A REPORT 



MADE BY 



SIR FRANCIS BACON, KNIGHT, 



IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 



OF A SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE EARL OP SALISBURY ; AND ANOTHER SPEECH 

 DELIVERED BY THE EARL OF NORTHAMPTON, AT A CONFERENCE CONCBRNI NG THE 

 PETITION OF THE MERCHANTS UPON THE SPANISH GRIEVANCES. 



Parliament 5 Jacobi. 



AND it please you, Mr. Speaker, I do not find 

 myself any ways bound to report that which passed 

 at the last conference touching the Spanish grieve- 

 ances, having been neither employed to speak, nor 

 appointed to report in that cause. But because it 

 is put upon me by a silent expectation, grounded 

 upon nothing, that I know, more than that I was 

 observed diligently to take notes ; I am content, if 

 that provision which I made for mine own remem 

 brance may serve this house for a report, not to deny 

 you that sheaf that I have in haste bound up. It is 

 true, that one of his majesty s principal counsellors 

 in causes of estate did use a speech that contained a 

 world of matter; but how I shall be able to make 

 a globe of that world, therein I fear mine own 

 strength. 



His lordship took the occasion of this, which 



