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and the kindness he experienced was not lost upon him. 

 He assisted in their festivities; he beautified their spacious 

 garden, and raised an elegant structure, known for many 

 years after his death, as &quot; The Lord Bacon s Lodgings,&quot; in 

 which at intervals he resided till his death, (b) 



When he was only twenty-six years of age, he was 1586. 

 promoted to the bench ; (c) in his twenty-eighth year he ^ 26&amp;lt; 

 was elected lent reader ; (d) and the 42nd of Elizabeth he 

 was appointed double reader. 



His agreeable occupations, and extensive views of science, 

 during his residence in Gray s Inn, did not check his 

 professional exertions. In the year 1586, he applied to 

 the lord treasurer to be called within the bar; (a) and in 



(b) See note T at the end. 



(f) See note V at the end. 



(rf) Dugdale, in his account of Bacon, says, in 30th Elizabeth, (being 

 then but twenty-eight years of age) the honorable society of Gray s Inn 

 chose him for their lent reader. Orig. p. 295. 



(a) In the time of Lord Bacon there was a distinction between outer and 

 inner barristers. By the following letter in 1586, it will appear that he 

 applied to the lord treasurer that he might be called within bars. 



To the Right Honorable the Lord Treasurer.* 

 , My very good Lord, 



I take it as an undoubted sign of your lordship s favour unto me that, 

 being hardly informed of me, you took occasion rather of good advice than 

 of evil opinion thereby. And if your lordship had grounded only upon the 

 said information of theirs, I might and would truly have upholden that few 

 of the matters were justly objected ; as the very circumstances do induce, 

 in that they were delivered by men that did misaffect me, and, besides, were 

 to give colour to their own doings. But because your lordship did mingle 

 therewith both a late motion of mine own, and somewhat which you had 

 otherwise heard, I know it to be my duty (and so do I stand affected,) 

 rather to prove your lordship s admonition effectual in my doings hereafter, 

 than causeless by excusing what is past. And yet (with your lordship s 

 pardon humbly asked) it may please you to remember, that I did endeavour 

 to set forth that said motion in such sort as it might breed no harder effect 

 than a denial. And I protest simply before God, that I sought therein an 



* Lands. MS. li. art. 5. Orig. 



