11 LIFE OF BACON. 



opinion then very prevalent,^) that women were as capable 

 of learning as men, carefully instructed his daughters every 

 evening, in the lessons which he had taught the King 

 during the day; and amply were his labors rewarded; for 

 he lived to see all his daughters happily married ; and 

 Lady Anne distinguished, not only for her conjugal and 

 maternal virtues, but renowned (a) as an excellent scholar, 

 and the translator, from the Italian, of various sermons 

 of Ochinus, a learned divine ; and, from the Latin, of 

 Bishop Jewel s Apologia, recommended by Archbishop 

 Parker for general use. (b) 



It was his good fortune not only to be born of such parents, 

 but also at that happy time &quot; when learning (c) had made 

 her third circuit; when the art of printing gave books with 

 a liberal hand to men of all fortunes ; when the nation 

 had emerged from the dark superstitions of popery ; when 

 peace, throughout all Europe, permitted the enjoyment of 

 foreign travel and free ingress to foreign scholars ; and, 

 above all. when a Sovereign of the highest intellectual 



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attainments, at the same time that she encouraged learning 

 and learned men, gave an impulse to the arts, and a 

 chivalric and refined tone to the manners of the people. 



(c) See note E at the end. 



(a) She translated from the Italian fourteen sermons concerning the pre 

 destination and election of God, without date, 8vo. See Watt s Bibliotheca 

 Britannica. Title, Ochinus and Anne Cooke. N.B. There is a publica 

 tion entitled, &quot; Sermons to the number of twenty-five, concerning the Pre 

 destination.&quot; London: Printed by J. Day, without date, 8vo. Query, 

 If by Lady Bacon. 



(&) Ochinus Barnardin, an Italian monk of extraordinary merit, born at 

 Sienna 1487. Died 1594. Watts (S.A.) Jewel s Apologia translated by 

 Anne Bacon 1600, 1606, 1609, Fol. 1626, 12mo. 1685, 1719, 8vo. See 

 Watts Tit. &quot; Jewel.&quot; 



(c) See Bacon s beautiful conclusion of Civil Knowledge in the advance 

 ment of learning, which is in vol. 2. page 297 of this edition. 



