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clear to those things objected against him, his lordship might stand upon his 

 innocency. 2. Where his answer should not be so fair and clear, there his 

 lordship might be admitted to the extenuation of the charge ; and where the 

 proofs were full, and undeniable, his lordship would ingenuously confess them, 

 and put himself upon the mercy of the lords. 



Unto all which his majesty s answer was, he referred him to the lords of this 

 house, and therefore his majesty willed his lordship to make report to their 

 lordships. 



It was thereupon ordered, that the Lord Treasurer should signify unto his 

 majesty, that the lords do thankfully acknowledge this his majesty s favour, and 

 hold themselves highly bound unto his majesty for the same. 



Account given by Mr. Bushel. 



The following is the account given by Mr. Bushel. Having mentioned his 

 lord s design of proposing several projects to the parliament for the public ser 

 vice, he then proceeds thus : &quot; Before this could be accomplished to his own 

 content, there arose such complaints against his lordship, and the then favourite 

 at court, that for some days put the king to this quere, whether he should per 

 mit the favourite of his affection, or the oracle of his council, to sink in his 

 service ; whereupon his lordship was sent for by the king, who, after some dis 

 course, gave him this positive advice, to submit himself to his house of peers, 

 and that (upon his princely word) he would then restore him again, if they (in 

 their honours) should not be sensible of his merits. Now, though my lord saw 

 his approaching ruin, and told his majesty there was little hopes of mercy in a 

 multitude, when his enemies were to give fire, if he did not plead for himself : 

 yet such was his obedience to him from whom he had his being, that he 

 resolved his majesty s will should be his only law, and so took leave of him 

 with these words, Those that will strike at your chancellor (it is much to be 

 feared), will strike at your crown, and wished, that as he was then the first, so 

 he might be the last of sacrifices. Soon after, (according to his majesty s com 

 mands) he wrote a submissive letter to the house, and sent me to my Lord 

 Windsor to know the result, which I was loth, at my return, to acquaint him 

 with ; for alas ! his sovereign s favour was not in so high a measure, but he 

 (like the phoenix) must be sacrificed in flames of his own raising, and so 

 perished (like Icarus) in that his lofty design. The great revenue of his office 

 being lost, and his titles of honour saved but by the bishops votes, whereto he 

 replied, that he was only bound to thank his clergy ; the thunder of which fatal 

 sentence did much perplex my troubled thoughts, as well as others, to see that 

 famous lord, who procured his majesty to call this parliament, must be the first 

 subject of their revengeful wrath, and that so unparalleled a master should be 

 thus brought upon the public stage, for the foolish miscarriage of his own ser 

 vants, whereof (with grief of heart) I confess myself to be one. Yet shortly 

 after, the king dissolved the parliament, but never restored that matchless lord 

 to his place, which made him then to wish, the many years he had spent in 

 state policy and law study, had been solely devoted to true philosophy : for, 

 (said he) the one, at the best, doth but comprehend man s frailty, in its greatest 

 splendour ; but the other, the mysterious knowledge of all things created in the 

 six days work.&quot; (a) 



(a) This note is divided into two parts. First, Some Account of Bushel. 

 Secondly, Observations upon the Account given by Bushel. 



I. Some Account of Bushel. 



Mr. Bushel s Abridgment of Lord Chancellor Bacon s Philosophical Theory of 

 Mineral Prosecutions. London : printed in the year 1659. 



It was the custom, in the time of Lord Bacon, for young men of property to 

 attach themselves, as pages, to noblemen of eminence. It appears that Mr. 



