NOTES 4 O 4 If. 



theme selves into Paris with only viij gent, and soe was aded, but thankes be to 

 God, you fayled of it in London, but what followed ? the kinge was put to his 

 pilgrimage habit, and in them devised to escape from the feare of the Guies ; 

 you came with all hale to the citie, but thend was treason, as hath bene already 

 proved. 



There is another copy of this speech of Lord Bacon s, nearly in the same 

 words, in the Had. MS. No. 6854, fol. 231. See also State Trials. 



4 G. Life, p. xciv. 



Birch, vol. ii. p. 505. But in the beginning of June the year following her 

 majesty, in a conversation with Count de Beaumont, successor to Mons. de 

 Boissise, as ambassador to her from France, after owning herself to be weary of 

 life, with sighs and tears in her eyes, touched upon the subject of the earl s 

 death, and said, that having been apprehensive, from the impetuosity of his 

 temper and his ambition, that he would precipitate himself into destruction by 

 some ill design, she had advised him above two years before to content himself 

 with pleasing her on all occasions, and not to shew such an insolent contempt 

 for her as he did ; but to take care not to touch her sceptre, lest she should be 

 obliged to punish him according to the laws of England, and not according to 

 her own, which he had found too mild and favourable for him to fear any suffer 

 ing from them ; but that her advices, however salutary and affectionate, could 

 not prevent his ruin. 



The ambassador wrote again to his master on the 28th of March, N.S. that 

 the Queen continued to grow worse, and appeared already in a manner insen 

 sible, not speaking sometimes for two or three hours, and within the last two 

 days not for above four and twenty, holding her finger almost continually in her 

 mouth, with her eyes open and fixed upon the ground, where she sat upon 

 cushions without rising or resting herself, and was greatly emaciated by her long 

 watching and fasting. 



In his next letter, of the 1st of April, N.S. he informs Mons. Villeroy, that the 

 Queen was drawing to her end, and had been abandoned the day before by all 

 her physicians, but was now forced in a manner into bed, after having sat ten 

 days upon cushions, refusing to repose herself on it except for one hour, and that 

 in her clothes. She seemed once to be so much better, calling for broth, that 

 those about her entertained some hopes of her ; but soon after began to lose her 

 speech, and from that time eat nothing, but lay on one side on the day of the 

 date of this letter, without speaking or looking upon any person, though the day 

 before she had directed some meditations to be read to her, and, among others, 

 those of Mons. du Plessis. 



4 H. Life, p. xciv. 



Between the year 1605 and 1612, Bacon wrote an Essay &quot; in Felicem 

 Memoriam Elizabeths.&quot; This appears by a letter of Lord Bacon s to Sir George 

 Carew, who was dead in 1613, as Mr. De Thou, in a letter to Mr. Camden, in 

 1613, laments his death. 



The following is a copy, from the Cabala and Stephens s collection, of the 

 letter : 



To Sir George Carew. 



My very good Lord, Being asked the question by this bearer, an old servant 

 of my brother Anthony Bacon s, whether I would command him any thing into 

 France ; and being at better leisure than I would, in regard of sickness, I began 

 to remember, that neither your business nor mine, (though great and continual) 

 can be, upon an exact account, any just occasion, why so much good will as 

 hath passed between us should be so much discontinued, as hath been. And 

 therefore, because one must begin, I thought to provoke your remembrance of 

 me by a letter ; and thinking to fit it with somewhat besides salutations, it came 



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