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tnralis & Experimentalis dc Forma Calidi; De M'otut, 
five Virtutis aCtivas variis fpeciebus; Ratio inveniendi 
caufas Fluxtis & Reftuxus Maris, &c. See'. 4. Silva Si 1 - 
varum, five Hiftoria Naturalis. 5. Novus Atlas. 6. Hil- 
toria Regni Henrici VII. Anglia: Regis. 7. Sermones Fi- 
deles, Etliici, Folitici, Oeconomici. 8. De SapientiaVe- 
teritm. 
The following notices of this great man are copied from 
Mr. Aubrey’s MS. in the Afiitnolean library at Oxford : 
“ Mr. Thomas Hobbes (Malnjlntrienjis) was beloved by 
lord Bacon. He was wont to have him walke with him in 
his delicate groves, when he did meditate; and, when a 
notion darted into his head, Mr. H. was prefently to write 
it down; and his lord(hip was wont to fay, that he did it 
better than any one elfe about hint, for that, many times 
when he read their notes, he fcarce underftood what they 
writ, becaufe they underflood it not clearly themfelves. 
In fhort, all that were great and good loved and honoured 
him. Sir Ed. Coke, lord chief juft-ice, always envied him, 
and undervalued his law, and I knew lawyers that remem¬ 
bered it. Lord Bacon was lord protestor duringe king 
James’s progreffe into Scotland, and gave audience in great 
Hate to ambalfadors at Whitehall, in the Banqueting-houfe. 
He would many times have mulicke in the next roome 
where he meditated. The aviary at Yorke Houfe was 
built by his lord(hip : it coft three hundred pounds. At 
every meale, according to the feafon of the yeere, he had 
his table ftrewed with fweet herbs and flowers, which he 
faid did refrefh his fpirits. When he was at his country;-■ 
houfe at Gorhaniftury, St. Alban’s feemed as if the court 
had been there, lb nobly did lie live; his fervants had li¬ 
veries with his creft. His watermen were more employed 
by gentlemen than any other, except the king’s. 
“ His lordfhip being in Yorke Houfe garden looking on 
fifliers as they were throwing their nett, afked them what 
they would take for their draught; they anfwered, So 
much. But hi^ lordfhip would offer them no more but fo 
much. They drew up their netts, and it were onley two or 
three little fillies. His lordfhip then told them it had been 
better for them to have taken his offer. They replyed, 
they hoped to have had- a better draught; but, fay’d his 
lordfhip, hope is a good breakfalt, but an ill flipper. 
“ When his lordfhip was in disfavour, his neighbours, 
hearing how much he was indebted, came to him with a 
motion to buy oake wood of him ; his lordlhip told them 
he would not fell his feathers. 
“ The earle of Manchefter being removed from his , 
place of lord cliiefe juftice of tiie Comoh Pleas to be lord 
prefident of the councell, told my lord (upon his fall) that 
he was forry to fee him made Inch an example. Lord Ba¬ 
con replied, it did not trouble him, finc'e he was made a 
prefident. 
“ The bifliop of London did cutt down a- noble flow’d 
of trees at Fulham ; the lord chancellor told him that he 
was a good expounder of darke places. 
“ Upon his being in clis-favour, his fervants fuddeniy 
went away : he compared them to the flying of the ver¬ 
min, when the houfe was falling. 
“ One told his lordfhip, it was now time to looke about 
him. He replied, I doe not looke about, 1 looke above me.’ 
“ His lordfhip would often drinke a good draught of 
flrong beer (March beer) to bedwarris, to lay his working 
fancy afleep, which otherwife would keepe him from fieep- 
ing great part of the night. He had a delicate lively ha¬ 
zel eie. Dr. Harvey fayd, ‘ it was like the eie of a viper.’ 
“ Mr. Hobbes told Mr. Aubrey, that “ the caufe of his 
lordfliip’s death was trying an experiment, viz. As he was 
taking the aire in a coach with Dr. Witherborne towards 
Higligate, fnptv lay on the ground, and it came into my 
lord’s thoughts why flefn might not be preferved in Inow 
as in fait. They were refolved to try the experiment, and 
ftaid fo long in doing it, that lord Bacon got a Ihivering 
fit. He went to lord Arundel’s houfe at Highgate, where 
he was put into a damp bed, and died a few days after¬ 
wards.” 
B A C 6 'oy 
Lord (Ja'ton fays finely of Chriilianity, ** There hath 
not been difeovered in'any age, any- philofophy, opinion,- 
religion, law, or difciplitie, which fo greatly exalts the 
common, and lelfens the individual, intereft, as the Chrif- 
tian religion doth. His rule refpeCting ftudy, and the ap¬ 
plication of the powers of the mind, is excellent: “ Prac- 
tife them chiefly at two feveral times; the one when the 
mind is well difpofed, the other when it is worfl difpofed; 
that by the one you may gain a great flep, by the other 
you may work out the knots and ftondes of the mind, and 
make the middle times more eafy and pleafant.” 
Not long before lord Bacon’s death, he was vifited by 
the marquis d’Effiat, a Frenchman of rank and learning. 
Lord Bacon was ill, and received him in his bed-chamber 
with the curtains drawn. The marquis, on entering the 
room, paid him this very elegant compliment: “Your 
lordfhip refembles the angels. We have all heard of them; 
we are all defirous to fee them ; and we never have that 
fatisfaftion.” 
Lord Bacon inferibed the feat in Gray’s Inn gardens, 
which he had put up to the memory of his friend Mr. Bet- 
tenham, as follows: “ Francifcus Bacon Regis Soliicitor 
Generalis Executor Teftamenti Jeremiae Bettenham nuper 
LeCtoris hujus Hofpitij Viri innocentis abftinentis & con- 
templativi Hanc Sedem in Memoriam ejufdem Jeremiae 
exflruxit. Anno Dom. 1609.” 
Wilfon, in fpeaking of the fentence pafTed upon the lord 
treafurer Effex, obferves, “ Which fentence was pronoun¬ 
ced by the lord chancellor Bacon,'who, though he were of 
tranfeendent parts, yet he was tainted with the fame infec¬ 
tion, and not many years after perifhed in his own corrup¬ 
tion ; which fliews, that neither example nor precept (he 
having feen fo many, and been made capable of fo much) 
can be a pilot fufficient to' any port of happinefs (though 
reafon be never fo able to direCt) if grace doth not give 
the gale.” 
Bacon (Sir Nathaniel), knight of the bath, and an ex¬ 
cellent painter, was a younger fon of the lord keeper, and 
half brother to the great Sir Francis. He travelled into 
Italy, and llndied painting there; but his manner and co¬ 
louring approach nearer to the ftyle of the Flemifh fchooh 
Mr. Walpole obferves, that at Culford, where he lived, 
are preferved fome of his works; and at Gorhambury, 
his father’s feat, is a large picture by him in oil, of a cook- 
maid with a dead fowl, admirably painted. 
Bacon, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segeftan, 
eighty miles aiotth-north-eaft of Zareng. 
BACO'NE,- a town of Italy, in the duchy of Tufcany, . 
twenty-eight miles north-eaft of Florence. 
BA'CONTHORP (John), called the refolvte dofior, a 
learned monk, was born in the 13th century, at Bacon- 
thorp, a village in' Norfolk. He fpent the early part of his 
life in the convent of Blackney, near Walfingham, whence 
he removed to Oxford, and from thence to Paris; where, 
beingdiftinguifhed for his learning, he obtained degrees in 
divinity and laws, ant) was efteemed the principal of the 
Averroifts. In 1329 he returned to England, and was im¬ 
mediately chofen twelfth provincial of the Englifh Car¬ 
melites. In 1333 he was fent for to Rome; where, we 
are told, he nrft maintained the pope’s fovereign authority 
in cafes of divorce, but that he afterwards retraced his 
opinion. He died in London in 1346. He wrote, i. Com- 
mentaria feu qtiasftiones fuper quatuor libros fententia- 
rum; and, 2. Compendium legis Chrifti, et quodlibeta; 
both which underwent feveral editions at Paris, Milan, and 
Cremona. Leland, Bale, and Pits, mention a number of 
his works never publilhed. 
B ACO'PA,yi in botany, a genus of the clafs penfandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of fucculentas. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx ; perianthium one-leafed, five- 
parted; two of the parts oblong, concave, acute; the two 
inferior deflex, ovate, acute; the Angle fuperior one broad¬ 
er, roundifii, undulated. Corolla: one-petalled; tube - 
lhort, towards the orifice a little enlarged ; border five- 
parted; parts ovate-oblong, obtufc, equal, fpreading. Sta- 
