NOTES N N OO P P. 



your lordship. And therefore, if your lordship shall stand a good friend to 

 your poor ally, you shall but &quot; tueri opus&quot; which you have begun. And your 

 lordship shall bestow your benefit upon one that hath more sense of obligation 

 than of self-love. Thus humbly desiring pardon of so long a letter, T wish your 

 lordship all happiness. Your Lordship s in all humbleness to be commanded. 

 June 6, 1595. FR. BACON. 



N N. Life, p. xxx. 



The author of the Biographia says, It was now that he discovered how little 

 reason he had to trust to, or depend upon, the Cecils, and had very little cause 

 to be well [pleased with the conduct of the then Lord Keeper. Is not this ob 

 servation, as far as relates to Lord Burleigh unfounded 1 



In Essex s letter to Bacon, indorsed March 28, 1594, Essex says, &quot; The 

 queen said that none thought you fit for the place, but my Lord Treasurer and 

 myself. So also in Essex s letter to Bacon, of the 18th of May, 1596, Essex 

 says, &quot; The queen answered that the greatness of your friends, as of my Lord 

 Treasurer and myself, did make men even a more favourable testimony than 

 else they would do, &c. And Bacon himself, in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil, 

 accusing him of having been bribed, says, &quot; You wrought in a contrary spirit to 

 my lord your father.&quot; See also Burleigh s letter of September 27, 1593, ante, 

 note. 



In a letter to Lord Burleigh, after the appointment of Fleming, Bacon&quot; says, 

 And therefore, (my singular good lord) &quot; ex abundantia cordis,&quot; I must ac 

 knowledge how greatly and diversely your lordship hath vouchsafed to tie me 

 unto you by many your benefits. The reversion of the office which your lord 

 ship only procured unto me, and carried through great and vehement opposition, 

 though it yet bear no fruit, yet it is one of the fairest flowers of my poor estate ; 

 your lordship s constant and serious endeavours to have me solicitor : your late 

 honourable wishes, for the place of the wards : together with your lordship s 

 attempt to give me wa y y tne remove of Mr. Solicitor ; they be matters of sin 

 gular obligations ; besides many other favours, as well by your lordship s grants 

 from yourself, as by your commendation to others, which 1 have had for my 

 help ; and may justly persuade myself out of the few denials I have received 

 that fewer might have been, if mine own industry and good hap had been an 

 swerable to your lordship s goodness. 



O. Life, p. xxxi. 



In a letter to Lord Burleigh, he says, If I did show myself too credulous to 

 idle hearsays, in regard of my right honourable kinsman and good friend Sir 

 Robert Cecil (whose good nature did well answer my honest liberty), your 

 lordship will impute it to the complexion of a suitor, and of a tired sea-sick 

 suitor, and not to mine own inclination. 



P P. Life, p. xxxi. 



Earl of Essex to Mr. Francis Bacon. 



Sir, I wrote not to you till I had had a second conference with the queen, 

 because the first was spent only in compliments : she in the beginning exeepted 

 all business : this day she hath seen me again. After 1 had followed her humour 

 in talking of those things, which she would entertain me with, 1 told her, in my 

 absence I had written to Sir Robert Cecil, to solicit her to call you to that 

 place, to which all the world had named you ; and being now here, I must fol 

 low it myself; for 1 know what service I should do her in procuring you the 

 place ; and she knew not how great a comfort 1 should take in it. Her answer 

 in playing just was, that she came not to me for that, 1 should talk of those 

 things when I came to her, not when she came to me ; the term was coming, 



