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discomfort is mine, who nevertheless have the private com 

 fort, that in the time I have been made acquainted with 

 this service, it hath been my hap to stumble upon some 

 what unseen, which may import the same, as I made my 

 Lord Keeper acquainted before my going. So leaving it 

 to God to make a good end of a hard beginning, and most 

 humbly craving ly our majesty s pardon for presuming to 

 trouble you, I recommend your sacred majesty to God s 

 tenderest preservation. 



Your sacred Majesty s, 

 in most humble obedience and devotion, 



From Huntingdon, Fit. BACON. 



this 20th of July, 1594. 



Mr. Francis Bacon to his Brother Antony.* 



My good Brother, 



One day draweth on another ; and I am well pleased in 

 my being here; for methinks solitariness collecteth the 

 mind, as shutting the eyes doth the sight. I pray you, 

 therefore, advertise me what you find, by my Lord of Essex 

 (who, I am sure, hath been with you), was done last Sun 

 day ; and what he conceiveth of the matter. 1 hold in one 

 secret, and therefore you may trust your servant. I would 

 be glad to receive my parsonage rent as soon as it cometh. 

 So leave I you to God s good preservation. 



Your ever loving Brother, 



From Twickenham Park, pj^ BACON. 



this Tuesday morning, 1594. 



Indorsed 16 Oct. 1594. 



Earl of Essex to Mr. Francis Bacon.f 

 Sir, 



I will be to-morrow night at London. I purpose to hear 

 your argument the next day. I pray you send me word by 

 this bearer of the hour and place where it is. Of your own 

 cause I shall give better account when I see you, than I 

 can do now ; for that which will be done, will be this after 

 noon or to-morrow. 



I am fast unto you, as you can be to yourself, 



ESSEX. 

 Indorsed 23 Oct. 1594. 



* Among the papers of Antony Bacon, Esq. vol. iv. fol. 197, in the Lambeth 

 Library. 



t Ibid. fol. 195. 



