NOTES T W X Y. 



To Lord Burghley. 



It may please your good Lordship, I am sorry the joint mask from the four 

 inns of court faileth, wherein I conceive there is no other ground of that event 

 but impossibility. Nevertheless, because it faileth out that at this time Grey s 

 Inn is well furnished of gallant young gentlemen, your lordship may be pleased 

 to know that rather than this occasion shall pass without some demonstration of 

 affection from the inns of court, there are a dozen gentlemen of Grey s Inn, 

 that out of the honour which they bear to your lordship and my Lord Chamber 

 lain, to whom at their last mask they were so much bounden, will be ready to 

 furnish a mask, wishing it were in their powers to perform it according to their 

 minds. And so for the present I humbly take my leave, resting your Lordship s 

 very humble and much bounden, FR. BACON. 



Dugdale, in his account of Bacon, says in 42 Eliz. being double reader in 

 that house, and affecting much the ornament thereof, he caused that beautiful 

 grove of elms to be planted in the walks, which yet remain. Orig. Ju. 272. b. 



I next come to the walks, and of these the first mention that I find is in 40 

 Eliz. Mr. Bacon being upon his account made 4 Julii, allowed the sum of vii 1 

 xs iiiid laid out for planting elms in them, of which elms some died, as it 

 seems ; for at a pension held here, 14 Nov. 41 Eliz. there was an order made 

 for a present supply of more young elms, in the places of such as were deceased : 

 and that a new rayle and quickset hedge should be set upon the upper long walk* 

 at the discretion of the same Mr. Bacon and Mr. Wilbraham ; which being 

 done, amounted to the charge of Ix vi viiid. as Cy the said Mr. Bacon s account 

 allowed 29 Apr. 42 Eliz. appears. 



V. Life, p. xxiii. 



See Camden, Strype, Dugdale, and the other writers of Elizabeth s reign. 

 See Biographica Britannica, title Bacon. 



X. Life, p. xxv. 



It is said that the Queen, upon Spenser presenting some poems to her, ordered 

 him a gratuity of an hundred pounds, but that the Lord Treasurer Burleigh ob 

 jecting to it, said with some scorn of the poet, What ! all this for a song 1 The 

 Queen replied, Then give him what is reason. Spenser waited for some time, 

 but had the mortification to find himself disappointed of the Queen s intended 

 bounty. Upon this he took a proper opportunity to present a paper to Queen 

 Elizabeth, in the manner of a petition, in which he reminded her of the orders 

 she had given, in the following lines : 



I was promised on a time 



To have reason for my rhime, 



From that time unto this season 



I received nor rhyme nor reason. 



This paper produced the desired effect, and the Queen, not without some reproof 

 of the treasurer, immediately directed the payment of the hundred pounds she 

 had first ordered. Life of Spenser. 



Y. Life, p. xxvi. 



In his apology respecting Lord Essex, he says, It is well known, how I did 

 many years since dedicate my travels and studies to the use, and, as I may 

 term it, service of my lord of Essex, which I protest before God, I did not, 

 making election of him as the likeliest mean of mine own advancement, but out 

 of the humour of a man, that ever from the time I had any use of reason, whether 

 it were reading upon good books, or upon the example of a good father, or by 

 nature, I loved my country more than was answerable to my fortune ; and I 

 held at that time my lord to be the fittest instrument to do good to the state, 

 and therefore I applied myself to him in a manner which I think happeneth 

 rarely among men : for I did not only labour carefully and industriously in that 



