NOTE 3 I. 



transcript of the edition of 1612, with the erroneous entries in the table of con 

 tents of the two essays, &quot; Of the Publique&quot; and &quot; Of Warre and Peace,&quot; 

 which are omitted in the body of the work ; but it contains a transcript from the 

 editions of 1597 and 1606, of the essay &quot;Of Honor and Reputation,&quot; which 

 is omitted in the edition of 1612. This edition, probably, originated in Jag- 

 gard s having discovered his error with respect to the edition of 1612, and his 

 hope to make it more complete by the addition of the essay of &quot; Honor and 

 Reputation,&quot; without inquiring whether it was in substance incorporated in 

 either of the new essays in Lord Bacon s edition of 1612. Does not this seem 

 further evidence that these editions were pirated 1 



Seventh Edition, 1614. 



The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, the Kings Atturney GeneralL His 

 Religious Meditations. Pi-aces of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and allowed. 

 Edinbvrgh, Printed by Andro Hart. 1614. 



This is, as it seems, a transcript of Jaggard s edition of 1613, consisting of 

 41 essays in the table of contents, and omitting 39 and 40 in the body of the 

 work, and containing the Essay 41, &quot; Of Honor and Reputation.&quot; The Essay 

 &quot; Of Superstition&quot; in this edition of 1614 is entitled 12, but it ought to be 15. 

 There is the same error in the edition of 1613 : so too the Essay &quot;Of Followers 

 and Friends&quot; is, in both, entitled 33, but it ought to be 32. 



Eighth Edition, 1624. 



The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, the Kings Atturney GeneralL His 

 Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and allowed. 

 Printed at London, by I. D. for Elizabeth Jaggard, at the Hand and Starre 

 neere the Middle Temple gate, 1624. 



This edition is copied from the edition of 1613. The error with respect to 

 the title of the Essay of &quot; Followers and Friends&quot; is corrected in this edition ; 

 as in this edition it is, as it ought to have been in the edition of 1613-32. As 

 this is published by Jaggard, it is probably by the widow of John Ja&amp;lt;ard, as it 

 is printed by I. D. for Elizabeth Jaggard. 



Ninth Edition, 1625. 



The Essay es or Covnsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscovnt 

 St. Alban. Newly enlarged. London, Printed by lohn Haviland for Hanna 

 Barret and Richard Whitaker, and are to be sold at the signe of the King s 

 head in Paul s Churchyard. 1625. 



This edition is a small quarto of 340 pages ; it clearly was published by Lord 



Bacon. It was published in 1625, and in the next year, 1626, Lord Bacon 



died. It is dedicated in the following dedication, to the Duke of Buckingham : 



To the Right Honorable my very good Lo. the Duke of Buckingham his Grace, 



Lo. High Admirall of England. 



Excellent Lo. Salomon saies, A good name is as a precious oyntment ; and 

 I assure myselfe, such wil your grace s name bee, with posteritie. For your 

 fortune and merit both, haue beene eminent. And you haue planted things 

 that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes ; which, of all other 

 workes, have beene most currant : for that, as it seemes, they come home to 

 mens businesse and bosomes. I haue enlarged them, both in number and 

 weight ; so that they are indeed a new work. I thought it therefore agreeable 

 to my affection, and obligation to your grace, to prefix your name before them, 

 both in English and in Latine. For I doe conceiue, that the Latine volume 

 of them (being in the vniuersal language) may last as long as bookes last. 

 My Instauration I dedicated to the king : my Historic of Henry the Seventh, 

 (which I haue now also translated into Latine) and my portions of Natural! 

 History, to the prince : and these I dedicate to your grace : being of the best 

 fruits, that by the good encrease which God gives to my pen and labours, I 

 could yeeld. God leade your grace by the hand. Your Graces most obliged 

 and faithfull seruant, FR. ST. ALBAN. 



Of this edition Lord Bacon sent a copy to the Marquis Fiat. Baconiana, 20L 



