NOTE C. 



Hie Nicolaum ne Baconum conditum, 



Existima ilium, tam diu Britannici 



Regni secundum columen, exitium malis, 



Bonis Asylum ; caeca quern non extulit 



Ad hunc honorem sors, sed aequitas, fides, 



Doctrina, Pietas, unica et Prudentia,* 



Neu morte raptum crede, quia unica brevi 



Vita perennes emeruit duas : agit 



Vitam secundam caelites inter animus, 



Fama implet orbem, vita quae illi tertia est. 



Hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus, 



Ara dicata sempiternae Memoriae. 



There are various pictures of the lord keeper ; there are two in Gorhambury 

 House ; a print in Musgrave s collection, lord keeper, set. 68, 1579. Picture 

 in Euston House, Suffolk. Picture by Zucchero in Lenrierd House, Norfolk. 

 Picture in Brome Hall, Suffolk motto, Mediocria Firma. Picture at Bennet 

 College, Cambridge. Picture in King s Weston House, Gloucestershire. 

 Knowle House, Kent. By Zucchero, at Woburn. See Walpole s Painters. 

 Pennant s Journey. In the Horologia, 8vo. a Vandenwooffe, 1559. Vertue sc. 

 large 4to. Vertue, &c. a small oval engraving, with other heads, in the frontis 

 piece to Burnet s Abridgment of the History of the Reformation. Portrait of 

 Anne, wife of Sir Nicholas, lord keeper, at Gorhambury, enamelled by Bone. 

 His bust and of his wife Anne, and of their son, Francis, when twelve years 

 old, are at Gorhambury. I saw them in April, 1825. They are of terra cotta, 

 and coloured after the life. The bust of Francis is, as to the shape of the head, 

 barrel like. Biographia Adversaria, vol. i. British Museum : Sir N. Bacon, 

 lord keeper of the great seal, autograph, 1562, 1565, 1566. 



A great part of the furniture which belonged to the lord keeper is still care 

 fully preserved. The purse which was delivered with the great seal to Sir 

 Nicholas Bacon, by the queen, is now in the possession of the Rev. John 

 Long, rector of Coddenham, Suffolk, to whom it was bequeathed by the will of 

 the Rev. Nathaniel Bacon, his predecessor in the living, and last male des 

 cendant of Nicholas, eldest son of Edward Bacon, esq. of Shrubland, the third 

 son of Sir Nicholas by his first wife. The following is the pedigree of the lord 

 keeper. 



Second Wife. First Wife. 



Anne Cooke.=pNiCHOLAS BACON.t=pJane Fernley. 



ON.t=pJ 

 ! 



T- 1 I- 



Barnham.i=;=FRANCis. Anthony. Nicholas. 



T 



No issue. Second Wife. First II ije. 



Anne Hoptoii.=Nathaniel.cj=Anne Gresham. 



L_ T _ 



Edward. Anne. Jane. Elizabeth. 



1st Wife. Id Husb. to Anne. 



1st Husb. to Anne. 



Mary Croke=pSir Harbottle^Anne^Sir Thomas Elizabeth. Winifred. 

 Grimstone. | | Meautys. 



No issue. No issue. 



~l 



Mary- Elizabeth. Samuel. George. 



Adopted one of the Two daughters, of whom 



daughters of Samuel. one was adopted by Mary. 



This adopted child is the ancestor of the 

 present Grimstone, Earl Verulam. 



Nathaniel, the second son, was, to use the words of Sir Nicholas his father, 

 of best hope in learning. This appears from the following letter from the lord 

 keeper, written when Francis was only eight years old. 



