18 DR. RAWLEY'S LIFE OF BACON. 



he should die there of a gentle fever, accidentally accompanied 

 with a great cold, whereby the defluxion of rheum fell so plen- 

 tifully upon his breast, that he died by suffocation ; and was 

 buried in St. Michael's church at St. Albans ; being the place 

 designed for his burial by his last will and testament, both be- 

 cause the body of his mother was interred there, and because 

 it was the only church then remaining within the precincts of 

 old Yerulam : where he hath a monument erected for him in 

 white marble (by the care and gratitude of Sir Thomas Meautys, 

 knight, formerly his lordship's secretary, afterwards clerk of the 

 King's Honourable Privy Council under two kings) ; represent- 

 ing his full portraiture in the posture of studying, with an in- 

 scription composed by that accomplished gentleman and rare 

 wit, Sir Henry Wotton. 1 



But howsoever his body was mortal, yet no doubt his memory 

 and works will live, and will in all probability last as long as 

 the world lasteth. In order to which I have endeavoured (after 

 my poor ability) to do this honour to his lordship, by way of 

 conducing to the same. 



FINIS. 



FRANCISCUS BACON, BARO DE VERULAM, S \ ALBAN1 VIC mes , 



SEU NOTIORIBUS TITULIS 



SCIENTIARUM LUMEN FACUNDLSJ LEX 



SIC SEDEBAT. 



QUI POSTQUAM OMNIA NATURALIS SAPIENTI^ 



ET CIVILIS ARCANA EVOLVISSET 



NATURE DECRETUM EXPLEVIT 



COMPOSITA SOLVANTUR 



AN. DNI M.DC.XXVI. 

 LXVI. 



TANTI VIRI 



MEM. 



THOMAS MEAUTTJS 



MTPERST1TIS CULTOR 



1>EFUNCTI AUMIRATOR 



H. P, 



