CALENDAR 
OF THE LIFE AND WORKS 
OF 
FRANCIS BACON! 
1560-1. Jan. 22. Born at York 
House. 
1573. Aprils. Went up to Trinity 
College, Cambridge. 
» June to. Matriculated. 
1576. June 27. Entered at Gray’s 
Inn. 
» Nov. 21. Admitted of the 
grand company of that 
society. 
s, Went to Paris with Sir Amias 
Paulet. 
1578-9. Feb. 22. Death of his fa- 
ther, Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
1582. June 27. Admitted as utter 
barrister. 
», About this time wrote Temporis 
Partus Maximus. 
1584. Nov. 23. Sat in parliament as 
member for Melcombe Regis. 
1586. Oct. 29. Member for Taunton. 
1588. Lent term. Elected Reader at 
Gray’s Inn. 
» Nov. Member for Liverpool. 
1589. Oct. 29. Reversion of the 
Clerkship of the Star-Cham- 
ber granted to him. 
1589. An Advertisement touching the 
Controversies of the Church 
of England (1640). ' 
+1592. Nov. 17. Discourses in praise 
of Knowledge and of the 
Queen (1734). 
» Observations on a Libel (1657). 
1592-3. Feb. I9. Sat as member for 
Middlesex. 
1593-4. Jan. 25. . First appearance 
as a pleader in court. 
1594. A true Report of Dr. Lopez his 
Treason (1657). 
» July 27. Made M.A. at Cam- 
bridge. 
1595. Nov. 17. Contributions to the 
Device presented by Essex 
to the Queen: printed by 
Mr. Spedding (1861). 
1595-6. Formularies and Elegancies 
(1859). 
+1596. Made Queen’s Counsel Extra- 
ordinary. 
1597. First edition of the Essays. 
Colours of Good and Evil. 
Meditationes Sacra, 
Maxims of the Law (1630). 
f In the list of his Works I have not included his speeches in Parliament or 
his arguments in law. The date of composition when it could be ascertained 
is given; the date of publication, when different from that of composition, is 
included within parentheses. 
Probable dates are indicated by a dagger >. 
Those pieces of which the date is altogether uncertain are placed at the end. 
