HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

By THE SAME AUTHOR.

JOHN HOWARD: A MEMOIR.

ROBERT BLAKE: Admiral and General at Sea.

WILLIAM PENN: AN HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY. With a Reply to Lord Macaulay's charges against Penn.

THE LONDON PRISONS: With some account of the most celebrated persons confined in them.

PERSONAL

HISTORY OF LORD BACON.

FROM UNPUBLISHED PAPERS.

BY WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1861.

The right of Translation is reserved.

6. Difference between contemporary libels and modern satires

7. Hume, Hallam, Lingard, and Macaulay

8. Lord Campbell's Life of Bacon

9. Importance of a true estimate

10. Bacon among his competitors

11. His rise in life slow and late

12. Why was his rise deferred?

13. Difficulties of the satirical theory

14. The questions proposed for illustration

15. Careers of his chief political contemporaries

16. His chief legal contemporaries ..

17. True critics judge by the whole..

18. Spedding's edition of Bacon's works

CHAPTER II.

EARLY YEARS.

1. Picture of Bacon in his youth

2. Moral beauty of his early life

3. The Bacon household. Lady Ann and her two sons

4. Bacon at Gray's Inn. In the House of Commons.

16. Anthony comes home. The brothers at Gray's Inn Square. Sir

Bacon to Lady Ann, Feb. 18, 1592 ..

Lady Ann's care of her son. Good advice

Lady Ann to Anthony Bacon, May 24, 1592 ..

The brothers set up a coach. Lady Ann's objections to it

18. Session of 1593. Principal members of the Commons. War

and plague. State of London

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19. Bacon proposes his great law reform..

20. Check to the Government. Lord Campbell's mistake

21. Burghley's proposal for double subsidies ..

22. Bacon's famous speech and defeat of the Crown

23. Bacon defends his specch

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24. Raleigh proposes a compromise..

25. Defeat of the Government ..

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6. The brothers in debt. Designs for raising money. Spencer the

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