v LIFE OF BACON. 



Essex had scarcely been liberated, when the Apology 

 was reprinted by some injudicious partisan. The Queen, 

 greatly exasperated, ordered two of the printers to be im 

 prisoned, and meditated proceedings against Essex; but 

 he having written to the Archbishop of Canterbury and 

 various of his friends, and having ordered the publishers 

 to suppress the work, the storm was averted. (/) The spirit 

 in which the republication of this tract originated extended 

 to the circulation of other libels, (m) so reflecting upon the 

 conduct of the Queen, that she said the subject should be 

 publicly examined ; and, acknowledging the foresight of 

 Bacon with respect to the former inquiry, she consulted 

 him as to the expediency of proceeding by information. 

 Public Against this or any proceeding Bacon earnestly pro- 



a F abs? ing testec * J an d&amp;gt; although the honest expression of his senti- 

 Essex. ments so much offended the Queen that she rose from him 

 in displeasure, it had the effect of suspending her determi 

 nation for some weeks, though she ultimately ordered that 

 Essex should be accused in the Star Chamber. 



The following is Bacon s account of this resolution: 

 &quot; After this, during the while since my lord was committed 

 to my Lord Keeper s, 1 came divers times to the Queen, as 

 I had used to do, about causes of her revenue and law busi 

 ness : when the Queen at any time asked mine opinion of 

 my lord s case, I ever in one tenor, besought her majesty 

 to be advised again and again, how she brought the cause 

 into any public question : nay, I went further, for I told 

 her my lord was an eloquent and well spoken man, and 

 besides his eloquence of nature or art, he had an eloquence 

 of accident which passed them both, which was the pity 

 and benevolence of his hearers; and therefore wished the 

 conclusion might be, that they might wrap it up privately 



(/) Sydney Papers, vol. ii. 182-5-7, 191-2-3. 

 (m) Sydney Papers, vol. ii. 196 to 199. 



