memory 5 ^ndrewT
and if they feem to any, a Birth tooincon-
fiderable for the Brain of fo great a Man 5
they may think with themfelves how little
a time he werjt rvith it^ and from thence
make ibme allowance. Befides, his Lord-
ftiip hath received much Injury by late Edi- ^ i^ ^^^n
tions (7), of which fbme have much en- h ^^-^^
larged, but not at all enriched the Col- ^IIj^dI
leftion^ ftufRng it with Tales and Sayings, Rawiey^*
too infacetious for a Ploughman's Chimney- fufcltidj
Corner. And particularly, in the Collefti- Ed^v. ;d/
on not long; fince publifli'd (k\ and call'd ^^ ^^
Ihc ^pothegpts of Ki^fg James, A/;;^ Lon.id^^.
Charles, the Marquefi of Worcefter, the
Lord Bacon, afid vS/r Thomas Moor 5 his '
Lordlhip is dealt with very rudely. For,
befides
6o [An Account of all
befiJes the addition of Infipid Tales, there
are (bme put in which are Beaftly and Im-
(1) Ex, moral (/J : Such as were fitter to have been
gr. Apo- joyned to ^Antim^ or Aloyjla^ than to have
i8^ ^ ^' polluted the chafte Laboursof the Baron of
To thofe Apothegms^ may be referred
thefe now publifti'd. The Effays^ or Coun-
fels Civil and Moral^ though a By-work al-
fo, do yet make up a Book of greater
weight by far, than the apothegms : And
comwg home to M.ens Bttfir7efs and Bofomes^
his Lordlhipentertain'd this perfuafion con-
^'v^^'^,^ corning them (^i)-, that the Lutine Volume
to the D. might lali as long oi Books jlmild lalt. His
oy Bucks. l_,ord{liip wrote them in the jP//^///7j Tongue,
and enlarged them as Occafion ferv'd, and
at laft added to them the Colours of Good
and Evil^ which are likewile found in his
(ti) Lib. Book De ^ugmevtk (^n ), The Latine
6.C. 3. p. Xranflation of them was a Work perform-
ed by divers Hands 5 by thofe of Doftor
Hacket Clate Biftiop of Lichfield^ Mr.
Benjamin Johnfon (the learned and judi-
cious Poet) and fome others, whofe Names
I once heard from Dr. Rawley 5 but I can-
not now recal them. To this Latine Edi-
tion, he gave the Title of Sermones Fi-
dcles^ after the manner of the Jews^ who
call'd the words sAdagies^ or Oblervations
of
the Lord Bacon s Works. 6 1
o£ the Wije^ Faithful Sayivgs '^ that is, cre-
dible Propofitious worthy of firm Aflent^
and ready Acceptance. And ( as I think)
he alluded more particularly, in this Title,
to a paffage in 'Ecclejiajies "^^ where the i*f,"\^j.
Preacher (aith that he fought to find out
Verba DekHabJlia^ ( as Tremellius rendreth
the Hebrew ) fleafa^jt Words^ ( that is, per-
haps, his Book oi Ca97tkles') '^ and Verba
Fidelia (as the CxmcTre/piellius^ Faithful
Sayings ^ meanii^, it may be, his Collefti-
on of Proverbs. In the next Verfe, he calls
them Words of the Wife ^ and lb many
Goads and Nails given ^b eodem Pajiore^
from the fame Shepherd [of the Flock of
Jfrael.-]
In a late Latine Edition of thefe Effays,
there are flibjoyned two Difcourfes, the
one caird De Negotik^ the other Faber
Fcrtund:, But neither of thefe are Works
newly publifh'd, but Treatifes taken out
of the Book De^ngtmntk (o). (^) ^^^•
To this Book of Effays may be annexed, 585^,' &c7'
that Fragment of an Ejfay of Fame^ which
is extant already in the T^fiifcitatio (/?). (p) R^-
His Lordftiip's T^ohtical Writi?2gs of a "^ '^'^ * ^*
mort Jpecial Nature, as relating to the Po-
lity, and various Affairs of the feveral
Dominions of the King of E/7glaf;d^ are
very many, though moft of tliem fhort.
As
6% An Account (f all
As Firft^ a Dilcoufe of the Union of
(q) y^" Etjgland and Scotland (^q),
p. 197 * Secotjdly , Articles and Confiderations,
(r) Page touching thellnion aforefeid (r).
^T(\v Thrrdlji ^ Confiderations touching the
255. ^^ Plantation in Ireland (/).
Fourthly^ Confiderations touching the
opcouf' Queen's Service in Irelwd (t).
c/Lettersi Fifthly^ Confidcrations touching a War
^(")^^''*- with Spain («), then the Over-match in
^//jpcr^-f this part of the Worlds though now iii
inOuano, meaner Condition.
e'repnn- Sixthly^ His feveral 5*/Jeer/)e/ ^ by which
red /yd. I tnean not only thofe which go under that
Refufc. Name, but hkewife his (everal Charges^
they being much of the (ame Nature,,
though delivered ex Officio^ which the o-
ther were not always. Thefe Speeches
and Charges, are generally Methodically,
Manly , Elegant , Pertinent , and full of
Wife Obfervations 5 as thofe are wont to
be which are made by Men of "^Parts and
Bfifinefs. And I fhall not pais too great a
Complement upon his l.ordfhip, if I fhall
fay, That *twas well for Cicero^ and the
honour of his Orations , that the Lord
'^ Bacon composed his in another Language.
Now his Speeches and Charges are very
many, and I fct them down in the follow-
itig Catalogue.
His
the Lor^J Bacon s Works* 6j
His Speeches in Parliament to the Lower
Houfe, are Eight.
The Firji^ 59 Elizabeth^ upon the Mo-
tion of Subfidy (n>). M Re-
The Second J 5 Jacobi^ concerning thee^;^/*^?^
Article of General Naturalization of the Edfnon, ^
Scotifh Nation (x), (x)P.io.
The Thirds concerning the Union of
Laws (7). (y)P.i4«
The Fmtrth^ 5 Jacobi^ being a Report
in the Houle of Commom^ of the Earls of
Salisbury , and V^rthamfton , concerning
the Grievances of the Merchants, occafi-
oned by the Praftice of Spain (z). .. p
The Fifths 7 Jacobi^ perluading the
Houfe of Commons, to defift from further
Queftion of receiving the King's Meflages
by their Speaker, and from the Body of
the Council 5 as well as from the King s
Perfon (a). (a)P.4f.
The oixth^ 7 Jacobi^ in the end of the
Seffion of Parliament, perfuading (bme
Supply to be given to his Majcfty, which
ftemed then to ftand upon doubtful Terms 5
and paffed upon this Speech (/>). .^. p
The Eighth^ 1 2 jf ^r^/^i, when the Houfe
was in great Heat, and much troubled a-
bout the Vnderfakers^ who were thought
to be fome able and forward Gentlemen,
who were laid to have undertaken that the
King's
64 '^n Account of all
King's Bufinefi fhould pals in that Houfe^
(OP.48. as his Majefty could wifti (c).
His Speeches in the Houfe of Lords ^ are
Two.
The jFiri?, To the Lords^ at a Confe-
rence in the Parliament, 7 Jacobi^ by hint
then Solicitor 5 moving them to joyn with
the Commons, to obtain liberty to treat
of a Compofition with his Majefty, for
(d)P.42. j^^^^^, ^^^ Yemres (d).
The Second^ ( when he \vas Chancellor )
to Mr. Serjeant Rkhardfon^ chofen then
Speaker of the Houfe of Commons :> be-
beins; a Reply to his Excufe aud Orati-
His Speeches to King James^ were alfo
Two.
The Firfi^ A Speech by him, chofen by
the Commons, to prefent a Petition touch-
ing ^Purveyors^ delivered to his Majefty at
White-Hall^ ill the fecond Year of his
(r*)P.5.ReignC/).
The Seco^d,^ Speech uftd to theKing,by
him^thcn Solicitor, and chofen by the Com-
mons for the prefenting of the hisimmefjt
of tkeir Grievances , in the Parliament 7
His Speeches in the Chancery^ are Twd
like wife.
The
the Lord Bacon 's Works. (> 5
The Firji^ At the taking of his Place in
Chancery, when made Lord-Keeper (h), W^-j?-
The Second^ To Sir William Jorjes^ up-
on his calHng to be Lord Chief Juftice of
Irelatid^ Amio 1617. (i). (O^-^i?-
In the Stdr-Chambo\ he ufed a Speech to
the Judges and others, before the Summer
Circuits, being then Lord-Keeper, and al-
fo Lord'Prote&or 5 for his Majefty was at
that time in Scotland^ Anno 16 ly. (>^). (k^P.S;.
In the Common-Pleas^ he ufcd a Speech
to Juftice Hfttton^ when he was called to
be one of the Judges in \\\q Common-Picas.
(J\ (1)P.95*
In the Exchequcr-Chfimher ^ he ufed a
Speech to Sir John De?iham^ when he was
caird to be one of the Barons of the Ex-
chequer (^?A (mJP^i*
There al(b he ufed an Argument ( being
Solicitor General) in the Cafe of the Poji-
tiati of Scotland (n)^ before the Lorn- (n)/"^/.
Chancellor, and all the Judges of England\l^\"f^[^
(0), The Queftion in this Ca(e was, Whe- (o)see/t
ther a Child born in Scotland fince Kin^ ^^^^^^J"^^-
James s Coming to the Crown of England^ p. 37.
was Naturalized in England or no? His
Lordftiip argued for the Affirmative.
For his Charges^ they were thefe follow-
ing,
f F^rjl,
66 Jn Account of all
Firfl^ His Charge at the Sejfions^ holden
for the Verge in the Reign of Ring James^
declaring the Latitude and Jurildidion
X?)J^^' thereof fp).
'i66x^Tnd ^y t^^ l^^rgc-i is meant a Plat of twelve
reptnttd Milcs round, laid to the Ring's fettled Man-
*tJn\f' fion-Houfe, fubjcft to fpecial exempted Ju-
Refufc. rifcliftion, depending upon his Perfon and
great Officers. This his Lordiliip called
an HalPpace, or Carpet fpread about the
King's Chair of Eftate, and he judged that
it ought to be cleared and void, more than
other places of the Kingdom, that Offen-
ces might not (eem to be (hrovvdcd under
the King's Wings.
SecoTidly^ His Charge in the Star- Cham-
Rduic? ber againfl: Duels (^)5 to which may be
zd.p^rt, added the Decree of the Star- Chamber in
^'^l^ ^. the fame Cafe (r).
part i. of Thirdly^ His Charge in the Star-Chamber
^^^^"^'- againft WiUiam Talbot, touching the Do-
ftrine of Si/arcz, concerning theDepofing
(i')Kef, and Killing of Excommunicated Rings (/).
jparf. Fourthl)., His Charge in the fame Court
* ^^' againfl: Mr. jf. 5. for Scandalizing and Tra-
ducing in the Public SeffioHs., Letters fent
from the Lords of the Council, touching
(: ^ P 6^ ^^^ Be}7Cvolence (^).
Fifihly^ His Charge in the (lime Court
agaiuft M. L. S. W. and H. jf . for Tradu-
cing
the Lord Bacon's Works. 6j
cing the King's Juftice in the proceedings
againfl: Wcfiort^ one of the Inftruments in
the enipoyfbning of Sir Thomas Overbu-
Sixthly^ His Charge iri the Kings-Bench
ilgainft Ovoe??^ for affirming conditionally.
That if the King were Excommunicated, it
were lawful to kill him fn?).
S€V€f7thly\ His Charge in the Kings-Bench
Jigainft the Lord Safrqiiere [x)^ a Scotifh No- (x) //»
bleman, who in private Revenge^ had (lib- {^^[J[{^^
orned "Robert Carlik to murther John Tar- p. 15.
ner^ a Mafter of Fence.
Eighthly^ His Charge before the Lord
High Steward, Lord Elefmere^ and the
Peers, againft the Countefs and Earl of
Somerfet (y). r ^ '
His Lordfhip's Seventh Writings touching j5ry? p^iu
Civil Policy in Special^ is his Treading on the ''^ ^^^ ^^"
Statute oWfes (^). ^ ii:f;"£f
The Eighth is call'd, Obfervations upon a "^-'^Jns.
Libel^ publifh'd J////^ 1592, in Defamation ^i^o/^^,'
of the Qiieen's Government {a). In the(e i<^42.
Obfervations, his Lordlhip hath briefly let ^^^^ ^'
forth the prefent State of thole Times ^ lojo
but he hath done the lame thing more at
large in his Memorial of Queen Elizabeth,
The Ninth is, A true Report of the Trea-
fin of Dr. Rodeyigo Lopez ( a Spaniard^ and
a Phyfician attending upon the Perfon of
f 3 the
68 jfn Account of all
the Queen ) 5 who was in Confederacy
with certain Spanifh Agents, and hired by
the King oi Spain ^ to poyfon her Maje-
03 Pag. fty {h),
'^** The Tefith is, His Apologk touching the
Earl of Ejjex^ in which he cleareth himfelf
of Ingratitude by the plain reafbns of the
Cad*, and doth not ( as many others have
done) increafe the fufpicion by the very
(c) Pubu Excufe (c).
f«VLun. ThQ Eleventh \s^ Advice to King James
ln\y^. touching Mr. Sutton s Eftate^ in the fettling
16$ I. -^^^ of which, in the Hofpital of the Char-
VftZt^ /rc^wjc, the Event (heweth that his Lord-
farf of Ihip was miftaken, when he called it A
%\e- Sacrifice without Salt (d). He propofed
ufc; 2^5. four other Ends of that great heap of Alms
to the Ring s IVIajefty. As firft, The Ere-
ftion of a College for Controverfies, for-
the encountring and refuting of T^apijis,
Secondly, The Ereftion of a Receipt ( for
the word Seminary he refused to make ufe
of) for Converts from the perfuafions of
T^me^ to the Reformed Rehgion. Third-
ly, A (ettlement of Stipends for Itinerary
Preachers, in Places which needed them ^
as in hancajlme where fuch care had been
taken by Queen Elizabeth. And laftly.
An increafe of Salary to the Profeffors in
either Univerfity of this Land. Where-
fore
' i
the Lord Bacon *s Works. 6^
fore his Lordfhip manifefting himfelf, not
againft the Charity, but the manner of dif^
pofing it , it was not well done of thofe
who have publickly defam'd him, by de-
claring their jealoufics of Bribery by the
Heir.
The Twelfth is, A Propofition to King
Jamcs^ touching the Compilwg and Amend-
ment of the Laws of England, written by
him when he was Attourney Genecal, and
one of the Privy-Council (e\ fe) P.ig.
The Thirteevth is , An Offer to King ^^i-
'j antes ^ of a D/g^ to be made of the Laws
of England (fy (0^^
The Fotirtcenth'is, The Elentents of the '^;^^^^;
Common Laws of England^ in a doMep.i^j- Cs?
Traa: The one of the Rules and Maxwjs l^/^^'^'f
of the Common Law, with their Latitude
and Extent. The other, of the Z)fe of
the Common Law, for the preftrvation of
ourPerfons, Goods, and good Names (^). ^if^^^^
Thele he Dedicated to her Majcfty, whofe ^^39-
the Laws were, v/hilft the Collection was
his.
The Fifteenth is, a Draught of an Aft
againft an uftrions Jl)jft of Gain (h\ in de- ^2cc^^
livering Commodities in ftead of Money, part 2/ p.
Touching thele latter Pieces, which may ^^*
be termed Writings in Juridical Polity^ and
which he wrote as a debtor to his ProfeP
f :^ (ion ;,
70 An Account of all
fion 5 it is beyond my Skill, as well as out
of the way of my Studies, to pais a fpe- j
cial Judgment on them. Onely I may^note
it in the general, that if he reached not^
fo far in the Common Law, as Sir Edward
Cook^^ and fome other Ornaments of the
long Robe : the prepoflbffion of his Mind
by Philofophical Notions, and his regard
to Matters of EJlate^ rather than to thofe
of Law^ may be affigned as the true Caufes
of it : For doubtlels Parts were not want-
ing. On this Subjeft it is, that he thus
^ utters writeth to Sir Thomas Bodley (J). " I think
i» Refufc. " no Man may more truly (ay with the
f ' 34« cc pf^lni^ muhura t7Jcolafint Ammo, wea^ than
" my felf For I do confefi, fince I was
^' of any Underftanding , my Mind hath,
''- in efFeft, been abfent from that I have
" done: And, in abfence are many Errors,
^"^ which I do willingly acknowlqdg, and
" amongft the reft this great one that led
" the reft 5 That knowing my felf, by in-
" ward Calling, to be fitter to hold a Book
" than to play a Part, I have led my Life
" in civil Caufcs, for which I was not very
*' fit by Nature, and more unfit by the pre*
'* occupation of my Mind.
To a like purpofe is tkk^ inaManulcript
Letter to the Lord Chancellor Egerton^
which I have fometimes perus'd.
1
the Lord Bacon's Works. 7 1
— '"I am not (4 J fo deceived in my ^^,^^'2^!/'
" (elf, but that I know very well, (and I l%Zo{is.
" think, your Lordfhip is major Corde^ and
" in your Wifdom you note it more dcep-
'^ ly than I can in my felf) that in Praftifing
'^ the Law, I play not my beft Game, v^^hich
*^^maketh me accept it with a mil qnid
^^potius'^ asthe beft of my Fortune, and a
'^ thing better agreeable to better Gifts than
''mine, but not to mine.
And it appcareth, by what he hath feid
in a Letter to the Earl of jE//?;^ (/J, that fij an.
he once thought not to praftife in his Pro- 'nf<'^i^it-.
feflion. "I am purpofed (diid he J not^*'*''
" to follow the prafticcof the Law. — And
'-'• my Reafon is only, becaule it drinketh
" too much Time, which I have dedicated
" to better pur poles.
To this Head of P^//V/, relating to the
Affairs of thefe Kingdoms, we may reduce
moft of his Lordjhps Letters , publifhcd
correftly in the Refufcitatio^ and in thcfe
Rep^/aws^ and from uncorreft Copies, in
the Cabala. Thefe they though often contain
private Matters, yet commonly they have
Matters of Eftate intermingled with them.
Thus, his Letter to the Lord-Treafurer
Bitrghley (m\ was writ in Excufe of his (m)P. i.
Speech in Parliament, againft the Triple
Subfidy. So, many of the Letters to the
f 4 Earl
7^ \An Account of dU
^(«)^*S.Earl o^EjJex (n), and Sir George VilUers
ll)^'.j6, (oX relate plainly to. the IriJI) Affairs. So,
Cp)P-48, fome Letters to King James^ relate to the
^(q3P.5j. Cafes of Peacham (/>J, Om?i (^), and o-
Cr)r.5 8. thersfr; ^ to the Matter of his Revenue
(0^-57. (/J 5 to the New Company (t), who un-
(t) P-5^> dertook to Dye and Drefs all the Cloaths
^ ^ ' '°' of the Realm, to the Pr^rmriire in the Kings-
(u) V.66, Bench, againft the Chancery (//). Moft of
the reft are a Mifcellany, and not reducible
to one certain Head.
Lajl of all^ For his Lordftiips Writings
upon Pious Suhjeds^ though for the Nature
of the Argument, they deferve the firft
place ^ yet they being but few, and there
appearing nothing fo extraordinary in the
compofure of them, as is found in his Lord-
fhips other L^tor^ 5 they have not obtain'd
an earlier mention.
They are only thefe :
WisCorifejJjonof FaJth^ written by him-
MPuhiS^^^ ^"^ ') j"
of Talent that way al(b. Hence, when ^j^l'^J^
the Queen had a purpoft to Dine at his ^^ctent.
Lodging at Ttvkkiiam Park, he prepared ^' '^'
a Sonnet (z»), tending to the Reconcile- (z) See
ment of her Majefty to the Earl of Effex f^f^l'f^
then in Disfavour. But it was very fel- Efrex.p.75.
dom that he courted thefe Mufe, and
therefore his Vein does not appear (b Ele-
gant and Happy , as Exercife might have
made it. The truth is, 'tis one of the hard-
eft things in the World, to excel in Poetry 5
and to Attempt, and not to Excel, is to
lofe both Time and Reputation; For in
this Art, Mediocrity will not pais for Ver-
tue. In this (queamifh Age, ( as Motwfienr
Rapwe (aith, in his Judicious Rejie&wns )
Verfes are Ridiculojis^ if they be not ^d^
Mir able. They are, it fecms, like (bme Mo-
dern Difhes, which if they have not an
high tafte, occafionDilguft.
Now of thefe feveral Works of hisLord-
(hip's already Publifh'd ( of vvhich a great
part
74 ^^^ Account of all
hel^n P^^^ ^^^ ^^^ written in that ffon ignobile
s^w^Dug- ^inqmnmum^ of his rece(s from Bufinefs )
dak^tthe there is not yet made any exaft CoUeftion,
/L//rc. either in L^/7;/e, or Errglijh-^ though (bme
mains, attempts have been made in both thofe
Languages. The firft Latine Collection was
fet forth accurately, for fo much of it, by
Dr. Rawley^ under the Title of Opera ^o-
(b3lon. ralja d^ Civilia [b). But it contained only
fn^l\.% ^he Hifiory of ntmy the Seventh:, the Ejfaies-^
Dr. Raw- the Book^ of the Wijdom of the Ancients ^ the
^Pe^'ttu. ^'^h^^^ ^f ^^ ^oly War 5 the U^w Atlan-
E>:odate, tis ^ the Book dc Augmcntis 5 the Hijloiy of
^^nfmr ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^ Hijiory of Life and Death, The
""i^'^' f^cond Laiine Colle&ion was lately publilh'd
d^MoT^' ^^^ ^^ Francfort on the ^ieyn. It pretend-
num,i66$. cth, in the Title, to contain all his Lord-
?nFoi. (hips Extant Works, whether Philofophi-
cal. Moral, Political, or Hiftorical : Al-
though, bcfides the Books in the foremen-
tion'd Collection, it containeth only his
Lvrdfiips Life ( without any mention of
Dr. T^axvley^ who wrote it) 5 the Qrganonx,
the Script a 3 the Sylva Sylvarum 5 the Feli^
cities of §lneen Elizabeth^ the Images ofju"
lius, and Auguftus Csfar ^ and the Epijik to
Fulgentius, without the OpHfitila^ to which
that Epiftle is annexed. In this Collefti-
on,the l\^va Atlantis is ( as I noted a while
ago) molt abfurdly called Novus ^tlas:^
and
the Lord Bacon's Works. y 5
and the other Books are mort falfly Prin-
ted. And yet the Stationer (who, I fup-
pofe by his performance, was both Corre-
dor and Publiflier ) does tell us of this
Edition, that it was purged of all Faults.
But his CoUedion cannot be (b purged^
unlefs the whole Volume be made one en-
tire Blot. Pofterity (I hope ) will do his
Lordlliip Honour , and Benefit to them-
felves, in a larger and more accurate Col-
leftion of his Works. Thefe Latwe ones,
as alfo the Mifcella^ies^ and the two parts
of the T^fitfcitatio^ fv/hich are the only
attempt in Englifh ) being far (hort of per-
fedion.
Thus far I have travelled in an Account,
(ftichasitis) ofthofe Genuine Writings
of the Lord Bacon^ which are already pub-
hfh'd^ and which, being (like Medals of
Gold ) both ruh in their Matter^ and beau-
tiful in their Form^ have met with a very
great, and well nigh, equal number of Pur-
chafers and Admirers.
This general Acceptance of his Works,
has exposed him to that ill and unjuft ufage
which is common to Eminent Writers. For
on fuch are fathered, fbmetimes Spurious
Treatifcs^ Ibmetimes moft Corrupt Copies
of good Originals 5 fometimes their EiTays
and firft Thoughts upon good Subjeds,
though
76 \4n Account of all
though laid afide by them Unprofecuted
and Uncjorrefted, and (bmetimes the very-
Toys of their Youth, written by them in
trivial or loofe Arguments, before they had
arriv'd either at ripenefi of Judgment, or
fobriety of Temper.
The verieft Straws ( Hke that of Father
Garmt ) are fhewn to the World as admi-
ral Reliques^ if the leaft ftroaks of the Image
of a celebrated Author, does but feem to
be upon them.
The Pre(s hath been injurious in this
kind, to the Memory of Bifliop A^dreivs^
to whom it owed a deep and folemn Re-
verence. It hath (ent forth a Pamphlet
upon an Idle Subjeft, under the venerable
Name of that great Man, who ( like the
Grafs in hot Countries, of which they are
wont to (ay that it groweth Hay j was
bom Grave and Sober: And ftill, further
to aggravate the Injury, it hath given to
that Idle Subjeft, the idler Title of the
Ex-ak'tatjon of Ale.
In fuch an unbecoming manner it hath
U) About dealt,long ago (d)^ with the very Learned
1/$ ^l^^ ^J^d Ingenious Author of the Vulgar Errors.
It hath obtruded upon him , whilft ahve,
a dull and worthle(s Book ftollcn, for the
moft part out of the Pfyfcs of Magirffs^
by a very Ignorant Perfon : A Plagiary fo
Ignorant,
the Lord Bacon s Works. 7f
ignorant and fo unskilful in his Bjdcr^ that
not diftinguiftiing betwixt L^vU and Lew,
in the (aid Magnus , he hath told us of
the LtviY^ that one part of it is gihhows^
and the other light. And yet he had the
confidence to call this Scribble, The Cabi-
net of Nature unlocked : An arrogant and
fanciful Title, of which his true Humility
would no more have (ufFer'd him to have
been the Father, than his great Learning
could have permitted him to have been
the Author of the Book. For I can affure
the Reader upon my knowledg, that as he
is a Philofopher very inward with Nature,
fo he is one who never boafts of his Ac-
quaintance with her.
Neither hath the Lord Bacon gone with-
out his (hare in this Inju(tice from the Pre(5.
He hath been ill dealt with in the Letters
printed in the Cabala^ and Scrinia^ under
his Name : For Dr. Rawley profeflfed, that
though they were not wholly Falfe, yet
they were very corrupt and emba(ed Co-
pies. This I believe the rather, having
lately compared fome Original Letters with
the Copies in that CoUeftion, and found
them imperfed. And to make a particular
Inftance^ in comparing the Letter of Sir
Walter l^kigh to Sir Robert Car^ of whom
a Fame had gone that be had begg*d hi«
Eftatc 5
yZ An Account of all
Eftate 5 I found no fewer then forty Dif-
ferences^ of which (bme were of moment.
Our Author hath been ftill worfe dealt
with, in a Pamphlet in Ovfavo^ concern-
ing the Trial of the Earl and Cotwtefs of
Somerfet : And likewife in one in ^arto^
which beareth the Title o( Bacon s Remai^is^
though there cannot be fpied in it, (b
much as the Rnwes of his beautiful Ge-
nius.
His Lordfhip, and other (uch memorable
Writers, having formerly been fubjeft to
fiich Abufo 5 it is probable that many v^^ill^
at firft, fufpeft the faithftilnefi of this Col^
kftion 5 and look upon that as adulterate
Ware, which is of fuch a (udden here
brought forth to them, out of the Dark.
But let them firft make trial, and theii
pa(s Sentence. And if they have fuffici-
ent knowledg of the peculiar Air of this
Author, they will not only believe that
thefe T^cmams are his, but alio fet a value
upon them as none of his moft ufelefi and
waft Papers. They fay, the Feather of
a Fhcofjix is of price : And here fiich will
own, they have fome little of the Body, as
well as part of the Plumage*
It is difficult to imitate fuch great Au-
thors, in fo lively and exaft a form , as
without fufpicion, to pafs for them. They
who
the Lord Bacon's Works. 79
who are the moft artificial Counterfeits in
this way, do not refemble them as the Son
does the Father, but at beft, as the dead
Pifture does the living Perfon. And thofe
who have true skill in the Works of the
Lord Verulam^ like great Matters in Paint-
ing, can tell by the Defigrt^ the Strength^
the way of Colourivg^ whether he was the
Author of this or the other Piece, though
his Name be not to it.
For the Reader, who has been left ver-
fed in his Books, he may underftand, that
nothing is here offered to him as the La-
hour of that Lord^ which was not written
either by his own Hand, or in Copies tran-
fcrib'd by the moft faithful Pen of his Do-
meftic Chaplaw^ Dr. William Rarcley : A
Perfon whom his Lordfhip chiefly us'd in
his Life-time, in Writing down, Tranfcri-
bing, Digefting, and Publifliing his Com-
pofurcs^ and to whom, at his death, he
exprefled his Favour, by bequeathing to
him in Money, One Hundred Pounds,
and in Books, the great Bibles q( the Kiftg
of Spain,
I refer him, whodoubteth of my Vera-
city in this Matter, to my worthy Friend
Mr. John Ravpley, (the Executor of the
laid Reverend Doftor) by v/hofe care
moft of thcfe Papers have been preferved
for
8o j4n Account of all
for the public Good 5 and who can bear
me witnefi, Cif occafion (erveth) that I
have not herein imposed upon the World.
It is true, that Dr. Rawlej^ in his Pre-
£ice to the Opf/fada of his Lordfliip, hath
forbidden us to expeft any more of his
^/^aws in Latine^ or EvgliJJ) : He addeth
in exprels Terms, that nothing further re-
mained in his Hands. He meant, when
he laid this, that (uch Writings of his Lord-
(hip, were to be efteemed as not in being,
which were not worthy to appear. This
meaning of his, he more plainly delivered
in his Preface to the CoUedlion, called T^e-
fitfcitatio.
There he (aith, " That he had left no-
'^ thing to a future hand, which he found to
''be of moment^or communicable to the pub-
"lic, (ave only fome few Latine Works
*^ foon after to be publifti'd. He deliver d
himfelf from the Obhgation of that Promife
in the Year fifty eighty puHifhing then,with
(e)o/>«/. all due care, tho^t Latine Works (e). Soon
^f'lrc ^^^^5^^ was accused by anobfcure Prefacer,
vti, Theo- to a new Edition of the Effajis^ in O&avo^
logica F.B. as Qne that had ftill concealed fome of his
^^^^' LordfhipsPhilofophicalTreafiires. In vin-
dication of himfelf from this Cenfure, I
find him ufing thefe words in one of his
papers, wherein he animadverteth on that
pre-
the Lord Bacon's Worh*
preface. " I have publilh'd all I thought
^^fit, or a well adviied Man would have
*^ thought fit to be publifh'd by me. He
judged fbme papers, touching Matters of
Eftate^ to tread too near to the heels of
Truth, and to the times of the Perfbns
concerned, from which, now they are fur-
ther remov'd, by the diftance of Twenty
Years. He thought his Lord's Letters con-
cerning his Fall, might be injurious to his
Honour, and caufe the old Wounds of it
to bleed anew 5 whereas if the remem-
brance of' them had not been frefh in the
Minds of many, and in the Books of (bme^
the Colledion of the Cabala , had revi-
ved part of it in a corrupt Copy ^ and the
matter of thofe Letters is of fuch a nature,
(as afterwards I (hall (hew) that it rather
clcareth his Lordfhip's Fame, than throws,
more dirt upon it. For the Philojophical
^I^cmarr7s^ he judged them unfit to be com-
mitted to the Pre(s, becaufe they were, but
Fragments :> and fuch too, as his Lordfhip s
laft Hand had not rendrcd Correft.
The excefs of Veneration which he had
for his LordQiip, inclined him to think
nothing worthy to bear his Name, which
was not a Mafterpiece. And for this Rea-
(bn. If Surreptitious Copies had not moved
him' to do his Lordfliip right by printing
g the
%i
8i ^J)! Account of all
the true ones, we had wanted divers Pa-
pers which the World now enjoys, and re-
ceives with thankfulnefs. And where the
(ubftance is Gold, Men will readily accept
it, though in the Ore and unrefined: Nor
is it any difparagement to the Invevtory of
his Lordfhip's philofophical Goods, if there
are numbred amongft them certain broken
uncoined pieces of valuable Metal.
Some few imperfcft Papers, about his
Lordfhip's private Affairs, or of very lit-
tle moment in Philofophy, are ftill kept
where they ought to be, in private Hands.
But thofe which have been judged worthy
the Light, by thofe Learned and Prudent
Men whom I have confiilted , are now,
with no fmall Labour, communicated to
the World. For fo blotted were (bme of
the Papers, fo torn, fo disjoyntcd, fo in-
termixed in Contents of a different Na-
ture 5 that the Scrifi^ as it now ftands, may
feem like Mercmj reduced to its p'ofer
Form, after its divers Shapes and Tranf-
mutations.
Now thcfe Remai77s which I have been
moved to publifh, I have digefted accord-
ino; to the nature of their Contents,and re-
ducy them to thcfe feveral Heads of Ar-
guments, CivH and Mcrah^ fhyfwlogkah^
Medical'-^ Theological h and BMograjikicaL
Under
the Lord mean sWorKs. 3T
Under the firft Head of Remams^ Civil
and Morale are contained thefe Papers.
The Firft is, His Charges againft the
Cmtntcf and JE^r/ of Somerfet ^ touching
the death of Sir Thomas Overhiny.
The proper place for thefe C/j^rg^j" was,
ill the firft part of the Refiifcitatio (/), be- ^([3 ^^^
fore his Charge againft three Perfons for ^' ^'^^
Scandal, and traducing of the King's Ju«
ftice, in the proceedings againft Wejio^r.
But Dr. Rawley ( as appeared by a Note of
his, on the Margent of thofe papers ) did
at that time forbear the inferting of them^
left they ftiould be ofFenfive to (bme thca
ahve. Now, more than Sixty Years have
pafled, fince* the end of that Tragedy 3
and the News of it was told in the Ears of
the Worlds and the Story was made pub-
lick and lafting by the Prefi, both before
and after (g) the Doftor's death. And . Cg) sci
what Curtain fbever our Prudence would w' Dug- •
draw, we could not conceal fo public a ^^^^'^ ^^-
Matter. Nor is it fitting we (hould. For j""^/,"^^
thereby we ftiould endeavour to hide from v-^'^'i-^'^^
Men, one ufeful Memorial of Divine Ju-
ftice : A Memorial apt to deter Greatnefs
from a Praftice, which if it were common^
there would be no fife eating or drinking,
or breathing in Courts.
9^ :2 At
154 Jn Account of all
At the Trial, fome Body, of bad Me-
mory , and no better Pen , wrote down
mod imperfeftly, a little of that which
Mr. Attorney had fpoken, largely and ele-
gantly upon this fblemn Occafion : And,
in the Year fifty one, ("a time of general
(h)/« Lict^'iice) this Scribble was publilh'd {h).
li]f/Z]. ^^^^ ^^^bliiher had the confidence to affirm,
tuUd, a. that ■r.L Narrative was Collefted out of the
^Itrull P'^^-^^o( Sir Fra?/cisBacor7 (7 \ which, by
jiei. of the thL Copies ' ict forth, 'tis manifeft the Re-
S/^^Tiio^ '^^^^ never had feen. But a good Name
Overb'ir/ in the Title-page, was an ufeful Bu(h for
'^.^^,° . the putting off the crude and unfined Mat-
foflfd In tcr in the Book it felf
the Title Little hath the Relator told of much
^^^^' which was faid by Mr. Attorney ^ and that
which he hath told, he hath repeated in
fuch ill manner, that it is no longer Sir
Francis Bacons^ but his own.
rk)Pa<^. In one Place (^^), he introduceth Mr.
^^7j 1^- ^Attorney , fpeaking thus. " This is the
" (econd time lince the Ring's coming the(e
" thirteen Years, that any Peers have been
^^ Arraigned, and both thefe times your
^^ Grace hath had the Place of High Steward,
"The firft was Grey^ and Cohkam-^ and
" though they were Convifted, yet Exe-
"cution followed not 5 no Noble Blood
" hath been fpilt fince his Majeftie's Reigjn.
the
the Lord Bacon ^s Works. 8 5
" The firft was Revenge , of Trealbn
" againfl: Male-coiitcnts 5 and this oF the
"particular offence to a private Subject,
'^ againfl: thofe that have been fo iUgh in
" the King's Grace and Favour 5 and there-
" fore deferves to be written in a Sun-
'^beam; but hi being the beft Mafter in
" in the World .tinders him not from be-
" ing the beft ^::ig 5 for He can as well plain *tl
" a H/ll^ as raife a Wall 5 a good Leffon
" to put to my Lords the Peers : He is
" Lieutenant to him who is no refpefter of
-" perfons.
Now how curtail'd , how incoherent,
how mean and unelegant is this, in com-
parifon of that which Mr. Attorney fpake ?
For he fpake that which follovv^eth.
" In all this mean time, the King hath
" Reigned in his White Robe, not fprink-
" led with any one drop of Blood "any of
" his 5\(j?/^/ej- of this Kingdom: '"^av^ ftch
*'have been the depths of his Mercy, as
"even thofe Noble-mens Blood', (againft
"whom the proceeding was at VA^ickeficr )
^^Cobham and Qrey^ were attainted ind cor-
" rupted, but not fpilt, or taken away 5
" but that they remained rather Spe&acles
^^of Juftice in their cor inual Imprifon-
" ment, than Mominmits of Juftice in the
5' memory of their Suffering.
g 3 "I?
J?i Account of all
" It is true, that the Objefts of his Ju-
^'ftice then, and now, were very difFe-
*^ ring : For then it was the Revenge of an
^•^ Offence again ft his own Perfbn and
"Crown, and upon Perfbns that were
'^ Male-contents , and Contraries to the
'^ State and Government : But now it is the
^' the Revenge of the Blood and Death of
*'a particular Siihjc[t^ and the Cry of a
^^ Prifoncr : It is upon Perfbns that were
^^ highly in his Favour, whereby his Ma-
'^^ )efty:5 to his great Honour hath (hewed
^' to the World, as if it were written with a
•^^ Sun-beam, that he is truly the Lieute-
^^ nant of him, with whom there is no re-
^^fpefl: of Perfons^ That his Affections
^^ Royal are above his Affeftions Private ,
^^ That his Favours and Nearnefs about
^^ him are not like FopiJI) Sandfuaries^ to pri^
^^ vilege Malefadours 5 and that his being
" the beft Mafter in the World, doth not
^^ let him from being the beft King in the
^^ World. His People, on the other fide^
** may fay to themfelves, I will he down
" in peace ^ for God, and the King, and
"the Law, proteft me againft the great
^' and finall. It may be a Difcipline alio,
*' to great Men, fpecially fuch as are fwol-
^en in their Fortunes from (mall begin-
nings^
fvn ill till. li X vjituiiti iiuui liiia
the Lord Bacon's Works. 87
^' nings 5 that The Kwg is a^ well able to /e- *t:i
*' vel Mount aifts^ as to fill Vallejs^ if fitch he
*' their defiert.
In another place (/), he thrufteth into (i) Page
the Speech of Sir Edward Cool^^ a part of ^^^^^-^^^Z
Sir Franck ^aconX and ( Hke the worfcr rafg»menf
fort of Thieves ) he does not only rob, "/ ^J" ^•
but mangle him. Sir Francis Bacon fpake fet. ^"^'^^^'
on this manner : " My Lords ! He is not
" the Hunter alone that lets flip the Dog
'' upon the Deer 3 but he that lodges the
" Deer^ or roufes him, or puts him out 5
" or he that fiets a Tojl that he cannot
" efcape.
Inftead of which, the Relator hath fub-
ftituted this abfard Sentence. " It is not he
^' only that flips the Dog, but he that loves
" the Toyl, that kills the Deer.
This ( I thought ) was not unneceflary
to be faid in Vindication of Mr. Attorneys
Honour, which is vilely traduc'd in this
Pamphlet, where the Daw would perfonate
the Orator,
The Second Paper is, his Letter to the
Univerfity of Cambridge ( to whom he was
of Counfel ) upon occafion of his being
Sworn of the Privy-Council to the King,
This I judged fit to bear that other com- (ni)i^5.
pany which is already printed (^^), and (^^<^> Let^
^fvver^th to their Congratulation at his ^^[''^.'^\
88 \Ait Account of all
firll coming to the Place of Lord-Keeper.
The Third is, his Letter to King James^
touching the Place of Lord High Chan-
cellour of E^gLwd^ upon the approaching
death of the Chancellour Egerto^/.
The Fourth is , a Letter to the lame
Prince, for the relief of his Eftate. This,
with that other of Submjjionm the Cabala^
fcem to fome to blemifh his Lordfhip s Ho-
nour 5 to others, to clear it: For in this^
he appealcth to the King himfelf, whether
he had not ever found him direft and ho-
iieft in his Service, fb as not once to be re-
buked by him, during Nineteen Years Em-
ployment. He fheweth that his Fall was
not the King's Afit^ and that the Prince
was ready to reach out his Hand to ftay him
from falling. In the other he maketh this
profeffion of his being free from malicious
Injuftice. "For the Bribery and Gifts
^^ wherewith I am charged, when the Books
^^ of Hearts (hall be opened, I hope I (hall
" not be found to hjve the troubled Foun-
" tain of a corrupt Heart, in a depraved
^^ habit of taking Rewards to pervert Jij-
" fiice, liowfbever I may be frail, and par-
" take of the abulcs ot the Times.
The Fifth Paper is, a Collcftion of his
remaining Apothegms^ inferiour in number
ito thofe already publiQied, but not in
weight.
the Lord Bacon's Works. 8 9
weight. Some of thefe he took from Emi-
nent Perfbns, and (bme from meaner ones,
having fet it down from his Obfervation
(;/), that The Bolt of the Ruftk, often hits Wj^''
the Mark^'-^ and that the Sow, in rooting, Phibfoph.
may defcribe the letter A, thoueh (he can- M?^.^^
not write an entire Tragedy. Provei bia
The Sixth is, a Supply of his Colleftion nonnuiia
of Judicious and Elegant Sentences , cal- aa^veika-
led by him Ornamenta T^tiormlia. He alfo ^acem di-
gave to thofe Wife and Polite Sayings, the susroftro
Title of Sente?7t7£ Stellares'^ either becaufe ^v.
they were Sentences which deferved to be
pointed to by an Afterife in the Margent 5
or becaufe they much illuftrated and beau-
tify 'd a Difeourfe, in which they were dif-
pofed in due place and order 5 as the Stars
in the Firmament , are Co many glorious
Ornaments of it, and fet off withfS^heir
Luftre, the wider and lefi adorned Spaces.
This Colledion is either wholly lofl:,
or thrown into (bme ob(Gure Corner ^ but
I fear the (irft. I have now three Cata-
logues in my Hands , of the unpublilh'd
Papers of Sir FrM/ck '^aco?:--^ all written
by Dr. Rarvley himfelf In every one of
thefe appears the Title oiOrna}?mita Ratio-
72alia^ but in the Bundles which came with
thofe Catalogues, there's not one of thofe
Seritences to be found. I held my felf ob-
90 Jn Account of aO
Vigd in (bmefort^andas I was ablc,to fiipply
this defed: ^ it being once in my power to
have preferved this Paper. For a Copy
of it was long fince, offer 'd me by that
Do(5tor's only Son, and my dear Friend
(now wi,th God) Mr. William Ravpley^ of
whom, if I (ay no more, it is the greatftej?
of my Grief for that irreparable lofi, which
caufeth my Silence, I was the more negli-
gent in taking a Copy, prefiiming I might,
upon any occafion, command the Origi-
nal ^ and becaufe that was then in fuch
good Hands. Now, there remains nothing
with me, but a general Remembrance of
the quality of that Colleftion. It confift-
cd of divers (hort Sayings, aptly and fmart-
ly exprelTed, and containing in them much
of good Senfe in a httle room.
Theie he either made, or took from o-
thers, being moved fo to do by the (ame
Reafon which caus'd him to gather toge-
ther his Apothegms^ which (he (aith ) he
colle&ed for his Recreation , his Lordfhips
Diverfions being of more value than (bme
Men's Labours. Nor do fuch Sentences and
Apothegms^ differ much in their Nature.
For Apothegms are only fomewhat longer,
and fuller of Allufion, and tell the Author,
and the occafion of the Wife Saying --, and
are but the iame Kernel;, with the SheU
' mi
the Lord Bacon's Works. 9 1
and Leaf about it. That Avhich he faith
of the one, is true of the other. " They
'' are both Mncrones Verbornm (f)^ pointed (o) in
"Speeches, or Goads. Cicero (iaith he)^;'47o''
" calleth them Salinas^ Salt-pits, that you thegmi.
•^ may extrad Salt out of, and (prinkle it
" where you will. They ferve to be in-
" terlaced in continued Speech : They (erve
" to be recited, upon occafion, in them-
^^ felves.
Such Ornaments have been noted in all
Ages and Places, and in many Collected.
Amongft the Hebrews , they had ( of
old) the Proverbs of Agur^ and Salomon,
In Times more Modern, there have been
(et forth the Virile Avoth 5 and the Sen-
tences, Proverbs, Apothegms, and Simili-
tudes of the Hebrew Writers, Collefted
in the Florileginm Hebraicnm of Buxtorf,
Amongft the Egyptians^ we find (uch
jffinigmatic Proverbial Forms as thefe^
He hath a Wing of a Bat. That is, the Man
is impotent, yet darings and fo like a Bat^
which adventures to flie, though it has no
Feathers. The Crab keeps the door of the
Ojjier. That is, his Friend deftroys him.
For tht Crab (they fay) puts in his Claw
when the Oyfler gapes, and eats it up.
"^ Amongft the Arabians^ we find the Pro-
verbs
^l [/ii Account of all
verbs of Lock^hm , or lEfop 5 and thoft
CoUeftcd by Erpcnius,
Amongft the Greeks^ we find the Sen-
tences of their Sevef? Wife Mer/^ o^Tkeog^ih^
and Pkocjlidcs^ and of divers others pre-
served by Stob^us, Pythagoras had his
(;p)Sftf 07R)r5S>w«:/ (p\ of which we (hould have
^tmpiic.in known much more, ir Time had not deni-
EPsa. ad e(i ^g ^-l-jg Book of Ar/Jiotle Tnpi t^v uv^yo-
^' pdoiv. Thence, 'tis thought, Laerlif^^ and
T^orphyrje , cite certain Pythogoric Sym-
(q) r/^^" j^^lg /• \ in which amons; others, the P/^/-
^f Script, ades are called the Harp oftheAliiJes'^ and
////?. /v.,/. I^j^g ]\iorthern Bears ^ the Hands of T^jea.
p.yt.^^'" Which latter Symbol, is for (iich a Toy,
jaRibJich. pretty enough, if expounded of Matter
Pyth^g. fixed, and detained from the courfe of its
P-M^- Fluidity, by cold, or reft. But I pretend
not fo much intimacy with the Magical
^Pythagoras^ as to be his Intcrp^'eter. To
Henry Stephens^ we o\v^ a Collection of
Gree\ Sentences, from the Comic Poets.
The Monk Thalafius^ wrote an Hundred
Sentences concernirig Charity and Conti-
nence, after the way of the Cloyfter, that
Ci^ %ee ^^5 in a pious, but Icfs acute manner (r).
them in Amougft thc T^muvs^ "^ulms Ctefar^ and
theui^. Macrobius wrote CoUeftions of ^Z-^?//:^^^^// 5
^^.ToT.' ^nd the Sentences of Laherius^ and alfo of.
Piiblms ^ (who was, mdced , by Birth a
Syrja??^
the Lord Bacon s Works. o 2
Syrian, but by Education and Privilege a
Roman ) are to this Day preftrved.
Some, a-while ago, have gathered and
amafled the Sentences of Cicero^ and of both
the Seneca's, though (I think) without
iBuch judgment, and as we gather Fifhes
in a Net, enclofing the good and bad to-
gether. LaftYear, t\iQ Sienr de Laval did
pubhfli his Colleftion of the Sentences of
^^■/"fi'» (A And it is not long fince, (f).«..
Mom/Jiem- Hache Cct forth a whole Folio of "'"'='*"
Sentences, Collefted out of Twelve of the T"Z<^
I omcs of the Bihliotheca Vatrm> (t) A.'pari.f
Among the //.W, Span.,rdr, French, ^^.C
-Uutch, lurks, fwhichtwolaftl putto^e- (0 >?""•.
tlicr, for the alike bluntnefs and courfi^efs "'^••^i^-
of their Sayings) there are divers Colhc-l'Ual^r
tions of Apothegms and Proverbs. f r.Hache,
Among our Selves, we have the like, and '^"' '^^'''
particularly the Wr/e Sajmgs by Mr. Camb-
den, and the Jacnla Pnidenttim , in Mr
Herbert ; which latter fome have been bold
to accufe as having too much Feather, and
too htde Point. But the fenfe of that
Metaphor, may be more trulv apply'd to
the Colleftion calFd Flares 'Edvad Coci
{")■ Thofe Sayings, as thev are renrefen- C") «»
ted without the Context of that Eminent Jr-^.''-
Lawyer, are like the Flowers in an H^r- « i^"
bal, of which no Man would put the Ge-
nc-rahty into his Garden. The
p^ Jn Accoum of all
The ufe of fuch little things, no Mari
knew better than Sir Francis jBaco?7^ who
could turn every laying to Advantage ;
and if it wanted Luftre in it fel^ he could
by Art create it, and by letting it well.
His own Colleftion was ( as I remem-
ber ) gathered partly out of his own Store,
and partly from the Ancients, and accord-
ingly 'tis (uppiied out of his own Works,
and the Mtmi of Pfiblius.
Under the Second Head of T^mains Phj/-
fwlogical^ or V^tural^ is containd in the
Firjiflice^
A Frdgnmit of his Lordfliip's Aheceda"
ruim Nainr£. This is commonly laid to be
loft, and it is wtII nigh fo, the latter part
of it only remaining. But where the
%vhole is good, each part is of value. And
Antiquaries who travel in the Dominions
of the Grand Signior^ do not defpiie the
ancient Statues which they find there,
though MahomQtan Superftitioh hath bro-
ken off their Heads.
1 his Work is faid to be a Metaphyjicat
Piae 5 but it is not fo, in the ftrifteft fcnfe.
Its principal defign is the Partition of
things into their feveral Claffes 5 a defign
which his Lordftiip brought to more per-
fcdion in his Orgamn^ and Book De Aug-
mentis Sckntiarum, And though in it were
handled
the Lord B aeon's Works • ^^ 95
handled Coftdittons of Bewg , yet not ab-
ftraftly from all Body, but with reference
to it. And therefore his Lordfhip did not
call it AbecedariJim Hjferphjficum^ but the
Alfhahet of Nature. And his Lordfhip gi-
vethexprefs Caution, in his Book oi^ Ad-
'vancemcnt (xJ?), that where he (peaks of (w) Dt
Conditions of Entities , which are cal- ^^"^f^*
led Tranfcendental 5 ((uch as, M^ich^ Lit-l^.d,
tie, The Same, Divers, Tajfihle, Impoffible)^-''^'
he be not interpreted in a Logical^ but
T^hyfical Senle. His Lordfliip was much
averfe to high and uielels Speculations, and
he was wont to exprefs that Averfiiefi
in the following Comparifon. The Lark^
( faid he ) is an high flier, and in its flight
does nothing but Sing : But the Harvk^ flies
high, and thence dcfcends and catches its
Prey.
The Secof?d Taper about Natural things,
is his Lordfhip's Inquifition touching the
CompouTiditJg of Aletals,
Then follow, in the Third T^lace, his
Articles of ^eftio7?s , touchirrg ^Mnierals^
Of thefe, the firft inquireth about the fame
Subjeft with the foregoing Paper 5 but
finding them diftinguiffi'd by his Lordfhip,
I have not joyn'd them together.
Theie Qiieftions were turn'd into hatim^
and in thatTongue,publifli'd by Dr, Rarvlcj',
amongfl:
p6 Jn Account of all
amongft his Lordftiip's Opufcula'^ but tlie
EngliJIj Originals are now, the firft time
ftt forth. And having by me three Copies,
I publifh them by that one on which his
Lordthiphad endorfed with his own Harid^
This is the clean Copy,
Now thefe Inquiries being in themfelves'
Imperfeft, and without much Solution of
his LordQiip's adjoyn'd 5 I have here ad-
ded to them the (everal Anfwers of Dr. Me-
'verel^ to whom they were propofed by hi^
Lordftiip. It has not been in my power,
as yet, to inform my fclf duly about this
DoSor-^ but doubtlefi, he was a Chymifi^
as thofe Times went , of the firft Order.
It was his Lordfhip's manner, on divers
mornings, to let down Inquiries for the fol-
lowing Days, in fbme loofe Papers. And
in one of them, I find this, among other
(Memoranda. " To fend to Dr. cA^^erel,
" Take Iron and diffolve it in Aqua Fortis^
"and put a Loadftone near it, and fee
" whether it will extraft the Iron : Put alfo
" a Loadftone into the Water, and fee
" whether it will gather a Cruft about it.
After the Queftions of his Lordfhip a-
bout Minerals, and the Anfvvers of Dr.
aVldeverel , there follows , in the Fourth
T^lace^ an Inquifition concerning the Ver-
fionsg, TranffnutationSj Multiplications, and
EfFec-
the Lord Bacon's Worh. 97
EfFeftions of Bodies, not hitherto publifh'd
in the EngUJI) Tongue, in which his Lord-
(hip wrote it (x). (x) see
Fifthly , There is annexed a certain ^- R'^- .
Speech touching the recovery of Drowned '^^'J^aLtn^
Mineral Works, prepared, as Mr. BuJI)el t^e opuf
faith, for that Parliament under which he ^''^'^'
fell. His Lordfliip, no doubt, had fuch a
Projeft 3 and he might prepare a Speech al-
fo, for the Facilitating of it. But that this
is a true Copy of that Speech, I dare not
avouch. His Lordfliip's Speeches were wont
to be digefted into more Method ^ his
Periods were more round, his Words more
choice, his Allufions more frequent, and
managd with more decorum. And as no
Man had greater command of Words, for
the illuftration of Matter, than his Lord-
(hip 5 fo here he had Matter which refus'd
not to be cloth'd in the beft Words.
The SixthT^aper about Natural Things,
containeth certain Experiments about iveight
in Air and Water.
The Seventh containeth a few Propofils
to the Country-Man, called Experin/ents for
Trofi't. The Eighth :y Experiments about
the Commixture of Liquors, The Ninths a
Catalogue of Bodies AttraSive and not At-
tra&ive^ with Experimental Obfervations
about them*
h Under
98 Jn Account of aU
Under the Third Head of Medical i?e-
maws^ is contained in the Firji place^ a Pa-
per which he called Grains of Touth, In
it he preftribeth divers things, as means to
keep up the Body in its Vigour. Amongft
thefe is the Receipt of the Methufalem Wa-
ter^ againji the Drinefs of Age^ which his
Lordfliip valued and ufed.
Next follows a Catalogue of ^jirifigents^
Ofeners^and C^r^f/^//, Inftrumental to Health.
Then comes in the Third place^ an Extra^y
by his Lordftiip, for his own ufe, out of
the Hijiory of Life at^d Death , together
with fome new Advices in order to Health.
Laft ofall^ there ^re added Four Medical
Receipts.
The Firji is, his Lordfiip's Broth and
Fomentation againji the Stone^ which I judg'd
acceptable to the Public, feeing his i?ere7/>^
again fl the G^^^had been fo,though itworkr
eth not an Infallible Cure. And here it
may (eem ftrange, that his Lordfhip does
C>) ^'•- not mention Spirit of 5\jfre, which he fo,
b^Exfer. oftcu uftd, and which a very ingenious Ex-
cf thiLu- perimenter (y) hath noted, to be the beft
^;;;^ of Ai^x againft the Stone. ^
^ff^f of Tht Second is, the Receipt of an Oynt-
Me^dru- j^^j^^^ called by his Lordfhip, Unguentum^
umi u
a^ fcrts ofFragransjive T^manum, By this he mean-
Vtoi' ^^^ ^^ Unguent which confifteth o£JJirinr
gents.
the Lord Bacon's Works. f^
gitJtT^ preventing excels of Tran(piration^
and Cordials comforting the Parts. And
he called it f IfuppofcJ the ^l{omanUn-
gmnt^ becaufe that People did eminently
make ufe of Baths and Anointings. " He
" himftlf held) that the anointing with Oyl,
" was one of the moft potent Operations
"to long Life (z,)^ and that it conduced {-k^mj^.
" to Health, both in Winter^ by the exclu- ''Q^^^ ^
" fion of the cold Air 5 and in Summer^ by the o/^r?
*' detaining the Spirits within, and prohi- ^IJ"*^ ^■^" .
" biting the refolution of them 5 and keep- Afr°§,\u
"^ ing of the force of the Air, which is then ?• 37.
*^ moft predatory. Yet it was his Lordfliip s
opinon, that it was beft to anomt without
Bathing, though he thought Bathing with-
out Anointing bad.
The Third and Fourth^ are Receipts t6
comfort the Stomach. One of them he cal-
leth a Secret 5 and I fuppofe it might be
communicated to him by Sir Herrry IVotto//.
For Sir Hemy fpeaks of his. preparation of
a certain Wood (a.\ as of a rare Receipt W/«
to Corobdrate the Vifcefa^ and to keep the wVudni
Stomack in Ti?/;r?. P-47s-
. Under the Fourth Head^ of Theologfcal
Remai^s^ are contained only a few ^cjiio^s
about the lawfulnefi of a Holy War 5 and
two Prayers, one for a Pkilofophical Stu^
dent^ the other for a Writer. The fub-
h cJ' dined
I oo v//h Account of aU
ftance of thefe two Prayers is extant in La-
(b)Nov. twc^ in the Orgamn (i), and Script a (r).
^'f^'Td ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^f^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Bihlwgrapbkal
c'jiic'par- Remaws^ are contained fome of his Lord-
^'(c)^a\' ^^P^ ^^^^ Papers concerning his Works,
ta Phiiof and hkewife fome Letters and Dilcourfes of
r» 45 1.^"*^ others upon the fame Subjeft, together with
Tit It- ' a few interfperfed Remarks concerning his
f^i^' Life.
His Lordfhip's Papers are thefe Six.
The Firji is, a Letter to Elizabeth^ the
Sifter of Ring Charles the Martyr, and Wift
to Frederic^ Prince T^alati^e of the Rhine -^
a Princels who found fo many Thorns in the
Crown of Bokewia. She pleafed to write
to his Lordlliip, and he returned Anlwer,
and (ent along with it as a Prefent, his
Difcmtrfe of a War with Spair? ^ though nei-
ther came to her Hands, till after his Lord-
fliip s Death.
The Secoffd is, a Letter to the TJmverjity
of Cambridge when he (ent them his Book
of the .Advuvcemctit of hearrmjg.
The Third is, a Letter to the fame Uni-
verfity, upon his (ending to them his ^-
z^m Orga77itm, This he wrote in a loo(e
fhect of paper 5 the former^ in one of the
fpare leaves at the beginning of the Book.
The Fourth is, a Letter to Trimtji College^
in Ca/;/hridg(o£ which Society he had been a
Member)
the Lord Bacon's Works. i o i
Member) upon his fending thither the a-
forelaid Book De ^ugmentk Scientiarum.
The Fifth is, a Letter to the Bifhop of
Linceln ^ in which I note the goodnefi of
his Lordftiip s Nature, whilft he ftill main-
taineth his Friendlhip with him, though he
had (ucceeded him in his place of Lord-
Keeper. For Envy hates every one that
fits in that Chair from whence it felf b
fallen.
The Sixth is, a Letter to Father Fulgen^
tio^ 2i Divine ( if I miftake not ) of the
Rephblic of Venice^ and the fame who wrote
the Life of his Colleague, the excellent Fa-
ther TW.
The Seventh is, a Letter to the t^arquefs
Fiat.^ then Embaffadour from Frame^ (bon
after the Marriage betwixt his late Majefiy
and Hertrietta Maria , in the knitting of
which he had been employed. This Mar-
qiiefs was the Perfon, who, impatient of
feeing fo Learned a Man, was admitted to
his Lordlhip when he was very ill, and
confin'd to his Bed 5 and who (aluted him
v/ith this high Compliment : '^ Your Lord-
*^ {hip hath been to me hitherto like the An-
"gds, of which I have often heard and
" read, but never law them before. To
which piece of Courtlhip, he return'd fuch
anlwer, as became a Man in thofe Circum-
ftances.
1 02 An Acc^ I will produce the Proofs,
either out of the Examinations and Matters
in Writing, or Witneffes viva voce.
For the Offence it felf^ it is of Crimes
(next unto High-Treafbn ) the greatefl 5
it is the fbuleft of Fellonies. And take this
Offence with the Circumftances, it hath
three Degrees or Stages 5 that it is Murder 5
that it is Murder by Impoifbnment 5 that it
is Murder committed upon the Kings Pri-
fbner in the Tower : I might fay, that it is
Murder under the Colour of t'riendfhip 5
but that is a Circumftance moral, I leave
that to the Evidence itfelf
For Murder, my Lords, the firft Record
of Juflice which was in the World was a
Judgment upon Murder, in the perfbn of
Adam's
Civil and Moral i/
^dams firft born, Cuhi : And though it
were not puniftied by Death, but with Ba-
iiifhrnent and mark of Ignominy, in refpeft
of the primogeniture, or of the populati-
on of the World, or other points of God*s
(ecret Will, yet it was adjudged, and was
( as I (aidj the firft Record of Juftice. So
it appeareth likewife in Scripture, that the
murder of Ahricr by ^oal^ though it were
by David rcfpitcd in rcfpeft of great Ser-
vices part, or Reafon of State, yet it was
not forgotten. But of this I will (ay no
more. It was ever admitted, and (b ranked
in God's own Tables, that Murder is of
offences between Man and Man ("next to
Treafon and Difbbedicnce of Authority,
which (bme Divines have referred to the
Firft Table, becaule of the Lieutenancy of
God in Princes and FathersJ thegreateft.
For Impoifonment, I am forry it fhould
be heard of in this Kingdom : It is not m^
Jiri gc?7erk 7icc fangnims ^ It is an Italian
Crime fit foj the Court of Ro??;e^ where
that Perfon that intoxicateth the K.ir7gs of
the Earth with his Cup of Poi(bn in Here-
tical Doftrine, is many times really and
materially intoxicated and impoifbned him-
felf
But it hath three Chaimflances^ which
make it grievous beyond other Murders :
C Whereof
1 8 7he Lord Bacon's ^mmsy
Whereof the firjl is, That it takes a Man
in full Peace 5 in God s and the King's
Peace 5 He thinks no harm, but is comfor-
ting Nature with Refeftion and Food : So
that fas the Scripture (aithj His Table is
made a Snare,
The ficond is, That it is eafily commit-
ted, and eafily concealed 5 and on the
other fide, hardly prevented, and hardly
difcovered ; For Murder by violence
Princes have Guards, and private Men
have Houfes, Attendants, and Arms : Nei-
ther can fuch Murders be committed but
aim fomiii^ and with fome overt and appa-
rent Aft, that may difcover and trace the
Offender. But for Poifbn, the (aid Cup it
iclf of Princes will fcarce (erve, in regard
of mawy Poifbns, that neither difcolour nor
diftaft 5 and fo paffeth without noife or ob-
fervation.
And the laji is, Becaufe it containeth not
only the deftruftion of the maliced Man,
but of anv other 5 ^is modo tutus erit ?
For many times the Poifon is prepared for
one, and is taken by another : So that Men
die other Mens Deaths ^ Coiiddlt wfelix
'ahcfjo Titlnere : and it is as the Pfalmcal-
leth it, Sugitta fiocie volans 5 The Arrow that
pes by nighty it hath no aim or certainty.
- Now
Civil and Moral
Now for the tkh-d Degree of this particu-
lar Offence, which is, that it w^as commit-
ted upon the King's Prifoner, w^howasout
of his own Defence, and meerly in the
King's proteftion, and for whom the King
and State was a kind of Refpondent, it is
a thing that aggravates the Fault much.
For certainly f my Lord of Somerfet) let
me tell you this, That Sir Tho. Ovcrhnry is
the firft Man that was murdered in the
Tower of Ln, that are the on-
ly Afts that do amount unto Abetment.
But if there be any other Aft or Means
done or ufed, to give the opportunity of
Impoifonment, or to faciUtate the executi-
on of it, or to ftop or divert any impedi-
ments that might hinder it, and this be with
an intention, to accomplifli and atchieve
the Impoife)nment5 all thefe are Abetments,
and
Civil and Moral. 1 1
and Acceffaries before the Faft. I will put
you a familiar Example. Allow there be a
Confpiracy to murder a Man as he jour-
nies by the ways and it be one Man s part
to draw him forth to that Journey by invi-
tation, or by colour of {bmebufine(s5 and
another takes upon him to dillwade (bme
Friend of his, whom he had a purpofe to
take in his Company, that he be not too
ftrong to make his defence : And another
hath the part to go along with him, and to
hold him in talk till the firft blow be given.
All thefe («y Lords ^ without fcruple arc
Abetters to this Murder, though none of
them give the Blow, nor allifl: to give the
Blow.
Mj> Lorcls^ he is not the Hunter alone
that lets flip the Dog upon the Deer, but
he that lodges the Deer, or raif^^s him, or
puts him out, or he that fets a Toyle that
he cannot efcape, or the like.
, But this (^my Lords ^ htde needeth in
this prefent Cafe, where there is fuch a
Chain of Afts of Impoifonment as hath
been feldom feen, ancl could hardly have
beenexpefted, but that Greatnefs of For-
tune makcth commonly Groflhefs in of-
fending.
To defcend to the Proofs themfelves, I
{hall keep this courfc.
C 3 F"/r,
^ 1 7 he Lord Bacon s ^malnsy
FirU^ I will make a Narrative or De^
claration of the Fact it fclf.
Secondly^ I will break and diftribut^
the Proofs, as they concern the Pri-
foner. \
And thirdly^ according to that diftribu^'
tion, I will produce them, and read
them, or ufc them. \
So that there is nothing that I (hall (ajr^
but your Lordfhip (my Lord of Somer-
fit) fhall have three thoughts or cogitatU
ons to an{\ver it : Firsi^ when I open it,
you may take your aim ; Secondlj^ when I
diftribute it, you may prepare your An-
swers without confufion : And lajily^ wheii
I produce the Witncffes, or Examinations
themfelves, you may again ruminate and
readvife how to make your defence. And
this I do the rather, becaufe your Memory
or Underftanding may not be oppreflbd or
overladen with length of Evidence, or with
confufion of order. Nay more, when
your Lordfhip fliall make your Anfwers in
your time, I will put you in^mind ( w^heq
caufe (liall be) of your omilUons.
Firji therefore, for the fimple Narrative
of the Faft. Sir Tho, Overhnry^ for a time
was known to have had great Intereft, and
great Friendfhip with my Lord of So/^/er-
Jety both in his meaner Fortunes, and after;
Info-
QVil and ."Moral 25
Infomuchas he was a kind of Oracle of
Direftion unto him ^ and if you will be-
lieve his own vaunts (being of an infolent
Thrafofjkal difpofition) he took upon him,
that the Fortune, Reputation, and Un-
derftanding of this Gentleman (who is
well known to have had a better Teacher)
proceeded from his Company and Coun-
fel.
And this Frienddiip refted not only in
ConverGition and Bufmefs of Court, but
likewife in Communication of Secrets of
Eftate. For my Lord of Somerjct^ at
that time, exercifing (by his Ma jefties fpe-
cial favour and truft) the Otfice of the Se-
cretary provifionally,did not forbear to ac-
quaint O-verbitry with the King's Packets of
Diipatches from all parts, Spai??^ F}\wce^
the Lo7v CoiP7trics^ Sec. And this not by
glimpies, or now and then rounding in the
Ear for a favour, but in a ietled manner :
Packets were (ent, fometimes opened by
my Lord, fometimes unbroken unto Over-
bwy^ who perufed them, copied, regiftrcd
them, made Tables of them as he thought
good : So that I will undertake, the time
was, when Overbury knew more of the Se-
crets of State, than the Council Table did.
Nay, they were grown to Rich an inwaid-
nefsjas they made a Play of all the World
C 4 bcfidcs
24 The Lord Bacon's ^mains^
befides themfelvcs : So as they had Ciphers
and Jargons for the Ring, the Queen, and
all the great Men ^ things leldom ufed, but
cither by Princes, and their Emballadours
and Minifters, or by (iich as work and
praftife againft, or at leaft upon Prin-
ces.
But underftand me (my Lord) I (hall
not charge you this day with any Dilloyal-
ty ^ only I (ay this for a foundation. That
there was a great communication of Se-
crets between you and Overbnrj^ and that
it had relation to Matters of Eftate, and
the greateft Caufcs of this Kingdom.
But (my Lords) as it is a principle in
Nature, that the beft things are in their
corruption the worft; And the fvveeteft
Wine makes the (liarpeft Vinegar : So fell
it out with them, that this excefi (as I
may term it) of Friendfhip, ended in mor-
tal Hatred on my Lord of Somerfefs
part.
For it fell out, (bme twelve months be-
fore Overhurys imprilbnment in the Tower,
that my Lord of Somcrfit was entred into
an unlawful love towards his unfortunate
Lady,ihen Counted of B.JJex 5 which went
fo far, as it was then (ecretly projefted
(chiefly between my Lord Privy Seal and
my Lord of Somerfet) to effeft a Nullity
in
Civil and Moral
in the Marriage with my Lord of Ejfex^
and fo to proceed to a Marriage with So-
merfet.
This Marriage and Purpofe did Overhnrj
mainly oppugn, under pretence to do the
true part of a Friend (for that he counted
her an unworthy Woman) butthe truth was,
that Over bur )'^ who (to fpeak plainly) had
little that was folid for Religion or Moral
Vertue, but was a Man poflelled with Am-
bition and vain Glory, was loth to have
any Partners in the fivo\ir of my Lord of
Somcrfct^ and fpecially not the Houfe of the
Horvards^ againftwhom he had always pro-
felled hatred and oppofition. So all was
but mifcrable Bargains of Ambition.
And (w-^ Lords) that this is no finifter
conftruftion, will well appear unto you,
when you (hall hear that Overbury makes
his brags to my Lord of Sonicrfit^ that he
had won him the love of the Lady by his
Letters and Induftry : So far was he from
Cafes of Confcience in this Matter. And
certainly (my Lords) howfbever the tra-
gical mifery of that poor Gentleman Over-
bury ought (bmevvhat to obliterate his
Faults 5 yet becaufe we are not now upon
point of Civility, but to difeover the Face
of Truth to the Face of Juftice : And that
it is material to the true underftanding of
the
M
%6 T7;eZ.or^ Bacon's ^mains^
the ftateof this Caufe, OverhMrjiv/2is nought
and corrupt, the Ballades muft be amended
for that point.
But to proceed, When Overbyrjifkw that
he was like to be difpoflefled of my Lord
here, whom he had poffefled (b long, and
by whofe Greatnefs he had promifed him-
felf to do wonders 5 and being a Man of
an unbounded and impetuous fpirit, he be-
gan not only to diffwade, but to deter him
from that Love and Marriage^ and finding
him fixed, thought to try ftronger Reme-
dies, fiippofing that he had my Lord s
Head under his Girdle, in refpeft of com-
munication pf Secrets of Eftate, or (as he
calls them himfelf in his Letters, Secrets of
all Natures) and therefore dealt violently
with him, to make him defift, with menaces
of Diftovery of Secrets, and the like.
Hereupon grew two ftreams of hatred
upon Overbury , Tke one from the Lady, in
refpeft that he crolled her Love,and abufed
her Name, w^hich are Furies to Women 5
Tke other of a deeper and more Mineral
Nature from my Lord of Somerfet himfelf 5
who was afraid of Overhnrys Nature, and
that if he did break from him and fly out,
he would mine into him, and trouble his
whole Fortunes.
I
CiVtl and Moral. 27
I might add a third ftream from the Earl
of Northampton s Ambition, who defires to
be firft in favour with my Lord ofSomerfct^
and knowing Overburys malice to himfelf^
and hisHoufe, thought that Man muft be
removed and cut off! 5oit wasamongft
them refolved and decreed, that OverLmy
mufl: die.
Hereupon they had variety of Devices.
To (end him beyond Sea, upon occafionof
Employment, that was too weak 5 and
they were (b for from giving way to it, as
they croft it. There refted but two ways.
Quarrel or Aflault, and Poifon. For that
of Afiault, after fbme propofition and at-
tempt, they pafled from it 5 It was a thing
too open, and fubjeft to more variety of
chances. That of Poifon likewi(e was a
hazardous thing, and fiibjeft to many pre-
ventions and cautions, efpecially to (uch a
jealous and working Brain as Overbnry had,
except he were firft faft in their hands.
Therefore the way was firft to get him
into a Trap, and lay him up, and then they
could not mifi the Mark. Therefore in exe-
cution of this Plot, it was devifed, that
Overbnry ftiould be defigned to fome ho-
nourable Employment in Foreign Parts,
and fliould under-hand by the Lord of So-
pierjet be encouraged to refufcit, and fo
upon
2 8 Tl^e Lord Bacon's ^mainsy
upon that contempt he (hould be laid Pri-
(bner in the Tower, and then they
would look he (hould be clofe enough, and
Death (hould be his Bail. Yet were they
not at their end. For they confidercd, that
if there was not a fit Lieutenant of the
Tower for their purpo(e, and likewi(e a
fit under-keeper of Overhury : Firlt^ They
(hould meet with many Impediments in
the giving and exhibiting the Poi(bn : Se-
condly^ They (hould be expofed to note
and oblervation, that might difcover them :
And thirdly^ Overhury in the mean time
might write clamorous and furious Letters
to other his Friends, and fo all might be
di(appointed. And therefore the next
Link of the Chain, was to difplace the then
Lieutenant Waade^ and to place Helwijfe a
principal Abetter in the Impoi(bnment :
Again, todifplace C^r/, that was the under-
Keeper in Waades time^ and to place We-
fton^ who was the principal Ador in the
Impoifbnment : And this was done in fuch
a while (that it may appear to be done, as
it were with one breath) as there were but
fifteen days between the commitment of
Overhury^ the difplacing of W^We, the pla-
cing of Helvpijfe^ the difplacing of Gary the
under-Keeper,the placing of f'%?^//,and the
firfl: Poifon given two days after.
Then
Cml and JMoraL 29
Then when the^^ had this poor Gentle-
man in the Tower clofe Prilbncr, where he
could not efcape nor ftir, where he could
not feed but by their Hands, where he
could notfpeak nor write but through their
Trunks 5 then was the time to execute the
laft Aft of this Tragedy.
Then muft Franklin be purveyour of
the Poifons, and procure five, fix, feven
feveral Potions, to be fiire to hit his Com-
plexion. Then muft Mris Turner be the 6*^^-
Mijiris of the Poilbns to try upon poor
Beafts, what's prefent, and what works at
diftanceof time ! Then muft Wejion be the
Tormenter, and chafe him with Poifbn after
Poifon, Poift)n in Salts, Poift)n in Meats,
Poift)n in Sweetmeats, Poifon in Medicines
and Vomits, until at laft his Body was al-
moft come, by ufe of Poi(bns, to the ftate
that Mitkridates Body was by the ufe of
Treacle and Prefervatives, that the force of
the Poife)ns were blunted upon him : We-
jion confefllng, when he was chid for not
di(patching him, that he had given him
enough to poifon twenty Men. Lajlly^ Be-
caufe all this asked time, courfes were taken
by Somerfet^ both to divert all means of
Overhttrys Delivery, and to entertain Over-
hury by continual Letters, partly of Hopes
and Projefts for his Delivery, and partly
of
T7;e Lord Bacon's %emainsy
of other Fables and Negotiations 5 (bme-
what like (bme kind of Perfons ( which I
will not name) which keep Men in talk of
Fortune-telling, when they have a felloni-
ous meaning.
And this is the true Narrative of this Aft
of Impoifonment, which I have (ummarily
recited.
Now for the Diftribution of the Proofs,
there arc four Heads of Proofs to prove
you guilty (my Lord rf Somcrfet) of this
Impoifonment, whereof two are prece-
dent to the Imprifonment, the third is pre-
fent, and the fourth is following or (uble-
quent : For it is in Pfoofs,as it is in Lights 5
there is a dired Light, and there is a re-
flexion of Light, or Back-Light.
The firjl Head ot Proof thereof is, That
there was a root of BitterneG, a mortal
Malice or Hatred, mixed with deep and
bottomlefs Fears, that you had towards
Sir Thomas Overhury,
The fecond is, That you were the prin-
cipal Ador, and had your hand in all thole
A&, which did conduce to the Impoifbn-
ment, and which gave opportunity and
means to cfFed it 5 and without which the
Impoifonment could never have been, and
v;hich could fcrve or tend to no other end,
but to the Impoifonment.
The
Civil and Moral
The thirdisj That your hand was in the
very Impoifonment it felf^ which is more
than needs to be proved 5 that you did
direft Poifon, that you did deliver
Poilbn, that you did continually hear-
ken to the fuccefs of the Impoifon-
ment, and that you {purred it on, and cal-
led for difpatch, when you thought it lin-
gred.
And lajiljf^ That you did all the things
after the Impoifonment, which may dcteft
a guilty Confcience for the finothering of
it, and avoiding puniftiment for it, which
can be but of three kinds. That you fiip-
preffed, as much as in you was,Teftimony:
That you did deface, and deftroy, and clip,
and mifdate all Writings that might give
light to the Impoifonment , and that you
did fly to the Altar of Guiltinefs, which is a
Pardon, and a Pardon of Murder, and a
Pardon for your Self, and not for your
Lady.
In this (my Lord) I convert my fpeech
to you, becaufe I would have you attend
the Points of your Charge, and fo of your
Defence the better. And two of thefo
Heads I have taken to my (elf, and left
the other two to the King's two Serje-
ants.
For the firji main part, which is the
mortal
5«
3 2 77;e Lord Bacon's ^mains,
mortd Hatred coupled with Fear, that was
in my Lord of Somerfet towards Overhnry^
although he did palliate it with a great deal
of hypocrifie and diflimulation even to the
end 5 I fhall prove it (^my Lord Steward^
and you wy Lords and '^Peers) nianifeftly,
by matter both of Oath and Writing. The
root of this Hatred was that that hath coft
many a Mans Life 5 that is. Fear of difco-
vering Secrets. Secrets (I fay) of a high
and dangerous nature 5 wherein the courfe
that I will hold (hall be this.
F/ri? 5 I will fhew that fiich a Breach
and Malice was between //// Lord and Over-
hury^ and that it burft forth into violent
Menaces and Threats on both fides.
Secondly 5 That thefe Secrets were not
light, but of a high nature, for I will give
you the Elevation of the Pole. They were
fuchas my Lord of Somerfet for his part had
made a Vow, That Overhury (hould neither
live in Court nor Country. That he had
likewife opened himlelf^ and his own fears
(b far, that if Overktry ever came forth of
the Tower, either Overhury or himfelf muft
die for it. And of Overburys part, he
had threatned my Lord, That whether he
did live or die, my Lord's (liame (hould
never die, but he v/ould leave him themoft
odious Man of the World. Arid farther
that
Civil and Moral 3 5
that my Lord was like enough to repent it,
in the place where Overlmry wrote, which
was the Tower of Lofidon, He was a true
Prophet in that : So here in the height of
the Secrets.
Thirdly I, I will (hew you, that all the
King's Bufinefi was by my Lord put into
Overbnr/% Hands : So as there is work
enough for Secrets, whatfoever they w^re.
And hke Princes Confederates, they had
their Cipljers and J argot? s.
And lajily 5 I will (liew you that it is but
a Toy to fay that the Malice was only in
rcfpeft he (j^ikc diHionourably of the La-
dy 5 or for doubt of breaking the Marri-
age ; For that Overhury was a Coadjutor to
that Love, and the Lord of Somerfet was as;
deep in fpeaking ill oftheLady,asOz'er/w?j.
And again, it was too late for that Matter^
for the Bargain of the Match was then
made and paft. And if it had been no more
but to remove Overhury from difturbing of
I the Match, it had been an eafy matter to
I ,have banded over OvcrLmy beyond Seas,
I' for which they had a fair way ^ but that
would not (erve their turn.
And laftly, Pcrnnlnm ferictdo zwdtur^
to go (b far as an Impoifonment, mufl: have
a deeper malice t)\an flaihes : For the Caule
muft bear a proportion to the EfFed.
D For
34 '3'Ae Lord Bacon's ^mains,
For the next general Head of Proofi,
which confifts in Afts preparatory to the
middle Ads, they are in eight (everal points
of the Compafs, as I may term it.
Firjl 5 That there were devices and pro-
jefts to di(patch Overhnj^ or to overthrow
him, plotted between the Countefs of
Somerfet^ the Earl of Somcrfet^ and the Earl
of Northar/iptof7^ before they fell upon the
Impoifbnmcnt : For always before Men fix
upon a courfe of Mifchicf, there be (bme
rejeftions5 but die he muft one way or
other.
Secondly ^i That my Lord of ^^///ery?/ was
principal Pradicer (I muft fpeak it) in a
moft perfidious manner, to fct a Train or
Trap for Overhtiry to get him into the
Tower ^ without which they never durft
have attempted the Impoifonment.
Thirdly ^ That the placing of the Lieute-
nant Heljv/Jfe one of the Impoifoners, and
the difplacing of Waade^ was by the means
of my Lord of Somerfet,
Fourthly 3 That the placing of WeJlonxhQ
imder-Keeper, who was the principal Im-
poifbncr, and the difplacing of Cary^ and
the doing of all this within fifteen days af-
ter OverLi/rys Commitment, was by the
means and countenance of my Lord of
Sor/!crfet, And thefe two were the aftive
Inftru-
CiVtl ani Moral. 3 5
Inftruments of the Impoifonment : And
tliis was a Bufinefi that the Ladies power
could riot reach unto.
Fifthly 5 That becaufe there muft be a
time for the Tragedy to be afted, and
chiefly becau(e they would not have the
[Poifons work upon the fudden : And for
I that the ftrength of Overburfs Nature, or
i the very cuftom of receiving Poifon into
his Body, did overcome the Poifons that
j they wrought not (b faft, therefore Over-
i bury muft be held in the Tower. And as
jmy Lord of Somerfet got him into the
' Trap, fo he kept him in, and abufcd him
I with continual hopes of Liberty 5 and di-
I verted all the true and efFeftual means of
I his Liberty, and made light of his Sicknefi
I and Extremities.
I Sjxthly 5 That not only the Plot of get-
ting Overbury into the Tower, and the de-
vices to hold him and keep him there, but
; the ftrange manner of his dole keeping
(being in but for a Contempt) was by
I the device and means of my Lord of 6*^-
I merfct^ who denied his Father to (ee him,
denied his Servants that offered to be ihut
up clo(e Prifoners with him, and in effed
handled it fo, that he was clofe Prifoner to
all his Friends, and open and expofed to all
his Enemies.
D 2 Scver4hly^
1 he Lord Bacon s ^mahiSy
Sever?thl)\ That the Advertiftment which
my Lady received from time to time, from
the L7evtC}7arjt or ^Vejlo^^ touching Overki-
rys ftate of Body or Health, were everfent
up to the Court, though it were in Progrefs,
and that from my Lady : fuch a thirft and
liftening this Lord had to hear that he was
difpatchcd.
Lajlly^ There was a continual Negotia- s
tion to (ct Ozcrhmys Head on work, that
he fliould make fome recognition to clear
the honour of the Lady :, and that he (liould
become a good Inftrument towards her and
her Friends : All which was but entertain-
ment : For jmr Lcrdp/ps fhall plainly fee
divers of my Lord of l^(orthamfto?i's Let-
ters (whofe hand was deep in this Bufinefi)
written (I muft fay it) in dark Words and
Clauds 5 That there was one thing pre-
tended, and another intended 5 That there
was a real Charge, and there was fbmewhat
hot real ^ a main drift and a diffimulation.
Nay further, there be fome parages v/hich>
the Teers in their wifdom will dilcern to
point direftly at the Impoifbnment.
. After this Inducement followed the Evi-
dence it felf i
The
CiVd and Moral 37
7 he Lord Bacon'i' Letter to the Unher-
fay ^f Cambridg.
Re(criptum Trocuratoris ^^is Trimariij
ad Jcademiam Cantahrigtenfem^ quan-
do in Sandius ^gis Confilium
cooptatus fuic.
GRat£ mihi fnere LHer£ z'ej'ir£j atque
GratuUtioficm vejlram ipje mi hi grain-
lor. Rem ipfiw ita mihi Honori^ d^ volup-
tati fore dnco^ (i in hdc metite miweam^ nt
Publicis Utilitatibus, fiudio inckfejjo^ &
perpetiiif curk^ & puro afe&n^ injerviam.
Inter partes autem '\t(eipuhlic£^ 77uUa ^?nmo
meo charior eji^ quam Academic C^ Literal.
Idqne ^ vita mea antealia dcclarat^O' fcripta,
Itaqite quicqifid m/hi accejjerit^ idetiamvobis
accejfijje exijlimare potejlis. Neqne vera . Pa-
crocinium meum vohk fublatum ant diminn-
turn ejje credere dehetfs. Nam d^ ea pars Pa-
troni, qn£ ad confilinm in canals exhihendnm
fpeBat^ Integra manet ^ ^tqne etiam (ft qnid
gravius acridcrii^ ipfnm perorandi Mnm^s
(licentia Regis obtentaj relicfam eft j ^od-
qnejnrk Patrocinio ^eer/^, id anoiicre pote-
'. D 3 ftate.
3 8 7he Lord Bacon*s ^mainsy
Jlate compenfabitur. Mihi in votis ei/, nt
qtiemadmodum a privatm'um d^ clietjtelarum
vcgotiis^ad GubernaculaReipublic^ travflatm
jam fnm 5 It a, & pojiremu JEtatk me£ pars
( (i vita fiippetit ) etiam a ptMicis cur is ad
otium & Literas devchi p^jjit, ^inetiam
fepius ftibit ilia Cogitatio^ ut ctiam in tot d^
tantis Negotiisj tamcn (ingulis annis aliquos
dies apnd vos deponam ^ TJt ex majore ve-
fir arum rerum notitia vcfiris utilitatibm meli-
us confidere pojfim.
5.Julij 16 1 6. jfmicm vefier maximi
Fidclis d^ Benevolus,
Fr. Bacon,
The
QVd and ^"Moral. 39
The fame in EngUfli by the Publiflier.
TItc Anfwer of the Lord Bacon, then
Attorney General, to the Univerfity
o/^Cambridg, ^phen he Wits /worn of
the Privy Council to the King.
YOur Letters were very acceptable to
me 5 and I give /;av felf joy, upon
your Congratulation. The thing it felf will
(I fiippofe) conduce to my Honour and
Satisfaftion, if I remain in the mind I now
am in 5 by unwearied ftudy, and perpetual
watchfulnefs, and pure affedion, to pro-
mote the ^PMck^ Good. Now among the
Parts of the Commori-vpcalth^ there are none
dearer to me than the Ufiiverfitks^ and
Leurm>7g. And This, my tnimicr of Life
\ hitherto, and myWritings^ do both declare.
If therefore any good Fortune befalls me,
^ you may look upon it as an acceffion to
j your felves. Neither are you to believe,
j that my T^ at r 077 age is either quite removed
from you, or fo much as dimini(hed.For,that
part of an Advocate which concerneth the
gjv777g of Ccii}7fel in Caufes,remaineth entire.
Alfo (if any thing more weighty & urgent
I fiilkth out) the very Office of Pleading (the
D 4 King's
40 The Lord Bacon's ^mainSy
King's leave being obtained) is ftill allowed
me. And whatfoever fhall be found wan-
ting in my Juridical Patronage, will becom-
penlated by my more ample Authority. My
wilhes are, that as I am tranilated from the
Bufinefs of private Men, and particular
Clients, to the Government of the Com-
mon-wealth 5 fo the latter part of my Age
(if my Life be continued to me) may, from
the Publick Cares, be tranflatcd to leifure
and ftudy.
Alfo this thought comes often into my
mind, amidft fo many Bufineflfes, and of
(iich moment, every year to lay afide fome
days to think on Ton : That fo, having the
greater infight into your Matters,! may the
better confult your Advantage.
July the ^th Your moft faithful
1616.
and kind Friend,
Fr. Bacon.
?ijf
Ciyil and Moral 41.
Sir 'Brands 'Bacons Letter to iQng James
touching the Chancellors Place.
Jt may pleafe Tour moft Excellent Majefiy.
YOur worthy Chancelloitr "^ ( I fear ) * ^^ ^^
goeth his laft day. God hath hitherto Egeiton"
ufed to weed out fiich Servants as grew
not fit for Your Majefiy. But now He hath
gather'd to Himfelf one of the choicer
Plants in Your Myefiks Garden. But Your
Majefiies Service muft not be mortal.
Upon this heavy Accident, I pray your
Majefiy^ in all humblenefs and fincerity, to
give me leave to ufe a few words. I muft
never forget when I moved your Majefiy
for the Attorneys Place^ that it was your
own fole Aft, and not my Lord of Somer-
fit's '-) who, when he knev/ your c^ajefiy
had refolv'd it, thruft himfelf into the Bufi-
ne(s to gain thanks. And therefore I have
no reafbn to pray to Saints.
I (hall now again make Oblation to your
Majefiy 5 firft of my Heart 5 then of my
Service ^ thirdly, of my Place of Attm-ney^
and fourthly, of my Place in the Star-
Chamber.
I hope I may be acquitted of Prefump-
tionj
42 Tl^e LordB^LCons <^mams^
tion, if I think of it 5 both becaufe my
Father had the Place, which is fbme civil
inducement to my defire, ( and I pray God
your Majefty may have tv^enty no worfe
years than Queen Elizabeth had in her
Model after my Father's placing) and
chieflybecaufe the Chancellor's place, after
it went to the Law, was ever conferred upon
fbme ofthe Learned Coun(el,and never upon
a Judg. For Audley was railed from King's
Serjeant 5 my Father from Attorney of the
Wards 5 Bromlie from SolHcitor 5 Puck^-
rwg from Queen's Serjeant 5 Egerton from
Mafler ofthe Rolls, having newly left the
Attorney's place.'
For my felf^ lean only prefent your Ma-
jefty with Glorja in Obfequio 5 yet I dare
promife, that if I fit in that Place, your
Bufinefs (hall not make fuch fhort turns up-
on you as it doth 5 But when a Direftion
is once given, it (hall be purfued and per^
formed : And your Majefky (hall only be
troubled with the true Care of a King 5
which is to think what you would have
done in chiefs and not how for the PafTa-
ges.
I do prefume alfb, in refpeft of my Fa-
ther's Memory, and that I have been al-
ways gracious in the Lovper-Houfe^ I have
fbme intereft in the Gentlemen of England -^
and
CiVtl and Moral 4j
and (hall be able to do fome good EfFeft in
reftifying that Body of Parliament, which
is Cardo Renm. For, let me tell your Ma-
jefty. That that fart of the Chancellor's
place, which is to judg in equity between
Party and Party, that (amc Regnumjudki-
ale (which (ince my Father's time is but too
much enlarged ) concerneth your Majefty
leaft, more than the acquitting of your
Confcience for Juftice. But it is the other
Parts of a Moderator amongft your Comal -^
of an Overfcer over your Jndges ^ of a
Planter of fit Jujlices and Governors in the
Country, that importeth your Affairs, and
theie Times, moft.
I yj ill add likewife, that I hope, by my
Care, the hvefitive Part of your Coundl
will be ftrengthned 5 who, now common-
ly, do exercifc rather their Judgments than
their hwentwns 5 and the Inventive Part
cometh from Projeftors, and Private Men 5
which cannot be fo well : In which kind
my Lord of Salisbnry had a good Me- ^
thod. —
To conclude 5 If I were the Man I would
be, I ftiould hope, that as your Majefty of
late hath won Hearts by Depreffing, you
iTiould in this lofe no Hearts by Advan-
cing. For I fee your People can better
^kill oiConcretum than Ahjira£fim 5 and that
the
Tl?e Lord Bacon's ^mains]
the Waves of their AfFeftion flow rather
after Perfons than Things. So that Afts of
this nature (if this were one) do more
good than twenty Bills of Grace.
If God call my Lord Chaf7ceIlor^ the
Warrants and Commiflions which are re-
quifite for the taking of the Seal^ and for
working with it, and for reviving of
Warrants under his Hand, which die with
him, and the like, (hall be in readinefs.
And in this Time prefleth more, becaufe it
is the end of a Term, and almoft the be-
ginning of the Circuits 5 fo that the Seal
cannot ftand ftill. But this may be done
as heretofore, by Commijfion^ till your Ma-
jefiy hath refolved on an Officer, God ever
preferve your Majejiy.
Your Majefties mofi:
humble Subjeft, and
bounden Servant,
F. Bacon^
^
Civil attd SMorah 4?
^ Letter written ^ hy the Lord Bacon *-**«" *
to I^ng James, for ^kf of hisZ'ifJftfr
EUate. *«^"^'-
mtMt^
May it pleafe your mofi Excellent Majefty.
IN the midft of my mifery, which is ra-
ther aflwaged by Remembrance than
by Hope 5 my chiefeft worldly comfort is,
to thmk, That fince the time I had the firft
Vote of the Commons Houfe of Parliament
for Commiffioner of the Union, until the
time that I was this laft Parliament, chofen
by both Houfes for their MefTenger to your
Majefty in the Petition of Religion, (which
two were my firft and laft Services) I was
ever more Co happy as to have my poor
Services gracioufly accepted by your Ma-
jefty, and likewife not to have had any of
them mifcarry in my Hands. Neither of
which points I can any ways take to my
felf, but afcribe the former to your Maje-
ftie's Goodnefs, and the latter to your pru-
dent Direftions , which I was ever careful
to have and keep. For as I have often faid
to your Majefty, I was towards you but as
a Bucket, andaCiftern, to draw forth and
conferve, your felf was the Fountain.
Unto
46 The Lord Bacon's Remains ^
Unto this comfort of nineteen years pro-
fperity, there (iicceded a comfort even in
my greateft adverfity , fomewhat of the
(ame nature 5 which is, That in thofe of-
fences wherewith I was charged, there was
not any one that had fpccial relation to
your Majefty, or any your particular Com-
mandments. For as, towards Almighty
God, there arc Offences againft the firft
andd'cond Table, and yet all againft God.
So with the Servants of Kings, there are
Offences more immediate againft the Sove-
reign : Although all Offences againft Law
are alfo againft the King. Unto which
Comfort there is added this Circumftance,
That as my Faults were not againft your
Majeft}% otherwife than as all Faults are 5
fo my Fall was not your Majefties Ad,
otherwife than as all Acts of Juftice are
yours. This I write not to infinuate with
your Majefty, but as a moft humble Ap-
peal to your Majcfties gracious remem-
brance, how honeft and direct you have
ever found me in your Service ^ whereby
I have an aflured belief, that there is in
your Majefties own Princely Thoughts, a
great deal of (erenity and clearnefs to me
your Ma)efties nowproftrate and caft-down
Servant.
Neither (my moft gracious Sovereign)
do
Civil and Moral 47
do I by this mention of my Services, lay
claim to your Princely Grace and Bounty,
though the priviledg of Calamity doth
bear that form of Petition. I know well,
had they been much more, they had been
but my bounden Duty. Nay, I muft al(b
confefs, that they were from time to time,
far above my merit, over and fuper-rewar-
ded by your Majefties Benefits which you
heaped upon me. Your Majefty was and
is that Mafter to me, that railed and ad-
vanced me nine times ^ thrice in Dignity,
and fix times in Office. The places indeed
were the painfuUcfl: of all your Services 5
But then they had both Honour and Pro-
fits : And the then Profits might have main-
tained my now Honour, if I had been
wife. Neither was your Majefties immedi-
ate liberality wanting towards me in fome
Gifts, if I may hold them. All this I do
moft thankfully acknowledg, and do here-
with conclude, That for any thing arifing
from my felf to move your Eye of pity to-
wards me, there is much more in my pre-
(ent Mifery, than in my paft Services 5 (ave
that the fame your Majefties Goodnefs, that
may give relief to the one, may give value
to the other.
And indeed, if it may pleafe your Majefty,
this Theme of my Mifery is fo plentiful, as
it
4 8 Tl^e LordQ^iCons^mains^
it need not be coupled with any thing elfe.
I have been (bme Body by your Majefties
fingular and undeftrved favour, even the
prime Officer of your Kingdom. Your
Majefties Arm hath been over mine in
Council, when you prefided at the Tables
fo near I was ; I have born your Majefties
Image in Metal, much more in Heart : I was
never in nineteen years Service chidden by
your Majefty, but contrariwift often over-
joyed, when your Majefty would fometimes
lay, I was a good Husband for you, though
none for my felf: fometimes. That I had a
way to deal in ^ndnQCs fmvibu^' modk^ which
was the way which was moft according to
your own Heart : And other moft gracious
fpeeches of AfFeftion and Truft, which I
feed on to this day. But why ftiould I
(peak of thcfc things which are now va-
niftied, but only the better to exprefi the
Downfil ?
For now it is thus with me : I am a year
and an half old in Mifery 5 though I muft
ever acknowledg, not without Ibme mix-
ture of your Majefties Grace and Mercy 5
For I do not think it poffible,that any you
once loved ftiould be totally miferable.
Mine own Means, througli mine own Im-
providence are poor and weak, little bet-
ter than my Father left me. The poor
Things
Civil and Moral. 49
Things which I have had from your Maje-
fty, are either in Queftion, or at Courtefy.
My Dignities remain Marks of your Favour,
but Burdens of my prefent Fortune. The
poor Remnants which I had of my former
Fortunes in Plate or Jewels, I have fpread
upon poor Men unto whom I owed, (carce
leaving my (elf a convenient Subfiftence.
So as to conclude, 1 muft pour out my Mi-
fery before your Majefty, fo far as to (ay.
Si deferk tu^ ferimus.
But as I can offer to your Majefties com-
paffion little arifing from my felf to move
you, except it be my extream Miiery, which
I have truly laid open :, fo looking up to
your Majefty 's own felf, I (liould think I
committed Cams fault if I fhould defpair.
Your Majefty is a King, whole Heart is ns
unfcrutable for fecret motions of Goodnc(s,
as for depth ofWiidom. You arc. Crea-
tor-like, Fa&ive^ and not DejirnBiie, You
are the Prince, in whom hath been ever
noted an averlation againft any thing that
favoured of an hard Heart 5 as, on the
other fide, your Princely Eye was wont to
meet with any motion that was made ou
the relieving part. Therefore as one that
hath had the happinefs to know your Ma-
I jefty near hand, I have ( moft Gracious
Sovereign) Faith enough for a Miracle,
E much
The Lord Bagoii's ^ma'msy
much more for a Grace, that your Majcfty
will not fufFer your poor Creature to be ut-
terly defaced, nor blot that Name quite
out of your Book, upon which your Sa-
cred Hand hath been fo oft for new Or-
naments and Additions.
Unto this degree of.compaffion, I hope
God above, ( of ^vhofe Mercy towards me,
both in my Profperity and Adverfity I
have had great Teftimonies and Pledges,
though mine own manifold and wretched
-unthankfulnefles might have averted them)
will difpofe your Princely Heart, already
prepared to; all Piety .And why(hould I not
think, but that thrke Noble Prwce^ who
would have pulled me out of the Fire of a
Sentence, will help to pull me (if I may
ufe that homely phrale) out of the Mire
of ah abject and fordid condition in my laft
days : And that excellent Favorite of yours,
(thegoodnels of whofe Nature contendeth
with the greatnefs of his Fortune 5 and
who counteth it a Prize, a fecond Prize,
to be a good Friend, after that Prize which
lie carrieth to be a good Servant ) will kifs
your Hands with joy for any Work of
Piety you (hall do for me. And as all
commiferable Perfom (efpecially fuch as
find their Hearts void of all malice ) are apt
to think that all Men pity them 5 I afliire
my
'Civil and Moral 51
my felf that the Lords of your Council, who
out of their Wifdom and Noblenefs, can-
not but befenfible of humane Events, will
; in this way which I go for the Relief of my
I Eftate, further and advance your Majeftv's
Goodnefi towards me : For there is, as I
conceive, a kind of Fraternity between
Great Men that are, and thoie that have
been, being but the feveral Tenfcs of one
Verb. Nay, I do further predime, that
both Hou(es of Parliament will love their
Juftice the better, if it end not in my ruin.
* For I have been often told, by many of
my Lords, as it were in excufing the fcve-
rity of the Sentence, that they knew they
left me in good Hands. And your Majcfty
knowxth wxll, 1 have been all my life long
acceptable to thofe Aflemblies, notbv flat-
tery, but by moderation, and by honeft
expreffingof a defire to have all things go
fairly and well.
But if it may plea(e your Majefty, (for
Saints I fliall give them Reverence, but no
Adoration 5 my Addrcfi is to your Majefty
the Fountain of Goodncfs ) your Majefty
(hall, by the Grace of God, not feel that
in Gift, which I ftiall extreamly feel in
Help : For my Defires are moderate, and
my Courfes mcafared to a Life orderly and
reiterved, hoping ftill to do your Majefty
E 2 honour
5 1 ' 7he Lord Bacon's ^matnsj
honour in my way. Only I moft humbly
befeech your Majefty, to give me leave to
conclude with thofe words which Neceffity
fpeaketh ; Help me, (dear Sovereign Lord
and Mafter ) and pity me fo far, as I that
have born a Bag, be not now in my Age
forced in efFeft to bear a Wallet , nor I
that defire to live to ftudy, may not be dri-
ven to ftudy to live. I moft humbly crave
pardon of a long Letter, after a long fi-
lence. God of Heaven ever blels, preferve,
and prolper your Majefty.
Your Majefties poor
ancient Servant
and Beadfinan,
F7\ St. Jlk
Certam
QVil and ."Moral. 55
Certain jfpothegms of the Lord BaconV,
hitherto unpuhlifhed.
I. iryLutarch (aid well. It is otherwife in
X a Common-wealth of <^en than of
Bees, The Hive of a City or Kingdom is
in beft condition, when there is leaft of
noife or Buzze in it.
2. The feme Plutarch (aid, of Men of
weak Abilities (et in Great Place, that they
were lik^ little Statues (et on great Bafes^
made to appear the le(s by their Advance-
ment.
3. He (aid again 5 Good Fame is like
Fire. When you have kindled it, you may
oa(ily pre(erve it ^ but if once youextin-
guifh it, you will not ealily kindle it again ,
at leaft, not make it burn as bright as it
did.
4. The An(\ver o£ Apol/omus to Vejpaf?- .
an^ is full of excellent ^ Inftruftion : Ve- thegm ^^^
fpaCian asked him. What was NeroV over- ^^Jofoun/
throw .ol;c worfe than he thought.
1 6. He waswontalfoto (ay,That Power
in an ill Man, was like the Power of a
hhu\ Witch ; He could do hurt, hut no good
ivith it. And he would add, That the Ma-
gicians could turn Water into Bloody but coy Id
not turn the Blood again to Water.
17. When Mr. Attourney Cook^ in the
Exchequer, gave high words to Sr. Frances
Tiacon, and ftood much upon his higher
Place '-y Sir Francis faid to him, Alr.Attour-
ney I The lef yon Jpeal{ of your own great-
ncfs^ the more I fiall thinks of it '-^ and the
more, the lef.
18. Sir Francis Bacon coming into the
Earl of Arundel's Garden, where there were
a great number of Ancient Statues of na-
ked Men and Women, made a ftand, and
as aftonifh'd, cryed out, The RefurreSion.
1 9. Sir Franc fs "^acon ( who was always
' for
5 8 The Lord Bacon's ^malns]
for moderate Counfels) when bne was
fpeaking of fuch a Reformation of the
Church of England^zs would in effeft make
it no Church 5 faid thus to hira, Sir, The
Subjeft we talk of is the Eye of Evglar^d :
And // there be a Jpeck^ or two in the Eje^ jve
endeavour to take them ojf:^ but he were a
jira^ige Ocnlijl who would full out tl
JO^C,
20. The fame Sir Franck 'Bdcon was
wont to fay, That thofe who left ufeful
Studies for ufelefs Scholaftic Speculations,
were like the Olympic Gamjiers^ who ab^
fiaind from necejfary Labours^ that they
might be fit for fuch ai were not fo»
2 1. He likewife often u(ed this Compa-
^ rifon. ^ The Empirical T^hilofopkers are like
suhftance to Pifmires ^ they only lay up and ufe their
^ this in Store. The Rationalijis are like to Spiders -^
Ed!^Lugd! they fpin all out of their own Bowels. But
Bat.;.. 1 05. give me a Philofopher, who /% the Bee^
cogitata h-^th a middle faculty, gathering from abroad^
&vira. liit .digejiing that which is gathered by his
^^ ^^' ovpn virtue.
22. The Lord St, Alban^ who was not
overhafty to raife Theories^ but proceeded
flowly by Experiments, was wont to (ay to
fome Philofophers who would not go his
Pace ^ Gentlemen ! Nature is a Labyrinth^
in which the very haji you move with will make
you lofe your way,
23. The
Civil mi Moral 59
25. The ' ineLord when he fpokeof
the Dutchmen^ ufed to fay. That we could
not abandon them for our fufitj^ nor keep
them for vutfrofit, Andfometimes he would
expreis the fame (Infe on this manner 5 We
hold the ^ Belgk Lion hy the Ears,
24. The fame Lord, when a Gendeman
feem'd not much to approve of his Libera-
lity to his Retinue,(aid to him 5 Sir, I am all
of a Piece ^ If the Head be lifted up^ the infe-
rioitr parts of the Body mulictvo.
25. The Lord Bacon was wont to com-
mend the Advice of the plain old Man at
Buxton that fold Beefoms^ A proud lazy
young Fellow came to him for a Beefom up-
on Truft 5 to whom the Old Man (aid 5
Friend ! haft thou no Mony ? borrow of
thy Back, and borrow of thy Belly ^ theyl
neVe ask thee again, I Ihall be dunning thee
every day.
26. vS'^^/f?/^ "^ (aid well to Cr^^, (when in *s^^ thi^
oftentation he fhewed him his Gold) 5/r,7/|^^^^f(^
a7jy other come that has better Iron than you ^ he true
mil be mafter of all this Gold. f/^^f^^('
2 7. Jack^ Weeks (aid of a great Man (juft doms.
then dead) who pretended to fome Religi- P- ^7i-
on, but was none of the beft livers 5 IFc//,
I hope he is in Heaven. Every Man thinly as
he, wipes '-i but if he be in Heaven^ 'twere pity
it were known.
Ornamenta
6o Tl^e Lord B2iCons (^mains^
Ornament a Rational! a.
Afupply (by thePubliflier) of cer-
tain weighty and elegant Sentences ^
feme made, others collected, hy
the Lord ^acon-^ and by him put un-
der the abbVe-faid Title • and at
prefent not to be found.
j4 QoUeclion of Sentences out of the
Mimi of Publius ^ Englijhed by the
Tubltlher.
I. A Leaf or J qna^th in Arte eft melwr^
JtjL. tantb eji nequior,
A Gamfter, the greater Mafter he is in
his Art, the worfe Man he is.
2. Arcum^ inUnfio frarigH 3 Animunt^ re-
mijfio.
Much bending breaks the Bow 5 much
unbending, the Mind.
5. Bis zincit^ qui fevincH in ViUoria.
He conquers twice, who upon Viftory
overcomes bimftlf.
4. Ckm
Civil and Moral 6i
4. Cum vitia projint^ peccat^ ^i re&i
facit.
If Vices were upon the whole matter
profitable, the virtuous Man would be the
(inner.
5. Benedormit^ quinon fetrtit^ quhdmale
dormiat.
He fleeps well, who feels not that he
fleeps ill.
6. Deliberare ntilia^ mora efi mijjima.
To deliberate about ufeful things, is the
(afeft delay.
7. Dolor decrefcit^ nbi qnb crefcat non
habet.
The flood of Grief decreafeth, when it
can fwell no higher.
V 8. Etiam Imwcentes cogit mcnt'tri dolor.
Pain makes even the Innocent Man a
Lyar.
9. Etiam cekritas in defiderio^ mora eli.
Even in defire, ftviftnefi it felf is delay.
10. Etiam capillus nnut habet nmbram
fuam.
The (malleft Hair cafts a (hadow.
11. Fidcm qui perdit^ qub fi fervat in
reliqimm^ .
He that has loft his Faith, what has he
left to live on?
12. Formojk Facics mnta commendatio ejl.
A beautiful Face is a filent commendation.
13. For turn
6i TI:}eLordB3cons^mainSy
15. Forturia mmhim qmm fovct^ Stultum
faciU -^'A
Fortune makes him a Fool, whom (he
makes her Darling.
14. Fortuna obejfe mtlli content a ejl: Jemel.
Fortune is not content to do a Man but
one ill turn. .
15. Fadt gratum Fortirna^ qnam nana
indet.
The Fortune which no Body fees, makes
a Man happy and unenvied.
16. Heul quhm mifirum eji' ab illo Udi^y
de qtfo non pojjts qjieri,
O ! what a miferable thing 'tis to be hurt
by filch a one of whom 'tis in vain to com-
plain. .
17. Homo totkf morJtur qnotks amitiit
Juos.
A Maji dies as often as he lo(es his
Friends.
1 8. H^redis fletus^ fub perfena rifus eji.
The Tears or an Heir are laughter under
a Vizard.
19. Jnawdum mhil ei7, 777Ji quod rcfidt
varietas.
Nothing is pleafant, to which variety dos
not give a relifh.
20. Invidiam f err c^ ant fortis^ aptt fcelix
poteji.
He may bear envy, who is either coura-
gious or happy, 21. In
CM and SMoraL 6j
21. In malis fperare honum^ mflinmcens^
nemo poteji.
None but a virtuous Man can hope well
in ill circumftances.
2 2. Li vindkando^ crimwofa eU cck^
ritas.
In taking revenge, the very hafte we
make is criminal.
2^. In calamitofo rijus etiam injuria eji.
When Men are in calamity, if we do but
laugh we offend.
24. Improbe Neptunum acc7ifat^ quiiterum
Nayfragium fadt.
He accufcth Neptune unjuftly, who
makes Shipwrack a (econd time.
25. Mffltis minatur^ qui nni facit inju-
riam.
He that injures one, threatens an hun-
dred.
26. Mora omnis ingrata ei7, fed facit fa-
fientiam.
All delay is ungrateful, but we are not
wife without it.
27. Mori eii falicis antequam Mortem
invocet.
Happy he who dies ere he calls for Death
to take him away.
28. Malus uhi Iwnnm fe (imulat^ tunc ei?
pejfimus.
An ill Man is always ill 5 but he is then
worft
64 T7;^ Lord Bacon's Remains y
word: of all when he pretends to be a
Saint.
29. Magm cum ferkalo ntjioditur^ quod
mnliis placet.
Lock and Key will fcarce keep that ft-
cure, which pleafes every body.
50. Mide vivunt qui fe fcmper viUnros
putant.
They think ill who think of living al-
ways.
51. Male fecnm agit JEger^ Medicum qui
h^redem fadt.
That fick Man do's ill for himfelf^. who
makes hisPhylician his Heir.
32. i^ [lilt OS timer e debet ^ quern mnltiii'
ntent.
He of whom many are afraid, ought him-
felf to fear many.
95. Nulla t am bona esi Fortmta^ de qua
f?H pojjis quer7.\-^,^^ ^\^
There's no Fortune fo good but it bates
an Ace.
34. Pars heneficn ei?, quod petitur^ fi
bene veges,
Tis part of the Gift, if you deny ger^t/lelji
v/hat is asked of you.
35. Timidus vocat fe catttum^ parcum fer^
didifs.
The Coward calls himfelf a wary Man 5
and the Mifer (ays he is frugal.
36.
civil and MoraL 6 5
56. Vita! mifero longa^ fcelici brevis,
O Life! an Age to him that is in mifcry,
and to him that is happy, a moment.
j{ Collection of Sentences out of fome of
the Writings of rkLor^ Bacon.
I. TTisa ftrange defire which Men have,
X to (eek Power and lo(e Liberty.
2. Children increafc the cares of Life 5
but they mitigate the remembrance of
Death.
3. Round dealing is the honour of Man's
Nature 5 and a mixture of faKhood is like
allaji in Gold and Silver, which may make
the Metal work the better, but it embafeth
It.
4. Death openeth the Gate to good
Fame, and extinguiflieth Envy.
5. Schifin, in the Spiritual Body of the
Church, is a greater fcandal than a corrup-
tion in Manners ; As, in the natural Body,
a Wound or Solution of Continuity, is
worfe than a corrupt Humour.
6. Revenge is a kind of wild Jjtjlice^
which the more a Man's Nature rn?7s
F io.
^6 7 he Lord Bacon's ^mains^
tOj the more ought Law to rveed it out.
7. He that ftudieth Revenge, keepeth
his own Wounds green.
8. Revengeful Perfons Uve and die like
Witches. Their life is mi(chievous,and theii^
end is unfortunate.
9. It was an high Speech of ^^//^^^^(after
the manner of the Stoics ) That the goed
Thwgs rvhuh belo?7g to Projpentji , are to he
rvijlfd 5 hit the good things which belong to
Advcrfity^ are to be admird,
10! He that cannot fee well, let him go
foftly.
II. If a Man be thought yerref, it in-
viteth difcovcry : as the more clofe Air fuck-
eth in the more open,
i2.Keep your A/&r/>y wholly from your
Children, not fo your Purfe.
13. Men of Noble Birth are noted to be
envious towards new Men when they rife*
For the diftance is alter'd, and it is like a
deceit of the Eye, that when others come
on, they think thenifelves go back.
14. That Envy is moft malignant which
is like Cains^ who envyed his Brother, be-
caufe bis Sacrifice was better accepted,
when there was no body but GW, which
commonly is done, when the People is the
Phjlician,
26. He that goeth into a Country be-
fore he hath fome entrance into the Lan-
guage, gocth to School^ and not to travel.
27. It is a miferable ftate of mind (and
yet it is commonly the cafe of Kings) to
have fav things to dedre^ and many things to
fear.
28. Dcpreflion of the Nobility may
make a Ring movo, ah folute^ but Icfs fafe.
29. All Precepts concerning Kings, are,
in efFed, comprehended in thefe Remem-
brances f *T{cmemher thut^ art a Man 5 Rc'
^leniher then art Gods Viccgere?7t. The one
bridleth their Power^ and the other their
wm.
50. Things will have their /ri? or fi^
cond agitation. If they be not tofled up-
on the Arguments of Counfel^ they will be
tolled upon the Waves of Fortune.
31. The true compofition of aCounfel-
lor, is rather to be skill'd in his Mafters Bu-
(Incfs than his Nature 5 for then he is like to
\idvife him^ and not to feed his humour.
32. Private
QVil and
inveniantur fpecies^ qu£ (int aut eJJe pojfint^
ut exercitum millenarium vix confidant : Cum-
que Negativa Affrmativis fubjun&a^ ad in-
formationem IntelkBus plurimum valeant 5
confiituenda efi Inquifitio de Ente^ ^ non
Ente. Ea ordine efi feptuagefiima tertia^d^ qua--
druplex Alpha numeratur.
Cand. Ent,
^adruplex Alpha , five de Ente c^
non Ente,
Ad Vojfibile d^ Impojfibile^ nil aliud eli^
quam Votentiale ad Ens, aut non Potentiale
8o Tl:e Lord Bacon's
ad Ef?s. tie eo Liqinftio feptuagejima quart a
cor7jidtnr 5 qn^ qnadrnflex Beta mtmeratur.
Cond, Ent.
§luadruplex Beta 5 five de Pojjlhili &
Imfojfibili,
^ Etiam fSHtdtum^ Pauatm^ Rarum^ Con*
fueUim fimt potcfitiaha ad Ens in ^mnto.
De iis InqmpJio feptmgejlma quint a ejio^ qu^
quadriiflex Gamma nnmeretnr,
Cond, Ent.
^adruplex Gamma 3 Jive de Multo c^
T?aucd.
Durabile d^ Tranfitorium^ lEternum (j^
Momentanenm^ fnnt potentialia ad Ens in
Duratione, De illis feptuagejima fexta In-
quijitio ejio^ qu£ quadruplex Delta numeratur,
Cond. Ent,
^adruplex Delta 3 five de Durabili &
Tranfitorio,
^^(^turale d^ Monjirefum^ funt potentia-^
lia m Snsj per a^rfim NaturjqmUir^
JShdnm <^xperJmenti fithtiliorh explkamus^
ve error fiib(it^ atq-^ at aUos^ ad melkres mo-
dos excogitandos^ excitemus.
Eiiam Mofnta^ d^ Cautkms^ de T^r^m
ful/anjs & invemendi crroribus^ qua 7wbis
occurrmit^ aj^crgimns. Objervatm/es 77oJlras.y
piper Hiftoriam^ d^ ^xperujmita^ fiibteximns^
nt Interpret at w Natfir£ magk fit m ProcmSln.
^tium Canoies^ fed tamcn Mobiles^ d^
Axiomata hichcata^ qnalia 7?obk mquirentibns^
non pro77n77cm}7tibus^ fe ojferuf7t cof7JlituimHS.
'Utiles emm fiwt^ (i 77 on pr or fits ver£.
De77iqi^ te77ta?ne77ta qn^dam hfterpretatwnk
qjja77doq-'y molkmir^ licit prorfiis hu7/n repeTJtia^
& zero hitcrprciaimm ?70f/m:e^ 77h11o modo
^hyftologicd Remains. 8
(ut arhitramnr) decor a^ida, ^id C7Jwi 7whis
fjifcrciljo opus eji^ aut imppjiitra^ aim totks pro-
fiUamtir^ mc 7iohk H/Jioriam d^ S.xpCYtme7ita^
qualihus opus eji^fippetere^ f/ec abfq-^ hk^ hitcr-
pretdtionem Natnr£ perjjci pojje^ ideoqi, 7iobis
fatis ejje^ (i inHiis rcrnm 7ion defwtus,
Perjpiaatat^f mtte7n^ ^ Ordwk gratiu^
Aditus qiwfdiWt ad l7jqi{j(!tW7ies^ n/Jlar priffi-
tiomint^ fithficr77Wtm, Item C 07172 exio7iQs C^
ViTicula^ ne It? qui (it i 077 es (iTit magis abjuptd'^
777terp07timus.
^d lifum vcro vellicatiofiis qjiafda77f^ dc
Pra&jca^ fuggcrimus,
Etiam Optativa corum^ qu<£ adhitc 77077 ha-
be77tnr^ 7177a cum prox777ns fuis^ ad erigeTjdam
h7i7na77am 777dujir7am^ prop0777mus,
l^^q'-) fumMS 77efc77^ l77qU7fit7077CS 777ter Jc^
alJquuT/do compUcari^ jta ut 77077ulla ex iTiq/fiJt-
tis^ m Titulos diverfos 777C7da77t. Sed modum
etim adhihehvniis ^ ut & repetitmium faflidia^
(^ re'jeB 707771771 moIeJl7as^ quantum peri poj/it^
vitemus ^ poJip077e77tes tameTi hoc ipfu7u (q7ia72'
do 77eceJJe fuerit) perj^nuitati doceTicU^ hi Ar-
gume77to td77i obfcuro.
H£c eji Abecedar77 Norma d^Regubu Deus
Uri7VcrfiCo77d7tor^ Cor7fervator^d^ l77Jla7iratorj
Op7^ hoc d^ in Afce77jio7?e ad Gloriam fua?/!^
& 7// Dejle7?jio}!e ad bo7ium hu77ia77U}}7 ^ pro fu'a
erga ho77/777es be77ez'o/e77t7a d* Mijericordia pro-
tegat d^ regat^per FiHuth f7ium umcum Nobif-
cum Deum. G 2 The
84 ^f^^ Lord Bacon's
The fame mEngUfi by the Publiftier.
J Fragment of a (Book mitten hy the
Lord Verulam, and Ent'mled^ The
Alphabet of Nature.
SEeing (b many things are produc'd by
a^un^ufs. the Earth, and Waters :, fo many things
orz.mii. pafs through the Air, and are received by
Au'^m ^^ ^^h^o many things are chang'd and diflblv'd
Sdfi??.' by Fire 5 other Inquifitions would be left
^/34'^ perfpicuous, unlefs the Nature of thofe
Ea! Lugd. <^lajj€s which fo often occur, were well
B.it. / 3. i^nown and explain d. To thefe we add
C.4 p,i7, 1. Jj^^^^-j|^.Jqj^5 concerning Celejiial Bodies, and
I
Giobiin- Meteors^ feeins; they are fome of greater
^f».V c. 4
Globiln
).'^88t89. Mafes,&i of themmber of Catholic Bodies
Greater <^^Jfes.
The 6yth Inquifition. The three-fold
Tajf, or concerning the Earth.
The 68th Inquifition. The three-fold
Vppof?, or concerning the Water.
The 6^th Inquifition. The three-fold
^Phi, or concerning the Air.
The 7cth Inquifition. The three-fold
Chi, or concerning the Fire.
Thci
^hyfiohgtcal ^mahis. 8 5
The 71/ Inquifition. The Three-fold
T/?, or concerning Celejlial Bodies.
'The 7 2d Inquifition. The three-fold
Omega^ or concerning Meteors.
Conditmis of E7itkies.
THere yet remain, as Subjefts of our
Inquiry, in our Alphabet ^ the CoNdi-
tjons of '^ewgSy which ftem, as it were,
Trarjfienderjtals^ and fuch as touch A^ery lit-
tle of the Body of Nature. Yet by that
manner of Inquifition which we ufe, They
will confiderably illuftrate the other Ob-
jefts.
Firft 5 Therefore feeing (as Demon-it us
excellently obftrved ) the Nature of T/.i?7gs
is in the plenty of Mutter^ and variety of
Individuals^ large ^ and (as he affirmeth)
Infinite 5 hut in its Coitions and Species Jo
Finite^ that it may feem narrow and poor ;
feeing fo few Species are found, either in
aftual Being, or Impofiibility, that they
fcarce make up a mujier of a Thoufand ^ A nd
(eeing Negatives, fubjoin'd to Affirmatives,
conduce much to the Informativoa of the
Underftanding : It is fit that an Inquilition
be made concerning Beings and not Bei?7g.
G 5 That
86 The Lor J Bacon's
That is the y^d'm order, and reckon d the
Four-fold ^Ipha.
Conditions of "beings.
The four-fold ^Ifha 5 or, concerning
Beings and not Being.
Now Pojfible and Impojfible^ are nothing
cl(e but Conditions potential to Beings or
not potential to Being, Of this the yj\th In-
quifition confiftsj and is accounted the four-
fold ^eta.
Conditions of '\Beings,
The four-fold ''Beta 3 or concerning Pof |
fthle and Intpojfible. '
Alfo, Much^ Little 5 i?^re, Ordinary 5
are Conditions potential to Being in g^uan-
tity. Of them let the y^^th Inquilition con-
fift, and be accounted the four- fold Qamma.
Conditions of beings.
The four-fold Gamma 3 or, concerning
much and little.
Durable
^hyjtological ^mains 8 7
Durable and Tranfttory^ Eternal and Alo-
mentary^ are ptentiil to Being in Dnraiion,
Of thefe let the ySth Inquilition confift,
and be call'd the four-fold Delta,
Cof7ditJ077S oj '^cifigs.
The fmir-fold Delta 5 or, concerning
Dttrabk and Tranfjory.
^?^tural and JJIo^Jiroud'^ are potef2t7al to
Being, either by the comfe of Nature, or
by its deviatioris from it. Of thefe let
the yjth Inquifition coniift, which is ac-
counted the four-fold Epfilo??.
Conditions of ' Beings.
The four-fold EpfJon 5 or, concerning
what is Natural or ^onfirous.
Natural and Artificial^ are potential to
Being, either with or without the Operation
of Man. Of thefe let the jS/fe Inquifition
confift, and be accounted the four-fold
Zeta,
G 4. Co;.^
88 Ik lor^ Bacon's
Conditions of HSeings^
The four-fold Zeia ^ or, of that which
is Natural and Artificial.
We have not fubjoined Examples in the
Explication of the Order of this our ^-
phahet : for the Inquilltions themfelves con-
tain the whole Array of Examples.
It is by no means intended, that the 77-
tles^ according to which the Order of this
Alphabet is dilpos'd, (hould have fo much
authority given to tbem, as to be taken for
true. zn<^ fixed partitions of Takings, That
were to profefi we already knew the things
after which we inquire 5 for no Man do s
truly difpofe of things into their feveral
Clajfes^ who do's not beforehand very well
underftand the Nature of them. It is flif-
ficient, if thefe Titles be conveniently adap-
ted to the Order of Inquiry ^ the thing
which is at prefent defign d.
The Ride (or Form) of the Alphahet.
After this manner we compofe and difpofe
our Alphabet.
We begin fokly with Hifiory and Expe-^
riments^
^hyjiological ^mains. 8 9
riments. Thefe, if they exhibit an enume-
ration and (eries of particular Things, are
difpos'd into Tables 5 otherwife they are ta-
ken feperately, and by themfelves.
But feeing we are often at a lofs for Hj-
Jlary znd Experiments^ efpecially (uchas are
Luciferoffs [orlnftruftive] and [as we call
*them] Injiames of the Crofs-^ by which ^ ^^^ ^^^^
the Underftanding might be helped in the oigln./ »
knowledg of the true Caufes of Things : Aph. 35.
We propofe the task of making new Expe- lugdl^Bat,
rimefits, Thcfe may ferve as an Hiflorjin
Defigrt. For what elfe is to be done by us
wfio are but breaking the Ice ?
For the mode of any more abftrufe, Ex-
periment, we explain it, left any miftake
arife about it 3 and to the intent alfo that
we may excite others to excogitate better
Methods.
Alfo we interfpeft certain ^dmotiitions
and Catitions concerning fuch Fallacies of
Things, and Errors in Invention, as v/e
meet with in our way.
We fabjoin our Obfervations upon HrJIo-
Y) and Experiments^ that the Interpretation
ef '^^Qatiire may be the more in rcadinefi
and at ha'nd.
Like wife we lay down C^/?^;?/ (but not
fuch as are fixed and determmd^ and
Axioms which are, as it were, in ^mhrio :
Sith
9 o Tl?e Lord Bacon's
Such as offer themfelves to us in the quality
of Inqtiirers^ and not of Judges, Such Ca-
vons and Axioms are projitabk^ though they
appear not yet mamfefily^ and upon all ac-
counts true,
Laftly 5 We meditate fometimes certain
mfays of I?7terfretat7on^ though fuch as are
low and of fmall advance, and by no means
tobehonour'd (in our opinion) with the
very name of Interpretation,
For what need have we of Arrogance or
Impofture, feeing v/e have fo often pro-
fefled, that we have not fuch a fupply of
Hiftory and Experiments as is needful 5 and
that without thefe, the Interpretation of
Nature cannot be brought to perfeftion.
Wherefore it is enough for us, if we are
not wanting to the beginning of Things.
Now,for the fake of Perfpicuity,and Or-
der, we prepare our way by Avenues,
which are a kjnd ofT^refaces to our In-
quilitions. Likewile we interpofe bonds of
Connexion^ that our Inquifitions may not
feem abrupt and dif^jointed.
Alfo we fuggeft for u(e, fbme Hints of
VraBice, Furthermore, we propofe vpijl:)es
of fiich things as are hitherto only defired
and not had, together with thofe things
which border on them, for the exciting the
Induftry of Man's Mind.
Neither
Thyfiological ^mains. ^ \
Neither are we ignorant, that thofe h-
quifttions are fometimes mutually entangled 5
lb that fome things of which we inquire
[even the fame things^ belong to feveral Ti-
tles. But we will obferve fuch meafure^ that
(as far as may be) we may (hun both the ;;^;/-
feoufnej^ of Repetitror?^ and the trouble of
T(eje&7or?^ fubmitting notwithftanding to
either of thefe, when in an Argument fo
obfcure, there is neceffity of fo doing,
in order to the more inteiligiblc teaching
of it.
This is the Form and Rule of our ^/flphd-
het.
May God, the Creator, Preferver, and
Renewer of the Univerfe, proteft and go-
vern this Work, both in its afient to nis
Glory, and in its defccr7t to the Good of
Mankind, for the (ake of his Mercy and
good Will to Men, through his only Soil
[^ Immanuel ] God-wit h-us^
In
qm-
91 Tl^e LordB2LCons
Inquijitions touching the Compounding of
JMetals ^ by Sir Francis Bacon,
!Baron o/Verulam.
TO wake proof of the Incorporator; of Iron
with Flinty or other Stone. For if it
can be incorporated without over-great
charge, or other incommodity, the cheap-
ne(s of the Flint or Stone, doth make the
Compound Stuff profitable for divers Ufes.
The Doubts may be three in number.
Firli 5 Whether they will incorporate at
all, Qtherwifc than to a Body that will not
hold well together but become brittle and
uneven ?
Secondly 5 Although it (hould incorpo-
rate well, yet whether the Stuff will not
be fb ftubborn as it will not work well
with a Hammer, whereby the charge in
working will overthrow the cheapnefi of
the material ?
Thirdly 5 Whether they will incorporate,
except the Iron and Stone be firft calcined
into Pouder ? And if not. Whether the
charge of the Calcination will not eat out
the cheapnefs of the material ?
The
^hyjtological ^mains. 9j
The Vfes are moft probable to be ^ Firji
for the Implements of the Kitching^ as
Spits, Ranges, Cobirons, Pots, &c. then
for the Wars, as Ordinance, Portcullafles,
Grates, Chains, &c.
Note 5 The finer Works of Iron are not
fo probable to be ferved with fiich a Stuff,
as Locks, Clocks, fmall Chains, &c. be-
caufe the Stuff is not like to be tough
enough.
For the better ufe in comparifon of Iron,
it is like the Stuff will be far lighter ^ for
the weight of Iron to Fhnt, is double and
a third part 5 and, fecondly, it is like to
ruft not fb eafily, but to be more clean.
The ways of tryal are two. Firft , By
the Iron and Stone of themfelves, wherein
it mufl be inquired, What are the Stones
that do eafilieft melt. Secondly 5 With an
Additament, wherein Brimftone is appro-
ved to help to the melting of Iron or Steel.
But then it muft be confidered. Whether
the Charge of the Additament will not de-
ftroy the Profit.
It muft be known alfb what proportion
of the Stone the Iron will receive to incor-
porate well with it, and that with once
melting ^ for if either the proportion be
too fmall, or that it cannot be received but
peece-meal by (everal meltings, the Work
cannot be of value. To
94 T7;e Lor J Bacon's
31? viakc proof of the mcorporatmg of Iron
and Braf. For the cheapnefs of the Iron
in comparifon of the Brals, if the life
may be (erved, doth promife Profit.
The Doubt will be, touching their incor-
porating: for that it is approved, that Iron
will not incorporate, neither with Brafi
nor other Metals of it (elf by fimple fire ;
So as the inquiry mufl: be upon the Calci-
nation, and the Additament, and the charge
of them.
The Vfcs will be for (uch things as are
now made of Brais, and might be as well
ierved by the compound Stuffy wherein
the Doubts will be chiefly of the toughnefi
and of the beauty.
First '^ Therefore, if Bra(s Ordinance
could be made of the compound Stuff, in
refpeft of the cheapnefs of the Iron, it
would be of great u(e.
The Vantage which Brafs Ordinance hath
over Iron, is chiefl}', as I fuppofe, becaufe
it will hold the blow, though it be driven
far thinner than the Iron can be, whereby
it (aveth both in the quantity of the Mate-
rial, and in the charge and commodity of
mounting & carriagc,in regard by reafon of
the thinnefs it beareth much le(s weight :
there may be aUb fomewhat in being not fo
eafily overheated. Sccondlji'-^
Secondly 5 For the Beauty 3 thofe things
wherein the beauty or lufter are efteemed,
are, Andirons, and all manner of Images,
and Statues, and Columns, and Tombs, and
the like. So as the doitht will be double for
the Beauty 3 the one whether the colour
will pleafe fo well, becaufe it will not be fo
like Gold as Brafi > the other^ whether it
will pollifh fo well > Wherein for the latter
it is probable it will 5 for Steel glofles are
more refplendant than the like Plates of
Brafi would be 5 and fo is the glittering of
a Blade. And befides, I take it. Andiron
Brafs, which they call White Brafs, hath
fome mixture of Tin to help the lufter.
And for the Golden Colour, it may be by
fome fmall mixture of Orpiment, fuch as
they ufe to Brafs in the Yellow Alchymy,
will eafily recover that which the Iron
lofeth. Of this the Eye muft be the Judg
upon proof made.
But now for Pans, Pots, Curfucs, Coun-
ters, and the like 5 the beauty will not be
fo much refpefted, fo as the compound
Stuff is like to pals.
For the better ufe of the compound Stuff,
it will be fweeter and cleaner than Brafs
alone, which yieldeth a fmell or foilnefs,
and therefore may be better for the Vcflels
of the Kitchen and Brewing. It will alfb
be
^6 Ihe LoraDACons
be harder than Brafi where hardnefs may
be required.
For the tryal, the Doubts will h^tvpo^
FirU 5 The over-weight of Brafi towards
Iroil, which will make Iron float on the top
in the melting. This perhaps will be hol-
pen with the Calamwar Stone^ which con-
fenteth fo well with Brais, and as I take it^
is lighter than Iron. The other Doubt will
be, the ftifFnelsanddrinefs of Iron to melt 5
which muft be holpen either by moifinitjg
the Iron, or opening it. Vor the firji^ Per-
haps fome mixture of Lead will help.
Which is as much more liquid than Brafi,
^s Iron is lefs liquid. The opening may be
holpen by fome mixture of Sulphur, fo as
the trials would be with Brafi, Iron, Cala-
ntinair Stone^ and Sulphur 5 and then again
with the (ame compofition, and an additi-
on of fome Lead 5 and in all this the Charge
muft be confidered, whether it eat not out
the Profit of the cheapnefi of Iron ?
There be two Proofs to be made of mcor^
f oration of Metals for magnificence and de-
licacy. The one for the E^e, and the other
for the Ear. Statua Metal, and Bell Me-
tal, and Trumpet Metal, and String Me-
tal 5 in all thefe, though the mixture of
Brafi or Copper, (hould be dearer than the
Brafs
^hyfiological ^malnsl p'pt
Brafiitfelf, yet the plea(ure will advance
the price to profit.
, i^/ri? 5 Therefore for Statua-Metal^ fee
THny^ Mixtures, which are aimoft forgot-
ten, and confider the charge.
Try likewife the mixture of Tin in large
proportion with Copper, and obferve the
Colour and Beauty, it being polilhed. But
chiefly let proof be made or the incorpo-
rating of Copper or Brafs with Glafs-Me-
tal, for that is cheap, and is like to add a
great glory and (hining.
For Bell-MetaL Fhfi^ It is to be known
what is the Compofition which is now in
ufe. Secondly^ It is probable that it is the
drinefs of the Metal that doth help the
clearnels of the found, and the moiftncls
that duUeth it : and therefore the Mixtures
that are probable are Steel, Tin, Glafs-
Metal.
For Strwg'Metal^ or Tnmpet-Metal^ it is
the fame reafon 5 fave that Glafs-Metal may
not be ufed, becaufe it will make it too
brittle 5 and trial may be made with mix-
ture of Silver, it being but a delicacy with
Iron or Bra(s.
To make proof of the Corporation of Sil-
lier and Tin^ in equal quantity, or with two
parts Silver, and one part Tin, and to ob-
H (erve
^8 7he Lord B^icons
fervc whether it be of equal beauty and
lufter with pure Silver 5 and alfo whether
it yield no foilinefi more than Silver ? And
again, whether it will indure the ordinary
Fire, which belongeth to Chafing-difties,
Pofncts, and fuch other Silver Veffels?
And if it do not endure the Fire, yet whe-
ther by fome mixture of Iron it may not be
made more fixt ? For if it be in Beauty, and
all the IKes afore&id equal to Silver,it were
a thing of lingular profit to the State, and
to all particular Perfons, to change Silver J
Plate or Veflel into the Compound Stuffy
being a kind of Silver Ele&re^ and to turn
the reft into Coin. It may be alfb quefti-
oncd, Whether the Compound Stuff will
receive gilding as well as Silver, and with
equal lufter ? It is to be noted, That the
common allay of Silver Coin is Brafi, which
doth difcolour more, and is not fo neat as
Tin.
Th Drovpffings of Metals within other Me-
tals, in fuch fort as they can never rife
again, is a thing of great profit. For if a
quantity of Silver canbefo buried in Gold,
as it will never be reduced again, neither
by Fire, nor parting Waters, nor other-
ways 5 and alfo that it (erve all Ufes as well
as pure Gold, it is in efFeft all one, as if fo
much
^hyfiologicd ^mains. .: 99
much Silver were turned into Gold 5 only
the weight will difcover it : but that taketh
off but half of the profit ^ for Gold is not
fiilly double weight to Silver, but Gold is
twelve times price to Silver.
The burial muft be by one of the(e two
ways, either by the fmallnelsof the propor-
tion, as perhaps fifty to one, which will be
but fix pence gains in fifty (hillings : or it
muft be holpen by fomewhat which may
fix the Silver, never to be reftored or va-
pour d away, when it is incorporated into
fucha Ma(s of Gold s for the le(s quantity
is ever the harder to fever 5 and for this
purpofe Iron is the likcfl:, or Coppel Stuff,
upoa which the Fire hath no power of con-
fumption.
Tke makifjg of Gold (ecmeth a thing fcarce-
ly poflible 5 becaufe Gold is the heaviefl: of
Metals, and to add Matter is impoflible :
and again, to drive Metals into a narrower
room than their natural extent beareth, is
a conden(ation hardly to be expefted. But
to make Silver (eemeth more eafy, becaufe
both Quick-filver and Lead are weightier
than Silver 5 fo as there needeth only fix-
ing, and not condenfing. The degree un-
to this that is already known, is infufing of
Quick-filver in a Parchment^ or other wife
H 2 in
loo 7he Lord Bacon's
in the midft of molten Lead when it cool-
cth^ for this ftupifieththe Quick-filver that
it runneth no more. This trial is to be ad-
vanced three ways. Firff^ By iterating
the melting of the Lead, to fee whether it
will not make the Quick-filver harder and
harder. Secor/dlj/^ To put Realgar hot in-
to the midft of the Quick-filver, whereby
it may be condenfed, as well from within
as without. Thirdly^ To try it in the midft
of Molten Iron or Molten Steel, which is
a Body more likely to fix the Quick-filver
than Lead. It may be alfo tried, by incor-
porating Pouder of Steel, or CoppleDuft,
by pouncing into the Quick-filver, and fo
to proceed to the ftupifying,
Z)po^r GlaJS'^ four thwgs rvotdd he put in
p'oof The /rf/, means to make the Glafi
more Cryftalline. The fccofid^ to make
it more ftrong for falls, and for fire,
though it come not to the degree to be
malleable. The thirds to make it coloured
by Tinftures^comparable or exceeding pre-
tious Stones. The fourth^ To make a com-
pound Body of Glafi and Galletyle ^ that
is, to have the colour milkey like a Chalce-
do77^ being a Stuff between a Porcelane
and a GIa(s.
For the fr!i 3 It is good firft to know
exaftly
^hyjhlogical ^mainsl \ o i
I exaftly the feveral Materials, whereof the
I GhCs in ufe is made ^ Window-glafi, Nor-
Ma^dj/and Burgtitidy^ Alehoufe-glafs, Eng-
lifh drinking-Glafs : and then thereupon to
I confider what the reafon is of thecoarfenefi
or clearnefi 3 and from thence to rife to a
confideration how to make fome Addita-
ments to the coarfer Materials 5 to raife
them to the whiteness and cryftaUine (plen-
dour of the fineft.
For the fecond 5 We (ee Pebbles, and
fome other Stones will cut as fine as Cry-
ftal, which if they will melt, may be a
mixture for Glafs, and may make it more
tough and more CryftaUine. Befides, we
fee Metals wiJl vitrify 3 and perhaps fome
portion of the Glafs of Metal vitrified,
mixed in the Pot of ordinary Gla(s-Metal,
will make the whole Ma(s more tough.
For the third 3 It were good to have of
coloured Window-Glafs, fuch as is coloured
in the Pot, and not by Colours — • » Here
foinethtn*
is wanting
in the Ct»
H 3 It
I o I- The Lord Bacon's "
It is to be known of what Stuff Gjlle-
tyle is made, and how the Colours in it are
varied ^ and thereupon to confider how to
riiake the mixture of Gl^s-Metal and them,
whereof I havefeen the Example.
Inquire what be the Stones that do eafili-
eft melt. Of them take half a pound, and
of Iron a pound and a half, and an ounce
of Brimftone, and fee whether they will
incorporate, being \v hole,with a ftrong fire,
if not,try the (ame quantities calcined 5 and
if they will incorporate, make a Plate of
them, and burnifli it as they do Iron.
Take a pound and a half of Brafs, and
half a pound of Iron 5 two ounces of the
Calamitiar Stone, an ounce and a half of
Brimftone, an ounce of Lead^ calcine;
them, and fee what body they make 5 and
if they incorporate, make a Plate of it bur-
nifhed.
Take of Copper an ounce and a half, of
Tin an ounce, and melt them together, and
make a Plate of them burnifhed.
Take of Copper an ounce and a half^ of
Tin an ounce, of Glais-Metal half an ounces
ftir them well in the boiling, and if they
incorporate, make a Plate of them bur-
nilhcd.
Take of Copper a pound and a half^
Tin four ounces, Brais two ounces 3 make
a
^hyfiohgical ^mms. i o j
a Plate of them burnifhed.
Take of Silver two ounces, Tin half an
ounce 5 make a little Say -Cup of it, and
burnifti it.
To enquire of the Materials of every of
the kind of Glaffes, coarftr and iiner, and
of the iProportions.
Take an equal quantity of GIa(s-Me-
tal, of Stone calcined, and bring a Pat-
tern.
Take an ounce of vitrified Metal, and
a pound of ordinary Glafs-jVkt^l, and fee .
whether they will incorporate 5 and bring a
Pattern.
Bring Examples of all colou?(^d^ Glades,
and learn the Ingredients whereby they
are coloured.
Inquire of the fiibftance of Q^tihstjte,
tjai.
H 4 Arti-
104 Ihe Lor dBzcorii
Articles of Queftions touching Mi-
nerals 5 written originally in Eng-
lifh by the Lord 'Sacon, yet hither-
to not publifhed in that Language.
7he Lord Bacon'^ Queftions and Soluti-
ons concerning the Compounding^ Incor^
forating^ or Union of Metals or Mine-
rals;: iphicb Subje^ is the fir ft Letter
of his Lord[hi^s Jlphahet. :,r.;;
^T'^TIth what Metals Gold will Incbr-
^ V porate by fimple Colliquefiiftion,
and with what not ? and in what quantity
it will incorporate ^ and what kind of Bo-
dy the Compound makes ?
^ Gold with Silver, which was the An-
cient Eledrum.
Gold with Quickfilver.
Gold with Lead.
Gold with Copper.
Gold with Brafi.
Gold with Iron.
Cold with Tin.
.So
^hyjlologkal ^mains. 105
So Uk^wife of Silver.
Silver with Quickfilver.
Silver with Lead.
Silver with Copper.
Silver with Brafs.
Silver with Iron. (Plinius Secmd. Z/^.^^.
ix. mifcuit detiario Triumvir Antonius
ferrum.)
Silver with Tin.
So likewije of ^ickflver.
Quickfilver with Lead.
Quickfilver with Copper,
Quickfilver with Brafi.
Quickfilver with Iron.
Quickfilver with Tin.
^0 of Lead.
Lead with Copper. T
Lead with Brafi. C p/ ^ « •
Lead with Iron. Q ^^- 3.4.ix.
Lead with Tin. J
So of Coppero
Copper with Brafs.
Copper
io6 The Lord Bicorts
Copper with Iron.
Copper with Tin.
So of Braf.
Brafs with Iron.
Brafs with Tin.
So of Iron,
Iron with Tin.
What he the Compound S^etals that are
common and known ? and what are the
proportions of their Mixtures ? As,
LAtten of Bra(s, and the Calaminar
Stone.
Pewter of Tin and Lead.
Bell-Metal of &c. and the counterfeit
Plate, which they call -4/^/>/^/j/.
The Decompofitees of three Metals or
more, are too long to enquire of, except
there be fome Compofitions of them al-
ready obferved.
It is alfo to be ob(erved,whetherany two
Metals which will not mingle of themfelves,
will mingle with the help of an other 5 and
what. What
^hyjiologtcal ^mains. ! 1 07
What Compounds will be made of Metal
with Stone and other Foffiles 3 As Latten
is made with Brafs and the Calaminar Stone ,
As all the Metals incorporate with Vitriol 5 all
with Iron pondered ^ all with Flint, c^c.
Some few of the(e would be inquired of^
to difclofe the nature of the reft.
Whether Metals or other Foffiles will in-
corporate with molten Glafi, and what Bo-
dy it makes ?
The quantity in the mixture would be
well confidercd 5 for Ibme (mall quantity
perhaps will incorporate, as ia the Allays
of Gold and Silver Coin.
Upon the Compound Body, three things
are chiefly to be obferved 5 The Colour 5
the Fragility or Pliantnefs 5 the Volatili-
ty or Fixation, compared with the fimplc
Bodies.
For prefent ufe or profit, this is the Rule :
Confider the price of the two fimple Bo-
dies 5 confider again the dignity of the
one above the other in ufe ^ then fee if you
can make a Compound that will five more
in price than it will lofe in dignity of the
ufe.
As for Example 5 Confider the price of
Brafs-Ordnance 5 confider again the price of
Iron-Ordnance, and then confider wherein
the Brafi-Ordnance doth excel the Iron-
Ordnance
1 o8 T?;e Lord Bacon's
Ordnance in Ufe : Then if you can make
' a Compound of Bra(s and Iron that will
be near as good in uft, and much cheaper
in price, then there is profit both to the
Private, and the Common-wealth. So of
Gold and Silver, the price is double of
twelve : The dignity of Gold above Silver
is not much, the (plendor is a like, and more
pleafingtofome Eyes, as in Cloth of Sil-
ver, filvered Rapiers, &c. The main dig-
nity is, That Gold bears the Fire, which
Silver doth not , but that is an excellency
in Nature, but it is nothing at all in ufe 5
for any dignity in ufe I know none, but
that filvering will (uUy and canker more
than gilding, which if it might be corre-
fted with a little mixture of Gold, there is
profit : And I do fomewhat marvel that
the latter Ages have loft the Ancient Ele-
Qrum^ which was a mixture of Silver with
Gold.* whereof I conceive there may be
much ufe, both in Coin, Plate, and Gild-
ing.
It is to be noted, That there is in the
verfion of Metals impoflibility, or at kaft
great difficulty, as in making of Gold, Sil-
ver, Copper. On the other fide, in the
adulterating or counterfeiting of Metals,
there is deceit and villany. But it fhould
feerri there is a middle way, and that is by
new
^hyfiological ^maim. i op
new Compounds, if the ways of incorpo-
rating were well known.
What Incorporation or Inhibition Metals
will receive from Vegetables, without being
diffolved in their Subftance : As when the
Armorers make their Steel more tough and
pliant, by afperfion of Water or Juice of
Herbs 5 when Gold being grown fomewhat
churlirti by recovering, is made more pli-
ant by throwing in fhreds of tanned Lea-
ther, or any Leather oiled.
Note ^ That in thefe and the like ftiews
of Inhibition, it were good to try by the
Weights whether the weight be increafcd
or no 5 for if it be not, it is to be doubted
that there is no inhibition of Subftance, but
only that the application of that other Body,
doth difpofe and invite the Metal to ano-
ther pofture of parts than of it (elf it would
have taken.
After the Incorporation of Metals by
fimple Colliquefaftion, for the better difco-
very of the Nature, and Confcnts, and Dif-
(ents of Metals, it would be likewife tried
by incorporating of their Diflblutions.
There is to be obfervcd in thofe Diflb-
lutions which will not eafily incorporate,
what the EtFefts are : As the BuUition 5
the Precipitation to the bottom 5 the Ejacu-
lation towards the top 5 the Sulpenfion in
the midft 3 and the like. Note 5
110 77;e Lord Bacon's
Note ^ That the diflents of the Men-
ftrualor ftrong Waters, may hinder the in-
corporation, as well as the diflents of the
Metals themfelves^ Therefore where the
Menfirua are the fame, and yet the Incor-
poration followeth not, you may conclude
the Diflent is in the Metals 5 but where the
Me/TJirua are feveral, not fo certain.
Dr. Mevereir^ Anfwers to the Lord Ba-
con'^ QueJlionSy concerniug the Com-
pounding, Incorporating, or Uni-
on of Metals and Minerals.
Gold will incorporate with Silver in any
proportion. PYm, Irk:^^. cap. ^. Om-
fit Auro inejl Argevtum vario pondere^ alibi
dem^ alibi nom^ alibi oltava parte'- — uhtcnncj^
quint a Argenti portio invemUir^ Ele&rupf vo-^
catur. The Body rdtnains fot, folid, and
coloured, according to the proportion of
the two Metals.
Gold with Quickfilver eafily mixeth, but
the produft is imperfeftly fixed 5 and fo
are all other Metals incorporate with Mer-
cury.
Gold
Gold incorporates with Lead in any pro-
portion.
Gold incorporates with Copper in any
proportion, the common Allay.
Gold incorporates with Brafs in any pro-
portion. And what is laid of Copper, is
true of Brafi, in the union of other Me-
tals.
Gold will not incorporate with Iron.
Gold incorporates with Tin, the ancient
Allay, Ifa. 1.^25.
What was (aid of Gold and Quickfilver,
may be faid of Quickfilver and the reft of
Metals.
Silver with Lead in any proportion.
Silver incorporates with Copper. Plwy
mentions (uch a mixture 5 for triumfhaks
StatH£^ /?/>. 55.ix. mifccnttiT Argcnto^ ter-
tm pars ^rk Cjifrii tenuijfiMt^ quod coronari-
am vocant^ & Sulf hurts vivi quantum Ar^
genti. The fame is true of Brafs.
Silver incorporates not with Iron.
Wherefore I wonder at that which T^liny
hath ljb,^:^Ax. Mifcnit denario Trhmrvir An-
ionms ferrum. And what is faid of this, is
true in the reft,for Iron incorporatethwith
none of them.
Silver mixes with Tin.
Lead
tit
Yvi 7 k Lorn Bacon s
Lead incorporates with Copper. Such
a mixture was the Pot-Metal whereof Pli-
/y fpeaks /7/'.34. ix. Terms ant quaterms fi^
hris plnmbi Argentarii in ctnUnas aris ad-
ditis.
Lead incorporates with Tin. The mixr
tiire of thefe two in equal proportions,, is
that which was anciently called Plumbum
Argent arium^ Plin.34. xvii.
Copper incorporates with Tin. Of (uch
a mixture were the Mirrors of the Romans.
Plin. atque ut omnia de Jpeadis peraganfur
hoc loco^ optima apud Major es erant Brundif-
na^ Jianno C^ £re mijiis. lib. 83. ix.
Compounded Metals now in uje.
1. Fine Tin. The mixture is thus 5 Pqre
Tin a looo pound, temper 50 pound, Glafi
of Tin 5 pound.
2. Courfe Pewter is made of fine Tin
and Lead. Temper is thus made 5 The
drols of pure Tin four pound and a hal^
Copper half a pound.
3. Brafs is made of Copper and Calami-
naris.
4. Bell-Metal. Copper 1000 pound. Tin
from 300 to 200 pound, Brafs 1 50 pound.
5. Pot-
^hyjiologtcal ^mains* Ml
5. Pot-Metal, Copper and Lead.
6. White Alkimie is made of Pan-Brafi,
I pound, and Arfenicum, 5 ounces.
7. Red Alkimie is made of Coppel* and
Auripigmen.
There be divers imperfeft Minerals,
which will incorporate with the Metals*
Being indeed Metals inwardly, but do--
thed with Earths and Stones. As Pyritis^
Calaminaris, Myfi, Chalcyti, Sory, Vitri^
olum.
Metals incorporate not with Glals, ex-*
cept they be brought into the form of Glafi^
f^etals diffolved. The diffolution of
Gold and Silver dilagree, fo that in their
mixture, there is great Ebullition, Dark-
nefs, and in the end a precipitation of ^
black Ponder.
The mixture of Gold and Mercurfe a*
gree.
Gold agrees with Iron. In a word, the
diffolution of Mercury and Iron agree witlj
all the reft.
Silver and Copper difigree, and fb do
Silver and Lead. Silvcf and Tin agree.
77;#
1 1 4 7he Lord Bacon &
Tl^e Lord Bacon'5 Articles of Inquiry
concerning S^inerals. Thefecond Let^
ter of the Crojs-^w , touching the
feparation ef Metals and Minerals.
SEparation is of three forts ^ The FirJI^
is the feparating of the pure Metal from
the Ore, or Drofs, which we call Refining.
The Second^ is the drawing one Metal or
Mineral out of another, which we call Ex-
tra&ing. The Thirds Is the feparating of
any Metal into his Original^or iVi?^em jPri-
ma^ or Element, or call them what you
wills which Work we will call l?rittcifia-
Hot?. For Refining, we are to enquire of
it according to the feveral Metals 5 as Gold,
Silver, &c. Incidently we are to inquire
of the Firft Stone or Ore, or Marcafite of
Metals feverally, and what kind of Bodies
they are, and of the degrees of Richnefit;
AIC) we are to enquire of the means of
Separating, whether by Fire, parting Wa-i
ters, or otherwife. Alfo for the manner
of Refining, you are to fee how you can
multiply the heat, or haften the opening,
and io (ave charge in the Fining.
The
^hyfiologic4 ^maim. \ i 5
The means of this in Three manners,
that is to iay, In the Blafl: of the Fire ^ In
the manner of the Furnace, to multiply
Heat by Union , and Refleftion 5 and by
fome Additament, or Medicines which will
help the bodies to open them the iboner.
Note the Quickning of the Blafl, and
the Multiplying of the Heat in the Fur-
nace , may be the fame for all Metals 5
•but the Additaments muft be (evcral, ac-
cording to the Nature of the Metals. Note
again, That if you think that the multi-
plying of the Additaments in the fame pro-
portion, that you multiply the Ore, the
Work will follow, you may be deceived ;
for quantity in the Paffivc will add more
Refiftance, than the (ame quantity in the
Aftive will add force.
For Extrafting, you are to enquire what
Metals contain others, and likewile what
not 5 As Lead, Silver 5 Copper, Silver, c^<:.
Note, Although the Charge of Extra-
ftion (hould exccde the Worth, yet that is
not the matter. For at leaft it will difco-
ver Nature and Poffibility, the other may
be thought on afterwards.
We are hkewifc to inquire what the dif-
ferences are of thofe Metals which contain
more or lefs other Metals, and how that
agrees with the poornels or richnels of
I 2 the
1 1 6 The Lord Bacon's
the Metals or Ore in themfelves. As the
Lead that contains moft Silver is accounted
to be more brittle, and yetotherwife poor-
er in it felf.
For Prindpiutio^^X cannot aflRrm whether
there be any fuch thing or not ^ and I
think the Chymifts make too much ado
about it, but howfbever it be, be it Solu-
tion, or Extraftion, or a kind of Conver-
fion by the Fire 5 it is diligently to be in*-
quired what Salts, Sulphur, Vitriol, Mer-
cury, or the like Simple Bodies are to be
found in the feveral Metals, and in what
quantity.
Doclor Mevereri Anjtvers to the Lord
Bacon'y Quejllons^ touching the fepar
rations of Metals and Minerals.
I. T70r the ^/ea^s of Separatwg. After
X^ that the Ore is wafhed, or cleanfed
from the Earth, there is nothing fimply ne-
ceflary, (ave only a Wind Furnace well
framed, narrow above and at the Hearth,
in fhape Oval, fufficiendy fed with Char-
coal and Ore, in convenient proportir
ons.
For
^hyfiological ^mains. \ 1 7
For Additions in this Firft Separation,
I have obferved none 5 theDrofi, the Mi-
neral brings, being (ufficient. The Refi-
ners of Iron obferve, that that Tron-Stonc
is hardeft to melt, which is fulleft of Me-
tal, and that eafieft which hath moft Drols.
But in Lead, and Tin, the contrary is no-
ted. Yet in melting of Metals, when they
have been calcined formerly by Fire, or
Strong-Waters, there is good ufe of Addi-
taments, as of Borax, Tartar, Armoniac,
and Salt-Peter.
2. I?r Extra&h;g off^lctals. Note, That
Lead and Tin contain Silver. Lead and
Silver contain Gold. Iron contains Bra(s.
Silver is beft feparated from Lead, by the
Teft. So Gold from Silver. Yet the beft
way for that \s^qua Regia.
5. For T^rh7iip7dt70f7, I can truly and
boldly affirm, that there are no (uch prin-^
ciples as Sal^ Snlphtr^ and Meratry^ which
can be (eparated from any perfect Metals.
For every part fo (eparated, may eafily be
reduced into perfect Metal without Subfti-
tution of that, or thofe principles which
Chymifts imagin to be wanting. As (up-
pofc you take the Salt of Lead 3 this Salt,
or, as fome name it Sulphur, may be turn-
ed into perfect Lead, by melting it with
the like quantity of Lead whicti con-
I 3 tainx
1 18 T'k Lord B2iC0tis
tains principles only for it felf.
I acknowledg that there is Quick-Silver
and Erimftone found in the imperfed Mi-
nerals 5 but tho(e are Nature's remote Ma-
terials, and not the Chymifts Principles.
As if you diflblve Antimony by A^ua Re-
gia^ there will be real Brimftone (wimming
upon the Watery as appears by the colour
of the Fire when it is b\irnt, and by the
fmell.
The Lord Bacon's Articles of Incimry
concerning Metals^ and Minerals.
THe Third Letter of ttie Crofi-Row,
touching the Variation of Metals into
(everal Shapes, Bodies , or Natures , the
particulars whereof follow, ^
Tinfture.
Turning to Ruft. • •'
Calcination. ' i
Sublimation.
Precipitation.
Amalgamatizing, or Turning into a!
foft body.
Vitrification.
Opening or DifTolving into Liquor.
Sprout
^hyfiologtcd ^mams. \^^
Sproutings, or Branchings, or Arbo-
reffents.
Induration and Mollification.
Making Tough or Brittle.
Volatility and Fixation.
Tranfinutation, or Verfion.
For Tin&ure ^ It is to be inquired hoAv
Metal may be tinged through and through,
and with what, and into what Colours^
As tinging Silver Yellow, tinging Cop-
per White , and tinging Red , Green,
Blew, eipecially with keeping the Luftre.
Item^ Tinfture of Glaffes.
Item^ Tinfture of Marble, Flint, or
other Stone.
For Uirning into T^ifi-y two things are
chiefly to be inquired ^ By what Corafivcs
it is done, and into what Colours it turns ^
As Lead into White, which they call Cer/^i,
Iron into Yellow, which they call Crocus
(partis 5 Quickfilver into Vermilion:^ Brals
•into Green, which they call Verdigreale.
Vox Calcir/ation^how every Metal is cal-
cined, and into what kind of Body, and
what is the exquifiteft way of Calcination.
For SMimatJon 5 To enquire the manner
•of Subliming, and what Metals indureSub-
I 4 limine,
1 2 7 he l/)rd Bacon's
liming , and what body the Sublimate
makes.
For Precipitation hkewife^ by what ftrong
Water every Metal will precipitate, and
with what Additaments, and in what time,
and into what body.
So for Amdlguma^ what Metals will en-
dure it, what are the means to do it, and
what is the manner of the body.
For Vitrification Hkcwife^ what Metals
will endure it, what arc the means to do
it, into what Colour it turns, and further
where the whole Metal is turned into Glafi,
and where the Metal doth but hang in the
Glafly parts ^ Alio what weight the Vitrifi-
ed body bears, compared with the Crude
body 5 Alio becaufc Vitrification is accoun-
ted a kind of Death of Metals, what Vi-
trification will admit of turning back again,
and what not.
For DiJfolHtion into Liquour, we are to
enquire what is the proper Menjirmn^ to
diflolve any Metal, and in the Negative,
what will touch upon the one, and not
"upon the other," and what (everal Menjirm
will diiiblve any Metal, and which moft
exactly. Item the Proceft or Motion of
the Diflblution, the manner of riling, boyl-
ing, vapouring more violent, or more
gcatlcj caufing much heat or Ids. Item
the
^hyfiological ^malns. 1 1 1
the Quantity or Charge that the ftrong
Water will bear, and then give over. Ite;^
the Colour into which the Liquor will
turn. Above all it is to be enquired, whe-
ther there be any Menfirmm to dilTolve any
Metal that is not Fretting , or Corroding,
and openeth the Body by Sympathie, and
not by Mordacity, or violent Penetrati-
on.
For Sproutwg or Bvctfjchi^jg^ though it be
a thing but tranfitory, and a kind of Toy
or Plealure, yet there is a more (erious ufe
of it 5 for that it difcovereth the delicate
Motions of Spirits, when they put forth
and cannot get forth, like unto that which
is in Vegetables.
For Induration^ or Molhfication^ It is
to be enquired what will make Metals har-
der and harder, and what will make them
fofter and fofter. And this enquiry tendeth
to two ends : Firft, for life 5 As to make
Iron foft by the Fire makes it Malleable.
Secondly, Becaufe Induration is a degree
towards Fixation, and Mollification to-
wards Volatility, and therefore the Enqui-
ry of them will give hght towards the
other.
For Tough and Brittle^ they are much of
the 0me kind, but yet worthy of an En-
<^uiry apart ^ elpecially to joyn Hardnefs
with
121 . The Lor J Bacon's
^with Toughnefi, as m^ing Glais malleable,
<^c. and making Blades ftrong, to refift
and pierce, and yet not eafie to break.
For Volatility and Fixation. It is a Prin-
cipal Branch to be enquired : The utmdft
degree of Fixation is that whereon no
Fire will work, nor ftrong Water joyned
with Fire, if there be any fuch Fixation
pofBble. The next is when Fire (imply
-will not work without ftrong Waters.
The next is by the Teft. The next is when
it will indure Fire not blown, or fiich a
ftrength of Fire. The next is when it will
not indure, but yet is malleable. The next
is when it is not malleable, but yet is not
fluent, but ftupified. So of Volatility,
the utmoft degree is when it will flie away
without returning. The next is when it
will flie up, but with eafe return. The
next is when it will flie upwards over the
Helm by a kind of Exufflation without
Vapouring. The next is when it will melt,
though not rife. The next is when it will
(often, though not melt. Of all thefe di-
ligent Enquiry is to be made in (everal
Metals, efpecially of the more extreme
degrees.
For Travfmutation ^ or Verfion. If it
be real and true, it is the furtheft part of
Art, and would be well diftinguiftied,
from
^lyjiotogical ^matns. ^ 40
from Extraftion , from Reftitution , and
from Adulteration. I hear much of turn-
ing Iron into Coppery I hear alfo of the
growth of Lead in weight, which cannot
be without a Converfion of fome body in-
to Lead: but whatfoever is of this kind,
-and well expreffed, is diligently to be in-
quired, and (et down.
DoUor Meverer^ Anfwers to the Lord
Bzcons QueJlionSy concemng the Va-
riation of Metals and Minerals.
-r.:T70r Tm&ures^ there are none that I
know, but that rich variety which
Iprings from mixture of Metals with Me-
tals, or imperfeft Minerals.
' 2. The imperfeft Metals are (ubjeft to
ruft^ all of them except Mercury, which
is made into Vermilion by Solution, or
Calcinatio?!. The reft are rufted by any
ialt, (bwr, or acid Water. Lead into
a white body called Cerifffa. Iron into a
pale red called Ferrugo. Copper is turned
into green, named JErngo^ Ms Viridc.
Tin into white. But this is not in u(e, nei-
ther hath it obtained a name.
The
i 24 Tl^e Lord Bacon's
The Scriptures mention thcrufl: of Gold,
but that's in regard of the Allay.
3. Calcifjatiott, All Metals may be cal-
cined by ftrong Waters, or by admixtion
of Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury. The im-
perfeft Metals may be Calcined by conti-
nuance of fimple Fire ^ Iron thus calcir
ned is called Crocus Martk,
And this is tlieir beft way. Gold and
Silver are beft calcined by Mercury. Their
Colour is Gray. Lead calcined is very
'Red. Copper, duskie Red.
4. Mtxzh^LXQ fublimed by joyning them
with Mercury, or Salts. As Silver with
Mercury , Gold with Sal Armoniac, Mer-
cury with Vitriol.
5. Vrcapitatm?^ is, when any Metal be-
ing diflolvcd into a ftrong Water, is bea-
ten down into a Powder by (alt Water.
The chiefeft in this kind is Oyl of Tartar.
. r 6. Amalgamation^ is the joyning, or mix-
ing of Mercury with any other of the Me-
tals, The manner is this, in Gold, the reft
are anfwerable : Take fix parts of Mer-
cury, make them hot in a Crufible, and
pour them to one part of Gold made red-
hot in another Crufible, ftir thefe well
together that they may incorporate ^ which
done, caft the Mafs into cold Water and
v/afh it. Thi3 is called the Amalgama of
Gold. 7. For
^hyjhlo^ical ^mains. 1 1 j
y. For Vitrification. All the imperfeft
Metals may be turned by ftrong Fire into
Glafi, except Mercury 5 Iron into Green 5
Lead into Yellow , Brafi into Blew 5 Tin
into pale Yellow. For Gold and Silver,
I have not known them Vitrified, except
joyned with Antimony. Thefe Glaffie bo-
dies may be reduced into the form of Mi-
neral boc'ic s.
8. D:jJolutior7. All Metals, v/ithout ex-
ception, may be dilTolved.
1. Iron may be dilfolved by any tart,{alt,
or vitriolated Water , yea , by common
Water, if it be firft calcined with Sulphur.
It diifolvcs in ^quaforti with great ebulli-
tion and heat, into a'red Liquor, fo red as
Blood.
2. Lead is fittieft diffolved in Vinegar,
into a pale Yellow , making the Vinegar
very (weet.
3. Tin is beft diffolved with diftillcd
Salt-water. It retains the colour of the
^Ief7Jirmm.
4. Copper diffolves as Iron doth, in the
(ame Liquor, into a Blew.
5. Silver hath his proper Mcnjlrmim^
which is Aquafortis. The colour is Green,
with great heat and ebullition.
6. Gold is diffolved with Aqua Regia^
into a yellow Liquor, with little heat or
ebullition, 7. Mercury
1^6 71)6 Lori Bacon's
7. Mercury is diffolved with much heat
and boy ling, into the fame Liquors which
Gold and Silver are. It alters not the colour
of the <3ienjirtium.
Note. Strong Waters may be charged
with half their weight of fixed Metals,
and equal of Mercury 5 if the Workman
be skilful.
9. Sproutmg, This is an accident of dif-
fblution. For if the f^enfirmm be over-
charged, then within fhort time the Metals
will (hoot into certain Cryftals.
10. For Induration , or (jollification^
they depend upon the quantity of fixed
Mercury and Sulphur. I have obferved
little of them, neither of Toughnefs nor
Bitternefs.
1 1 . The degrees of Fixation and Volatility
I acknowledg , except the two utmoft,
which never were obferved.
12. The Queftion of Tranfmutation is
very doubtful. Wherefore I refer your
Honour to the fourth Tome of Theatrum
Chymicum : and there, to that Trad which
is entituled Difquipio Beliana 3 where you
(hall find full (atisfaftion.
The
^hyjiological ^maitu. 1 1^
The Lord Bacon'^ Inquiries concerning
Metals and Minerals. The fourth
Letter of the Crofs-Row, touching
^efiitution.
FIrft, Therefore it is to be inquired in
the Negative, what Bodies will never
return, either by their extreme Fixings 5
as in fome Vitrifications, or by extreme
Volatility.
It is alfo to be inquired ofthe two means
of Reduftion 5 and firft by the Fire, which
is byit by congregation of Homogenial
parts.
The fecond is, by drawing them down
by fome Body that hath confent with them.
As Iron draweth down Copper in Watery
Gold drawTth Quick-Silver in vapoury
whatfoever is of this kind, is very diligent-
ly to be inquired.
Alfo it is to be inquired what time, or
age, will reduce without help of fire, or
body.
Alfo it is to be inquired what gives im-
pediment to Union, or Reftitution, which
is fometimes called Mortification 3 as when
Quick-
1x8 T7;e Lord Bacon's
Quick-Silver is mortified with Turpentine,
Spittle, or Butter.
Laftly, It is to be inquired how the Me-
tal reftored, difFereth in any thing from the
Metal rare 5 as whether it become not more
churlilh, altered in colour, or the like.
DoElor Mevereri Anfwers touching the
^ejlitutions of Metals and Mine-
rals.
R Eduction is chiefly effected by Fire^
wherein if they ftand and nele, the
imperfect Metals vapour away, and fo do
all manner of Salts which feparated them in
ntinimas partes before.
Reduction is Angularly holpen by joyn-
ing ftore of Metal of the fame nature with
it in the melting.
Metals reduced are fomewhat churlifh,
but not altered in colour.
Tk
^yjhlo^ical ^marns. x 1 9
Tlye Lor^ Verulam'y Inquifition concern-
ingthe Ver(ions. Tranf mutations^ Mul-
tiplications^ and Ejfe[iions of ^odteSy
"■ written by him originally in EngUp?^
hut not hitherto publijhed in that Lan-
guage^
EArth by Fire is turned into Brick, ji^ererhe
which is of the nature of a Stone, ^^nner.
and (erveth for Building as Stone doth:
And the hke of Tile.
Naphtha^ which was the Bituminous
Mortar, ufed in the Walls of "^abylorr^
grows to an entire and very hard Matter
like a Stone.
In Clay Countries, where there is Peb-
ble and Gravel, you (hall find great Stones^
where you may fee the Pebbles, or Gra-
vel, and between them a Subftance of
Stone as hard, or harder than the Pebble
it felf
There are fome Springs of Water, where-
in if you put Wood, it will turn into the
nature of Stone : So as that within the
Water (hall be Stone, and that above the
Water continue Wood.
K The
1 5 o 7he Lord Bacon's
The flime about the Reins and Bladde
in Man's Body, turns into Stone: An
Stone is likewife found often in the Gall
and fometinies, though rarely , in Vc^;
'Porta.
Qiiere what time the fubftance of Eart
in Qiiarries , asketh to be turned int
Stone ? ■ '^
Water, asitfcems, turneth into Cry (lal,
as is (een in divers Caves, where the Cry-
llal hangs in Stillkjdns.
Try Wood, or the Stalk of Herbs, bu-
ried in Quickfilver, whether it will not
grow hard and ftony ?
They fpcak of a Stone engendred in a
Toad s head.
There v^as a Gentleman, digging in his
Moat, found an Egg turned into Stone^
the White and the Yolk keeping their Co^
lour, and the Shell gliftring, like a Stone
cut with corners.
Try fomethings put into the bottom of|
a Well 5 As Wood, or (bme foft Subftance :
but let it not touch the Water,' becaufe it
may not putrify.
They fpeak, that the White of an Egg,
with lying long in the Sun will turn
Stone.
Mud in Water turns intofliells of Fifties,
as in Horfe'Muicles, in fre(h Ponds, old
and
^hyjlologicd ^ma'im. 1 3 1
and overgrown. And the iubftanc'e is: a
wondrous fine fubftance , light and fhi-
ning.
J Speech touching the recovering of
Vroivned cMimral V/orks^ prepared
for the Parliament (asMr. !B«/W
affirmed) by the Vtfcount of St.
Jlbans^ then Lord High Chancel-
lor of EnqUnd. (a) CO ^'^^
Extr.zcl,
My Lords and Gentlemen, ^- ' ^' '^^
THe Kwg^ my Royal Mafley\ vpas Ltcly
Cgracmify') f ha fed to move feme D/f^
coitrfcto me c oncer tiwg Mr. Sutton's Hofpital,
and fitch like worthy Foundations of memo-
fable Pktj : Which Immbly fcconded by my
felf drew his Majefy 7?7to a ferioits confide^
ration of the Mineral Trcaferes of his own
Territories ^ and the praaical difcoveries of
them by way of my Pbihfephical Theory:
Which he then fo well ■ refented^ that^ after-
wards^ upon a mature digcfion of my whole
Defign^ he commanded me to let your Lord-^
flips Jindcrftand^ hew grrat m inclinatiim He
hath to further fo hopcf/l a Work^^ foi^ the
K 2 Honour
M^
7he Lord Bacon's
Hofwnr of his Domimons^ as the mojl proba^
hie mea^s to relieve all the T^oor thereof vnth^
out any other Stocky or Benevolence^ than that
which Diz'ine Boin7ty Jloould confer on their
own Indtifiries and honeji Labours^ in reco^
vering all fitch Drowned Mineral Works
as haze bcen^ or Jtjall be^ therefore, defer-
ted.
And^ my Lot^ds^ All that is now de fired of
his Majejiy and your LordJIjips^ is no more
than a gracious Aft of this prejent Parliament
to authorize Them herein^ adding a Mercy to
a Mjfnif'cence:, which is^ the Per fins of fitch
flrong atrd able T^etty-Felons , who^ in true
penitence for their Crimes^ flmll implore his
Majefty's Mercy and Permijfwn to expiate
their Offences by their Ajfiditous Labours^ im
fo innocent and hopeful aWork*
For^ by this unchangeable way (my Lords y
have I propofid to ereCl the Academical Fa^
hric of this Ifland's Salomon's Houfe, mo-^
delled in my New Atlantis. And I can hope
(my Lords ^ that my Midnight Studies to
7ftak§ our Countries flourifij and oittvy Euro-
pean Neighbours in my fieri ous and benefiient
^Arts ^ have riot fo ingratefully affe&ed the
i»hole Intelle&s^ that you will delay or refijl
his Majefiys defirer^ and my humble Petition
in this "Benevolent^ yea^ Magnificent Affair 5
Since your Honourable Pofierities maybe in^'
riched
^hyjtologtcal ^mains] t 5 5
riched thereby ^ and my Ends are only ^ to
mak§ tke World my Heh\ and the learned Fa-
thers of my Salomon's Houfc, the fnccejfne
andfiporn Tmjices in the dijpenfation of this
great Service^ for God's Qlory^ my Princes
Magnificence^ this Parliaments Honour^ our
Countries general Good^ and the propagation of
my own Memory.
And I may ajfurc your LordJl)ips^ that all
my Propofils in order to this great ^{rchitype^
feemed fo rational and fcafihle to my Royal
Soveraign , our Chriftian Salomon , that /,
thereby^ prevailed with his tMajefiy to call
this Honourable Parliament^ to Confirm and
Imporver me in my own way of Minings by
an Ail of the fame ^ after his ^Majejlys more
weighty Affairs were confidercd in your Wif-
doms'^ both which he de fires your Lord (hips,
and you Gentlemen that are chofen as the
Patriots of your rejpeffive Countries^ to tak§
Jpeedy care of: Which done^ I fijall not then
doubt the happy Ijfue of my Undertakings in
this Defign^ whereby concealed Treafitres^which
now feem utterly loji to Manliind^ J/?all he
confined to fo univerfal a Piety ^ and brought
Into ufe by the indujiry of Converted Peni-
tents^ whofe ivretched Carcafes the Impartial
Laws have , or fiall dedicate , as untimely
Feajis^ to the Worms of the Earthy in whofe
Womb thofe deferted mineral riches mufi ever
K 3 lie
>34
T/;^' Lor ^ Bacon's
He buried as lojl ^bortmefjts^ twlefs thofe be
mcule the aQive Midrpivcs to deliver tkem,
Fv7\ my Lcrds^ I humbly conceiie Tkem to
be the jittejl of nil Me?! to effe& this great
Work 3 for the Ends and Caufes -which I haze
before exprcjjcd.
All n^Luh^ my Lords^ I httmbly refer to
your Grave and Solid Judgments to ccncUidc
cf iogethcr,iYithfuch other ^Ajjijiances to ibis
Framc^ as yoitr orvnOracnloi/s IJ ijdop// Jljall
intimate for the tSl^agnifying our Creator^ in
his. in fir lit able T^rovidence^ and admirable
Works, of Nature.
Certain Experiments made^ by the Lord
Bacon, 4^owr Weight in Air and
Water.
A New Soveraign of equal Weight in
the Air to the piece in Brals, over-
weighcth in the Water 9 Grains. In three
Sovcraigns the difference in the Water 13
but 2 4 Grains.
The {ame Soveraign overvveigheth an e^
qua] weight of Lead, 4 Grains in the Wa-
ter 5- in Brafs Grains for Gold. In three
Sovcraigns about 11 Grains.
The fame Soveraign overvveigheth ane-
qual
Thyjiological ^mains. i ] 5
qual weight of Stones in the Air, at lea ft 65
Grains in the Water. The Grains being for
the weight of Gold, in Brafs Metal.
A Glafs filled with Water weighing, in
Troy Weights, 15 ounces and 5 drams,
the Glafs and tlie Water together, weigh-
eth feverally, viz, Tlie Water 9 ounces
I and a half, and the Glafs 4 ounces and a
dram.
A Bladder weighing 2 ounces 7 drams
and a half, a Pebble laycd upon the top
of the Bladder makes 5 ounces 6 drams
and a half, the Stone weiglieth 7 drams.
The Bladder (as above) blown, and
the fame fallen, wcighcth equal.
A Spunge dry weigheth i ounce, 26 jr-^.a
grains : The fame Spunge being M^et,weigh- t^/^;^,
eth 14 ounces, 6 drams, and :^ quarters:
the Water weigheth in fcveral i( ounces,
one dram, and a half 5 and the Spunge 5
ounces, and a half, and 3 quarters of a
dram.
The Spunge and Water together weigh Seamd
1 5 ounces , and 7 drams : in feveral the Time.
Water weigheth 1 1 ounces, and 7 drams,
and the Spunge g ounces, 7 drams and a
half
Three Soveraigns made equal to a
weight in Silver in the Air, differeth in the
Water.
K 4 For
3<5
7k Lord Bacon's
For falfe Weights, one Beam long, the
other thick.
The Stick and Thread weigh half a
dram, and 20 grains ^ being laid in the
Ballance.
The Stick tied to reach within half an
inch of the end of the Beam, and (b much
from the Tongue, weigheth 28 grains 5
the difference is 22 grains.
The (ame Stick being tied to hang over
the end of the Beam an inch and a half^
weigheth half a dram, and 24 grains ^ ex-
ceeding the weight of the (aid Stick in the
Ballance by 4 grains.
The fame Stick being hanged down be-
neath the Thread as near the Tongue as i3
poffible, weigheth only 8 grains.
Two weights of Gold being made equal
in the Air, and weighing fcverally 7 drams :^
the one Ballance being put into the Wa-
ter, and the other hanging in the Air, the
Ballance in the Water weigheth only 5
drams and 5 grains, and abateth of the
weight in the Air i dram, and a half, and
27 grains.
The fame trial being made the fecond
time, and more truly and exaftly betwixt
Gold and Gold , weighing feverally ( at.
above) and making a juft and equal weight
in the Air, the one Ballance being put in-
to
^hyjtologkal ^mains. i 5 7
to the Water, the depth of five inches,
and the other hanging in the Air, the Eal-
lanceinthe Water weigheth only 4 drams,
and 55 grains, and abateth of the weight
in the Air 2 drams, and 5 grains.
The trial being made betwixt Lead and
Lead, weighing fevcrally 7 drams in the
Air, the Ballance in the Water weigheth
only 4 drams, and 41 grains, and abateth
of the weight in the Air 2 drams and 19
grains 5 the Ballance kept the (ame depth
in the Water, as abovefaid.
The trial being made betwixt Silver and
Silver, weighing (cverally 7 drams in the
Air, the Ballance in the Water weigheth
only 4 drams, and 2 5 grains. So it aba*
teth 2 drams, and 55 grains 5 the (ame
depth in the Water obferved.
In Iron and Iron, weighing feverally
each Ballance, in the Air 7 drams, the Bal-
lance in the Water weigheth only 4 drams
and 18 grains 5 and abateth of the weight
in the Air 2 drams, and 42 grains 5 the
depth obferve as above.
In Stone and Stone, the fame w^eight of
7 drams, equally in the Air, the Ballance
in the Water weigheth only 2 drams, and
22 grains, and abateth of the w^eight in
the Air 4 drams, and 58 grains, the depth
as above.
In
M
8 Tl)e Lord Bacon's
In Brafs and Brafi, the fame weight of
7 drams, in each Ballance, equal in the
Air, the Ballance in the Water weigheth
only 4 drams, and 22 grains, and abateth
in the Water 2 drams, and 58 grains 3 the
depth obferved.
The two Ballances being weighed in
Air and Water, the Ballance in the Air
overweigheth the other in the Water one
dram, and 2 8 grains 5 the depth in the Wa-
ter as aforefaid.
It is a profitable Experimer/t which (hew-
eth the weights of ftveral Bodies in com-
parifon with Water. It is of ufe in lading
of Ships, and other Bottoms, and may help
to {hew what Burthen, in the leveral kinds,
they will bear.
(jrtain fudden thoughts of the Lord
Bacon''^, fet down, hyhim^ under the
Title of Experiments for Profit.
MUck of Leaves.
Muck of River, Earth, and Chalk.
Muck of Earth clofed , both for Salt-
Peter and Muck.
Setting of Wheat and Peafe.
Mending
^hyjiological ^mams. i j 9
Mending of Crops by fteeping of Seeds.
Making Peafe , Cherries , and Straw-
berries come early.
Strengthening of Earth for often returns
ofEvadifhcs, Parfnips, Turnips, &c.
Making great Roots of Onions^tladiflics,
and other Efculent roots.
Sowing of Seeds of Trefoil.
Setting of Woad.
Setting of Tobacco, and taking away
the rawnefi.
Grafting upon Boughs of old Trees.
Making of a hafty Coppice.
Planting of Oilers in wet Grounds.
Making of Candles to laft long.
Building of Chimneys , Furnaces , and
Ovens, to give Heat with lels Vv^ood.
Fixing of Log- Wood.
Other means to make Yellow and Green
fixed.
Conferving of Orenges,Limons, Citrons,
Pomgranats, &c, all Summer.
Recovering of Pearl, Coral, Turchoife,
Colour, by a Confervatory of Snow.
Sowing of Fennel.
Brewing with Hay,Haws,Trcfoil, Broom,
Heps, Bramble-Berries, Woodbines,
wildThime, inftead of Hops, Thirties.
Multiplying and Dreffing Artichokes.
Certain
140 Tl)e Lord Bacon's
Certain Experiments, of the Lord Ba-
cons , about the Commixture of
Liquors ojily ^ not Solids , without
Heat or Agitatmiy hut only by fimple
Compofition, and Settling.
Spirit of Wine mingled with common
Water, although it be much lighter
than Oyl, yet fo, as if the firft fall be bro-
ken, by means of a Sop, or otherwife, it
ftayeth above 5 and, if it be once min-
gled, it fevereth not again, as Oyl doth.
Tried with Water coloured with Saffron.
Spirit of Wine, mingled with common
Water, hath a kind of clouding, and mo-
tion (hewing no ready Commixture. Tried
with Saffron.
A dram of Gold diffolved in AqtiaRegk^
with a dram of Copper in ^qna forti com-
mixed, gave a Green Colour, but no vi-
fible motion in the parts. Note, That the
diffolution of the Gold, was twelve parts
Water, to one part Body: And of the
Copper was fix parts Water, to one part
Body. Oyl
^hyjiologicd ^mains. 141
Oyl of Almonds commixed with Spirit
of Wine, fevereth, and the Spirit of Wine
remaineth on the top, and the Oyl in the
bottom.
Gold diffolved commixed with Spirit of
Wine, a dram of each, doth commix, and
no other apparent alteration.
Quick-filver diffolved with Gold diffol- •
ved, a dram of each, doth turn to a moul-
dy Liquor, black, and like Smith's water.
Note, The diflblution of the Gold was
twelve parts Water, tit fupra^ and one part
Metal : That of Water was two parts, and
one part Metal.
. Spirit of Wine, and Quick-filver com-
mixed, a dram of each, at the firft (hew-
ed a white Milky fubftance at the top, but
(bon after mingled.
Oyl of Vitriol commixed with Oyl of
Cloves, a dram of each , turneth into a
red dark Colour 5 and a fubftance thick,
almoft like Pitch : And upon the firft mo-
tion gathereth an extream Heat, not to be
endured by touch.
Diffolution of Gold, and Oyl of Vitriol
commixed, a dram of each, gathereth a
great Heat at the firft, and darkneth the
Gold, and maketh a thick Yellow.
Spirit of Wine, and Oyl of Vitriol, a
dram of each, hardly mingle 5 the Oyl
of
14^ Tl^^ Lor J Bacon's
of Vitrriol going to the bottom, and the
Spirit of Wine lying above in a Milky fub-
ftancc. It gathereth alfo a great Heat, and
a fvvectnefs in the Tafte.
Oyl of Vitriol and diflblution of Quick-
filver, a dram of each, maketh an extream
ftrife, and cafteth up a very grofs flirae,
and after cafteth down a white kind of
Curds, or Sands ^ and on the top a flimifli
fubftance, and gathereth a great Heat.
Oyl of Sulphur, and Oyl of Cloves com-
mixed, a dram of each, turn into a thick
and red-coloured fubftance 5 Jbut no fuch
Heat, as appeared in the Commixture with
the Oyl of Vitriol.
Oyl of Petroleum, and Spirit of Wine,
a dram of each, intermingle otherwile than
by Agitation, as Wine and Water do 5
and the Petroleum remaincth on the top.
Oyl of Vitriol, and Petroleum, a dram
of each, turn into a mouldy Subftancc,
and gathereth (bme warmth^ there refi-
ding a black cloud in the bottom, and a
monftrous thick Oyl on the top.
Spirit of Wine, and Red- wine Vinegar,
one ounce of each, at the firft fall, one of
them remaineth above, but by Agitation
they mingle.
Oyl of Vitriol, and Oyl of Almonds,
one ounce of each, mingle nots but the
Oyl
^hyjtological ^mains. 143
Oyl of Almonds remaineth above.
Spirit of Wine, and Vinegar, an ounce
of each, commixed, do mingle, without a-
ny apparent (eparation, which might be in
refped: of the Colour.
Diffolution of Iron, and Oyl of Vitriol,
a dram of each, do (irft put a Milky fub-
ftance into the bottom 5 and after incorpo-
rate into a mouldy Subftance.
Spirit of Wine commixed with Milk, a
third part Spirit of Wine, and two parts
Milk, coagulateth little, but mingleth 5 and
the Spirit fwims not above.
Milk and Oyl of Almonds mingled, in
equal portions, do hardly incorporate, but
the Oyl cometh above, the Milk being
poured in laft 5 and the Milk appeareth in
fome drops, or bubbles.
Milk one ounce, Oyl of Vitriol a (cru-
plc^ doth coagulate :, the Milk at the bot-
tom where the Vitriol goeth.
Diiiolution of Gum Tragac^^/th^ :[nd Oyl
of Sweet Almonds, do not commingle, the
Oyl remaining on the top, till they be ftir-
red, and make the Mufclates fome what
more liquid.
Diffolution of Gum Tragacanth ^ one
ounce and a half, with half an ounce of
Spirit of Wine, b jing commixed by Agita-
tion, make the Mufelates more thick.
The
144 ^-^ ^^^^ Bacon's
The White of an Egg with Spirit of
Wine, doth bake the Egg into Clots, as if
it began to Poch.
One ounce of Blood, one ounce of Milk,
do eafily incorporate.
Spirit of Wine doth curdle the Blood.
One ounce of Whey unclarified, one
ounce of Oylof Vitriol, make no apparent
alteration.
One ounce of Blood, one ounce of Oyl
of Almonds, incorix)rate not, but the Oyl
fw ims above.
Three quarters of an ounce of Wax, be-
ing diffolved upon the Fire, and one ounce
of Oyl of Almonds put together and ftir-
red, do not fo incorporate, but that when
it is cold, the Wax gathereth and fwims up-
on the top of the Oyl.
One ounce of Oyl of Almonds, caft
into an ounce of Sugar feething, fever
prefently, the Sugar (hooting towards the
bottom.
Thyjtologkal ^ma'ins. 1 4 5
A Catalogue of Bodies , Jttraflive^
and not AttraB'iVe , made by the
"Lox^Bacon^ together with Expe-
rimental Obfervations about At-
tra^i'mu
Thefe following Bodies, Draw.
AMbey\Jeat^ Diamo^id^ S.ifhirc^ Carlm:-
cle^ Iris , the Gem, Ofhfir?t 5 at tempoi'e frigi-
Galbanum. diore obfiptre d^ wfrme
Ammoniacum. trahnnt.
Storax.
Affa. J
Vapidus kQV fiiccinOy &c. afflatus^ vel ab
ore^ vel ab Acre humidiore^ virtntem trahendi
fnffbcat.
Si charta ajit linteum interponatur inter
fiiccimtm d^ pakam^ tjon fit motns ant ^-
traUio.
Succirium ant Elc&rica calefaffa ex T^dik
Solis^ non expergefiunt ad trahendum^ ficnt ex
'Fri&ione.
Succinum frkatum^ d^ Radik Solk expo-
fitum dintius vires trahendi retinet^ nee tam
Clio eas deponit ac (i in umbra pofttum ejfet.
Fervor ex fpeculo comburente fuccino^
&c. conciliatm^ non juvat ad trahendum.
Sulphur accenfum, & Cera dura inflam-
mata^ non trahunt.
Succinum cum citijjime a fri&ione^ fejiucs
Tel verforio apponitm\ optime trahit.
Virtus EkClrica viget in retentione ad tern-
L 2 pui
148 The Lord Bacon's
fus^ 7wn nihim quam in Attractione prima,
Flamma appofito fnccirto intra or hem ^Si^i
vitdtk non trahitur.
Gutta Aqux admoto fuccino trahiUir ii
Conum. Elect rica^ (i dnrius affricentur^ ii
peditur ^Attraliio,
^£ d'gre alliciimt in claro ccelo^ in cra[
710 n moment.
Aqua impofita (iiccino virMem trahendi
fjijfocat^ licet ipjum. Aquam t rah at,
Sarca ita fuccino cirntn datum ^ ut tati-
gat^ attract ione tollit--^ fed interpojitumnt non
tangat^ non omnino tollit.
Oleum fiiccino appodtum motum non impe-
dit 5 nee fuccinum digit oleo madefa&o fri-
catum^ Tires trahendi perdit,
Firmius provocant , & dintms retinent
Succinum, Gagates^ d^ hujufmodi^ etiam mi-
nore cum fricUone : ^Adamas Cryfiallnm^
Vitram^ diutias teri dehent^ ut manifejlo in-
calefcant antequam trakant,
^£ Flamm£ approximant^ licet propinqui'
diiiantja^ ajuccino non trahuntur,
Fumum extinfta lucerna fuccinum^ &c.
trahit, Fumus uhi exit & crajjus eji^ fortius
trahit fuccinum 5 cum afcenderit , C^ rarior
fit^debiliui, Ccrpus ab Ele&ricis attr actum non^
manifelTo alteratnr^ fet tantvm incumbit.
The
^hyfiohgical ^^entams. \ 49
The fame in Englifli hy the ^ubliper.
IF there be made a Turn-Pin of any Me-
tal, after the fafhion of a Magnetic
Needle, and Amber be applied to one end
of it, after having been gently rubbed, the
Pin will turn.
Amber heated by the Fire, be it warm-
ifh, hot, or fet on fire, it does not draw.
A little "^ar of Iron red hot^ Flame^ a
lighted Candle^ a hot Coal^ put nigh Sheaves
(or Straws) or Turn-Pins (or Compafs-
Needles) do not draw.
^mher^ in a greater Ma(s, if it be Po-
lite, draws, though not rubbed : In a lef-
fer quantity, and in a lefs polite Mafi, it
draws not without rubbing.
CryUal ^ Lapis Specular} s , Glaj^^ and
other fuch Electric Bodies, if burnt, or
fcorch'd, draw not.
Pitchy the fofter Rofw^ Benjoin^ ^JphaU
tam^ Camphire^ Galhamtfn^ ^mmomac\ Sto-
rax^ .Ajja^ thefedraw not at all when the
Air is hot : But when it is cooler, they draw
weakly, and fo that we can juft perceive
them to do fo.
Real^ng ^ir^ blown upon Amber, &c.
L 3 from
150 7 he Lord Bacon's
from the Mouth, or from a moifter Atmo-
(phere 5 choaketh the attradive Virtue.
If a Paper ^ or a piece of Lwnen^ be put
between Anther and Chaffs there is no Mo-
tion, or Attraction made.
Anther^ or other Eleftrics, warmed by
the Sun-beams ^ have not their attraftive
Virtue (b awakened, as by Rubbing,
^mber rubb'd, and expofed to the Beams
of the Sun, retains its attractive force the
longer , and does not (b foon lofe it, as it
would do in the fhadow.
Heat deriv'd from a Burnwg'Gla/to Am-
ber, &c. does not help its Attraftion.
Sulphur^ and hard Wax^ let on fire> do
not draw.
^mber ^ when immediately after rub-
bing, it is applied to a Shiver^ or a Com^
paf'Needle^ draws beft of all.
The Eleftric Virtue is as vigorous, for
a time, in its T^tention^ as it was in its firft
jittraUion,
Flame ( ^mber being put within the
fphere of its Aftivity ) is not dr4wn by it.
A drop of Water ^ ^mber being applied
towards it, is drawn into a Cone,
If EleCtric Bodies be ribbed too hard,
their attraction is, thereby, hindred.
Thole Bodies, which in a clear Skie do
fcarce draw, in a thick Air move not at all.
Water
^hyjtological ^mains'. i 51
Water put upon Anther choaketh its at-
traftive force, though it draweth the Wa-
ter it felC
Fat "^ (b encompaffing .Amher^ that it * For by
touchethit, takes away its attraftion:, but ^,ppe,'
being fb put betwixt it and the Objeft to he mean-
be drawn, as not to touch it, it doth not^^^^^'^''^-
take it away.
Oyl put upon Anther ^ hinders not its mo-
tion: Neither doth Anther ^ rubb'd with
the Finger moiftned with Oyl, lofe its at-
traftive Virtue.
^mher^ J eats ^ and the like ^ do more
ftrongly excite, and longer retain the Ob-
Jefts they draw, although the rubbing be
but little. But Diamonds^ Cryftal^ Glaf^
ought to be rubb'd longer, that they may
appear hot, ere they be ufed for attraftion.
Flames nigh to Amber ^ though the di-
ftance be very fmall, are not drawn by it.
Amber^ &c. draw the fmok^ of a Lamp
newly extinguifti'd.
Amber draws Smoke more flrongly when
it comes forth, and is more grofs 5 and more
vpeakly^ when it afcends and becomes thin-
tier,
A Body drawn by Eleftric Bodies, is not
manifeftly altered, but only leans it felf up-
on them.
L 4 Baconiana
'Baconiana S^edica,
o R,
REMAINS
O F
Sir Francis Bacon,
Baron of Verulam, and Vif-
count St, ^Ihans;
Touching
^"fedical Matters,
tiff
LONDON,
Printed for J?. C. at the Rofe and Crown
in St. Piiid's Church-yard. 1679.
»55
THE
Lord Bacon's
(^Adedical Remains.
A Medical Taper of the Lord Bacon's,
to which he ^aye the Title of Grains
of Youth.
Grains of Touth,
TAke of Nitre 4 grains, of Amber-
Greafe 5 grains, of Orris-poudcr
2 grains,of white Poppy-Seed the
fourth part of a grain, of Saffron half a
grain,with Water of Orenge Flowers,and a
little Tragacanth 5 make them into fmall
grains, four in number. To be taken at
four a Clock, or going to Bed.
Tre-
156 Tlje Lord Bacon's
T^refervi/fg Oyrttments
Take of Deers-(uet i ounce, of Myrrh
6 grains, of Saffron 5 grains , of Bay-(alt
1 2 grains, of Canary-Wine of two Years
old, a Spoonful and a half:
Spread it on the infideofyour Shirt, and
let it dry, and then put it on.
A Purge familiar for opening the Liver.
TakeRubarb 2 drams, Agaric, TrochiP
cat I dram and a half, fleepthem in Claret
Wine burnt with Mace: Take of Worm-
wood I dram, fteep it with the reft, and
make a mafi of Pills, with Sjrup. Acetof.
(implex.
But drink an opening Broth before it,
with Succory, Fennel, and Smallage
^ Roots, and a little of an Onion.
Wine for the Spirits. ^ ,
Take Gold perfeftly refined 5 ounces,
quench it fix or feven times in good Claret
Wine : Add of Nitre 6 grains , for two
Draughts. Add of Saffron prepared 5
grains, of Amber-greafe 4 grains, pafs it
through an Hippocras Bag, wherein there
is
Medical ^mains. 157
is a dram of Cinamon grofi beaten, or to
avoid the dimming of the Colour, of Gin-
ger. Take two Spoonfuls of this to a
Draught of frc(h Claret Wine.
The Preparhg of Sajfron,
Take 6 grains of Saffron, fteept in half
parts of Wine and Rofe-water, and a quar-
ter part Vinegar 5 then dry it in the Sun.
Wine againji Adverfe JMclancholj^ preferving
the Senfes and the Reajbn.
Take the Roots of Buglofi, well fcra-
ped, and cleanfed from their inner Pith,
and cut them into fmall dices ^ fteep them
in Wine of Gold extinguifhed nt fupra^ and
add of Nitre 3 grains, and drink it nt fa-
pra^ mixed with frefti Wine : The Roots
muft not continue fteeped above a quarter
of an Hour 5 and they muft be changed
thrice.
nBreakfaJl'Prefervative againji the Gout
and Rheumes,
To take once in the Month at leaft, and
for two Days together, one grain of Ca-
Borei^ in my ordinary Broth.
77;e
J r g Tl^e Lord Bacon's
The Preparation of Garlic^
Take Garlick 4 ounces, boyl it upon a
(oft Fire, in Claret Wine, for half an Hour.
Take it out, and fteep it in Vinegar,
whereto add 2 drams of Cloves, then take
it forth, and keep it in a Glafi for u(e.
The Artificial Preparation of DamaskcRofes^
for Smell,
Take Rofes, pull their Leaves, then dry
them in a clear Day, in the hot Sun 5 then
their fmell will be as gone. Then cram
them into an Earthen Bottle, very dry and
fweet, and ftop it very clofe ^ they will
remain in Smell and Colour both freOier,
than thofe that are otherwife dried. Note,
The firO: drying, and elofe keeping upon
it, preventeth all Putrefaftion , and the
fccond Spirit cometh forth, made of the
remaining Moifture not diffipated.
Sometimes to add to the Maceration,
3 grains of Tartar, and 2 of Enula, to cut
the more heavy and vifcous Humours 5 left
Rubarb work only upon the lighteft.
To take fometimes the Oxymel before
it, and fometimes the Spanifti Hony fimple.
Medical %emcuns. i jj^
A Rejiorative Drinkz
Take oi Indian Mak, half a pound, grind
It not too (mall, but to the fincnefs of ordi-
nary Meal, and then boltandferce it, that all
the husky part may be taken away. Take of
Eringium Roots 3 ounces, of Dates as
much, of Enula 2 drams, of Mace 5 drams,
and brew them with Ten-fliilling Beer, to
the quantity of four Gallons : And this do,
either by decoding them in a Pottle of
Wort, to be after mingled with the Beer,
being new tapped, or otherwife inflife it
in the New Beer in a Bag.
life this familiarly at Meals.
Againfi the vpajle of the Body by Heat.
Take (weet Pomgranates, and ftrain
them hghtly, not preffing the Kernel, into
a Gla(s 5 where put fome little of the Peel
of a Citron, and two or three Cloves, and
three grains of Amber-greafe, and a pretty
deal of fine Sugar. It is to be drunk every
Morning whilft Pomgranates laft.
^yUethufalem
6o * The Lord Bacon's
f^ethifakm Water.
Jgainji all Afperity avd Torrefa&ion of
Inward parts^ and all AduHion of the
^^lood^and generally again ^i the Drimfs
of Age.
Take Crevifes very new, q. f. boyl them
well in Claret Wine^ of them take only
the fhells, and rub them very clean, efpe-
dally on the infide , that they may be
throughly cleanfed from the Meat. Then
wafh them three or four times in frefh Cla-
ret Wine, heated, ftill changing the Wine,
till all the Fifti-tafte be quite taken away.
But in the Wine wherein they are wafhed^
fteep fome tops of green Rofemary 5 then
dry the pure tell throughly, and bring
them to an exquifite Pouder. Of this
Pouder take 5 drams. Take alfo Pearl,
and fteep them in Vinegar twelve Hours, -
and dry off the Vinegar 5 of this Pouder
alfo 3 drams. Then put the Shell Pouder,
and Pearl Pouder together, and add to
them of Ginger one fcruple, and of white
Poppy Seed half a fcruple, and fteep them ,
inspirit of Wine (wherein fix grains of
Saffron hath been diflblved ) feven Hours.
Then upon a gentle heat, vapour away all
the
Medical ^mahif. \6\
the Spirit of Wine, and dry the Pouder
againft the Sun without Fire. Add to it
of Nitre one dram, of Amber-greafe one
fcruple and a half ^ and (b keep this Pouder
for ufe, in a clean Glafi. Then take a
Pottle of Milk, and fliceinit oftrelh Cu-
cumers, the inner Pith only ( the Rind
being pared off) four ounces , and draw
forth a Water l3y Diftillation. Take of
Claret Wine a Pint, and quench Gold in
it four times.
Of the Wine, and of the water of Milk,
take of each three ounces, of the Pouder
one fcruple, and drink it in the Mornings
ftir up the Pouder when you drink, and
walk upon it.
^ Catalogue of Aftringents, Ope-
ners, and Cordials, tnjhummtal to
Health. ColIeBed by Sir Francis
Bacon, !Baron of Verulam.
Alfrwgents,
REd Rofe , Blackberry, Myrtle, Plan-
tane. Flower of Pomegranate, Mint,
Aloes well wa(hed, Mirabolancs, Sloes,
M Agrefla,
i6z 7 he Lord Bacons
Agrefta, Fraga, Maftich, Myrrh, SafFron^
Leaves of Rofemary, Rubarb received by.
Infufion, Cloves, Service-Berries, Coma,
Wormwood, Bole Armeniac, Sealed Earthy
Cinque-foil , Tinfture of Steel , Sanguis »
Dracot7is^ Coral, Amber, Quinces, Spike-:
nard, Galls, Allum, Bloodftone, Mummy,
Amomum, Galangal , Cyprefs, Ivy, Pfyl- i
lum, Houfeleek , Sallow, Mulleni, Vine,^
Oak-leaves, Lign- Aloes, Red Sanders, Mul- ;
berrie, Medlers, Flowers of Peach-Trees,
Pomegranates , Pears , Palmule , Pith of
Kernels, Purflain, Acacia, Laudamm^ Tra-,
gacanth^ Thus Oliha>n^ Comfiey, Shepherds- »
purfe, *\Polygon7um,
AJiringents (both hot and cold) which cor-
roborate the Parts J and which conp'rm^ and
refrejl) Juch of them ai are locfe^ or languijli-
Rofeniary, Mint, efpecially with Vine-
gar, Cloves, Cinamon, Cardamom, Lign-
Aloes, Rofe, Myrtle, Red Sanders, Coto-
nea , Red-Wine, Chalybeat-Wine , Five-
finger-Gra(s, Plantane, Apples of Cyprefi,
Barberries , Fraga, Service-Berries , Cor-
neille's, Ribes, Sowr-Pears, Rambefia.
^fi
rtn-
Medical ^maiml 163
Aftringents Styptic, whkh^ hj their Styptic
Virtue, mayjiay Fluxes.
Sloes^ Acacia^ T^f;d of Pomegranates in-
•iifed, at leaft three Hours^ the Styptic Vir-
tue not coming forth in lefler time. Alum^
3 a Us , Juke of Sallow , Syruf of nnrife
^wces^ ^Halanjiia^ the Whites of £^^/boyl- •
jsd hard in Vinegar.
Aftringents which^ by their cold and earthy
Nature, may flay the motion of the Hh-
y moHrs tending to a Flftx.
Sealed Sarth^ Sanguis Draconis^ Coral^
Pearls^ the fiell of the Fi(h DaUylus.
Aftringents wkich^ by the thicknefi of their
Jiibjiance^ ftufF as it were the thin Hu-
mours, and thereby flay Fluxes.
Rice^ Beans^ Millet, Cauls ^ dry Cheefe^
frefh Goats-Mjlk.
.Aftringents which^ by virtue of their Gluti-
nous rubftance,re/?r^7/; a Flux, andjireng-
then the loofer Parts. * Perh.-^pt
he meanc
Karahe "^ ^ Majlich^ Sfodium^ Harts-horn^ oUh:telV,nc
QX)[\, and Beer , mingled together^
nr^ jj^^i or ,. for the fpAce of half an Hour.
lO add to the ^Uaceratl- UceJfixorferenDay, See
(?;;, fix grains of CreworTar- the Loid Baton's Life by Dr.
tarr, and as much Enula. ^'"^'''' '"''■'"^' '^' "'^^
. M 4 To
i6i The Lor J Bacon's
To add to the Oxymel^ fbme Infufion of
Fennel-roots in the Vinegar, and four
grains of Angelica-feed, andjuyce of Li-
mons, a third part to the Vinegar.
To take it not fo immediately before Sup-
per :, and to have the Broath fpecially made
with Barley^ Rofemury^ Thyme^ and Crejfes.
4. To take once in the Month at leaft,
and for two Days together, a grain and a
half of Caftor in my Broath, and Break*
faft.
5. A Cooling Clyfter to be ufed once a
Month, after the working of the Macerati-
on is fettled.
Take of Barley-water , in which the
Roots of Buglofi are boyled, three
ounces, with two drams of Red-San-»
ders, and two ounces of Raifins of ;
the Sun, and one ounce of Daftyles,
and an ounce and a half of Fat Ca-
rycks, let it be ftrained, and add to it
an ounce and a half of Syrup of Vio-
lets : Let a Clyfter be made.
Let this be taken (with Veal) in the
aforefaid Decoftion.
6. To take every Morning, the Fume
of Lign- Aloes, Rofemary and Bays dried^
with Juyce^ but once in a Week to add a
little Tobacco, without otherwife taking
it in a Pipe.
7. To
Medical ^maini. i6^
7. To appoint every Day an Hour, ad
AjfeBus Intentienaks & fanos. glu. de par-
ticulari.
8. To remember Maftichatorics for the
Mouth.
9. And Orenge-flower Water to be (mek
to, or fnuffed up.
10. In the third Hour after the Sun is
rifen, to take in Air from (bme high and
open Place, with a ventilation of Rofo
Mofchat£^ and frefh Violets 5 and to ftir
the Earth , with infufion of Wine and
Mint.
11. To u(e Ale with a little Enula Cara-
pana, Carduus, Germander, Sage, Ange-
lica Seed, Creffes of a middle age, to be-
get a robuft heat.
12. Mithridate thrice a Year.
13. A bit of Bread dipt in Vino Oder at 0^
with Syrup of dry Rofes , and a little
Amber, at going to Bed.
14. Never to keep the Body in the fime
pofture above half an Hour at a time.
15. Four Precepts. To break ofFCu-
ftom. To (hake off Spirits ill difpofed.
To meditate on Youth. To do nothing
againft a Man s Genius.
16. Syrup of Quinces for the Mouth of
the Stomach. Enquire concerning other
things ufeful in that kind.
17. To
170 Tlye LordB2iCons
ij. To ufe once during Supper t}me<»
Wine in which Gold is quenched.
1 8. To ufe anointing in the Morning
lighdy with Oyl of Almonds , with Salt
and Saffron, and a gentle rubbing.
19. Ale of the fecond Infufion of the
Vine of Oak.
20. Methufalem Water, of Pearls and
Shells, of Crabs, and a little Chalk.
21. Ale of Raifins, Daftyles, Potatoes,
Piftachios, Hony, Tragacanth, Maftich.
22. Wine with Swines-flefh, or Harts-
fleOi.
23. To drink the firft Cup at Supper
hot, and half an Hour before Supper, fome-
thing hot and Aromatiz'd.
24. Chaly beats, four times a Year.
2 5. T^'/IhU ex tnbm, once in two Months,
but after the Ma(s has been macerated in
Oyl of Almonds.
26. .Heroic Defires.
27. Bathing of the Feet once in a
Month, with Lie ex Sale mgro^ Camomile,
fweet Marjoram, Fennel, Sage, and a lit-
tle Aqm Vit£.
28. To provide always an apt Break-
faft.
29. To beat the Flefti before Rolling
of it.
50. Macerations in Pickles.
51. Agi-
Medkal ^mains. 171
31, Agitation of Beer by Ropes, or in
Wheel-Barrows.
32. That Diet is good which makes
Lean, and then Renews. Confider of the
ways to efFeft it. . 1
L
Medical Receipts of the
Lord "BaconX
T):e Ftrft <^ceipt ^ or his Lordjhip's
!Broath and Fomentation for the StOfie.
The ^roatk,
TAke one dram of Eryngium Roots,
cleanfed and fliced^ and boyl them
together with a Chicken. In the end, add
of Elder-Flowers, and Marigold-Flowers
together, one pugil, of Angelica-Seed half
a dram, of Raifins of the Sun ftoned fif-
teen, of Rofemary, Thyme, Mace, toge-
ther, a Httle.
In fix ounces of this Broath, or there-
abouts, let there be dillolved of white Cre-
mor Tartan three grains.
Every
17^ . -H^e Lord Bacon's
^ Every third or fourth Day, take a
fmallToaft of Manchet, dipped in Oyl of
Sweet Almonds new drawn, and fprinkled
with a little Loaf-Sugar.
You may make the Broath for two Days,
and take the one half every Day.
If you find the Stone to ftir, forbear the
Toaft fgr a Courfe or two.
The Intention of this Broath, is, not to
Void, but to Undermine the Quarry of
the Stones in the Kidneys.
The Fomentation.
Take of Leaves of Violets, Mallmvs,
Pellitory of the Wall, together, one Hand-
ful, Of Flowers of Camomile and Mellilot,
together one Pugil. The Root of Marfh-
Mallows one ounce 3 of Annis and Fennel -
feeds, together one ounce and a half^ of
Flax-feed two drams. Make a Decoftion in
Spring-water.
Tk
Medical ^mms»^ lyy
Tl?e Second ^ceipt, (lycwing the way of
making a certain OyiHment^ which his
Lordfhip called y Unguentum Fra-
grans five Romanuni; The Fra-
granty or ^man Unguent.
TAke of the Fat of a Deer^half a pound 5
of Oyl of Sweet Almond? two ounces.
Let them be fet upon a very gentle Fire,
and ftirr'd with a ftick oif Jiiniper, till
they are melted.
Add of
Root of Flower de Luce poudered,
Damask Rofes poudered, together,
one dram^of Myrrh diffolved in Ro(e-
water, half a dram 5 of Cloves, half
a fcruple 5 of Civet, four grains 5 of
Musk, fix grains^ of Ojl of Mace ex-
preffed, one drop 5 as much of Rofe-
water as fiifficeth to keep the Un-
guent from being too thick.
Let all thefe be put together in a GlaG, and
fet upon the Embers, for the (pace of
an Hour 5 and ftirred with a (tick of
Juniper.
Nofe^
^7^
77;e Lor^ Bacon s
l^otc^ That in the Confeftion of this
Oyntment, there was not ufed above a
quarter of a pound, and a tenth part of a .
quarter of Decrs Suet: And that all the^
Ingredients, except the Oyl of Almonds,
were doubled, when the Oyntment was
half made, becaufe the Fat things feemed
to be too Predominant.
T7;e Tlnri ^ceipt.
\A Manus Chrifti for the Stomach.
T^ Ake of the beft Pearls very finely pul-
veriz d, one dram 5 o£ Sal Nitre^ one
fcruple 5 of Tartar, two Scruples 5 of Gin-
ger and Gallingal, together, one ounce and
a half 5 of Calamus, Root of Enula Cam-
pana, Nutmeg, together, one (cruple and a
half, of Amber^fixteen grains^ of the beft
Musk, ten grains 5 with Role-water^ and
the fineftSugar 5 let there be made a (CMa-
rus Chrijii,
The
Medical ^maim. 175
The Fourth ^ceipt. .
J Secret for the Stomach
nPAke Ligrmm Aloes in gro(s (havings,
fteep them in Sack, or Alacant, chan-
ged twice, half an Hour at a time, till the
bittcrnels be drawn forth. Then take the
Shavings forth and dry them in the fhade,
and beat them to an Excellent Pouder.
Of that Pouder, with the Syrup of Ci-
trons, make a fraall Pill, to be taken before
Supper.
(Baconiana
^aconiana Theologica:
OR A FEW
REMAINS
OF THE
Lord Bacon,
Relating To
^hme->
i:j.^
»79
THE
Lord Bacons
Theological Remains.
Tl)e Lord Bacon's Queftions about the
Lawfuhiefs of a War for the Propa-
gating of Religion,
(^ejlions wherein I dejtre Opinion^ joyn-
ed with Argmnents and Authorities.
vv
Hether a War be lawful a-
gainft Infidels, only for the
Propagation of the Chriftian
Faith, without other caufe of Hoftility ?
Whether a War be lawful, to recover to
the Church, Countries which formerly have
N 2 been
i8o 7 he Lord Bacon's
been Chriftiaii, though now Alienate, and
ChriiHans utterly extirped ?
Whether a War be lawful, to free ind
deliver Chriftians that yet remain in Servi-
tude, and fubjeftion to Infidels ?
Whether a War be lawful in Revenge,
or Vindication, of Blafphemy and Re-
proaches againft the Deity and our Savi-
our? or for the ancient efFufion of Chriftian
Blood, and Cruelties upon Chriftians ?
Whether a V/ar be lawful for the Refto-
ring, and purging of the Holy Land, the
Sepulchre, and other principal places of
Adoration and Devotion >
Whether in the Cafes aforefiid, it be
not Obligatory to Chriftian Princes, to \
make fuch a War , and not permiffive
only ?
Whether the making of a War againft
the Infidels, be not firft id order of Digni-
ty, and to be preferr d before extirpations
of Herefies, reconcilements of Schifms, re-
formation of Manners, purfaits of juftj
Temporal Quarrels, and the like Adions
for the Publick Good, except there be ei-
ther a more urgent Neceffity, or a more
evident Facility in thofc Inferior Actions,
or except they may both go on together in
fome Degree ?
Two
TI)eolo^ical ^nains. i 8
Two Prayers composed by Sir Francis
Bacon , Bami of Verulam , and
Vifcount of St. Albans.
The Firii T^rayer^ called by his LordJIiip,^
The Student's Prayer.
TO God the Father, God the Word,
God the Spirit, we pour forth moft
humble and hearty Supplications 5 that He,
remembring the Calamities of Mankind.and
the Pilgrimage of this our Life, in which
we wear out Days few and evil 5 would
pleafe to open to us new Refrefhments out
of the Fountains of his Goodnels, for t]]e
alleviating of our Mifcries. This alio, we
humbly and earneftly beg, thp.t Hnnia7ie
things, may not prejudice fuch as are Z)/-
vine 5 neither that from the unlocking of
the Gates of Senfe, and the kindling of a
greater Natural Light, any thing of Incre-
dulity, or Intelleftual Night, may arife in
our Minds towards Divine Myftcries. But
rather that by our Mind, throughly clcan-
(ed and purged from Phancy and Vanities i^
and yet fubjeft, and perfeftly given up to
N 3 the
i8z T/;e Lor J Bacon's
the DizitTe Oracles^ there may be given unto
Faith^ the things that are Faith's. Amen.
T7;e Second Trayer^ called by his Lord-
Jhipy The Writer's Prayer.
nPHou, O Father ! who gaveft the Viftble
Light as the Firft-born of thy Crea-
tures, and didft pour into Man the Intel-
lecfual Lights as the top and confummatioa
of thy Workmanfhip 5 be pleafed to pro-
ted and govern this Work, which, com-
ing from thy Goodnef^ returneth to thy
Glory. Thou, after Thou hadft review'd
the Works which thy Hands had made,
beheldeft that everj Thing wa^ very Good 5
and Thou didft reft with Coniplacencie in
them. But Man, reflecting on the Works,
which he had made, (aw that all wcts Va-
nity and vexation of Spir/t^ and could, by
no means, acquieice in them. Where-
fore, if we labour in thy Works with the
fweat of our Brows, Thou wilt make us
partakers of thy Vrfion^ and thy Sabbath,
YVq humbly beg that this Mind may be
ftedfaftly in us 5 and that Thou, by our
Hands, and alib by the Hands of others,
on whom Thou, (halt bcftow the fame Spi-^
rit.
Theological ^mainsl ig^
r/f, wilt pleafe to conveigh a largenefs of
new Alms to thy Family of Mankind.
Thefe things we commend to Thy ever- '
lading Love, by our Jefus^ thy CkrOt^ God
with us. Amen.
N 4 iBncomam
Saconiana 'Bibliogvaphica :
OR CERTAIN
REMAINS
OF THE
LORD BACON
Concerning His
Writings.
To thefe are added Letters
and Difcourfes by others^ upon the
fame Argument; In which alfo
are contained fome Remarks con-
cerning his Life.
LONDON,
Printed for 7^. C. at the Rofe and Crown
in St. TWs Church-yard. 1679.
i87
Remains "Bibliographical,
Written by the
Lord Bacon
HIMSELF.
Tl?e Lord (Chancellor Bacon'^ Letter to
the Queen 0/ Bohemia ^ inAnjwer *!„.,,,
to one from her Majefty^ and upon fend- >'^^' ^^'■'>'
ino; to her his Book about a War with
Spain.
It tnay pleafe your Majejly^
I Have received your Majefties Gracious
Letter from Mr: Secretary c>T/^r/ amoto omni contradiUioms findio^ quifque
cum Alio^ acfi ipfi fecum^ dijpitety Valete.
Tl€
ipo
The Lord Bacon s
7 he fame in Englifli by the fublijher.
Francis, (Baron o/Verulam, and Vtf
count of St. Albans, to the Indulgeyt
Mother , the famous Univerfity of
Cambridg, Health.
I Here repay you, according to my Abi-
lity, the Debts of a Son. I exhort you
alfo, to do the fame thing with my (elf :
That is, to bend your whole might towards
tfae Advancement of the Sciences, and to
retain freedom of Thought, together with
humility of Mind 5 and not to fuffer the
Talent which the Ancients have depofited
with you, to lie dead in a Napkin. Doubt-
lefi, the favour of the Divine Light will
be prefent and (hine amongft you, if Phi-
lofophy being fubmitted to Religion, you
lawfully and dextroufly ufe the Keys of
Senfe 5 and if all ftudy of Oppofition being
laid afide, every one of you lb difpute with
another, as if he were arguing with him-
felf
Fare ye well.
^ibUogra^hical ^maim. ipi
A Letter of the Lord ^acon% to the
Univerfity of Cambridge upon his
fending to their public Library,
his ]>lpyum Organum.
Almac Matri Academi^c Cantahrigienji.
CVm veflerfilius ftm & Alumnus^ vo-
luptati mihi erit^ Partum ntQnm tiuper
ecUtum zahis in gnmiunt dan : AlHer enim
vebitp'O expofito mm haberem. Nee vos mo-
veat^quod via mvajit. Necejfe eji enim talta.
per JEtdtum^ C^ feculomm circuitus evenire.
^ntiquis tamen Juus cotjfiat horns '^ ingentj
fcilicet: V^m Fides verho Dei^ c^ experi-
€nti£ tantum dehetur, Scientias autem^ ad
Experientiam retrahere^ non conceditnr : At
eajdem ab Experientia de integro excitare^
operojitm certe fed pervium. Thus vohis^ c^
ftndiis vejiris faveap.
Filius vefter Amantiffimus,
Fr^c. Vmdam^ Cancel
The
^9^ The Lordh:icon^s
The fame i?iV.n^iih by the ^uhlijher.
C Ecing I am your Son, and your Difciple,
^ it will much^pleafe me to repofe in your
Bo(bm,the Iffue which I have lately brought
forth into the Worlds for otherwife I
(liould look upon it as an expofed Child.
Let it not trouble you, that the Way in
which I go is new: Such things will of
neceflity, happen in the Revolutions of
feveral Ages. However, the Honour of
the Ancients is fecured: That, I mean,
which is due to their Wit. For Faith is
only due to the Word of God^ and to Ex-
perience. Now, for bringing back the
Sciences to Experience, is not a thing to
be done: But to raife them a-new from
Experience, is indeed, a very difficult and
laborious, but not a hopelefs Undertaking.
God prosper you and your Studies.
ToMr moji lovwg Sott^
Francis Verulam, Chamel.
^'MogYdj^hml ^malns. ip5
A Letter of the Lord Sa.o?iSy writ-
ten to Jrinky QoUege in Cambridge up-
on his fending to them his Book
of the Advamemmtof Leanimg..
Franc. Baro de VerulmWy Vice-comcis. ip9
fhall follow, and (hall contain many Ex-
amples of that hjftrnmcnt^ more exaft, and
much more fitted to Rules of hidrtBion.
Fifthly^ There (liall follow a Book, to
be entitled by us, T^rodromus Philofipkid^
Seatnd^ ^ [Ihe Fore-rumicr of Scco/ulny
PkilofopI:^'], This Ihnll contain our Inven-
tions about ?mv Axioms^ to be raifcd from
the Experiments themfelves, tliat they,
i which were before as Pillars Ivingr \ u(e-
lelly] along, may be raifcd up. And this
we refolve on for the Fifth Part of our
Iffjiatiratio}?,
Laftly, There is yet behind, the Sccon^
dary Philofophy it Jelf which is the Sixth
j Part of the hislauration. Of the pertcft-
I ing this, I have caft away all hopes -^ but
I in future Ages, perhaps, the Defign may
I bud again. Notwithftanding, in our Pro-
\ droniie , Q or Prefitory Works ^ 3 ( ^<^h I
I mean only, which touch, almoft, the ZJ;//-
I verfals of Nature ) there will be laid no in-
' confiderable foundations of ///-f Matter,
Our l^lzatiTjcfs ( you (ee ) attempteth
great Thitigs ; placing our hopes only in this,
that they feem to proceed from the Prozi-
dence and Immenfe Goodtiefs of God.
And I am, by two Arguments, thus per-
fuaded.
Fnft^ I think thus from that zeal and
!■ ^ conr
100 Ih Lord Bacon's
conliancy of my Mind, which has not wax-
ed old in this Dcfign, nor after (b many-
Years, grown cold and indifferent. I re-
member, that about Yorty Tears ago^ I com-
pos'd a Juvenile \Vo)\ about thefe things,
which with great Confidence, and a Pom-
pens Title ^ I called Temper is Part urn Maxi-
* Or, /> ^^^^^^^ "^ [ or the moft confiderable Birth of
^'*" f> Time. 3
^fffSa Secondly, I am thus perfuaded, becaufe
readefe^ of its infinite Ufcfithief i, for which reafon
^^.^^'' it may be afcribed to Divine Encouragement,
I pray your Faikerhood^ to commend me
to that moft Excellent Man, Signior Mvlines,
to whofe moft delightful and prudent Let-
ters I will return anfwer fhortly , if God
permit. Farcivel^ mofi Reverend Father.
lour
Mofi ajjfured Friend^
Francis St. Alban.
(Bthlio^raphical ^mains. i o i
J Utter of the Lord Bacon'^, in
French, to the Marquefs Fiat, re^
latin^ to his Eflays,
Monfieur V Amhapadmr man File^
VOyant que vpftre Excellence faift et
traite Mariages, non feulement entre
les Princes d' Affgkterrc et de Fra?;ce^ mais
audi entre les Langues (puis que faiftes
traduire non Liure de 1' Advancement des
Sciences en Francois) i' ai bien voulu vous
lenvoyer mon Liurc dernierement imprime,
que i avois pourveu pour vous, mais i*
cftois en doubte, de le vous envoycr, pour
ce qu' il eftoit efcrit en Anglois. Mais a'
ceft' Heure pour la raifon lufdifte ie le
vous envoye. C eft tm RecompHement de
mes Effayes Morales et CivHes 5 mais telle-
ment enlargies et enrichies, tant de Norn-
bre que de Poix, que c eft de fait un
Oeuvre nouveau. Ie vous baife les Mains,
et reftcj
Voftre tres AfFeftionee Ami,
cx tres humble Serviteur.
The
?ot tn;e Lor J Bacon's
Tl?e fame in Englifli , hy the
MagnuSy Arifiarcho^ Major ^ Homerus erat^
In hafte.
Tour Servant^
jR^^e?- ^MaynTcaring. .
P3 4
f J4 ^^^ Lor J Bacon's
A Letter written by Dr. ^wley^ to
Monjieur Veodate ^ concerning his
publifliing of the Lord ^acon$
Works.
Generofiilimc Sc AmiciiTune Domine,
RZJri 7nwc demum ago^ Vere C^ Jejuma
jneunte : M^jius^ defuijfe mihi facul-
fatem tejpfum invifendi^ ante difcejjum : At
Certus^ fiunquam defnturam me occajiom cut-
cunq%^ , teipfum demerendi^ & omni OfftciOy
five Jimork five Obfervanti£ ^ frofeqnendi.
Curabo ^ front vires Jiippete^t , Imprejfwnem
Lihrorum Illuftriffimi Herois, Cm olim in-
fervijje^ atq-^ etiamnum tnfervire^ pr^cipuum
tnihi duco, Ne qua fijpicio Fidei me£ juho-
riatur 5 quam primum commodiim erit , pr^-
Jtaho, Cnpio^ Amicitiam^ S^ Notitiam banc
inter Nos initam , perpetuam fore : Ac Lite-
rk^ ejufdem Tejjerk ^ Fotricibus ( /? velk )
jiibinde rejiorejcere^ te vel Parifiis, Agente 5
^as^ Ji itnquam mihi F elicit as tanta contin-
gcre pojfit^ ttii gratia etiam invifere j^erabo.
U^H credas me Verbis tantum opulentum,
Fad'is inopem ^ ^iji potius negotia molejlij-
fima obfiiijje^ dum in Urbe pr^fens fneram,
.Re-
fBibliographkal ^mains. 1 1 j
Reliqmm erit^ ut Te unke colat^ d^ nJa"
fuet^ & Tibi femer opima precetur j
Gencrofiffime, Dominationi tu^
Servus addiftimus Sc Ami-
cus perpetuus,
1632. GhH. T^xplej.
I
Ihefame in Englifli hy the Tuhlijher.
Moft noble and dear Sir^
Am now, at laft, in the Country, the
Sprwg and Le^t coming on. I am forry
that I had not the opportunity of waiting
on you before I left the Town : But, I am
fure, I fliall never be wanting in ferving
you upon all Occafions, and in perform-
ing towards you allOffices,either of Friend-
(hip, or Obfervance.
I will ( to the utmoft of my Power )
take care to publifh the [remaining] La-
bours of that lllnfinoHs Beroe^ [ the Lord
VerHldm'^'\ efteeming it my greateft happi-
nefsj to have formerly ferv'd him^ mdjiill,
P 4 ^^
J 1 6 TI?eLord Bacon^s
to do (b. And that I may avoid all fufpi-
cion of being worfe than my Word, I will
perform my Promile with all convenient
fpeed. I defire that this Frkndjl)ip^ and
mutual hirvardveji begun betwixt us, may
always continue , and ( if you pleafe)
live and flourifh by Letters^ the Badges and
Nourifhers of it, even when you are at
Paris; A place, which (if ever I be fo
happy J I will fee for your (ake, as well as
for other Rcafons. Pray, think not that
I am fne of my Words ^ and frugal of my
peeds^ but rather that my thick and very
ttoublefbme Occafions, whilft I was in the
Crfy^ w^ould not (ufFtr me to kifs your
Hands. It remains, that I heartily Honour
you, and retaliate your Love, and with
you all the good in the World, as being
Tour mojifa/thffd Serva?it^
f
and covfiant Trktid^
^arch tk^
9 th. 1632.
William T^wley.
5
A
^ihlio^raphical ^mahts, ■ 217
A Letter written by Monfieur ^lius
T>eodate^ to Dr. ^wley^ in anfvver
to his of March the ^th^ 1651,
touching his publiflaing the Lor^i
Bacons Works.
Reverendo Viro Domino Gulielmo
^wley^ facrae Theologian DoElorij
Sc ^^^U Majefiatis Capellano^ Ami-
CO colendiffimo.
Reverende Vir, & Amiciffime Domine,
PAnck abkinc diehus reddjt£ funt mihi
grat7Jftm£ & exoptatiJJtw£ tif£ liter£y
quibm frofolatib fHav7JjjM£ tu£ fO^Jlfetudwk^
per improvifum Uinm ex urbe difccJJ-Hm miki
crept £^ rrovam^ ar&£^ d^ in perpctuum diirx-^
iio'£ ar/i7dtJ£ tu£ fiduciam mihi Jpondes,
Hoc munerc ( quod quidem omm mntui {Vit9^
Yis ^ obfervanU£ off do pro viribus demereri
Jedfdo Jatagam) vjx qnkquam potuit mihi oh^
twgere charius ^ adeb tua Virtu^^ & Il/iiJlriJ^
Jimi Hcrois noftri ( cujus affatus Divinos
in (Inu fives ) £ternum colenda Memoria^
wfti in precio ejl. Promptam ejus Opcrunt
Rdt"^
2 1 8 17;e Lord Bacon's
Editionemy quam polliceris^ ta^ avide expe^
3o^ nt Jpe earn jam totampene continmrim :
Nepatere^ qnafo^ quovis cafu^ uUamhuicde*
(iderio meo^ moram wjici : Cum etiam (quod
''& agnofck J multis nominibus^ maxime tua
interfit^ earn quarto citius promoveri. Fa-
rum fr licit er mihi cejjit votum^ pro verjiofte
Lihri ExperimeKtorum ^ ut percipies ex ejus
Cpecimine^ quod adte mitto: Ea propter il/um^
qui id laboris fuerat aggrejjm^ rogcwi^ ut ah
CO dedjieret^ cuju.s id folum quod videhk pan-
ck foliis exaratum^ haUenus pr^^itit , citm
ante duos annos^ perficiendum Jufcepijfet. De
tempore met in Galium reditus^ nondum Jia-
tui : Ejus te^ ante difcejjum^ faciam certio-
rem^ d^ tibi futur£ nojlr£^ per liter as ^ com--
municationis internuncios indicaho. Vale,
Reverentice tuse Obfer-
vantiffimus Servus,
lEltus Deodatus.
Londini, Apri-
Us 4. 1633.
W«
(Bihlio^ra^hiciil ^mainsl 1 1
The jam In Englifli hy the fublifher.
To the ^verendj his mofl Honoured
Friend, William Rawley, DoElor
of Divinity^ and Chaplain to the IQngs
Majejly.
Reverend and mofi dear Sir,
A Few Days ago, I received your mofl:
acceptable and mofl: defired Letter,
in which, to comfort me for the lofs of
your mofl: agreeable Company ( of which
I was deprived by your fudden leaving the
Town) you make me a new promife of a
near and lafliing Friendfliip. Nothing
could have happened to me more pleafing,
than this Rindnefs ( which I fliall diligently
endeavour, to the utmofl: of my Power,
by all ways of Love and Obfervance, to
deferve)^ fo much I value your own
Worth, and the ever efl:imablc Memory,
of our mofl: lUuJlrJons Heroe^ a portion of
whofe Spirit^ refides in your Brefl:.
I fo greedily expeft the (peedy Edition
of his Works^ which you have promifed 5
^|hat I have already almoft devoured the
whole
120 77;eIori Bacon's
whole of it in my Hopes. Suffer not ( I
befeech you ) any delay by any means, to
obftruft this my earneft defire: Seeing,
elpecially, it much concerns your felf ( as
you conikQ) upon many accounts, ^o
promote it with all Expedition.
My defign of a TraTtJlation of the Natu-
ral Hijlory^ has not fucceeded fo happily as
I could wifh, as you will perceive by the
Specimen which I fend to you. Wherefore
I defired him, who had undertaken the
Work, to defift from it, he having done
only that little which you will fee in a few
Leaves 5 whereas he undertook the doing
of the whole, two Years ago. I am not
yet refolv d about the time of my return-
ing into France. I will let you know it e re
I go, and tell you by whom our Letters
may be conveyed to one another. Farewel.
Reverend Sir^
Tour mojl humble Servant^
JEYms Deodate, Advocate,
London^ April
4. 1633.
The
^iblio^rdphical ^malnsl ixv
The Firft Letter of Mr. Ifaac Qruter^
to Dr.^awkyfonceTning the M S S
of the Lord !Bacon.
Revercndo DodifGmoq- viro Gull-
elmo %awleiOy S. P. D. Jfaacm
Gruterus.
Vir Reverendc,
FRatns met ci'uda mors^ ati latinam Natnra^
lis HiJlorJ£ Vcrulamian^ verfionemdebe*
mm^ pcrdm mejitbftjiere coegit in natali nobis
Zelandia, dum mm'tualis fdmili£ negotia ex-
pcdio. Donnim reverjiis ad Batavos ifivenio li-
teras tnas fane quam gratijjimas '^fed quod do-
Icbam 5 fero rej^onfo ob fonticam ab Haganis
abfent7£ caufam^ excipiendas. Veniam mereUif
qui peccat inzrjtus^ tarditatifq^ a fortuna im-
popJam necejjitatem penfare cormbitur ajfe&Hs
Jiudio^ nunqnam pofi hue indormitnro amiciti^
obfequjis d^ efferent i fe occafioni. Viri ijlius
injlitutum , qui Baconi Hiftoriam Nam-
ralem, ttt earn priores me£ dejignoj^unt^ Gal-
lice dedit^ paucis verbis comprehenjunf exhi^
lent fratris mci prolegomena 5 qu£ velim vi-
deas^ C^ judicium de iis cenfcriimq:^ , tibi la-
bvrap
211 IheLord Bacon^s
hor at fides ^ votam tranfmittas poximis literk.
Editio lUe Germam mei^ quam cum voluptate
fiimma. injpexijffe te fcribit , f^ox emendatior
frodibit ex fecundis defiinUi cnris^ cum au-
&uarJo ejnfdem argumenti , exfur7gend£ At-
latitidi ftibfiituendo. ^od non alrndfutu-
mm ah ijia hominis Galli interpret atiofte^
Lot id don an da ^ cum Anglke reperiri non quea$
unde fua vcrtit '-J nifitu hacut Jpuria d^adul-
terina damnaverh^ uhi videre contigerit li-
brum. Obfervationes tuas in male intelleSa.
ferferamq-^ verfa ex Anglico Hiftoriae Na-
turalis qnod a te evulgatus legitur (qua-
lia in primis conatihus interpretis non indige-
t2£^ d^ indies tunc cum adolefceret atate pro-
ficient is ^haud pauca occur r ere nemo mirabi-
tur^ qui noverit Phjiftologicam argumenti late
patentis varietatem^ perplexi ex tot remm con-
gerie^ Jua non ubiqi^ vocabula apud Antiques
Horat. kabentium^ & pr^fenti nota fignandas ap-
pellationes requirentium) velim mihi non invi-
deas^ conferendas cum iS ^juayuxph^ emenda-
tionibusjblicite elaboratis x, an& feliciterptm
cjim paucis ifiarum elegantiarum inteUigenti-
bus divides. Mitto indicem eorum^ qu£ ex
Bofwelliani Mufei fi^riniis chartacek penes
me exflant vel propria manu defcripta^ 'vel al-
terius apud vos^ fed Baconi manum e^ limam
expert a ^ ut Bofwellus dim mihi^ admijfo ad
inieriores familiaritatis aditns^ commemoravit
^ In
[
Jn apographis meis ( nt tefiabitnr index hifce
Uteris comes) referies^hijloriam Denfi c^
Rari, fed imperfeUam^ opnfculo licet longiuf
cule produBo. De Gravi d^ Levi in mani^
bus hahni integrum ^ grande volumen^ fed
quod prater nndam delineate fabrics compa-
gem ex titnlisy materiam^ pront earn concepe-
rat iUnfirk Baconus, ahfolventihm^ nihil de-'
fcriptionis continebat. Includitur hifce exem-
plar contextus^ fola capitnm lemmata complex?^
d^ plenam ex ijia (j^uxypoccpicc tra&ationem
vuncfrHJlra requirentis. De Denfb C^ Raro
qu£ affervas ab extrema ^nthoris incnde^
quaq--) in appendicem venient fragmenta^ nti-
vam cum ineditis Phyfologicis Virulamei, in
apographa per me redaais ex legato Bofwellia-
no, fnbjicere lie eat prelo Batavo, (ibi invi-
cem commendationem , fi jiinUius prodeant^
pr^ftitura. Agere jam c£pi cum Typographo
magn£ in ijiis indnjiri£ c^ cnriofitatis 5 faxo
nihil jufte queri pojjis de fide, nojira c^ can-
dore^ ft editionem illam mihi perm/Jeris^ con-
fummandam non fine honorifica tin mentione.
Sed utcunq*-^ conjiitues^ nihil detra&nm voh
amiciti£ offtciis^ nlterius ab hoc ingrejfu qua-
cunqiy occajione provehend£, Ludovicus El-
fevirius Amftelodamo nuper ad me fcripjit
meditarife^ fore brevi inchoandam^ in quarts
editionem eorumommum^ qu^ quam
Tcrum (it quod Anonymus ifie in prefaiio7;e
ad Lett or em de te innominatofcribjt. Verba
ejus frater mens B. M. Latine verfit in prima
editione H/Jlori£ Naturali s^ cum de fide An- -
ihoris ignoti dubitarct. Ego in fecundh dabo-y
npctita d^ ji^ft^^ co77foJJa nctis , 7it monea72- '
i7ir in quorum 7na72us pcrventuruin (Jt ijiud o-
pi/s^ fuppofititiu/n ejje^ aut potius ex avullls
-fptirlJm- 'laci7777s c077jutum , qnicqu7d fpeciojo
-VciTiIamii tiinlo mu7ntu7/i vendit^t Antiar,
tBihliographical ^malnsl 2. 5 5
Ni(i forte fpeciatim tuo nomine fuggerere libet^
ijli loco inferenda in cautelam^ C^ ne qttid
Gloria celeberimi viri detrahat vel malignitas^
vel inconfideratnm jindiitm. Si me fata meis VirgiL
paterentur ducere vitam aufpiciis, in An-
gliam evolarem ^ nt qiiicquid Verulamianae
offici.n£ fervas in fcriniis tuis ineditum^ co-
rum injpicerem^ C^ ocnlos Jaltem haberem ar^
hitros^ (i pojjejfio negetnr mercis nondum pfib-
lica. Nunc vota impatientis dejiderii fujien-
tabo Jpe aliqitando videndij quafidismandata
latebris occafwnem exfpe&ant ut Utib in lucem
edficantur^ non enecentur fiiffocato partu, Uti-
77am interim videreliceat Apographum cpiftolae
ad Henricum Savilium circa adjumenta fu-
cultatum intelleftualium 5 catera enim La-
tins monet£ perfnadeor jlatione fna mover i non
pojfe in temporarium ufum. Vale.
Trajefti ad Mofam,
Martii2o.S.N. ClD IdC LV.
Tht
234
The Lord Bacon's
The fame in Englifli, hy the ^ublilJ^er.
To the ^^ferend William Rawley,
D.T>. Ifaac Gruter wi[J)eth much health.
Kevcnnd Sir^
IT is not juft to compkin of the flow-
nefi of your Anfwer, feeing that the
difficulty of the Pailage, in the fcafon in
which you wrote , which was towards
Winter, might eafily caufe it to come no
fafter: Seeing hkevvifc, there is Co much
to be found in it whichi may gratifie Defire,
and perhaps, {b much the more, the long-
er it was e re it came to my Hands. And
although I had little to fend back,befides my
Thanks for the httle L/dcx\
Qt) yet thatfeemed to me of
fuch moment, that I would
no longer flipprefs them 5
efpecially becaufe I accounted it a Crime
to have fufFer'd Mr. Smith
[h) to have been without
an Anfvver : Mr. Smithy my
moft kind Friend , and to
whofc care in my MatterSj I owe all Re-
' gard
(a) A Note of fo>ne Pa-
yers of the Lord Bacon'/ tH
D. R's. h^tnds.
(h") Of Child's Coiled^
tH C.imbffdg. X'-id I{eeperof
the paUfC':^ Library there.
^ihliogra^hical ^mains. 235
gard and AfFeftion, yet without diminution
of that part ( and that no fmall one nei-
ther ) in which Dr. Rd}Ylcy hath place; So
that the So;/ls of us Three Co throughly a-
greeing, may be aptly faid to have united
in a Trrgj.
Though I thought that I had already,
fufficiently (hew'd, what Veneration I had
for the Itlnjlrious Lord J^cruLw!^ yet I fliall
take fiich care for the future, that it may
not poffibly be deny'd, that I endeavoured
moft zealoufly to makethis thing known to
the learned World.
But neither fliall this Defign, of fetting
forth in one Volume, all the Lord Bacons
Works, proceed without confulting you,
and without inviting you to caft in your
Symbol, worthy fuch an excellent Edition:
That (b the Appetite of the Reader, pro-
voked already by his publifh'd Works, may
be farther gratilYd by the pure novelty of
(b confiJerable an Appendage.
For the French L/terprcter^ V/ho patch'd
together his Things I know
not whence (^\ and tack'd C^) certain fpm-nuf pt.
that motley piece to him, ^f:^f:^::i^:^tZ
they (hall not have place in i"g-
tliis great Colle&ron. But
yet, I hope, to obtain your leave to pub-
iilh apart, as an Appendix to the Natural
Hrjiorj'^
236 Tl?e Lord Bacon's
Hijiory^ that Exotick}Vork^^ gather 'd toge-
ther from this and the other place [ of his
Lordfhips Writings 3 and by n^e tranflated
into Latine. For feeing the genuine Pieces
of the Lord Bacon are already Extant, and
in many Hands, it is neceffary that the For-
reignReader be given to underftand^of what
Threds the Texture of that Book confifts,
and how much of Truth there is in that,
which that fhamelefs perfbn does in his
Preface to the Reader, lb ftupidly write of
you.
My Brother, of blcjfed ZHcmory^ turn'd
his words into Latwe^ in the frji Edition
of the iN^atitral Hijiory^ having fbme fufpi-
tion of the Fidelity of an unknown Au-
thor. I will, in xh^fecntd Edition^ repeat
them, and with juft ieverity, animadvert
upon them : That they, into whofe hands
that Work comes, may know it to be Hip-
pofititious, or rather patch'd up of many
diftinfl: Pieces 5 how much (bever the Au-
thour bears himfelf upon the fpecious Title
of Veridam,
Unlels, perhaps, I (hould particularly
iiiggeft in your Name, that thele words
were there inlcrted, by w^iy of Caution 5
and left Malignity and Rafhneis fhould any
way blem-i(h the Fame of fo eminent a Per-
ion.
S'i
bibliographical ^mainsl 237
Si nte^ Fata^ meis^ fatereritur ducere vi-
tarn Aufpciis ( to u(e the words of
VirgiL') If my Fate would permit me to
live according to my Wifhcs, I wolud flie
over into England ^ that I might behold
whatfbever remaineth , in your Cabinet,
of the Vcndamiafi Workman(hip, and at
leaft make my Eyes witnefles of it, if the
poffeffion of the Merchandize be yet denied
to the Publick.
At prcfent I will fupport thcWifhes of
my impatient defire, with hope of feeing,
one Day, thofe [Iffues] which being
committed to faithful Privacie, wait the
time 'till they may (afely fee the Light, and
not be ftifled in their Birth.
I wifh, in the mean time, I could have
a fight of the Copy of the EpifHe to Sir
Hc77ry Savil^ concerning the Helps of the
L/tclIe^ifal Powers : For I am perfuadcd, as
to the other Lathie Remains^ that I fhall
not obtain, for prefent ule, the removal
of them from the place in which they now
are. Farewel.
Maejlrkht^ March 20.
New Style, 165$.
The
2^8 1 he Lord Bacon's
The Third Letter written by Mn
Ifaac Qruter^ to Dr. ^wley^ con-
cerning the Writings of the Lord
'Bacon.
Reverendo, DoitifTimoq; Vno-Gtili-
elmo ^awleio^ S.Theologia^ Doctor i
S. P. D. Ifaacus Qruterm.
Vir Revererde 8c a.micillime,
QU^nita hi piVie honcris deputarcm ntijja
Venilamii pojihima^ qa^ e tm ncn
It a prjclem Mujfo Latin a prodkre^ aUae pro-
thim Gratis (ignificarmit^ (i cnram amici^ qui
Lie Qperam jit am i:on frujtra rcqiiiri p.-jfjlts efl^
hand htfcrit forttwa trajeSns^ varia e caiija
(£pe dfd'ij, fj\fjwc tant^e majus miki ijhid
beheficium ejl^ qitanio inftgniorem frugem pr£-
fiiiit le&io von ignava^ & par cum qmhnfdam
ex cjjc via Baconiana a me ed/tis collatio ^ au-
Ci7i.rcm eriim tihi dchcmi/s Hijioriam dcnfi C^
rari, fed d^"^ alia ife:o contenta Vohtmine priiife
citam 77072 ccnjpeiia, U7nim nmahar^non cxfeare
7 Li cdtcris aggregat^^m Verulamii Epijtolam
ad Hcnricum Savilium, de adjimmitis fa-
cult at am ImelkSualium^ fe ex Uteris elint
Ws
^Bibliographical ^mains. ijp
tins f7on vane miki recordanti Jithjicit Titulnm
appellata mcmoria^faltem wfcripione non longe
dijjjmili. Si per ohliv70?7em ihi forte von
coif/paret^ fcrhnts tamen vejiris weirat^ optem
videre Apographum^ m cujus nfu bonam fidem
7wn dejiderabis ^ mfi Anglicano Sermone
fcripta locum hivefierit m majori opere^ quod
vernaadu dtwtaxat compk&itnr. Id fl nos
fare patLms^ & an obtinendi Libri^ m quo
^ Oratoria^ fors d^ Epijlolica^ digernntur^
matern£ L7ngu£ partus^ Jpes ex promiffo fiic-
vH non immode^a , animo meo conficrarh
tut memoriam^ in cujus veneratione nunquam
defitigabitur fegnefcere alacritas obftrictif
fmi ajfe&us. Vale.
Trajedi ad Mofim, tmde pofl duos trefve
me?;fes Novomagum tnigro^ Batavis futurus ,
propior. Per Smith^um tamen tr an fmitt ere
ad me perges-, f quid zolueris,
Kal. Julii,
St.N. CID I^C LIX.
The
tj^o Ihe LordB2iCoixs
Tl^e fame in Englifli, hy the ^uhh flier.
To the ^yerend^ aiid iHoft Learned^
William Rawley , 2). D. IfaaC
Gruter wi(J)eth much Health.
Keverend Str^ and thy mofl dear friend^
HOw much I hold my ielf honour d by
your Prefent of the Lord Bacon i
TPofthnmous Works , pubhftied lately by
you in Latme^ my thanks immediately re-
turned, had let you underftand, if ill For-
tune in the Paffage (which is, for divers
caufes, uncertain ) had not deluded the
care of a Friend, who did here with much
readinefs undertake the Conveyance of
them.
Now, the Gift is by fo much the greater,
by hovv much the more benefit I reap'd by
diligent reading of th^bfe Papers, and by
comparing them with fome of the Lord
Bacons Works, which I my felf had for-
merly publilhed. For to you we owe the
more enlarged Hrjiory de Dcnfo & Raro^
as alfo many other things, contain d in that
Volume, which faw not the Light before.
One
bibliographical ^mainsl 141
One Paper I wonder I Ciw not araongft
them, the Epiji/e of the Lord Bacon to Sir
Henrji Savil^ about the Helps of the Litelle-
Cfual Powers^ fpoken of long ago in your
Letters, under that, or (bme (uch Title^ '
if my Memory does not deceive me. If
it was not forgotten 5 and remains among
your private Papers, I fhould be glad to
fee a Copy of it, in the ufe of which, my
Faithfulncfi (hall not be wanting. But,
perhaps, it is written in the Ej/gliJI) Tor?giie^
and is a part of that greater Volume^ which
contains only his Erjglijl) Works, If you
will pleafe to let me underftand (b muchj
and likewile give meaffurance of obtaining
that Book, in which the Speeches^ and it
may be the Letters of the Lord Bacon^
written by him in Englip^ are digcfted 5
. you will render your Memory facred in my
Mind , in the veneration of which , the
chearfalnefs of a moft devoted affeftioii
Ihall never be weary. Farewel,
From Mcie^irkht , from whence , after
two or three Months, I remove to l^Qr/i-
megheti nigher to Holland. But you may
convey to me, any thing you dcfire, by
Mr. Smth.
Julj, l{i.:\ewStjle, 1639,
R A
i4^' Ihe Lord Bacon's
i
A brief Account of the Life, and parti-
cukriy of the Writings of the Lord
Bacon, written by that learned jfnti-
quarie^ Sir William Diigdale, Nor-
roy King of Arms , in the fecond
Toine of his Book entituled^ The Ba-
*pag.457. ronageof England*; toother with
438,439. J- ^r r ' ^7 1 n^ 7 1/7
dtVers Jnjerttons by the Vubltjher.
Francis, Xor^Vcr ulam, Vicomt
St. Alban.
c
li6jac.^
lOnfidcring that this Perfon was fo
Eminent for his Learning, and othei*
great Abilities, as his Excellent Works will
fufEciently manifeft 5 though a fhort Nar-
a /mpr. rativc a of his Life, is already fet forth by !
I670. "''' Doftor William "^awley , his domeftique
Chaplain, I am not willing to omit the ta-
king notice of fuch particulars, as are moft
memorable of him 5 and therefore fhall
briefly recount 5 partly from that Narra-
tive,
!Bthliognaphical %cmms. 24 \
live, and partly from other Authorities,
what I have obferved in order thereto,
i As to his Parentage, he was b the youn- b./^;^,
geft of thofe two Male Children , which
Sir V^chcLs Bacon of Redgrave^ in Com.
Suffl Knight, had by Amie his VVife, one of
the fix Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook^^ o(
Giddy-Hall^ in Com, Ejfcx, Knight, ( a per-
ibn much honoured for his Learning, and
being Tutor to Ring Edrvard the Sixtlj )
iaH thofe Daughters being exquifitely skilled
c in the GreeJ^ and Lutine Tongues. c A«n.d,
Which Nicholas^ having been a diligent cimb^'i^
iStudent of the Laws in d Grays-Inn^ was <«'?. 1576.
made e the King's Attorney in the Court ^^'/^ ''^^
of Wards, in 58 H 8. and upon the death Rav^ky.'^'
of that King, ( which foon after happened) l/'f'^^
had his Patent for the (ame truft, renewed
/by his Son and Succeffor, King Edward ^^''^■'^ ^'
the Sixth. In the fixth year of whofe'^^*'^'^'^*
Reign, he was conftituted ^ Treafurer for gon^.ju,
that Noble Society of Grays-Inn^ whereof''^- -^^^^^
he had been (b long a. Member. And be-
ing grown famous for his Knowledg, was
fliortly after, ^/z. in i £fe. made h Lord ^^''^•^^•
Keeper of the great Seal of England^ and^'^'
Knighted, i which Office in his time, was i m. 6. ,n
by Aft of Parliament made equal in Au- f'y ^'■'?-
thority with the Chancellours. /• ' • 7- «•
What I have otherwife obierved of this
I R :2 Sir '
X 4 4 TI:ieLord Bacon's
k ly««^/. Sjj. Jslicholas Bacon^ is, k^ that being no
fupr'J'in friend to the Q^een of Scots^ fthenPri-
^/i. 1564. (oner in England^ he was / privy , and
aflenting to what Hales had publifht, in
derogation to her Title, as next and law-
ful Succeflbr to Queen Elizabeth 5 afferting
that of the Houfe of Suffolk^ before it, for
vnn/^/t/. which. Hales differed m Imprifonmcnt,
and had not Cecil ftood his faithful friend,
n fo might he^ nothing being more diftaft-
ful to Queen Elizabeth^ than a difpute up-
on that point. Next, that in 14 Eliz. up-
on thofe Propofils made by the Nobility
of Scotland^ for her enlargement, he op-
op/^/^./ij pofed ^ it, alleadging, f that no fecurity
*^».i 57^» could ballance the danger thereof. Laftly,
That upon his death, which happened in
Aprils ^n, 1579. (21 Eliz.) this Chara-
%. i57p. ^<^r ^ is given of him by the learned Camb-
dcfz^ viz, that he was Vir fr£pi?7giiis^ in-
gevio acerrimo ^ {iiigulari prhdentia^ fumma
eloqnentia^ tenaci memoria^ ^ facris confiliis
alterum colnmen ': Of per fan lery corpulent^ I
tnojl quick. ^Vi^ (i^giilay Prtidence^ admirU"
hie Eicquerjcc'^ fpcciai Memory^ and another
Pillar to the Frivy 'Council.
^, . • . .' , Of his Death, this is faid
* This AccoiiHt IS inferted j. 1 t r rrTT r t
by the pubiifher, who rook ' to be the occahon. ''He had
it ou r of " a Paper of the Loi d ^^ his Barber 7'ifbbing and com^
'^^''"^'' ''binghis Head.And,hecati[e it
" iras*
iBihltographical ^maims 245
^'tvas very hot ^t he Window reus open to let in a
^'^frej}) Wind, He fell ajleep^ and axvaked all
'** dijiemperd^ and in a great Jweat^ Said
^^ he to the Barber^ Why did yoii let me Jleep ^
^^Why^ my hord ^ faid he^ I dttrfi not wake
^^ your Lordjl)7p, . Why then^ faith my Lord
" Keeper^ you have killed me with l^indnefs.
" So he removed into his Bed-Chamber^ and
^^. within a few days died.^
Whereupon , being Interred on the
South-fide of the Quire in St. Faid's Cathe-
dral, within the City of London^ he had a
noble Monument, r there erefted to his ^^'^' ^f
Memory, with this Epitaph; cath^p.yl;
Hie Nicolaum ne Baconem conditum ex-
' ^ ijlima illum^tam din Britannici Regni fe-
cundum cohtmen 5 Exitiitm malis^ Bonis
Afylum 5 t£ca quern non extulit ad hunc
konorem fors 5 fed lEquitas , Fides^
Do&rina^ Pietas , 7mica & Vrndentia.
Neu forte raptum crede^ qui tinica brevi^
vita per enni e merit da 06^ agitvitamfe^
awdam cdclites inter animas, Fama
implet orbem^ vita qu^ illi tertia ejl.
Hac pofitum i?z ara eft Corpus^ dim a.-
nimi Domm ^ Ara dicata^ fempitern^
^lemori£.
R- :^ r That
14^ The Lord "Rzcoti^
r*^*'^ That is, '^ Think not tliat this Shrine
on^donl contains that V^cholts ''Bmov^ who was fo
*J /^^^ \ long the fecdnd Pillar diGhht ^ntainx,
^for thel%i^^ Scourge of the Vicious, and the San-
ntft ofxhe^Qc^2X^ of the Good : Whom blind Fortune
^R^ldll, did- not exalt to that height of Honour*,
but his Equity^ Fidelity, Learning, Pitty,
Angular Prudence. Neither believe hiiii
to be by chance (hatched away, who, by !
one fliort Life, purchafcd two in Life Eter-
nal. He lives his (econd Life among the
Heavenly Spirits. His Fame filleth the
World, which is his third Life. In this Al-
tar is repofed his Body, fometime the Houfe
of his Soul 5 an Altar dedicated to his per-
petual Memory.
Thus much touching the Parentage of
fti:iy^^(5/, this Frartcis -^ his Birth /being at Torkc
^'^\^/' Hdyfe in the Strand^ upon the twenty fe-^
'* cond day of January ^ Anno 1 560. (2 £&.)
It is obferved, t that in his tender Years,
his Pregnancy was fuch, as gave great in-;
dication of his future high AccompHfti-*
ments 5 in fo much, as Queen Elizabeth
took notice of him, and called him The young
Lord-Keeper ^ alfo, that asking him, how
old he was, though but a Boy, he anfwer^
ed, that he was two years younger than her
Mijejlks mojl happy Reign,
AM
(BiM'tographkal %^matns. 247
r As to his Education, he was n of Trimtj " ^^'^.
College, in Cat^bridg, under tlie tuition of
Doftor John Whitgift, then Mafter there,
but afterwards the renowned Arch-Bi(hop
of Canterhtry. Where haying with great
proficiency, fpent fome time, he was fcnt
xinto Frarjce, with S\r Amas Pm/ let, her^.^^^-^^
Majeftie's Leiger Ambaffador, and thence
intruftedwith aMeffage y to the Queen,
which he performed with much approbati-
on 5 and fo returned.
After this, coming from Travail, and
applying himfelf to the ftudy of the Com-
mon Law, he was feated z in Grays J^n. tnu,
-Where in (hort time, he became fo highly
cfteemed for his Abilities, as that in 30
£&. (being then but 28 years of Age)
that honourable Society, chofe a him for a orif,
their Lerjt Reader: And in 32 Ete. was ^;^'j^
29^./^.
made b one of the Clerks of the Coun-b^r.^
cil. ^''•^^^•
In 42 Efo. being c double Reader in ^ or/^.
that Houfe, and affefting much the Orna- ^''•'^^' ^'
ment thereof, he caufed d that beautiful ^ ^'^- ^7*-
Grove of Elms, to be planted in the Walks, '
which yet remain. And upon the 23 of
July, I Jac.\V2^ Knighted e at Whitc^HaU. ^^^^
Shortly after which, "viz, m 2 Jac. he was
made/ one of the King's Council learned, ^^ ^^^ ^
having therewith a grant g of forty Pounds jac. ;. i *
R 4 p^r
H^
k rat, 5
11 i4» Ivfmion hy the P/^^-
^ Libel
many q-
Tl?eLord Bacon^s
per afjmtm Fee^ and in 5 Jac. conftitute<
h his Majeftie s Solicitor General. In 9 Jac.
he was made i joynt Judge with Sir Thomas]
Vavafor^ then Knight Marftial, of theRnightj
Marlhal's Court, then newly erefted with-
\n the Verge of the King's Houfe, and ii
• II 1^^' C^7 OSob,') being made A,Attor-
^ . nev General, was Iworn / of the Privy]
]2c.fer CounciL
Camhd. In 1 4 Jac, he was conftituted ;;/ Lore
r/^i" Keeper of the Great Seal, (7 MartU) bd
ing then fifty four years of Age.
II " It is faid in a
^^ ( in which are
" ther notorious SlandcTs,^
" that the Duke o^ Bucl^f7g'^
" ham^ to vex the very Soi
"of the Lord Chancellour Egcrton^ in hJj
" laft Agony, did (end Sir Fravck T^aco)
" to him for the Seals 5 and likewife thaj
^^ the dying Chancellor;) did hate that *1B^
" con fhould be his Succcflor, and that hi!
"Spirit not brooking thisufige, he feril
" the Seals by his Servant to the King, antl,
" ihortly after, yielded his Soul to his Ma-
" ker. In which few words there are tw
palpable Untruths.
For firft, The King himfclf (ent for th(
Seal, not the Duke of ^'Bychingham : And
he lent for it, not by Sir Frunck * Br/-
cori^
James, f.
Court of
115,11^.
K^n
^ihliographtcal ^mainsl ^49
coK, (a) but by Secretary '^^'/^nTW , W^-^j^
with this Mcffage, that himfelf would be nari£.
his Under-Keeper, and not difpofe of the P- ^7i«
Place of Chancellour while he lived : Nor
did any receive the Seal out of the Ring's
fight, till the Lord Egerton died 5 which
foon fell out.
Next, The Lord Chancellour Egerton
was willing that Mafter Attorney Bacon^
fhould be his Succeflbr 5 and ready to for-
ward his Succeffion : So £ir was he from
conceiving hatred againft him, either upon
that, or any other Account.
The Lord Egertmi was his Friend in the
Queen's time 5 and I find Mr. ^aco?i
making his acknowledgements in a
Letter to him, in thefe words,which I once
tranfcribed fi-om the unpublifh'd Original.
" For my placing , your Lordfhip beft
" knoweth, that when I was moft dejefted
"with her Majcftie's ftrange deahng to-
" wards me, it pleafed you of your fingu-
" lar favour, (b £ir to comfort, and encou-
" rage me, as to hold me worthy to be ex-
"cited, to think of fiicceeding your Lord-
"fhip in your fecond Place: Signifying,
" in your plainneis, that no Mm (hould
" better content your felf Which your
" exceeding favour you have not fince car-
" ried from 3 both in pleading the like fig-
" nifica^
a 5 o The u^rd Bacon s
^ nification into the hands of foaieof my
" beft Friends 5 and alfo in an honourable
^'and anfwerable Commendation of me,
*' to her Majefty. Wherein I hope, your
" Lordfhip (if it pleafe you eall to mind)
"did find me, neither overweening, in
" prefuming too much upon it, nor much
*' deceived in my opinion of the Event, for
" the continuing of it ftill in your felf^ nor
" fleepy in doing fbme good Offices to the
" lame purpoft.
This favour of the Lord Egertons^ which
began fo early, continued to thelaft. And
thus much S\v Francis niacont^ftA^A. in a
Letter to Sir George Villkrs^ of Vv^hich this
O) Re- is a part. (/>) " My Lord Chancellor told
%'^'c/the " me, yefterday, in plain terms, that if the
Collet, of « King would ask his opinion, touching the
Letters, cc perfon that he would commend to fiic-
"eeed him, upon Death, or DifabiHty,
^'- he would name me, for the fitted Man.
*' You may advifc, whetlier ufe may not be
" made of this Offer. And the like ap-
pears by what Mafter Attorney >vrote to
King Jardes^ during the ficknefs of my
Lord Chancellor. Amongft other things,
* Ibid. f. he wrote this to the King. "^ " It pleafed my
^- <•' Lord Chancellor, out of his ancient and
''great Love to me, which many times, in
*' Sicknefs, appeareth moft 5 to admit me
"to
-^^to'a^feat deal of Speech with -him this
'' Afternoon 3 which, during thefe three
/*^Oays, he hath fcarcely done to any.
' In the fame ^ Libel, my Lord Bacon is ^^-^dC
^reproach'd as a very neceflitous Man, and p. u^.
^nc, for that Reafon , made -Keeper by
the Duke, to ferve fuch Turns, as Men of
better Fortunes would never condefcend
.to. And this, alfo^ is a groundlefi and un-
charitable Infmuation. He had now en-
joy 'd, a good while, many profitable
Places, which preferv'd him from Indigence,
though his great Mind did not permit him
to fwell his Purfe by them, to any extraor-
dinary Bignefs. And, in the Queen s time,
when he was in meaner Circumftances, he
did not look upon himfelf as in that eftate
of Neceffity , which tempteth generous
Minds to vile things. Hear himfelf repre-
fenting his Condition^ no Man knew it
better, or could better exprcfs it. Thus
he ftates his Cafe in the aforefaid unpub-
lifti^d Letter to the Lord Chancellor Ega--
tofj^ ofthe whole of which, Ifometimehad
the perulal, though now much of it is loft,
and, as I believe , beyond all recovery.
"My Eftate (faid he) I confefs a truth to
"your Lordfnip, is weak, and Indebted,
" and needeth Comfort. For both my Fa-
,"ther (though, I think, I had greateft
"part
aji T7;eLori Bacons
"^'part in his Love of all his Children)
"in his WifHom ferved me in, as a laft
^' Comer : And my felf^ in mine own Iri-
"duftry, have rather referred, and afpired
^^ to Vertue^ than to Gain 5 whereof I am
" not yet wife enough to repent me. But
" the while, whereas Salomon (peaketh. That
^^Wapt cor^icth firfi as a Wayfaring Man ^ and
^^ after as an ^rn/ed Man 5 I muft acknow-
" ledg my felf to be in primo gradu 5 for it
"ftealeth upon me. But,for the fecond, that
" it (hould not be able to be refifted 5 1 hope
^^m God^ I am not in that cafe. For the
" preventing whereof, as I do depend up-
"on God's Providence all in all 3 fo in the
^•{ame, his Providence I fee, opened unto
*-^ me, three not unlikely expeftations of
' " Help. The one, my Praftice 3 the other,
" fe)me proceeding in the Queen s Service 5
'^ the third, the Place I have in Reverfion,
" which as it ftandcth now unto me, is but
"like another Man's Ground buttalling
'^ upon my Houfe, which may mend my
" Profped, but it doth not fill my Barn.
This Place he meaneth, was the Regi-
fters Office in the Star-Chamber, which fell
to him in the time of King James^ and
was worth about 1600 /. by the Year.
But to return from this Digreffion.
When Sir Francis *^acon was conftituted
Lord-
bibliographical ^mains. 15}
Lord-Keeper , the King admoniftit hira,
thi^t he (hould Seal nothing ralhly 5 as alfo
tliat he (hould Judg uprightly, and not ex-
tend the Royal Prerogative too high. Af-
ter which, viz, upon the fcventh Day of
May^ ( which was the firft Day of Eajier
Term next enfuing ) he made his (blemn
proceeding c to Wefiminjlcr-Hall^ in this c/^/^
order. Firft, The Writing Clerks and in-
feriour Officers belonging to the Court of
Chancery. Next the Students of the Law.
Then the Gentlemen of his own Family.
After them, the Sergeant at Arms, and
bearer of the Great Seal, on foot. Then
himielf on Horfback, in a Gown of Pur-
ple Satin, riding betwixt the Lord-Trea-
(urer, and Lord Privy-Seal. Next divers
Earls , Barons 3 and Privy- Councellors.
Then the Judges of the Court at Wejlmm-
Jier^ whole place in that proceeding, was
affigned after the Privy-Councelloi s. And
when he came into the Court, the Lord-
Treafiirer, and Lord Privy-Seal, gave him
his Oath, the Clerk of the Crown read-
ing it.
Upon the fourth o^Jammry^ 16 J^c. ^^^r^
he was made Lord Chancellor d o(E?2gland, 16 jac in
On the eleventh of July next enfuing, f^l'J'^f
created e Lord VemUm^ and on the ja'c;-.* n;
27th of Jamtary^ 18 J(?r. advanced /to *,^^^^- '^
the ''''^"^'
i ^4 Ihe Lord B^gqp's
the dijgnity of Vicount St, Aihm-^ his fo-
ghv^«»4/. lemn Invefticure^ being then performed at
^^^ll\*i. Tkeobalds'^ his Robe carried before Wm
by the Lord Carew^ and his Coronet by
the Lord Wentveorth. Whereupon he gave
the King ftvenfold thanks 5 h firft, for ma-
king him his Solicitor 5 fecondly, his Attor-
ney 5 tliirdly, one of his Privy Council ^
fourthly, Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal 5
fifthly, Lord-Chancellor 5 fixthly,Baron Ve-
Yulam ^ and laftly, Vicount St, Allan,
But long he enjoyed not that great Of-
fice of Lord-Chancellor : for in Letit^ 18
'jac. Corruption in the exercife thereof
j^^y^jj^ being objefted / againfi: him, (of which
rtd.tnchr, *tis believcd, his Servants were moft guilty,
^Tbl' it ^"^ ^^ himlelf not much acceffory) the
infer ted by Great Seal was taken 4 from him.
Ufhf/^' This Fall / he fore(aw, yet he made no
I Ibid. fhew of that bafe and mean Spirit, ivith
which the Libel before remembred, does
m cturt ^/•unworthily charge him m. The late King,
/O James, of blcffcd Memory (then Prince) made
121,123. ^ ygj.y differing obfervation upon him.
n Aui. " Returning from Hunting, n he efpied a.
ca^u. p, « Coach attended with a goodly Troop of
^^' "Horfemen, who, it feems, were gather-
" ed together to wait upon the Chancelloi*
"to his Hoiife at Gorhaf/^hury^ at the rime
" of his Declenfion. The Prince finiling ,
'' feidi
Ethnographical ^^pnains. x 5 $
^' (aid. Well ! Do we vpkat we catt^ this Man
" fcorns to go an like a Snuff. And he com'-
" mended his undaunted Spirit, and excel:-
" lent Parts, not without fome Regret, that
" fiich a Man (hould be falling off.
It is true, that after the Seal was taken
from him, he became a great example of
Penitence and Submiffion. But it was a
Submiffion which both manifefted his juft
fenfe of his Fault, and the more Venial
Nature of it , as arifing from Negligence,
rather than Avarice and Malice.
He ihewed by it, that there was not in
his Heart that ftiffnefi of Pride, which
openly denies or juftifies thofe Crimes of
which it felf is fecretly convinced; But
it appeared not by any thing, during all
the time of his Eclipfe of Fortune, that
there was any abjeftnefs of Spirit in him.
The many and great Works which he wrote,
fhew a mind in him, not diftrafted with
Anxiety, nor depreffed with Shame, nor
flow for want of Encouragement , nor
broken with Difcontent. Such a Temper is
inconfiftent with fuch noble Thoughts and
Defigns, (uch ftrift Attention, iuch vigour
of Conceit, (uch a Mafculine Style, (uch
quicknefi in Compofition, as appeared in
his learned Labours.
When
.:^ 5 ^ Ihe Lord Bacon's
When the Great Seal was taken from
him, it was committed to the Cuftody of
Hcr/ry Vicount <5llaf7devil^ ( at that time
Prefident of the Council ) and certain o-
ther Lords Commiffioners : And upon the
o/^./.io4. tenth of Julysiitcr^ to o Doftor John Wil-
liams:^ Dean of Wejimwjier^ afterwards Bi-
fhop of Lhicoln.
pLffeof, Towards his rifing years, he married /^
Kawie^ * ■^^^^'^'i one of the Daughters and Co-heirs
to ^e//ed/S "IBaiyzham^ Alderman of Lo?7-
don^ with vvhora he had an ample Portion ,
but by her had no Children, to perpetuate
his Memory, which his learned Works, be-
ing for the moft part compoled in the five
laft years of his Life, will amply fupply,
being then totally retired from all Civil
Affairs, and applying himfelf daily to Con-
templation and' Study 3 the particulars were
cjbid. thefe, q viz.
♦ The Hiftory of the Reign of King Henry
the Seventh.
. „ ^ Ahcedarium Nature \ cr a Metaphyfical piece
- Part of 1 a -k r yj I
it H here norv lojt, ^
Y-ITpuI ^^fi^^^^^ Ventorum.
jlfher. "" " Hijlcria Vjt£ & Mortis.
H '^«;f Bjfioria Denft & T{ari^ not yet Printed. [|
JloL Hijloria Gravis & Levis^ which is alio loft.
^< n, ^«. ji Difccnrfe of a War nith Spain.
(Bibliographical ^mams* iJ7
A Dialogue tonchwg an Holy Way,
The Fable of the New Atlantis.
A Preface to a Digeji of the Laws c/ England.
The beginning of the Hi^ory of the Reign of
: King Henry the Eighth,
^ De Angmentis Scientiarum 5 or the Ad-
vancement of Teaming , pit into Latine^
vpith. fever at Enrichments and Enlarge-^
ments.
^ Councils Civil and Moral ^ Or his Tiool^
of Ejfays^ likewife enriched and enlarged,
if The Converfion of certain PCilms i7ito
^ Englif) Verje,
The Tranflation of the Hiffory of King Henry
the Seventh^ into Latine 5 as alfo of the
Councils^ Civil and Moral^ and Dialoguk
of the Holy War.
^ Bis Book de Sapientia Vetcrum^ revifed.
^ Inqiii(ltio de MagnetCl
^ Topica Inqiiifitionis > Not Printed. "^ » ' j-^^^
de Luce d^ Lttmine, J . ^7T^te
^ Sylva Sylvarum^ or his Natural Hijiory, ^'ooiide -
Denfo &
. He departed r this Life, upon the ninth f^^3*
day o( Aprily 1626^ (being Eajler-Day^nbid,
in the fixty fixth year of his Age, at the
Earl of Arundel's Houfe in High-Gdte^ near
London^ to which place he cafually repair-
ed about a Week before 5 and wag Buried . ,, >
f in the North-fide of the Chancel in St. i^hUi
S M/chaefs
258 The Lord Bacon's
f^ickaeh Church at St. Albans^ according
to the appointment by his laft Will and
t ibti Teftament 5 becaufe t the Body of his Mo-
ther lay there Interred, it being the only
Church remaining within the Precinft of
Old Verulam^ where he hath a Monument
of White Marble, reprelenting his full Bo-
dy in a contemplative pofture, fitting in a
Chairs erected by Sir Thomas Meantjis^
Knight, formerly his Secretary, but after-
wards Clerk of the Council to King James^
and King Char let the Firft. On which is
this following Epitaph, Compofed by the
Learned Sir rle^ny Wottof7^ Knight.
Francifcus Bacon^ HBaro de Vernlam^ S, Al-
bar?! Vicecomes : Seu^ TWtiorihus tittiUs '
Sckntiamm Ltimen^ facundi£ Lex^ jic fede-
bat.
^//, fosiquam omnm Naturalis fapienti^^ &
Civtlis Arcafia evohijjet , Natur£ decrC"
turn explcz'it. Cowpofita folvarjtury Anno.
Dom. UDC^y^^V lEtatis Lxvi.
Ta77ti viri jmnwris Thomas Meautus fiiper^
{litis ciiliGT 3 dcfimCii Admirator.
H. R
That
That is, Francis Bacof/^ Baron of Ven^- * This is
lam^ Vicount of St. Album : Or in more f f^^f !
•> . T^,. , t ton of the
COnlpiCUOUS lltieS5 Vi*yi']ber:.
The Light of the Sciences, the Law of Elo-
quence, (ate on this manner.
Who, after he had unfolded all the Myfte-
ries of Natural and Civil Wifdom , o-
beyed the Decree of Nature.
Let the Comfa?noris he parted ||, in the Year i| i, e. 5'c»f
of our Lord 16263 and the fixty fixth '^'''^ ^^"^^^
year of his Age.
Thomas Meautys , a Reverencer of him
whilft Alive , and an Admirer of him
now Dead, hath fet up tlfis to the Me-
mory of fo great a Man.
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CHARACTERS
OF THE
Lord Bacon.
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Printed for R. C. at the Rofe and Crpwq
in St. Void's Church-yard, 1679.
S3
A
CH ARAC TER
OF THE
Lord Bacon,
Given by Dr. Teter Heylin^
in his Life of Arch-Bifliop Latui^
Tart I. Tag. 64. Jnno 1620.
THe Lord Chancellor Baco77^ was a
Man of a moll: ftrong Brain,
and a Chymical Head ^ dcligning
his Endeavours to the perfefting of the
Works of Nature 5 or rather improving Na-
ture to the beft Advantages of Life, and
the comm.on Benefit of Mankind. Pity it
was, he was not entertain'd with fome libe-
ral SaLiry, abftrafted from all Affiiirs both
of Court and Judicature , and furnifhed
with Sufficiency, both of Means and Hclps\
S 4 for^
i I
264 Qhdr alters of
for the going on in his Defign : Which had
it been, he might have given us iiich a
body of Natural Philofophy^ and made it (b
fubdrvient to the Pubhck Good, that nei-
ther Arijiotle^ nor Thcophrajlf^^ amongft the
Ancients 5 nor Paracelfus , or the reft of
our latter Chymifts, would have been con-'
(iderable.
^ Qharacler of the Lord Bacon, giveri
' hy Vr, Sprat, in his Hiftory of the
Royal Society, Tart i. Seci. \6.
%. 35/36.
_ « rjpHe Third fort of New Pkilofi-
X ^^phers have been thofe, who
^'' have not only difagreed from the Amients^
^^ but have alfo proposed to themfelves the
^■^ right Courfe of flow and fure Experj-
"^^mentwg: And have profecuted it as far
'^ as the fhortnefi of their own Lives, or the
" multiplicity of their other Affairs, or the
^' harrowncis of their Fortunes, have gi-
" ven them leave. Such as thefe, we are
" to expect to be but ' few : For they muft
^Meveft themftlves of m.any vain Concep-
^' lions, and overcome a thoufand falfe
-• '- " Images,
the Lord^zcon. 26y
f^ Images, which lie like Monfters in theijT
" way, before they can get as far this. And
^'of thefe, I fhall only mention one Great
'^ Man, who had the true Imagination of
" the whole extent of this Enterprize^ as
" it is now (et on foot 5 and that is, the
" Lord BacotT. In whofe Books there are,
"every where fcattered, the beft Argu-
" ments that can be produced for the de-
"fence of Experimental Phihfiphji :, and
" the beft direftions that are needful to
" promote it. All which he has, already
" adorned with (b niuch Art 5 that if my
" defires could have prevailed with fome
" excellent Friends of mine, who engag'd
" me to this Work, there (hould have*^been
"no other Preface to the Hijlory of the Royal
^^ Society^ but (bme o( his Writings. But,
'*^ methinks, in this one Man, I do at once
'*^find enough occafion, to admire the
''ftrengthof Humane Wit, and to bewail
'' the weaknefs of a Mortal Condition. For,
'' is it not Wonderful, that he, who had
" run through all the degrees of that Pro-
^^fejfwn^ which ufually takes up Mens whole
^'^ times who had Studied, and Praftifed,
"and Governed the Common Law: Who
" had always liv'd in the Crowd, and born
"the greateft burden of Civil Bufinefi^
^5 Should yet find leifure enough for thefe
''retird
l66 CharaSlers of
"retird Studies, to excel all thofe Men,
" who (eparate themfelves for this very pur-
" pofe ? He was a Man of ftrong, clear,
"and powerful Imaginations: His Qemus
^^ was fearching, and inimitable: And of
" this I need give no other Proof, than his
^' Style it felr 5 which as, for tlie moil: part,
^' it defcribes Men's minds, as well as Pi-
^* (Sures do their Bodies : So it did i?;>,
" above all Men living. The Courfe of it
" Vigorous, and Majeftical: The Wit bold
^^ and familiar : The Comparifons fetched out
"of the way, and yet the moft eafie: In
^^ all, expreiling a Soul equally skiird in
"Afo, and Nature, All this, and much
more, is true of him : But yet his Philofo-
phkal Works do fhew, that a fingle and
bufie Hand, can never grafp all this whole
Delign 5 of which we treat. His 7^///ej
were admirable : Yet his Hijlory not fb
faithful as might have been wifh'd in many
places : He fecms rather to take all that comcs^
than to choofe^ and to heap rather than
to regijier. But I hope this Accufation of
mine, can be no great injury to his Memo-
ry 5 feeing, at the fame time, that I fiiy he
had not the ftrength of a thoufarid Mcn^ I
do alfb allow him to have had as much as
Twe7it)\
A
the Lor^ Bacon. 16/
A CharaEler of the Lord Bacon'y Phi-
lofophy, by Mr. Abraham Cow-
ley, in his Poem to the Royal So-
ciety.
: — QOme few exalted Spirits this latter
j3 Age has fhov/n,
That laboured to aflert the Liberty
(From Guardians, who were now Ufiir-
pers Grown )
Of this Old Minor -^ ftill, Captiv'd Phi- * Herbert
lofophy 5 r tr
But 'twas Rebellion caird, to Fight ft ^. rati-
For fuch a long oppreffed Right. ^;- -^
Bacon at laft, a mighty Man, aroie, rum.fuh'
Whom a Wife King and Nature chofe V,^^''''
Lord-Chancellor of both their Laws, veg^nu-
And boldly undertook the injur d Pupils «^*^'^,
Cauie.
3-
Authority, which did a Body bonft,
Though 'twas but Air condensed and ftalk'd
about,
Like fome old Giant's more Gigantic Ghoft,
To terrifie the learned Rout
With
fAfer'
i68 ' CharaBers of
With the plain Magic of true Reafbns llght^
He chac'd out of our fight,
Nor fufFer d Living Men to be milled
By the vain fhadows of the Dead :
To Graves, from whence it rofe, the coa-
quer'4 Phantom fled ^
He broke that Monftrous God, v^hich
ftood
In midft of th' Orchard, and the u^hole did
claim,
Which with a ufelefi Sithe of Wood,
And fbmething elfe not worth a Name,
( Both vaft for (hew, yet neither fit
Or to defend, or to beget 5
Ridiculous and fenflefs Terror! ) made
Children and fuperftitious Men afraid.
The Orchards open now, and free ,
"^acon has broke that Scar-crow Deities
Come, enter, all that will.
Behold the rip ned Fruit, come gather now
your fill.
Yetftill, methinks, we fain would be
Catching at the forbidden Tree,
' We would be like the Deitie 3
When Truth and Falftiood, Good and Evil
we.
Without' the Senfes aid within our felves
would fee :
For 'tis God only who can find
A!l Nature in his Mind.
4, FrQmi
the Lord Baeoni 1 6^
From Words, which are but Pidures of
the Thought,
( Though we our Thoughts from them per-
verfly drew )
To Things, the Minds right Objeft, he it
brought,
Like fbolifh Birds to painted Grapes we
flew 5
He fought and gathered for our ufe the true 5
And when, on heaps, the chofen Bunches
lay.
He preft them wifely the Mechanic way.
Till all their Juice did, in one Veffel joyn.
Ferment into a nourifhment Divine,
The thirfty Soul's refrefhing Wine.
Who to the Life an exaft Piece would make,
Muft not from others Work a Copy take^
No, not from Reitbens^ or Vandike ^
Much lefi content himfelf to make it like
Th' Ideas, and the Images which lie
In his own Fancy, or his Memory.
No, He, before his fight, muft place
The natural and living Face 5
The real Objed muft command
Each judgment of his Eye, and motion of
his Hand,
5. From
170 CharaBers of, &c.
Fromthefc, and all long Errors of the way.
In which our wandringPrcdeceflbrs went,
And like th' old Hebrews many years did
ftray
In Defcrts but of (mall extent.
Bacon ^ like Mofes^ led us forth at laft.
The barren Wildernefs he pafV,
Did on the very Border ftand
Of the bleft promised Land,
And, from the Mountains top of his exal-
ted Wit,
Saw it himfelf, and (liew'd us it.
But Life did never to one Man allow
Time to difcover Worlds, and conquer too 5
Nor can fo ftiort a Line (ufficient be
To fadom the vaft depths of Nature's Sea.
The work he did we ought t' admire,
And were unjuft if we (hould more require
From his few years, divided 'twixt th'excefs
Of low Affli<5i:ion, and high Happinefs:
For who on things remote can fix his fight.
That's always in a Triumph^ or a Fight ?
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