Personal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers

William Hepworth Dixon

Ticknor and Fields, 1861 - Biography & Autobiography - 424 pages

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CHAPTER	1

Mysterious tale of Lady Arabella having borne a	5

Hume Hallam Lingard and Macaulay	7

Mary Queen of Scots	11

Sickness of his mother	12

Difficulties of the satirical theory	13

A Queens ward	17

consideration	18

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

Cecils riches and prosperity	170

Picture of Bacon in his youth	173

Bacon defends his speech	23

CHAPTER II	42

Page	44

Bacons prospects dashed by Essex	54

The Roman League	71

Attempt to excite mutiny	77

Blount	85

Session of 1597 Bacon member for Ipswich	89

Great motion on the State of the Country	90

Yeomen and the land Deer and parks	91

Jesuits on the land question	92

Bacons proposals	93

Success of Bacons measures	94

Grant of Cheltenham and Charlton Kings	95

CHAPTER V	96

Plan of the plotters	97

Irish insurrection	98

Movement of English troops	99

Coke marries Lady Hatton	100

Essex visits Grays Inn Bacons advice rejected	101

The Jesuits approve the plot	102

Roman Catholics in command	103

Lord Southampton	104

Armaments in England Essex returns	105

Shakespeares Richard the Second Essex arrested	106

Montjoy goes to Dublin Woods confession	107

Bacons generosity	108

Bacon ignorant of Essex real crimes	109

Intercedes with the Queen	110

Haywards seditious tract	111

Bacons note to Howard	112

Essex liberated The Queens pledge	113

CHAPTER VI	115

Catesby Wright and Winter	116

Valentine Thomas secret mission	117

The secret kept	118

Attempt on Raleigh	119

Send for Phillips to Essex House Shakespeares play performed	120

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

10	145

The street demonstration 121	146

Bacon in love	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

Bacon proposed for Secretary of State	182

The case of Peacham	200

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

Publication of The Wife	218

Trial of the murderers	219

The Earl and Countess arraigned	220

Bacon pleads for clemency	221

Bacons domestic trials Sir John quarrels with Lady Pakington Warrant of search	222

Lady Pakington tries to rule Bacon His defence	223

Bacon to Lady Pakington 1616	224

Sir William and Sir Thomas Monson	225

Bacons efforts to save them Cokes animosity	226

Popular feeling against Sir Thomas	227

Case of Commendams	228

James message to Coke through Bacon	230

The judges on their trial	231

Bacon defends himself against Coke	232

Ba�on 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

Buckingham loses by the transfer of the Seals to Bacon	242

Lady Hatton	248

Domestic broils of Sir John Pakington Bacons delicacy	255

Fees at the	261

Lady Buckingham hostile to Bacon Sir Lionel Cranfield	267

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

Bacon to King James	327

Death of Bacon	333

LETTER FROM ANTHONY BACON TO FRANCIS BACON	414

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Title	Personal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers Volume 549 of Collection of British Authors Collections sp�ciales Household library of biography Ticknor and Fields's Household Library of Biography
Author	William Hepworth Dixon
Publisher	Ticknor and Fields, 1861
Original from	the Complutense University of Madrid
Digitized	28 Apr 2010
ISBN	0849299586, 9780849299582
Length	424 pages
Subjects	Biography & Autobiography › Literary Figures Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures

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