NOTE C C. 



country, without intermixing in his work many observations of this sort, it was 

 very late in the world before any such general system was thought of, or before 

 the philosophy of law was treated of by itself, and without regard to the parti 

 cular institutions of any one nation. In none of the ancient moralists do we 

 find any attempt towards a particular enumeration of the rules of justice. 

 Cicero in his Offices, and Aristotle in his Ethics, treat of justice in the same 

 general manner in which they treat of all the other virtues. In the laws of 

 Cicero and Plato, where we might naturally have expected some attempt 

 towards an enumeration of those rules of natural equity, which ought to be 

 enforced by the positive laws of every country, there is, however, nothing of 

 this kind. Their laws are laws of policy, not of justice. Grotius seems to 

 have been the first who attempted to give the world any thing like a system of 

 those principles which ought to run through, and be the foundation of the laws 

 of all nations ; and his treatise of the laws of War and Peace is, perhaps, at 

 this day, the most complete work that has yet been given upon this subject. 



This valuable tract is in the treatise De Augmentis, vol. ix. page 82, of this 

 edition. 



6. Usury. He prepared the draught of an Act against Usury, which was pub 

 lished in the third edition of the Resuscitatio in 1671, which is in vol. xiii. of 

 this edition, page 385, and in his Essays, there is an Essay upon Usury, vol. i. 

 of this edition, page 137. 



7. Ordinances in Chancery. These ordinances were published in the court the 

 first day of Candlemas term, 1618, and have, from that period, been adopted 

 and acted upon in the court. 1 do not find them noticed either by Rawley or 

 Tennison. The following is a publication of this tract : Ordinances made by 

 the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, Lord Verulam, and Viscount 

 of St. Albans, being then Lord Chancellor. For the better and more regular Ad 

 ministration of Justice in the Chancery, to be daily observed saving the Preroga 

 tive of this Covrt. London : Printed for Maihew Walbanke and Lawrence 

 Chapman 1642. 



Vol. 2. 170. Ordinances by the Lord Chancellor for the better and more 

 regular administration of justice in the Chancery, to be duly observed, saving 

 the Prerogative of the Court published in the Court the first day of Candlemas 

 Term, 1618. Haiieian MSS. They will be found in vol. vii. of this edition, 

 page 273. 



Scattered observations in different parts of his works. 



fl. Of Dispatch. 

 1. Essays, -j 2. Of Judicature. 

 \^ 3. Oi Innovations. 



fl . Want of Collegiate Education of 

 Statesmen. 



3. Our duty to assist 

 in improvement. 



1. In general. 



.2. Professions. &amp;lt;{ In Law.- 



ESSAYS. 



1. In general. 



2. Merit of Legal Im 



provement. 



3. Politicians best Legal 



Improvers. 



4. Proper use of Lawyers 

 in Legal Improvement. 



OJ Dispatch. The first Essay containing any observations appertaining to 

 legal improvement, which will be found in vol. i. of this edition, page 83, is 

 in his Essay of Dispatch : &quot; Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things 

 to business that can be : it is like that which the physicians call predigestivn, or 



