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con s letter to, respecting his ap 

 pointment as attorney-general, see 

 note (ft), 154 ; Bacon s advice to, 

 upon his unconstitutional expedient 

 to raise supplies, see letter of Bacon 

 to, note (c), 157 ; his inability to 

 allay the rumours and to procure 

 supplies and dissolution of parlia 

 ment in consequence, 163 ; presents 

 to, in his distresses, 163 ; letters by 

 order of, to the sheriffs and justices, 

 enjoining presents to, and impeach 

 ment of Mr. Oliver St. John upon 

 his opposition to, as illegal, 163; 

 letters of Bacon to, respecting Pea- 

 chain s case, 169, 170; Bacon s 

 letter to, respecting Owen s case, 

 note (), 178 ; his admiration of 

 Villiers, and successive honours 

 conferred upon by, 179 ; his grow 

 ing distaste to Somerset, 179 ; his 

 judgment in the question upon the 

 jurisdiction of the Court of Chan 

 cery, and severe remarks upon Coke, 

 186; his journey to Scotland, see 

 note (6), 211 : his pleasure in light 

 amusements, 211 ; his attachment 

 to the society of Buckingham, 212 ; 

 his pecuniary distresses, 221 ; his 

 lavish bounty upon Buckingham, 

 222 ; his treaty of marriage with 

 the wily Gondomar, and Bacon s 

 wise counsel to, 218 ; his admi 

 ration of Bacon s wisdom, 218 ; 

 Bacon s letter to, upon his at 

 tempted retrenchment of the royal 

 expenses, note (p),220 ; his distresses 

 and partiality to his countrymen, 

 see note (/&amp;gt;), 225 ; Bacon s letter to, 

 respecting Bertram s murder of Sir 

 J. Tindal,?jote(6), 239 ; Williams s 

 subtle advice to, not to dissolve the 

 parliament to crush Bacon, 242 ; 

 consults with Williams, 312 ; his 

 speech upon the dismissal of parlia 

 ment, March 26, 326 ; his speech 

 praising Buckingham, note A, 327 ; 

 Bacon s letter to, entrusted to Buck 

 ingham, 331 ; his disquiet upon the 

 popular discontents, 341 ; Wil 

 liams s subtle advice to, to brave 

 the popular discontent, 342 ; his 

 cowardly abandonment of Bacon, 

 344 ; his consultation with the lords 

 upon the course to be pursued by 

 Bacon upon the charge against him, 

 346; his assurance to save Bacon, 

 upon his agreeing to submit to the 

 Ilouse of Peers, 348 ; his speech to 



the parliament protests readiness to 

 enquire into abuses, 350 ; letter to, 

 from Bacon, desiring the cup might 

 pass from him, note B, 370. 



King s Bench, Court of, and Court of 

 Chancery, dispute between respect 

 ing the jurisdiction of the latter, 186. 



Knighthood, the title of, sold for the 

 King s profit, 101. 



Knowledge, Bacon s test of the mo 

 tives for the acquisition of, 8 ; res 

 pecting the body forming no part of 

 public education, 112; respecting 

 the mind, arranged by Bacon, 112 ; 

 power of, to repress the inconve- 

 niencies which arise from man to 

 man, 131 ; immortality of, 131 ; the 

 effect of its progress in the last two 

 centuries upon civil and religious 

 liberty, 172 ; an evil attendant upon 

 the rapid progress of, pointed out by 

 Bacon, 173 ; the advancement of, 

 the only effectual mode of decom 

 posing error, 175 ; desire of wealth 

 an interruption to the progress of, 

 192 ; worldly power contemptible as 

 compared to the pursuits of philo 

 sophy, 193 ; the search after, more 

 laudable than the projects of ambi 

 tion, note, 194 ; obstacles to the 

 acquisition of, 278 ; why progres 

 sive, 287. 



LAMBETH Library, extract from, MS. 

 of Bacon s in Greek characters, 

 374. 



Latent and patent instances, or obser 

 vation of extremes, in the search 

 after a nature, 292. 



Law, the study of, repulsive to Bacon s 

 imaginative mind, 19 ; and politics 

 the only roads open to Bacon, 19 ; 

 the high attainment of Bacon s 

 family in, 19 ; Bacon s perseve 

 rance in, 21 ; an accessory not 

 a principal study to Bacon, 22 ; 

 Bacon s various works upon the, 21, 

 Bacon s exertions in, with the ulti 

 mate hope of literary ease, 25, 26 ; 

 Bacon s speech upon the improve 

 ment of the, 1592, 27 ; Bacon s 

 plan for a digest and amendment of 

 the, 27 ; Bacon s favorite opinion of 

 the debt due from the members of 

 the profession to the improvement 

 of the, 27 ; Bacon s efforts towards 

 the improvement of the, 138, 147, see 

 C C at the end ; Bacon s tract upon 

 the amendment of the, 156 ; Bacon s 





