NOTE 3 I. 



who had access to the papers of Lord Bacon. Dr. Rawley does not mention 

 it, and he expressly says, in his address to the reader in the Resuscitatio, 

 in 1657 : &quot; Having been employed as an amanuensis, or daily instrument, 

 to this honourable author, and acquainted with his lordship s conceits, in 

 the composing of his works, for many years together, especially in his writing 

 time, I conceived that no man could pretend a better interest or claim to 

 the ordering of them after his death than myself. For which cause, I have 

 compiled in one whatsoever bears the true stamp of his lordship s excellent 

 genius, and hath hitherto slept and been suppressed in this present volume, 

 not leaving any thing to a future hand, which I found to be of moment, and 

 communicable to the public ; save only some few Latin works, which, by God s 

 favour and sufferance, shall soon after follow.&quot; 



Dr. Rawley s son was chaplain to Archbishop Tennison, who, in his Baco- 

 niana, published in 1679, says, &quot; It is my purpose to give a true and plain 

 account of the designs and labours of a very great philosopher amongst us ; and 

 to offer to the world, in some tolerable method, those remains of his which to 

 that end were put into my hands. Something of this hath been done already 

 by his lordship himself, and something further hath been added by the Reverend 

 Dr. Rawley ; but their remarks lay scattered in divers places, and here they 

 are put under one view, and have received very ample enlargements.&quot; But the 

 Essay of a King is not mentioned by the Archbishop, although, when com 

 menting upon the essays, he notices the &quot; Fragment of an Essay on Fame.&quot; 



3. In the century after the death of Lord Bacon, which was in April 1626, 

 various spurious works were ascribed to Lord Bacon. Dr. Rawley, in his 

 address to the reader in the Resuscitatio, in 1657, says, &quot; It is true that, for some 

 of the pieces herein contained, his lordship did not aim at the publication of 

 them, but at the preservation only, and prohibiting them from perishing: so as 

 to have been reposed in some private shrine or library ; but now for that, 

 through the loose keeping of his lordship s papers, divers surreptitious copies 

 have been taken, which have since employed the press with sundry corrupt and 

 mangled editions ; whereby nothing hath been more difficult than to find the 

 Lord Saint Alban in the Lord Saint Alban, and which have presented (some of 

 them) rather a fardle of nonsense than any true expressions of his lordship s 

 happy vein ; I thought myself, in a sort, tied to vindicate these injuries and 

 wrongs done to the monuments of his lordship s pen, and at once, by setting 

 forth the true and genuine writings themselves, to prevent the like invasions for 

 the time to come. And the rather, in regard of the distance of the time since 

 his lordship s days, whereby I shall not tread too near upon the heels of truth, 

 or of the passages and persons then concerned, I was induced hereunto, which, 

 considering the lubricity of life, and for that I account myself to be not now in 

 vergentibus, but in prcecipitaiitibus annis, I was desirous to hasten. Again, he 

 says in the same address : Lastly, if it be objected that some few of the pieces 

 whereof this whole consisteth had visited the public light before, it is true that 

 they had been obtruded to the world by unknown hands, but with such scars 

 and blemishes upon their faces, that they could pass but for a spurious and 

 adulterine brood, and not for his lordship s legitimate issue ; and the publishers 

 and printers of them, deserve to have an action of defamation brought against 

 them by the state of learning, for disgracing and personating his lordship s 

 works.&quot; 



4. In the year 1642, the political disturbances in England raged in great 

 fury. &quot; The Commons&quot; (says Hume, speaking of the early part of 1642) 

 were sensible that monarchical government, which during so many ages had 

 been established in England, would soon regain some degree of its former 

 dignity, after the present tempest was over blown ; nor would all their new 

 invented limitations be able totally to suppress an authority to which the nation 

 had ever been accustomed. The sword alone, to which all human ordinances 

 must submit, could guard their acquired power, and fully ensure to them per 

 sonal safety against the rising indignation of their sovereign : this point, there 

 fore became the chief object of their aims. Hume, vol. vi. p. 420. 



5. In 1642, a tract was published, of which there is a copy in the 



