Personal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers

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Bacons proposals
36
CHAPTER II
42
CONTENTS IX
44
Bacons prospects dashed by Essex
54
Bacons legal employments
71
Roman Catholic conspiracy at Essex House
73
Essex confers with ONeile
103
The plot renewed
115
They cease their intercourse
117
Elizabeth at Whitehall
121
Essex put on trial
123
Essex confesses against his accomplices
126
State Paper on Essexs treason
127
Elizabeths gifts to Bacon
129
Council to Coke Aug 6 1601
130
Mysterious escape of Monteagle from justice
131
Lord Campbells judgment of Bacons conduct
132
Contemporary opinions Double elections for Ipswich and St Albans
133
CHAPTER VII
135
Bacon and the new court
136
The session of 1604 Election of Speaker
138
Grievances of the Commons Union with Scotland
139
Bacons position in the House
140
Lord Campbells errors
141
Alice Barnham
142
Alice Barnhams mother and sisters
143
Sir John Pakington
144
Westwood Park
146
Excitement in the country
148
Bacons tolerance Case of Tobie Mathews
150
Sir John and the ladies in London
151
Differences between Sir John and Bacon Bacons political views
153
Cecil consults him on the money bills
155
Warm debate on subsidies
156
Bacons fears of a division
157
Rumour that the King is slain
158
Bacons speech
159
Proposes to Alice His worldly position and prospects
160
The wedding feast Alices dowry
161
A new disappointment Egertons suggestion
163
The Government in difficulties Bacon conciliated
164
Fullers speech against the Scots
165
Bacons reply
167
Bacon appointed SolicitorGeneral
169
Bacon to Cecil Aug 24 1608
171
Spanish designs against Virginia Fleet under Gates
178
Bacon proposed for Secretary of State
185
His infamous character
201
Condemned by Archbishop Abbott
203
Peachams accusation of his patron John Paulett
204
Commission of examination
205
Question by torture
207
Character of the age
208
Bacon opposed to judicial torture
209
Peachams condemnation
211
Macaulays assertion on the practice of consulting the judges
212
The precedent of Legate
213
Charge against Paulett abandoned
214
CHAPTER
215
The Romanist party at Court Lady Somerset Murder of Overbury
216
His early
217
Inquiry into the crime Rise of Villiers
218
Trial of the murderers
219
The Earl and Countess arraigned
220
James message to Coke through Bacon
230
The judges on their trial
231
Bacon defends himself against Coke
232
Baçon sworn of the Council Procures the restoration of Dr Burgess
233
Lady Hatton deserts him
235
Bacon to the King Dec 7 1616
236
Monson pardoned
237
Mysterious tale of Lady Arabella having borne a son Bacons inquiry
238
Bacon receives the Seals
240
CHAPTER XI
242
Story of Egertons later days
243
The gold and silver thread business
244
Egerton opposes the patent to Mompesson
245
Buckingham loses by the transfer of the Seals to Bacon
246
Lady Hatton
247
Frances Coke sold to Sir John Villiers Lady Hattons opposi tion Escape to Oatlands
248
Bacon refuses Lady Buckinghams request for warrants of arrest
250
Coke threatened with proceedings submits
251
Lord Campbells errors
253
Marriage of Sir John Villiers and Frances Coke
254
Domestic broils of Sir John Pakington Bacons delicacy and consideration
255
Chamberlain to Carleton July 5 1617
256
Suddenness of his fall
257
CHAPTER XII
258
Fees on the bench
259
Fees at the bar
260
Fees not an old grievance
261
Bills to limit fees rejected by the Commons
262
Sir Francis Bacons speech on fees in 1606
263
Desire to change the system
267
Lady Buckingham hostile to Bacon Sir Lionel Cranfield Sir James Ley
268
Sir Henry Yelverton
269
Bacons notes of a speech Nov 10 1620
271
Yelverton condemned
272
Coventry Attorney
273
His ambition and unscrupulousness
274
Lady Buckinghams lover John Williams
275
The confederacy against Bacon
277
John Churchill
279
The Chancery clerks
281
Sir George Reynell
283
The new session
284
CHAPTER XIII
285
Agitation in England
287
Preliminaries of the session
288
Writs go out James alarmed by the elections
293
Coke heads the fanatics
295
Inquiry into abuses welcomed by Bacon
296
Quarrel of Scrope and Berkshire Bacon offends Lady Buck ingham
298
Aubrey and Egertons cases brought forward
300
Heneage Finch defends Bacon
301
Churchills evidence
302
Bacons confidence
303
The twentytwo charges
305
The case sent up to the Lords
309
Ley appointed to preside
310
Preliminary vote in the Peers
312
Bacons confession
315
Ley delivers sentence
316
Sep 4 1623
317
APPENDICES
335
LETTERS FROM FRANCIS BACON TO VARIOUS PERSONS
364
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TítuloPersonal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers
Volumen549 de Collection of British Authors
AutorWilliam Hepworth Dixon
EditorBernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig)
EditorBernhard Tauchnitz, 1861
Procedencia del originalla Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Digitalizado28 Abr. 2010
Largo422 páginas
  
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