CCX1V 



LIFE OF BACON. 



His 



address. 



Jurisdic 

 tion. 



Patents. 



Upon the Lord Keeper s entrance, he in the presence 

 of so many honourable witnesses, (a) addressed the bar, 

 stating the nature of the charge which had been given to 

 him by the King, when he was entrusted with the great 

 seal, and the modes by which, under the protection of 

 God, it was his intention to obey what he was pleased to 

 call his majesty s righteous commandments. 



With respect to the excess of jurisdiction, or tumour of 

 the court, which was the first admonition, the Lord Keeper 

 dilated upon all the causes of excess, and concluded with 

 an assurance of his temperate use of authority, and his 

 conviction that the health of a court as well as of a body 

 consisted in temperance. 



With respect to the cautious sealing of patents, which 

 was the second admonition, the Lord Keeper having stated 

 six principal cases in which this caution was peculiarly 

 requisite, and to which he declared that his attention 

 should be directed, thus concluded : &quot; And your lordships 



morning with the company of the judges and some few more, and passing 

 through the cloisters into the abbey, he carried them with him into the 

 chapel of Henry the Seventh, when he prayed on his knees (silently, but 

 very devoutly, as might be seen by his gesture,) almost a quarter of an 

 hour : then, rising up cheerfully, he was conducted, with no other train, to 

 a mighty confluence that expected him in the hall, whom, from the court of 

 Chancery, he greeted with this speech,&quot; &c. See note BBBB at the end. 

 In Walton s Life of Herbert, he says, &quot; Herbert was presented by Dr. 

 Davenant, Bishop of Salisbury, to the living of Bemerton in his thirty-sixth 

 year. When at his induction, he was shut into Bemerton church, being 

 left there alone to toll the bell (as the law requires him) he staid so much 

 longer than an ordinary time, before he returned to those friends that staid 

 expecting him at the church door, that his friend Mr. Woodnot looked in 

 at the church window, and saw him lie prostrate on the ground before the 

 altar ; at which time and place (as he after told Mr. Woodnot) he set 

 some rules to himself for the future manage of his life, and then and there 

 made a vow to labour to keep them.&quot; 



() Ante, p. cxc. For the speech, see vol. vii. p. 241. 



