g INTRODUCTION. 



Queen, after delay and hesitation, gave it, in November, 

 1595, to Serjeant Fleming. The Earl of Essex con- 

 soled his friend by giving him &quot; a piece of land &quot; 

 Twickenham Park which Bacon afterwards sold for 

 ], 800 equal, say, to 12,000 in present buying power. 

 In 1597 Bacon was returned to Parliament as member 

 for Ipswich, and in that year he was hoping to marry the 

 rich widow of Sir William Hatton, Essex helping; but 

 the lady married, in the next year, Sir Edward Coke. It 

 was in 1597 that Bacon published the First Edition of 

 his Essays. That was a little book containing only ten 

 essays in English, with twelve &quot; Meditationes Sacrse,&quot; 

 which were essays in Latin on religious subjects. 

 From 1597 onward to the end of his life, Bacon s 

 Essays were subject to continuous addition and 

 revision. The author s Second Edition, in which the 

 number of the Essays was increased from ten to thirty- 

 eight, did not appear until November or December, 

 1612, seven years later than these two books on the 

 t( Advancement of Learning ; &quot; and the final edition 

 of the Essays, in which their number was increased 

 from thirty-eight to fifty-eight, appeared only in 1625 ; 

 and Bacon died on the 9th of April, 1626. The edition 

 of the Essays published in 1597, under Elizabeth, 

 marked only the beginning of a course of thought 

 that afterwards flowed in one stream with his teachings 

 in philosophy. 



In Febraary, 1601, there was the rebellion of Essex. 

 Francis Bacon had separated himself from his patron 

 after giving him advice that was disregarded. Bacon, 

 now Queen s Counsel, not only appeared against 14s 



