PREFACE. 1) 



James : () &amp;lt; I wish that as I am the first, so I may 

 be the last of sacrifices in your times : and when, 

 from private appetite, it is resolved that a creature 

 shall be sacrificed, it is easy to pick up sticks enough 

 from any thicket whither it hath strayed, to make a 

 fire to offer it with.&quot; 



Dr. Rawley,(/&amp;gt;) did not, as it seems, think it proper 

 -to be more explicit, because he judged &quot; some papers 

 touching matters of estate, to tread too near to the 

 heels of truth and to the times of the persons con 

 cerned.&quot; 



Having read this intimation in the Baconiana, 1 

 procured, with some difficulty, a copy of the tract 

 that contains the words to which Archbishop Tennison 

 alludes. It is Bushel s Abridgment of the Lord 

 Chancellor s philosophical theory, (c) This work, 

 written by Bushel more than forty years after his 

 master s death, abounding with constant expressions 

 of affection and respect, states that, during a recess 

 of parliament, the King sent for the Chancellor, and 

 ordered him not to resist the charges, as resistance 

 would be injurious to the King and to Buckingham, (d) 

 Upon examining the journals of the House of Lords, 

 I found that this interview between the King and 

 the Chancellor was recorded. 



Having made this progress, I was informed that 

 there were many of Lord Bacon s letters in the 



(a) See Mr. Bushel s extract, p. 19. 

 (6) Baconiana, page 81. 



(c) See note G G G. 



(d) See page cccxliv, 



