LIFE OF BACON. 



CHAPTER IV. 



FROM HIS FALL TO HIS DEATH. 



1621 to 1626. 



SUCH was the storm in which he was wrecked. &quot; Methinks,&quot; 

 says Archbishop Tennison, &quot; they are resembled by those 

 of Sir George Summers, who being bound by his employ 

 ment to another coast, was by tempest cast upon the 

 Bermudas: and there a shipwrecked man made full dis 

 covery of a new temperate fruitful region, where none had 

 before inhabited ; and which mariners, who had only seen 

 as rocks, had esteemed an inaccessible and enchanted 

 place. 



This temperate region was not unforeseen by the 

 Chancellor. 



In a letter to the King, on the 20th March, 1622, he 

 says, &quot; In the beginning of my trouble, when in the midst 

 of the tempest, I had a kenning of the harbour, which I 

 hope now by your majesty s favour I am entering into: 

 now my study is my exchange, and my pen my practice 

 for the use of my talent.&quot; 



It is scarcely possible to read a page of his works with 

 out seeing that the love of knowledge was his ruling 



&quot; that of all he had given him he would leave him nothing,&quot; a threat which 

 he fulfilled to the letter. Racket s Life of Williams, part 2, p. 19. The 

 Countess of Buckingham told the Lord Keeper that St. David s was the 

 man that did undermine him with her son, and would underwork any man 

 that himself might rise. 



In two years of King Charles s reign Buckingham pulled down 

 Williams, Lee, Conway, Suckling, Crew, and Walter. 



