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LIFE OF BACON. 



which cometh not of a symmetry with his majesty and 

 greatness, (a) 



While these exactions disclosed to the people the King s 

 poverty, they could daily observe his profuse expenditure 

 and lavish bounty to his favourite; recourse, therefore, 

 was had to Buckingham by all suitors; but neither the 

 distresses of the King, nor the power of the favourite 

 deterred the Lord Keeper from staying grants and patents, 

 when his public duty demanded this interposition: an 

 interference which, if Buckingham really resented, he con 

 cealed his displeasure ; as, so far from expressing himself 

 with his usual haughtiness, he thanked his friend, telling 

 him that he &quot;desired nothing should pass the seal except 

 what was just or convenient.&quot; (b) 



On the 4th of January, 1618, the Lord Keeper was 

 created Lord Hi g h Chancellor of England, and in July 



Verulam. Baron of Verulam, to which, as stated in the preamble to 

 the patent of nobility, witnessed by the Prince of Wales, 

 Duke of Lenox, and many of the first nobility, the King 

 was &quot; moved by the grateful sense he had of the many 

 faithful services rendered him by this worthy person.&quot; In 

 the beginning of the same year the Earl of Buckingham 

 was raised to the degree of Marquis. 



Dulwich. ^ n August, 1618, the Lord Keeper, with a due sense 

 of the laudable intentions of the founder, stayed a patent 

 for the foundation of Dulwich College, from the conviction 

 that education was the best charity, and would be best 



Lord 



(a) See ante, p. clviii, note. 



(b} &quot; My honourable Lord, I have received your lordship s letters, 

 wherein I see the continuance of your love and respect to me, in any tiling 

 I write to you of, for which I give your lordship many thanks, desiring 

 nothing for any man but what you shall find just and convenient to pass. 

 &quot; Your Lordship s faithful servant, G. BUCKINGHAM.&quot; 



Vol. xiii. p. 13. 



