NOTKS Y Y Y V 7. /.?./.. 



From an indication which occurs in a collection of Poems in honour of Bacon 

 edited immediately after his death l,y Kuwley, Mowri* Allmni Sacrum 

 4/0. 1626, good evidence may be adduced that the saicasm contained in the 

 lines, 



&quot; Instaurare paras veterum documenta sophorum, 

 Instaura leges, justitiamque prius,&quot; 



had been circulated, and if so, most probably by the author himself through 

 the Inns of Court. Robert Ashley, of the Middle Temple, is one of the con 

 tributors, and thus indignantly refers to those very lines and the objection they 

 convey : 



&quot; Scripta decent ; veterum queis hie monumenta sophorum 

 Censura castigat acii ; exiguoque libello 

 Stupendos ausus docet &amp;lt; INSTADRATIO MAGNA. &quot; 



This was not ill done with respect to the Latin gibe, but with regard to 

 English as well as Latin, the taunt upon his wisdom, or the sneer at his know 

 ledge of the principles of justice, Bacon himself had already, and as it were 

 by anticipation, done much better. Long ago had he given the very best reply 

 to the nbbald allusion into which his device of a ship upon its adventurous 

 voyage beyond the Pillars of Hercules, had tempted an ungenerous rival. Long 

 before had he set an example which fixed the fully on him who would not or 

 could not profit by it. In expressing his opinion of another s labours, he too 

 had spoken of a ship ; but it was in a strain of higher mood, where justice and 

 admiration united to drown the jarring notes of rivalry and self. In 1613 thus 

 did Bacon, then Attorney General, write to his king : &quot; Had it not been for 

 Sir Edward Coke s reports (which though they may have errors, and some 

 peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they 

 contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases,) the law by this time 

 had been almost like a ship without ballast.&quot; 



[For the two preceding notes I am indebted to my kind and intellectual 

 friend, B. H. Bright.] 



NOTE ZZZZ. 



Nicholls, in his Progresses of Elizabeth, says, in each year an exact inventory 

 was made on a roll signed by the Queen, and attested by the proper officers. 

 *ive of these rolls are preserved at full length in these volumes; the earliest in 

 1561-2, the latest in 1 599-1600. The following from page 45 is a specimen : 



&quot;Anno Regni Reginae 42 Eliz. 1599, 1600. New yeares guyftes geven to 

 the Quene s majestic at her manner of Richmonde, the firste day of January, 

 in the yeare abovesayde, by these persones whose names hereafter ensue, viz. 



By Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight, Lord Keeper of the greate seale of En&amp;lt;*- 

 lande, one amuylet of gold, garnished with sparkes of rubyes, pearle, and halfe 

 pearle. 



&quot; By the Lord Buckhurste, Lord High Treasurer of Englande,in golde, 10. 

 delivered to Henry Sackford, esquyer, one of the groomes of her maiestie s 

 privy chamber. 



&quot; By the Lord Marques Win , in golde, 20. 



&quot; Earles. 



&quot; By the Earl of Nottingham, Lord Admyrall, one karcanett, containinge 29 

 pieces of golde, whereof nyne bigger pieces and tenne lesser, 18 pendantes like 

 mul lettes, likewise garnished with small rubyes and pearle, with a round Jewell 

 pendant in the myddest, garnished with one white topaz, and a pearle pendant 

 and nine small rubyes. 



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