Personal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers (Google eBook)

William Hepworth Dixon

John Murray, 1861 - Statesmen - 388 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• Popes satire on Bacon: 2
• Corruption of Popes period: 3
• Difference between contemporary libels and modern satires: 4
• Lord Campbells Life of Bacon: 5
• Importance of a true estimate: 6
• Bacon among his competitors G 11 His rise in life slow and late: 7
• The questions proposed for illustration: 8
• Careers of his chief political contemporaries: 9
• True critics judge by the whole: 10
• Inquiry into abuses welcomed by Bacon: 11
• Picture of Bacon in his youth: 12
• Moral beauty of his early life: 13
• The Bacon household Lady Ann and her two sons: 14
• Aubrey and Egertons cases brought forward: 15
• Bacon at Grays Inn In the House of Commons His early style: 16
• Heneage Finch defends Bacon 281: 17
• Burghleys relation to him: 18
• Bacon sick His remarks on the accusation Declaration of his innocence: 19
• Character of the sessions in which he serve: 20
• The case sent up to the Lords: 21
• His personal appearance at twentyfour: 22
• Excitement in the country: 23
• Preliminary vote in the Peers: 24
• Popular demand for her execution: 25
• The forged libels against Elizabeth: 26
• Bacons fame as a member of Parliament: 27
• Anthony comes home The brothers at Grays Inn Square Sir Nicholas Bacon Dealings with the Jews: 28
• A Queens ward: 30
• Bacon to Lady Ann Feb 18 1592: 31
• Lady Ann to Anthony Bacon May 24 1592: 32
• Session of 1593 Principal members of the Commons War and plague State of London: 33
• Bacon proposes his great law reform: 34
• Check to the Government Lord Campbells mistake: 35
• Bacons famous speech and defeat of the Crown: 36
• Bacon defends his speech: 38
• Defeat of the Government: 39
• CHAPTER III: 41
• Catherine Carey Her grandson Bobert Devereux Earl of Essex: 42
• Scandals against Queen Elizabeth: 43
• Elizabeths relation to Essex: 44
• Essex and Francis Bacon Bacons poverty: 45
• The brothers in debt Designs for raising money Spencer the miser: 47
• Bacon sick: 48
• Anthony and Francis enter the Earls service: 49
• Bacons prospects dashed by Essex: 52
• The Roman League: 59
• Essexpatch of meadow: 65
• Essex superfluous kindness: 71
• clares the crime high treason: 76
• News from Cadiz: 77
• Discontent of Essex Cecil Secretary of State Lady Anns warnings to her sons: 78
• Lady Ann to Anthony Bacon July 10 1596: 79
• Bacons differences with Essex: 80
• They cease their intercourse Francis in love Lady Hatton and her suitors: 81
• Essex deserts his post Falls under the sway of Sir Christopher Blount: 82
• Lady Leicester and her children: 83
• Blount: 84
• Blounts influence Essex choice between Bacon and Blount: 85
• Session of 1597 Bacon member for Ipswich: 86
• Great motion on the State of the Country: 87
• Yeomen and the land Deer and parks: 88
• Jesuits on the land question: 89
• Bacons proposals: 90
• Essex opposes Bacons bills: 91
• Grant of Cheltenham and Charlton Kings: 92
• The Irish Plot 1 Roman Catholic conspiracy at Essex House: 94
• Plan of the plotters: 95
• Irish insurrection: 96
• Movement of English troops: 97
• Coko marries Lady Hatton: 98
• Essex visits Grays Inn Bacons advice rejected: 99
• The Jesuits approve the plot: 100
• Lord Southampton: 101
• Essex confers with ONeile: 102
• Armaments in England Essex returns: 103
• Shakespeares Richard the Second Essex arrested: 104
• Essex deserted by all save Bacon: 106
• Bacon ignorant of Essexreal crimes: 107
• Intercedes with the Queen: 108
• Hay wards seditious tract: 109
• Bacons generosity: 110
• The plot renewed: 113
• Catesby Wright and Winter: 114
• Valentine Thomassecret mission: 115
• The secret kept: 116
• Attempt on Raleigh: 117
• Send for Phillips to Essex House Shakespeares play performed: 118
• Elizabeth at Whitehall: 119
• Essex put on trial: 120
• Bacons speech: 121
• Essex confesses against his accomplices: 124
• Council to Coke Aug 6 1601: 125
• Mysterious escape of Monteagle from justice: 126
• Lord Campbells judgment of Bacons conduct: 127
• Contemporary opinions Double elections for Ipswich and St Albans: 128
• Iago: 129
• The New Reign 1 Desire of James for peace with Spain: 130
• Bacon and the new court: 131
• The session of 1604 Election of Speaker: 132
• Grievances of the Commons Union with Scotland: 133
• Bacons position in the House: 134
• Lord Campbells errors: 135
• Alice Barnham: 136
• Alice Barnhams mother and sisters: 137
• Sir John Pakington: 139
• Westwuod Park: 140
• Bacon In love: 141
• Tho Powder Plot: 142
• Bacons tolerance Caao of Tolie Mathews: 143
• Sir John and the ladies in London 14: 146
• Cecil consults him on the money bills: 149
• Warm debate on subsidies: 150
• Humour that tho King is slain: 152
• Proposes to Alice Uis worldly position and prospects: 153
• The wedding feast Alices dowry: 154
• A new disappointment Egertons suggestion: 156
• Fullers speech against the Scots: 158
• Bacons reply: 159
• 2G Bacon appointed SolicitorGeneral: 161
• CHAPTER VIII: 162
• Bacons ceremonial politeness with his cousin: 163
• Essay on Deformity: 165
• Sir John Pakingtons quarrel with Lord Euro: 166
• Bacon argues against Pakington: 167
• England and Spain as colonists: 168
• Spanish designs against Virginia Fleet under Gates and Summers: 169
• The city of Raleigh: 170
• The Solicitor in opposition: 171
• Crown privileges for sale: 172
• Bacons speech on the feudal burthens: 173
• Death of Cecil Bacons answer to James: 174
• Bacon proposed for Secretary of State: 175
• Wards and Liveries: 176
• Sir Arthur Chichesters government: 177
• Irish members in London Bacons advice: 178
• Bacon to King James Aug 13 1613: 179
• Bacon made AttorneyGeneral Coke indignant: 181
• Curious debate on these elections Vast popularity of the AttorneyGeneral: 183
• St John and Peacham 1 Lord Campbells omissions: 185
• St John sent to the Tower: 186
• His amazing abjectness: 187
• St John to the King: 188
• Lord Campbells mistakes: 189
• The case of Peacham: 190
• His infamous character: 191
• Condemned by Archbishop Abbott: 192
• Discovery of his political libels: 193
• Peachams accusation of his patron John Paulett: 194
• Commission of examination: 195
• Question by torture: 196
• Character of the age: 198
• Peachams condemnation: 200
• Macaulays assertion on the practice of consulting the judges: 202
• The precedent of Legate: 203
• Bacon and Somerset: 205
• The Romanist party at Court Lady Somerset Murder of Overbury: 206
• Publication ofThe Wife: 207
• Inquiry into the crime Rise of Villicrs: 208
• Trial of the murderers: 209
• The Earl and Countess arraigned: 210
• Bacon pleads for clemency: 211
• Bacons domestic trials Sir John quarrels with Lady Pakington Warrant of search: 212
• Lady Pakington tries to rule Bacon His defence: 213
• Bacon to Lady Pakington 1616: 214
• Bacons efforts to save them Cokes animosity: 216
• Fall of Coke: 217
• James message to Coke through Bacon: 219
• His message direct: 220
• Bacon defends himself against Coke: 221
• Bacon sworn of the Council Procures the restoration of Dr Burgess: 222
• Coke in the Star Chamber: 223
• Lady Hatton deserts him: 224
• Bacon to the King Dec 7 1616: 225
• Monson pardoned: 226
• Mysterious tale of Lady Arabella having borne a son Bacons inquiry: 227
• Bacon receives the Seals: 229
• Rage of Coke: 231
• Story of Egertons later days: 232
• The gold and silver thread business: 233
• Egerton opposes the patent to Mompesson: 234
• Buckingham loses by the transfer of the Seals to Bacon: 235
• Lady Hatton: 236
• Bacon refuses Lady Buckinghams request for warrants of arrest: 238
• Coke breaks into Withipoles house His wife appeals to the Council: 239
• Coke threatened with proceedings submits: 240
• Lord Campbells errors: 241
• Buckinghams interference: 242
• Domestic broils of Sir John Pakington Bacons delicacy and consideration: 243
• Chamberlain to Carleton July 5 1617: 244
• Suddenness of his fall: 245
• CHAPTEK XII: 246
• Fees on the bench: 247
• Fees not an old grievance: 249
• Bills to limit fees rejected by the Commons: 250
• Desire to change the system: 254
• Lady Buckingham hostile to Bacon Sir Lionel Cranfield Sir James Ley: 255
• Suffolk prosecuted and ruined: 256
• Sir Henry Yelverton: 257
• Prosecuted in Star Chamber: 258
• Coke against Bacon 172: 279
• CHAPTER XIV: 291
• Fall of his enemies Coke Misery of Sir John Villiers: 300
• Letters from Lady Bacon to her Son Anthony: 308
• rsw TTr: 331
• in Letter from Anne Bacon to her Brothers Francis: 332
• Letter from Anthony Bacon to Francis Bacon: 382

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Personal History of Lord Bacon: From Unpublished Papers
• Author: William Hepworth Dixon
• Publisher: John Murray, 1861
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 6, 2005
• Length: 388 pages