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to the end, that if your lordship do see nothing to the con 

 trary, you may assure him more, or trust him less; and 

 chiefly, that your lordship be pleased to sound again, whe 

 ther they have not, amongst them, drawn out the nail, 

 which your lordship had driven in for the negative of the 

 Huddler ; which, if they have, it will be necessary for your 

 lordship to iterate more forcibly your former reasons, where 

 of there is such copia, as I think you may use all the places 

 of logic against his placing. 



Thus, with my humble thanks for your lordship s honour 

 able usage of Mr. Standen, I wish you all honour. 

 Your Lordship s, in most faithful duty, 



Nov. 10, 1593. FR. BACON. 



I pray, Sir, let not my jargon privilege my letter from 

 burning ; because it is not such, but the light showeth 

 through. 



Earl of Essex to Mr. Francis Bacon.* 



Sir, 



I have received your letter, and since I have had oppor 

 tunity to deal freely with the Queen. I have dealt confi 

 dently with her as a matter, wherein I did more labour to 

 overcome her delays, than that I did fear her denial. I 

 told her how much you were thrown down with the correc 

 tion she had already given you, that she might in that point 

 hold herself already satisfied. And because I found, that 

 Tanneldf had been most propounded to her, I did most 

 disable him. I find the Queen very reserved, staying her 

 self upon giving any kind of hope, yet not passionate against 

 you, till I grew passionate for you. Then she said, that 

 none thought you fit for the place but my Lord Treasurer 

 and myself. Marry, the others must some of them say be 

 fore us for fear or for flattery. I told her, the most and 

 wisest of her council had delivered their opinions, and pre 

 ferred you before all men for that place. And if it would 

 please her majesty to think, that whatsoever they said con 

 trary to their own words when they spake without witness, 

 might be as factiously spoken, as the other way flatteringly, 

 she would not be deceived. Yet if they had been never for 

 you, but contrarily against you, I thought my credit, joined 



* Among the papers of Antony Bacon, Esq. vol. iv. fol. 90, in the Lambeth 

 Library. 



t Probably Laurence Tanfield, made Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 

 June, 1607. 



