Ricut Honourasre 
FRANCIS BACON 
Baron of V erulam , Vilcount Se. Alban. 
tithias RANCIS BACON the Glory, of bis 
— # Ageand Nation, The Adorner, and Orna- 
= 3 = mentof Learning ; Was bornin York-houie| 
wsysytgs or York-Place, ea the Strand, On the 22th 
ee Day of January; é# the Year of our Lord,1560, 
His Father was that famous Councellor to Queen Elizabeth, 
|The fecond Prop ofthe Kingdom in his Time, Sir Nicholas 
Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Eng- 
land; a Lord of known Prudence, Sufficiency, Moderation,| 
and Integrity. His Mother was Ann, one of the Daugh- 
ters of Sir Anthony Cook; unto whom the Erudition , of 
‘King Edward the Sixth, bad been committed: A choyee 
Lady, and Eminent tor Piety, Vertue, and Learning ; “Being 
) exquifitely skilled, for aWoman, inthe Greek, amd Latine, 
. Tongues. Thefe being the Parents , you may eafily imagine, 
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