NOTE II HII. 



Upon taking his seat in Chancery, having explained his intention as to his 

 mode of discharging his judicial duties, he says, &quot; The depth of the three long 

 vacations I would reserve in some measure free from business of estate, and for 

 studies, arts, and sciences, to which in my own nature I am most inclined.&quot; 



NOTE HHH. 



Towards his rising years, not before, he entered into a married estate, and 

 took to wife, Alice, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Benedict Barnham, Esq. 

 and alderman of London, with whom he received a sufficiently ample and liberal 

 portion in marriage. Children he had none : which, though they be the means 

 to perpetuate our names after our deaths ; yet he had other issues to perpetuate 

 his name : the issues of his brain ; in which he was ever happy and admired ; 

 as Jupiter was in the production of Pallas. Neither did the want of children 

 detrast from his good usage of his consort, during the intermarriage ; whom he 

 prosecuted with much conjugal love and respect, with many rich gifts and endow 

 ments, besides a robe of honour which he invested her withal, which she wore 

 until her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death. Rawley. 



Mallet s life, page xlix. He continued single till after forty, and then took 

 to wife a daughter of Alderman Barnham of London, with whom he received a 

 plentiful fortune, but had by her no children ; and she outlived him upwards of 

 twenty years. 



The following is from Lord Bacon s will : Devises and legacies to my wife, 

 I give grant and confirm to my loving wife by this my last will, whatsoever hath 

 been assured to her, or mentioned or intended to be assured to her by any 

 former deed, be it either my lands in Hertfordshire, or the farm of the seal, or 

 the gift of goods in accomplishment of my covenants of marriage ; and I give 

 her also the ordinary stuff at Gorhambury, as wainscot tables stools, bedding, and 

 the like ; always reserving and excepting the rich hangings with their covers, 

 the table carpets, and the long cushions, and all other stuff which was or is 

 used in the long gallery ; and also a rich chair which was my neice Caesar s 

 gift, and also the armour, and also all tables of marble and towch : I give also 

 to my wife my four coach geldings and my best caroache, and her own coach 

 mares and caroache : I give also and grant to my wife the one half of the rent 

 which was reserved upon Reades lease for her life ; which rent although I in 

 tended to her merely for her better maintenance while she lived at her own 

 charge, and not to continue after my death, yet because she has begun to receive 

 it, I am content to continue it to her ; and I conceive by this advancement, which 

 first and last, I have left her, besides her own inheritance, I have made her of 

 competent abilities to maintain the estate of a viscountess, and given sufficient 

 tokens of my love and liberality towards her ; for I do reckon (and that with the 

 least) that Gorhambury and my lands in Hertfordshire, will be worth unto her 

 seven hundred pounds per annum besides Woodfells and the leases of the houses, 

 whereof five hundred pounds per annum only I was tied unto my covenants upon 

 marriage ; so as the two hundred pounds and better was mere benevolence ; 

 the six hundred pounds per annum upon the farm of the writs was likewise mere 

 benevolence ; her own inheritance also, with that she purchased with part of her 



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not think it less than it is. 



What was Bacon s motive for this bequest it seems difficult to discover, for in 

 the very same will there is the following clause : &quot; Whatsoever I have given, 

 granted, confirmed, or appointed to my wife, in the former part of this my will, 

 I do now for just and great causes utterly revoke and make void, and leave her 

 to her right only.&quot; 



It was not, without some difficulty, that I discovered the place where Lady 

 Verulam is buried. 



Newcomb in his history of St. Albans, page 503, says, &quot; He married Alice, 

 a daughter of Benedict Barnham, alderman of London, who is interred (as a 



