PREFACE. 



pers placed by the tomb and the altar, in the ca 

 thedral, smoking with them like an offertory, with 

 all the ceremonies, and voices, their quires and 

 copes could express, attended by many prelates 

 and nobles, who paid this last tribute to her me 

 mory.&quot;* Before this time Bacon had written his 

 essay in &quot; Felicem Memoriam Elizabethae,&quot; which 

 he sent to Sir George Carew, whose death 

 M. De Thou laments, in a letter to Mr. Camden, 

 in the year 1613. The following is the letter to 

 Sir George Carew.f &quot; Being asked a question by 

 &quot; this bearer, an old servant of my brother Anthony 

 &quot; Bacon s, whether I would command him any 

 &quot; thing into France ; and being at better leisure 

 &quot; than I would, in regard of sickness, I began to re- 

 &quot; member that neither your business nor mine, 

 ({ though great and continual, can be, upon an exact 

 &quot; account, any just occasion why so much good-will 

 &quot; as hath passed between us should be so much dis- 



* Wilson. 



&quot; f Sir George Carew, of Cornwall, was Master in Chancery in 

 &quot;the time of queen Elizabeth; and in 1597 sent ambassador 

 &quot; into Poland ; and in 1606 went to the court of France with the 

 &quot; like character. After about three years continuance, he was 

 &quot; recalled by the king to make use of his services at home ; but 

 he survived not many years. M. De Thou in a letter to Mr. 

 &quot; Camden in 1613, very much laments his death; as losing a 

 friend he much valued, and an assistant in the prosecution of 

 &quot; his history : having received helps from him in that part which 

 &quot;relates to the dissentions between the Poles and the Swedes in 

 &quot; the year 1598, as appears before the contents of book cxxi.&quot; 

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