NOTE C C. 



Different edition*. The first edition was published in the Treatise de Aug 

 mentis, 1623. This was translated in the translation of the Treatise de Aug- 

 mentis, by Watts, in 1640. About the year 1646, a translation of this work 

 was published in Paris. The following is a copy of the title page : Les Apho- 

 rismes du Droit, tradnits du Latin de Messire Francois Bacon, grand Cliancelier 

 d Angleterre. Par 1. Baudoin. A Paris. 



Dedicated a Monsigneur Segrier, Cliancelier de France. At the end of the 

 privilege to print a translation of Bacon s works, is &quot; Acheve d imprimer, pour 

 le premiere fois, le 20 Decembre, 1646.&quot; 



Contents. 



Pages 1---36. Des Lois en general. 



Ce discours est une offre de Cliancelier Bacon a son Roy, 



de faire un digest des Loix d Angleterre. 

 36 111. Les Aphorismes du Droit. 

 111130. De Devoir du Juge. 



Ce discours et les smvans sont tire des ouvres polites de 

 1 autheur, et ie les ay admistez icy, pour ce qu il m ont 

 semble propres au sujet. 

 130 139. Des requestes et des supplians. 

 139147. De 1 Expedition des Affaires. 

 147 end. Du Conseil. 



There is a copy of this in the British Museum, which I suppose to have been 

 written about 1646. In the museum is Historia Vita? et Mortis in French, by 

 J. Baudoin, 4to. Paris, 1647, and in the privilege to print there is the date 1646. 



There is a new translation of this tract in 1733, by Shaw, in his edition of 

 Bacon s philosophical works, in 3 vols. 4to. In the year 1806 an edition in 

 12mo. was published. The following is a copy of the title page : Franc. Ba- 

 conii Exemplum Tractatus de Justitia Universali sive de Fontibus Juris, extractum 

 ex ejusdem Auctoris opere de dignitate et augmentis scientiarum. Curante Lawry, 

 juris consulto, qui suas notas prefationem qne adjecit. Au Depot des Lois Ro- 

 niaines a Metz, chez Behmer. Van 1806. 



In the year 1822 a 12mo. edition was published in Paris, consisting of the 

 Aphorisms in Latin with the notes. The following is a copy of the title page : 

 Legum Leges sive Francisci Baconi Anglite quondam Cancel, tractatus de fonti- 

 bus Uniiersi Juris per Aphorismos extractum ex ejusdem auctoris opere de digni 

 tate et augmentis Scientiarum Annotationes quasdam subjecit. A. M.J.J. Dupin 

 in scholis et cam s Parisiensibus Doctor et Advocatus. Dictabimus igitur quas 

 dam Legum Leges, ex quibus inj ormatio peti possit, quid in singulis legibus bene 

 out perperam positum ant constitutum sit. (Aph. 6.) Parisiis apud Fratres 

 Baudouin Typog. Libr. Via de Vaugirard, No. 36. 1822. 



In the year 1823 a translation into English by James Glassford, Advocate, 

 was published at Edinburgh. The following is the title page : Exemplum 

 Tractatus de Fontibus Juris, and other Latin Pieces of Lord Bacon, translated 

 by James Glassford, Esq. Edinburgh, printed for Waugh and Innes, Chalmers 

 and Callings, Glasgow ; and Ogle, Duncan and Co. London. 1823. 



Upon this subject Adam Smith s Theory of Moral Sentiments concludes 

 thus : Systems of positive law, therefore, though they deserve the greatest 

 authority, as the records of the sentiments of mankind in different ages and 

 nations, yet can never be regarded as accurate systems of the rules of natural 

 justice. It might have been expected that the reasonings of lawyers upon the 

 different imperfections and improvements of the laws of different countries 

 should have given occasion to an inquiry into what were the natural rules of 

 justice, independent of all positive institution. It might have been expected 

 that these reasonings should have led them to aim at establishing a system of 

 what might properly be called natural jurisprudence, or a theory of the general 

 principles that ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws of all 

 nations. But though the reasonings of lawyers did produce something of this 

 kind, and though no man has treated systematically of the laws of any particular 



