THE LETTERS AND THE LIFE

OF

FRANCIS BACON

INCLUDING ALL HIS

OCCASIONAL WORKS

NAMELY

LETTERS SPEECHES TRACTS STATE PAPERS MEMORIALS DEVICES
AND ALL AUTHENTIC WRITINGS NOT ALREADY PRINTED AMONG HIS
PHILOSOPHICAL LITERARY OR PROFESSIONAL WORKS

NEWLY COLLECTED AND SET FORTH

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

WITH A

COMMENTARY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL

BY

JAMES SPEDDING

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER.

1868.

CONTENTS

OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I.

A.D. 1607-8, OCT.-APRIL. ÆTAT. 47.

1. John Constable, married to a younger sister of Bacon's wife,

knighted at his request (Oct. 5, 1607). Suit made for Mr.

Temple

A LETTER TO MR. MURRAY, OF THE KING'S BEDCHAMBER

2. Flight of Tyrone and Tyrconnel from Ireland.

A LETTER TO MR. PERCE, SECRETARY TO THE DEPUTY OF

IRELAND

Page

1

2

5

6

TO SIR VINCENT SKINNER

7

Com-

A LETTER TO SIR JOHN DAVIS, HIS MAJESTY'S ATTORNEY

GENERAL IN IRELAND (Oct. 23, 1607)

3. Increase of Judges' salaries. Fee granted to Bacon. Delays in

A LETTER OF EXPOSTULATION

(24 Dec. 1607) .

4. Conversion of Toby Matthew to the Romish Church.

mitted to custody on his return to England. Allowed to visit

Bacon.

SIR FRANCIS BACON TO A FRIEND, ABOUT READING AND

GIVING JUDGMENT UPON HIS WRITINGS

Matthew refuses to take the oath and is committed to the Fleet

prison

TO MR. MATTHEW IMPRISONED FOR RELIGION

5. Relation between Bacon and Salisbury.

A LETTER TO THE EARL OF SALISBURY, OF COURTESY UPON

A NEW YEAR TIDE

6. Lady Packington (Bacon's wife's mother) and her sons-in-law 13

TO MY LADY PACKINGTON, IN ANSWER OF A MESSAGE BY