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CONTENTS. 



Returns to Twickenham. Invents barometer and other 

 instruments. Resumes his professional labours. Em 

 ployed by the Queen. Effort to secure a vacancy. M. A. 

 of Cambridge. Work on Elements of the law. Essex 

 appointed to command in Spain. The Essays. Sacred 

 Meditations. Colours of Good and Evil. Proposal of 

 marriage to Lady Hatton. Reading on Statute of Uses. 

 Essex solicits command in Ireland. Interruption of inti 

 macy between Bacon and Essex. Bacon dissuades 

 Essex from accepting the command. Essex appointed 

 Lord Lieutenant. His rash conduct. Intercession by 

 Bacon with the Queen. Return of Essex. His impri 

 sonment. Bacon s friendship. Private investigation in 

 Star Chamber. Bacon s objection to this. Apology for 

 Essex. Public proceeding against Essex. Bacon coun 

 sel against Essex. Reasons for this. Trial of Essex. 

 His application to the Queen after the trial. Obloquy 

 of Bacon. Imprudent conduct of partizans of Essex. 

 Bacon s exertions with the Queen for Essex. Writes 

 letters for him. Impropriety of this. Essex liberated. 

 Monopoly of Sweet Wines. Essex s violence. Bacon s 

 interview with the Queen. Treason of Essex. Bacon s 

 difficult situation. Trial of Essex. His Execution. 

 Account of his treason. Death of the Queen. Bacon s 

 praise of the Queen. 



II. 



FROM THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH TO THE 

 DEATH OF BACON. 



Chapter i. 



From the accession of James till the publica 

 tion of the Wisdom of the Ancients . . . xcviii 



Bacon s prospects. Approach of the King. Parliament. 

 Visit to Eton. Letter to Saville, Education. Great- 



