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sional duties, 22 ; his popularity at 

 Gray s Inn, 23 ; his improvement 

 of Gray s Inn gardens and build 

 ings, 23 ; his autograph there, 21 ; 

 his promotion to the bench of Gray s 

 Inn, 23 ; his letter to the Lord Trea 

 surer to be called to the bar, see note 

 23 ; his union with the Leicester 

 party, 25 ; his affection for Essex, 25 ; 

 his application to Lord Burleigh for 

 an appointment, with an eye to his 

 favorite pursuits, 26 ; grant of a re 

 version to, by Burleigh s influence, 

 26; his first speech upon the im 

 provement of the law, 27 ; his fa 

 vorite opinion of the duty of lawyers 

 to strengthen and improve the law, 

 27 ; his plan for a digest and amend 

 ment of the whole law, 27 ; his con 

 scientious speech upon the delay of 

 the subsidies and the anger of the 

 Queen, 27 ; Ben Jonson s opinion 

 of the eloquence of, 28 ; his appli 

 cation to the Queen for the solicitor- 

 ship, 28 ; Essex s intercession for 

 with the Queen respecting the soli- 

 citorship, 30 ; Lord Keeper Puck- 

 ering s misrepresentations against, 

 to the Queen, 30 ; his letter to the 

 Queen for the solicitorship, accom 

 panied by a jewel according to cus 

 tom, 32 ; his intercession with the 

 Queen upon her dissatisfaction with 

 Essex during his absence in Ire 

 land, 49 ; his advice to Essex during 

 his confinement, with respect to his 

 management of the Queen, 53 ; his 

 steady friendship to Essex, 59 ; his 

 conference with the Queen, and ob 

 jections to the public proceeding 

 against Essex, 56, 57 ; chosen coun 

 sel against Essex, upon the public 

 proceedings in the Star Chamber, 

 59 ; his relative duties to the Queen, 

 to Essex, and to himself, upon her 

 order as to his being counsel against 

 Essex, 59, 60, 61 ; his admiration 

 and friendship for Essex, 59 ; his 

 motives for acceding to the Queen s 

 order with respect to Essex, 64 ; his 

 letter to the Queen upon the sub 

 ject, 64 ; his application to King 

 James upon the death of the Queen, 

 98 ; knighted by King James, his 

 opinion of the honour, 99 ; Lady 

 Bacon, first mention of, by, 102 ; his 

 first session, elected for both St. 

 Albans and Ipswich, 106; his exer- 



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tions, sat on twenty-nine commit 

 tees, 107 ; nominated by the House 

 to attend privy counsels, upon the 

 abuses complained of, and report 

 thereon, 107 ; appointed a mediator 

 between the Commons and Lords, 

 107 ; address to the King not re 

 sented by him, 108; appointed 

 King s counsel, with a pension, 108 ; 

 his love of knowledge unchecked by 

 politics, 109; his letter to Sir H. 

 Saville upon education, 109; his 

 tract upon the intellectual powers, 

 ill ; his arrangement of knowledge 

 respecting the body, 111; his work 

 upon the greatness of Britain, 114 ; 

 his legal and political exertions, 

 119 ; his publication of the advance 

 ment of learning, 120 ; his aversion 

 to method, 124 ; his low estimate of 

 the study of words, 129 ; his ob 

 servations in his advancement upon 

 the advantages of learning, and the 

 distempers of learning, see analysis, 

 note, 131 ; his essay upon govern 

 ment, extract from, 131 ; his inves 

 tigation of philosophy, (in the second 

 book of his advancement), divine, 

 natural, and human, 133 ; see ana 

 lyses of history and man, 133, 134; 

 his beautiful and happy illustration 

 of his subjects, 135 ; his exertions 

 to improve the law, 138 ; his exer 

 tions to improve the condition of 

 Ireland, and tract upon, 137, 138 ; 

 his endeavours to promote the union 

 with Scotland, and speeches upon, 

 139, 140; his exertions to promote 

 church reform. See his tracts upon 

 the subject, 141 ; appointed solici 

 tor-general upon Coke s promotion, 

 142 ; his quarrel with Sir Edward 

 Coke (nd) and letter of expostula 

 tion, 143 ; his reproof of Sir Edward 

 Coke s cruel treatment of prisoners, 

 145; his encouragement of merit 

 upon his promotion to the solicitor- 

 ship, 147 ; his improvement of the 

 law, 147 ; see note C C at the end ; 

 his perseverance in the Novum Or- 

 ganum during his political and pro 

 fessional labours, 147; his compo 

 sition of detached parts of the No 

 vum Organum in his youth, 147; 

 his publication of the wisdom of the 

 ancients, 148 ; his appointment as 

 judge of a new court to extend the 

 jurisdiction of the Marshalsea, 151 ; 



