NOTES 3 X 3 Y 3 2. 



vulgar hands, yet was first divulged by copies every where, that being, as it 

 seemeth, the newest and finest form of libelling, and since committed to the 

 press : her majesty in her wisdom seeing manifestly these rumours thus nourished 

 had got too great a head to be repressed without some hearing of the cause, and 

 calling my lord to answer.&quot; 



3 X. Life, p. Iviii. 



The following is from the Lord s Charge in opening the cause. &quot; And yet 

 on the other side, being still informed touching my lord himself of his continu 

 ance of penitence and submission, did in conclusion resolve to use justice, but 

 with the edge and point taken off and rebated ; for whereas nothing leaveth that 

 teint upon honour, which in a person of my lord s condition is hardliest repaired, 

 in question of justice, as to be called to the ordinary and open place of offen 

 ders and criminals, her majesty had ordered that the hearing should be intra do- 

 mesticos parietes, and not luceforensi. And whereas again in the Star-chamber 

 there be certain formalities not fit in. regard of example to be dispensed with, 

 which would strike deeper both into my lord s fortune and reputation ; as the 

 fine which is incident to a sentence there given, and the imprisonment of the 

 Tower, which in case of contempts that touch the point of estate doth likewise 

 follow ; her majesty turning this course had directed that the matters should 

 receive, before a great honorable and selected council, a full and deliberate, and 

 yet in respect a private, mild, and gracious hearing.&quot; 



3 Y. Life, p. lix. 



Bacon s account of the whole proceeding is as follows : &quot; And then did 

 some principal counsellers send for us of the learned counsel, and notify her 

 majesty s pleasure unto us, save that it was said to me openly by one of them, 

 that her majesty was not yet resolved whether she would have me forborn in the 

 business or no. And hereupon might arise that other sinister and untrue speech 

 that I heard is raised of me, how I was a suitor to be used against my Lord of 

 Essex at that time : for it is very true, that I that knew well what had passed 

 between the Queen and me, and what occasion I had given her both of distaste 

 and distrust, incrossing her disposition, by standing steadfastly for my Lord of 

 Essex, and suspecting it also to be a stratagem arising from some particular 

 emulation, I writ to her two or three words of compliment, signifying to her 

 majesty, that if she would be pleased to spare me in my Lord of Essex s cause, 

 out of the consideration she took of my obligation towards him, I should reckon 

 it for one of her greatest favours : but otherwise desiring her majesty to think that 

 I knew the degrees of duties, and that not particular obligation whatsoever to 

 any subject could supplant or weaken that entiredness of duty that I did owe and 

 bear to her and her service ; and this was the goodly suit I made, being a res 

 pect no man that had his wits could have omitted : but nevertheless I had a 

 further reach in it ; for I judged that day s work would be a full period of any 

 bitterness or harshness between the Queen and my lord, and therefore if I 

 declared myself fully according to her mind at that time, which could not do my 

 lord any manner of prejudice, I should keep my credit with her ever after, 

 whereby to do my lord service.&quot; Bacon s Apology, vol. vi. 256. 



3 Z. Life, p. Ix. 



The following is the whole of that passage. &quot; There is formed in every thing 

 a double nature of good, the one as every thing is a total or substantive in itself, 

 the other as it is a part or member of a greater body ; whereof the latter is in 

 degree the greater and the worthier, because it teudeth to the conservation of a 

 more general form : therefore we see the iron in particular sympathy moveth to 

 the loadstone, but yet if it exceed a certain quantity, it forsaketh the affection to 

 the loadstone, and like a good patriot moveth to the earth, which is the region 

 and country of massy bodies ; so may we go forward and see that water and 



