NOTES X X 3 A 3 P,. 



Z Z. Zrz/e, jp. xxxiv. 



Mr. Francis Bacon to the Queen. 



Most gracious and admirable Sovereign, As I do acknowledge a providence 

 of God towards me. that findeth it expedient for me tolerare jugum in juventute 

 med ; so this present arrest of mine, by his divine majesty, from your majesty s 

 service, is not the least affliction, that I have proved ; and I hope your majesty 

 doth conceive, that nothing under mere impossibility could have detained me 

 from earning so gracious a vail, as it pleased your majesty to give me. But 

 your majesty s service, by the grace of God, shall take no lack thereby; and, 

 thanks to God, it hath lighted upon him that may be best spared. Only the 

 discomfort is mine, who nevertheless have the private comfort, that in the time 

 I have been made acquainted with this service, it hath been 1 my hap to stumble 

 upon somewhat unseen, which may import the same, as I made my Lord 

 Keeper acquainted before my going. So leaving it to God to make a good end 

 of a hard beginning, and most humbly craving your majesty s pardon for pre 

 suming to trouble you, I recommend your sacred majesty to God s tenderest 

 preservation. Your sacred Majesty s in most humble obedience and devotion, 



From Huntingdon, this 20th of July, 1594. FR. BACON. 



3 A. Life, p. xxxv. 



This appears by a letter to Burleigh, in which, thanking him for former obli 

 gations, he says, &quot; Together with your lordship s attempt to give me way by the 

 remove of Mr. Solicitor, in which he says : And now seeing it hath pleased her 

 majesty to take knowledge of this my mind, and to vouchsafe to appropriate me 

 unto her service, preventing any desert of mine with her princely liberality ; 

 first, I humbly do beseech your lordship to present to her majesty my more than 

 humble thanks for the same : and withal, having regard to mine own unwor- 

 thiness to receive such favour, and to the small possibility in me to satisfy and 

 answer what her majesty conceiveth, I am moved to become a most humble 

 suitor to her majesty, that this benefit also may be affixed unto the other.&quot; 



3 B. Life, p. xxxv. 



Baker s MSS. Our register is a blank, and nothing entered from the year 

 1589 to the year 1602 ; but from Bedel Ingram s book, of equal authority in 

 history, though not in law, we have this account : An. 1594. Jul. 27. Whereas 

 there is something purposed to be done at this meeting more than usual at con 

 vocations. Maye it therefore please yow, that this convocation be changed into 

 a congregation, and the same lo be effectual to no other intent then for the dis 

 patch of such matters as shall presently be propounded hearin, and by your 

 approbation and consent, be granted and concluded. This being passed, the 

 Vicechan. dissolved the convocation, and the bedell called a congregation imme 

 diate, at which congregation this grace following was passed . I lace t vobis, ut 

 Mr. Franciscus Bacon armiger, honorandi et nobilis viri domini Nicholai 

 Bacon militis, magni Angliae sigilli custodis, ante aliquot annos defuncti, filius, 

 post studium decem annorum, pattern in hac academia nostra partim in trans- 

 maiinis regionibus, in diaiecticis, philosophicis, Grascis Latinisque literis, ac 

 caeteris, humanioiibus disciplinis sufficiat ei, ut cooptetur in ordinem magis- 

 trorum in artibus : ita tamen ut ad nullas ceremonias, ad magisterii gradum 

 pertinentes coarctetur ; sed tantum in admissione sua juramentum praestet, de 

 regiae majestatis suprema authoritate in primis agnoscenda et colenda, et fidem 

 del D. Procan de observandis statutis, privileges, et consuetudiaibus hujus 

 universitatis approbatis. 



Concess. 27 Julii, 1594. 



Franciscus Bacon, Mr. in artibus, Jul. 27. Mr. Ingram s book. 



