A SPEECH 



MADE BY 



SIR FRANCIS BACON, KNIGHT, 



CHOSEN EY THE COMMONS TO PRESENT 



A PETITION TOUCHING PURVEYORS. 



DELIVERED TO HIS MAJESTY IN THE WITHDRAWING-CHAMBER AT 

 WHITEHALL, 



In the Parliament heldPrimo et Secundo JACOBI, the First Session. 



IT is well known to your majesty, excellent king, 

 that the emperors of Rome, for their better glory 

 and ornament, did use in their titles the additions of 

 the countries and nations where they had obtained 

 victories ; as &quot; Germanicus, Britannicus,&quot; and the 

 like. But after all those names, as in the higher 

 place, followed the name of &quot; Pater Patrige,&quot; as the 

 greatest name of all human honour immediately pro 

 ceeding that name of Augustus ; whereby they took 

 themselves to express some affinity that they had, 

 in respect of their office, with divine honour. Your 

 majesty might, with good reason, assume to your 

 self many of those other names ; as &quot; Germani- 

 &quot; cus, Saxonicus, Britannicus, Francicus, Danicus, 

 &quot; Gothicus,&quot; and others, as appertaining to you not by 

 bloodshed, as they bare them, but by blood ; your 



