CXC LIFE OF BACON. 



First, to contain the jurisdiction of the court within its 

 true and due limits, without swelling or excess. Secondly, 

 not to put the great seal to letters patent as a matter of 

 course to follow after precedent warrants. Thirdly, to 

 retrench all unnecessary delays, that the subject might 

 find that he did enjoy the same remedy against the fainting 

 of the soul and the consumption of the estate, which was 

 speedy justice. &quot; Bis dat, qui cito dat.&quot; Fourthly, that 

 justice might pass with as easy charge as might be; and 

 that those same brambles, that grow about justice, of need 

 less charge and expense, and all manner of exactions, 

 might be rooted out so far as might be. (b) 



Thus was Francis Bacon, then in the fifty-seventh year 

 of his age, created Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of 

 England. 



In the joy of recent possession he instantly wrote to his 

 friend and patron, the Earl of Buckingham, with a pen 

 overflowing with the expression of his gratitude. 



My dearest Lord, It is both in cares and kindness, 

 that small ones float up to the tongue, and great ones sink 

 down into the heart in silence. Therefore I could speak 

 little to your lordship to-day, neither had I fit time. But 

 I must profess thus much, that in this day s work you are 

 the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and 

 generous friendship that ever was in court. And I shall 

 count every day lost, wherein I shall not either study your 

 welldoing in thought, or do your name honour in speech, 

 or perform you service in deed. Good my Lord, account 

 and accept me your most bounden and devoted friend and 

 servant of all men living, FR. BACON, C. S. 



March 7, 1616-17. 



(/&amp;gt;) Sec note E E E at the end. 



