CCxl LIFE OF BACON. 



When the morbid feeling of insane minds is awakened, 

 there is always some chance of a repetition of its out- 



The tract, containing some miserable wood-cuts of the murder, and of 

 the murderer hanging against the wall, is entitled, &quot; A true Relation of a 

 most desperate Murder, committed upon the Body of Sir John Tindall, 

 Knighte, one of the Maisters of the Chancery, who with a pistoll charged 

 with 3 bulletts, was slaine going into his chamber within Lincolnes Inne, 

 the 12 day of November, by one John Bartram, Gent, which Bartram 

 afterwards hanged himselfe in the Kinges-Bench in Southewark, on Sun 

 day, being the 17th day following, 1616.&quot; It contains the following 

 passage : &quot; Two several daies (with two or three keepers at least waiting on 

 him,) was he sent for by the judges to be examined. At the first going-, 

 he was called to the barre, and an inditement read to him for the murther 

 aforesaid, to which he pleaded not guilty. At his passing along the 

 streets, his presence so full of age, and his face so full of sorrowes, together 

 with the rumour of his wrongfull undoing, which quickly spread it selfe 

 amongst the people, moved them to such commiseration, that they shed 

 tears to see what misery he was falne into ; they prayed for him, and cursed 

 the other. Upon the Saturday, before the Sunday in the which he cast 

 away himselfe, did he thus goe abroad, and returning about foure of the 

 clocke in the evening, with a slowe and dull pace, fitting to his yeeres. 

 He seemed in his chamber rather vexed than dejected. His thoughts 

 appeared and made shew, to be troubled than tormented. And rather 

 because hee did expect within a day or two at the most, to be fetched to 

 his tryall : and the next day after to be sent to execution. Which as some 

 say, hee fearing that it should have beene to hang alive in chaynes, strucke 

 so strong impression unto him, that to avoid that shame, and that torture, 

 he purposed to lay violent hands upon himselfe, if he could meet oppor 

 tunity.&quot; 



Annexed to the tract is another tract, entitled, &quot; A true Relation of the 

 Ground, Occasion, and Circumstances, of that horrible Murther committed 

 by John Bartram, Gent, upon the body of Sir John Tyndal, of Lincolns 

 Inne, Knight, one of the Masters of the Honorable Court of Chancery, the 

 twelfth day of this instant Novemb. Written by way of Letter from a 

 Gentleman to his Country friend. Together with the Examination of the 

 said Bartram, taken before the right Honourable Sir Fra. Bacon, Knight, 

 his Maiesties Atturney Generall, and Sir Henry Yelverton, Knight, his 

 Maiesties Solliciter General, according to speciall directions given by his 

 Maiestie in that behalfe. London, printed by John Beale. 1616.&quot; As 

 John Beale printed for Bacon, it is probable that it was under his superin 

 tendence. 



