NOTE C. 



unless he would return to his studies, which lie did with great success. That 

 judge was one of those who delivered his judgment in the chequer-chamber 

 against the ship-money, which he did with a long and learned argument ; and 

 Sir Jlarbottle s father, who served in parliament for Essex, lay long in prison, 

 because he would not pay the loan-money. Thus both his family and his wife s 

 were zealous for the interest of their country. In the beginning of the long par- 

 li.unent he was a great assertor of the laws, and inveighed severely against all 

 that had been concerned in the former illegal oppression. His principle was, 

 that allegiance and protection were mutual obligations ; and that the one went 

 for the other. He thought the law was the measure of both ; and that when a 

 legal protection was denied to one that paid a legal allegiance, the subject had 

 a right to defend himself. He was much troubled, when preachers asserted 

 a divine right of legal government. He thought it had no other effect but to 

 give an ill impression of them as aspiring men : nobody was convinced by it. 

 It inclined their hearers rather to suspect all they said ; besides it looked like 

 the sacrificing their country to their own preferment; and an encouraging of 

 princes to turn tyrants : yet when the Long Parliament engaged in the league 

 with Scotland, he would not swear to the covenant ; and he discontinued sitting 

 in the house till it was laid aside : then he came back, and joined with Hollis, 

 and the other presbyterians, in a high opposition to the independents, and to 

 Cromwell in particular, as was told in the first book ; and he was one of the 

 secluded members that were forced out of the house. He followed afterwards 

 the practice of the law ; but was always looked upon as one who wished well to 

 the ancient government of England : so he was chosen speaker of that house, 

 that called home the King ; and had so great a merit in that whole affair, that 

 lie was soon after, without any application of his own, made Master of the 

 Rolls : in which post he continued to his death with a high reputation, as he 

 well deserved ; for he was a just judge ; very slow, and ready to hear every 

 thing that was offered, without passion or partiality. I thought his only fault 

 was that he was too rich : and yet he gave yearly great sums in charity, dis 

 charging many prisoners by paying their debts. He was a very pious and 

 devout man, and spent every day, at least an hour in the morning, and as much 

 at night, in prayer and meditation ; and even in winter, when he was obliged to 

 be very early on the bench, he took care to rise so soon, that he had always the 

 command of that time which he gave to those exercises. He was much 

 sharpened against popery: but had always a tenderness to the Dissenters, 

 though he himself continued still in the communion of the church.&quot; 



Burnet, in his History, thus speaks of Anne, &quot; His second wife, whom I 

 knew, was niece to the great Sir Francis Bacon ; and was the last heir of that 

 family. She had all the high notions for the church and for the crown in which 

 she had been bred ; but was the humblest, the devoutest, and best tempered person 

 1 ever knew of that sort. It was really a pleasure to hear her talk of religion, she 

 did it with so much elevation and force. She was always very plain in her 

 clothes, and went off to gaols to consider the wants of the prisoners, and relieve or 

 discharge them ; and, by the meanness of her dress, she passed but for a servant 

 trusted with the charities of others. When she was travelling in the country, as 

 she drew near a village she often ordered her coach to stay behind till she had 

 walked about it, giving orders for the instruction of the children, and leaving 

 liberally for that end.&quot; 



There is a portrait of Anne at Gorhambury, and of both her husbands. 



D. Life, p. i. 



There are some observations upon the life of Anne, Lady Bacon, in the 

 Biographia Britannica, in Note A to the life of Anthony Bacon, which says : 

 &quot; She made a florid and exact translation of Bishop Jewell s Apology for the 

 Church of England, from Latin into English, which was esteemed so useful 

 in its nature, as well as so correct in its manner, that in the year 1564 it was 

 published for common use by the special order of Archbishop Parker, with 



