The Monument of Lord Bacon'!

in L. Michael's Church.

Drawn & Engraved by M.H. Worthington.

Published by William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1827.

THE WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BACON,

Lord Chancellor of England.

A NEW EDITION:

BY

BASIL MONTAGU, ESQ.

VOL. VI.

ERSITY

IFORNIA

LONDON:

WILLIAM PICKERING.

MDCCCXXVI.

PREFACE.

THIS Volume contains

Page

I. Speeches.

1. Touching Purveyors (a)

2. About Undertakers (a)

3. To the King upon the Grievances

of the Commons (a)

4. On Wards and Tenures(a)

Declaration for the Master of the

Wards (a)

5. On receiving the King's. Messages

6. Concerning Impositions on
chandizes (a) (c)

13

23

26

32

39

Mer-

7. To grant supplies to the King (a)

8. Relating to the Mint (a)

9. To the Speaker's excuse

10. On the Motion of a Subsidy (a)

. 75

(a) Of the different tracts to which the letter a, is annexed,
there are MSS in the Lansdown collection in the British Mu-

se um.

(c) of this there is a MS in the Harleian collection.

Decree of Star Chamber against
Duels

4. Against Mr. Oliver St. John

125

138

Countess of Somerset (a)

Earl of Somerset (a) (b) (d).

Letter to the King

To Sir G. Villiers

To the King

To Sir G. Villiers

10.

Of Somerset's arraignment 235

To the King about Somer-

set's examination

William Talbot (a)

III. Papers relating to the Earl of Essex.(e)

Apology of Sir Francis Bacon

238

The Proceedings of the Earl of Essex(a) 277

Declarations of his Treasons

Arraignment of Blunt, Davis, &c.

(b) of this there is a MS in the Sloane collection.

(d) of this there is also a MS in the Hargrave collection.

(e) There are MSS in the Sloane collection of the letters as

from Anthony Bacon to the Queen.