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APPENDIX. 



EXTEACTS FROM BaCOn's ' COMlilEJrrAEroS SOLTJTTJS ' EELATING TO 



GOEHAMBTJEY. 



Francis Bacon seems occasionally to have jotted down in a note- 

 book, for his own use only, memoranda relating to various matters 

 ■which he wished to have in remembrance. Such notes as he 

 ceased to have further use for he struck out, copying the rest into 

 a new book, and destroying the old one. One of the note-books, 

 which he calls ' Comentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla 

 memoricB,'' has been preserved, probably because it contains the 

 heads of an enquiry concerning motion. Its contents have 

 been printed verlatim et literatim by Mr. Spedding, in his 

 * Letters and Life of Francis Bacon ' (vol. iv, pp. 39-95), from 

 the original MS., now in the British Museum. The following 

 extracts, copied on the 28th of July, 1608, from an older book, 

 relate to the Gorhambury estate : — 



Teajstspoetata ex comentaeio veteee. 



To give directions of a plott to be made to turn y® pond yard into a 

 place of pleasure, and to speak of them to my L. of Salsbury. 



The grownd to be inclosed square w^^ a bricke wall, and frute 

 trees plashed upon it ; on the owt side of it to sett fayre straite 

 byrches on 2 sides and lyme trees on 2 sides, some x foote distante 

 from the wall, so that the wall may hide most of the shaft of the 

 tree and onely the tufts appear above. 



From y^ wall to have a waulk of some 25 foote on a higher levell. 



Under that waulke some 4 foote to have a fyne littell stream rune 

 upon gravell, and fyne peppoll to be putt into y^ bottome, of a 

 yard an half over, w''^ shall make the whole residue of the 

 grownd an Hand ; the banque to be turfed and kept cutt ; the 

 banq I mean of the ascent to y" upper waulk : no hedg hear but 

 some fyne standerds well kept. 



Within that stream upon a lower levell to make another waulk of 

 25 foote, the border to be sett w*^^ flagges of all sortes of flower 

 de Luces and lylyes. 



All the grownd within this waulk to be cast into a laque, w'^ 

 a fayre raile w*^^ Images gilt rownd about it, and some low 

 flowres specially violetts and strawbcries along qu. 



Then a fayre hedg of Tymber woorke till it towch the water, w^^ 

 some glasses colored hear and there for the ey. 



In ye Middle of the laque where the howse now stands to make an 

 Hand of 100 broad ; An in the Middle thereof to build a howse 

 for freshnes with an upper galery open upon the water, a tarace 



