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1627, to Sir Robert Rich and Mr. Thomas Meautys, 

 two of the creditors ; and that then, or not long 

 after, they were placed in the hands of Mr. Bosvile. 

 This Mr. Bosvile, better known as Sir William Bos- 

 well, was sent, soon after Bacon s death, to the Hague ; 

 where he resided for several years as agent with the 

 States of the United Provinces. He was knighted on 

 the 18th of May, 1633, and died I believe in 1647. 

 Whether all Bacon s remaining manuscripts were sent 

 to him, or only a portion of them, is not known. 

 What we know is that, among those which were sent, 

 there were many philosophical pieces written in Latin ; 

 that he consulted Isaac Gruter about them ; and that 

 the result was a 12mo volume printed by Elzevir at 

 Amsterdam in the year 1653, entitled Francisci Baconi 

 de Verulamio Scripta in Naturali et Universali Philo- 

 sopliid, and containing these pieces following : 



1. A Prayer, headed Temporis Partus Masculus, sive 



Instauratio magna imperil humani in universum. 

 The same in substance, and almost the same in 

 expression, as the prayer which is introduced 

 towards the end of the Preface to the Instauratio 

 (Vol. I. p. 208.) : placed here by itself on the 

 blank side of the title-leaf, as if it were a motto 

 to the volume an office for which the heading 

 makes it altogether inappropriate. 



2. Oogitata et Visa; to which is added a Latin trans 



lation of Sir Thomas Bodley s letter to Bacon 

 concerning that work. (p. 62.) 



3. Descriptio G-lobi Intellectualis. (p. 75.) 



4. Thema Oceli. (p. 154.) 



