CALENDAR 

 OF THE LIFE AND WORKS 



OF 



FRANCIS BACONS 



1560-1. Jan. 22. Born at York 



House. 

 I 573- April 5. Went up to Trinity 



College, Cambridge. 

 June 10. Matriculated. 

 1576. June 27. Entered at Gray s 



Inn. 

 Nov. 21. Admitted of the 



grand company of that 



society. 

 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 



Par his 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). 



Nov. 17. Discourses in praise 

 of Knowledge and of the 

 Queen (1734). 



Observations on a Libel (1657). 

 -3. Feb. 19. Sat as member for 



Middlesex. 



-4. Jan. 25. First appearance 

 as a pieader in court. 



A true Report of Dr. Lopez hh 

 Treason (1657). 



July 27. Made M.A. at Cam 

 bridge. 



Nov. 17. Contributions to the 

 Device presented by Essex 

 to the Queen : printed by 

 Mr. Spedding (1861). 

 -6. Formularies and Elegancies 

 (1859). 



Made Queen s Counsel Extra 

 ordinary. 



First edition of the Essays. 

 Colours of Good and Evil. 

 Meditationes Sacrce. 

 Maxims of the Law (1630). 



J 593- 

 1594- 



1595- 

 595 

 1597- 



* In the list of his Works I have not included his speeches in Parliament 01 

 nis 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. 



