THE SPEECH USED BY SIR FRANCIS BACON, 

 LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND, 



TO SIR WILLIAM JONES, 



UPON HIS CALLING TO BE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE 

 OF IRELAND, 1617. 



SIR WILLIAM JONES, 



THE King s most excellent Majesty, being duly in 

 formed of your sufficiency every way, hath called 

 you, by his writ now returned, to the state and degree 

 of a serjeant at law ; but not to stay there, but, 

 being so qualified, to serve him as his chief justice 

 of his King s bench in his realm of Ireland. And 

 therefore that which I shall say to you, must be 

 applied not to your Serjeant s place, which you take 

 but in passage, but to that great place where you 

 are to settle ; and because I will not spend time to 

 the delay of the business of causes of the court, I 

 will lead you the short journey by examples, and not 

 the long by precepts. 



The place that you shall now serve in, hath been 

 fortunate to be well served in four successions before 

 you : do but take unto you the constancy and in 

 tegrity of Sir Robert Gardiner ; the gravity, temper, 

 and direction of Sir James Lea ; the quickness, in- 



