XOTliS 7 / 2 / A A B B. 



Z Z. Life, p. xxvii. 



Rawley s Life. His birth and other capacities qualified him, above others of 

 his profession to have ordinary accesses at court, and to come frequently into 

 the queen s eye, who would often grace him with private and free communica 

 tion, not only about matters of his profession or business in law, but also 

 about the arduous affairs of estate, from whom she received, from time to time, 

 great satisfaction ; nevertheless, though she cheered him much with the bounty 

 of her countenance, yet she never cheered him with the bounty of her hand ; 

 having never conferred upon him any ordinary place, or means of honour or 

 profit, save only one dry reversion, of the Register s Office, in the Star Cham 

 ber, worth about 1600/. per annum, for which he waited, in expectation, 

 either fully or near twenty years ; of which his lordship would say, in Queen 

 Elizabeth s time, that it was like another man s ground, buttalling upon his 

 house, which might mend his prospect, but it did not fill his barn. Neverthe 

 less, in the time of King James, it fell unto him. 



Dugdale, in his account of Bacon says, In 32 Eliz. he was made one of the 

 clerks in council. 



The author of Bacon s life, in the Biographia Britannica, speaking of the 

 reversion of the Register s place in the Star Chamber, says, His having the 

 reversion of this place, I take to be the reason, why several writers style him 

 one of the Clerks of the Privy Council ;* for that he had no other employment 

 than this under that reign, is very clear from the foregoing passage in Dr. Raw- 

 ley s Memoirs, and from his own letters. 



2 Z. Life, p. xxvii. 



In historical collections by Jonson, there is the following preamble to the 

 proceedings in this parliament : A Journal of the Parliamentary Proceedings 

 in the lower house, Anno xxv Eliz. Annoq. Dbm. 1592, very laboriously col 

 lected : being chiefly called for consultation and preparation against the ambitious 

 designs of the King of Spain ; in which some unusual distastes happened be 

 tween her Majesty and the House, by reason of their intermeddling with her 

 Majesties successor to the crown, which she had forbidden. This session begun 

 on Monday, February 19, 1592, and ended April 9, 1593. 



A A. Life, p. xxvii. 



Birch s Elizabeth, vol. i. 93. Anthony was member for Wallingford, and 

 his brother Francis for Middlesex. Not. Parliam. by Browne Willis, LL.D. 

 p. 127, 31 edit. London, 1750. He sat in that parliament, which met No 

 vember 19, 1592, as one of the knights of the shire for Middlesex. 



B B. Life, p. xxvii. 



Mr. Speaker, That which these honourable personages have spoken of their 

 experience, may it please you to give me leave likewise to deliver of my common 

 knowledge. The cause of assembling all parliaments hath been hitherto for 

 laws or monies ; the one being the sinews of peace, the other of war : to one I 

 am not privy, but the other I should know. I did take great contentment in 

 her majestie s speech the other day, delivered by the Lord Keeper ; how that it 

 was a thing not to be done suddenly, or at one parliament, nor scarce a year 

 would suffice to purge the statute book, nor lessen it, the volumes of law being 

 so many in number, that neither common people can half practise them, nor 

 lawyers sufficiently understand them, than the which nothing would tend more 

 to the praise of her majesty. The Romans they appointed ten men who were to 

 collect or recall all former laws, and to set forth ihose twelve tables so much of 

 all men commended. The Athenians likewise appointed six for that purpose. 

 And Lewis the Ninth, King of France, did the like in reforming his laws. See 

 C C, next note. 



* Dugdale s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 438. 



