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queen, altho Essex had been his friend and greatest bene- 
factor; on the death of Elizabeth began to push himself for 
office as usual, but was not appointed to any office except 
king's counsel until 1607 when he was made solicitor-general; 
when on his own suggestion Coke was made chief justice 
of the King’s Bench he was made attorney-general in 1613; 
and finally in 1616 he was made chancellor, following Lord 
Ellesmere. He was an unsuccessful rival with Coke for Lady 
Hatton, and a life-long enemy of Coke. He published his 
Essays in 1598, and his Novum Organum in 1620. Bacon 
was a fulsome flatterer and always pushing himself forward. 
The Commons accused him of having received bribes, fined 
him £40,000, imprisoned him in the Tower and incapacitated 
him from holding office, but the king later remitted the fine 
and pardoned him. He was summoned to the Parliament 
called by Charles I, but was too sick to attend. He died try- 
ing an experiment as to the preservation of meat in snow. 
Bacon was a fair orator, an eminent philosopher, a finished 
lawyer, an energetic judge, and a man guilty of all the faults 
of which he wrote, — depreciation and envy of rivals, adula- 
tion of king, ingratitude to friends, encouragement of 
despotism, and susceptibility to bribery. 
Nottingham (1621-1682). Heneage Finch, Earl of Notting- 
ham, has been called the father of equity. He attended Christ 
Church, Oxford ; was a member of the Inner Temple, of which 
in later life he was treasurer and reader; was called to the 
bar and attained a good practice, as is shown by Siderfin’s 
Reports ; was returned to Parliament in 1660; a week after 
the king’s return was appointed solicitor-general and given 
a baronetcy; he was next appointed attorney-general; then 
lord keeper of the Great Seal; and finally chancellor in 1675. 
Nottingham was a loyalist, and wholly conducted the trial of 
the regicides. The trial was fair, but he said that Milton 
ought to be hanged. He lived at Kensington, which was later 
bought by William as a palace for the king. He was called 
the “English Cicero”. He summed up the evidence in the 
trial of Lord Morley for murder. He presided as Lord 
Steward three times, in the trials of Pembroke, Cornwallis, 
and Stafford. He was a man of great ability and incorrupti- 
ble. There is not one story to his discredit. He was the 
author of the Statute of Frauds, but his principal work was 
