NOTKS I I K K L L. 



1 1. Life, p. xxx. 



To the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper, &c. 



My Lord, In my last conference with your lordship, I did entreat you both 

 forbear hurting Mr. Fr. Bacon s cause, and to suspend your judgment of his 



ind towards your lordship, till I had spoken with him. I went since that 

 time to Twickenham Park to confer with him, and had signified the effect of our 

 conference by letter ere this, if I had not hoped to have met with your lordship, 

 and so to have delivered it by speech. I told your lordship when I last saw 



ou, that this manner of his was only a natural freedom, and plainness, which 

 had used with me, and in my knowledge with some other of his best friends, 



an any want of reverence towards your lordship ; and therefore I was more 



rious to look into the moving cause of his style, than into the form of it ; 



hich now I find to be only a diffidence of your lordship s favour and love to- 

 rds him, and no alienation of that dutiful mind which he hath borne towards 

 your lordship. And therefore I am fully persuaded, that if your lordship would 

 please to send for him, there would grow so good satisfaction, as hereafter he 

 should enjoy your lordship s honourable favour, in as great a measure as ever, 

 and your lordship have the use of his service, who, I assure your lordship, is as 

 strong in his kindness, as you find him in his jealousy. 1 will use no argument 

 to persuade your lordship, that I should be glad of his being restored to your 

 lordship s wonted favour ; since your lordship both knoweth how much my 

 credit is engaged in his fortune, and may easily judge how sorry I should be, 

 that a gentleman whom I love so much, should lack the favour of a person 

 whom 1 honour so much. And thus commending your lordship to God s best 

 protection, I rest your Lordship s very assured, ESSEX. 



Indorsed---31 August, 95. My Lord of Essex to have me send for Mr. 

 Bacon, for he will satisfy me. In my Lord Keeper s own hand. 



K K. Life, p. xxx. 



Lord Treasurer Burghley to Mr. Francis Bacon.* 



Nephew, I have no leisure to write much ; but for answer I have attempted 

 to place you : but her majesty hath required the Lord Keeper t to give to her 

 the names of divers lawyers to be preferred, wherewith he made me acquainted, 

 and I did name you as a meet man, whom his lordship allowed in way of 

 friendship, for your father s sake : but he made scruple to equal you with cer 

 tain, whom he named, as Brograve \ and Branthwayt, whom he specially com- 

 mendeth. But I will continue the remembrance of you to her majesty, and 

 implore my Lord of Essex s help. Your loving Uncle, W. BURGHLEY. 



Sept. 27, 1593. 



L L. Life, p. xxx. 



To the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper, &c.$ 



It may please your Lordship, I thought it became me to write to your lord 

 ship, upon that which I have understood from my Lord of Essex, who vouch 

 safed, as I perceive, to deal with your lordship of himself to join with him in 



* Among the papers of Antony Bacon, esq. vol. iii. fol. 197, in the Lambeth 

 Library. 



t Puckering. 



t John Brograve, attorney of the duchy of Lancaster, and afterwards 

 knighted. He is mentioned by Mr. Francis Bacon, in his letter to the Lord 

 Treasurer of 7th June, 1595, from Gray s Inn, as having discharged his post of 

 attorney of the duchy with great sufficiency. There is extant of his, in print, a 

 reading upon the statute of 27 Henry VIII. concerning jointures. 



$ Harl. MSS. vol. 6997, No. 44. 



