Personal History of Lord Bacon

1861

Art and nature	1

End of the movement for reform	2

Hume Hallam Lingard and Macaulay	7

Elizabeth at Whitehall	9

Mary Queen of Scots	11

Lady Ann to Anthony Bacon Aug 7 1595	12

Difficulties of the satirical theory	13

Bacon opposed to judicial torture	15

Essex confesses against his accomplices	126

Lord Campbells judgment of Bacons conduct	132

Desire of James for peace with Spain	143

The street demonstration 121	146

Bacons speech	159

Fullers speech against the Scots	165

Picture of Bacon in his youth	173

Bacon one of the founders of America	176

A Queens ward	17

Essex put on trial	25

88	40

CHAPTER II	42

Page	44

Bacons prospects dashed by Essex	54

Attempt to excite mutiny	77

Essex deserts his post Falls under the sway of Sir Christopher	84

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

Bacons speech on the feudal burthens	182

Excitement in the country	195

7	201

CONTENTS XIII	205

13	207

Macaulays assertion on the practice of consulting the judges	213

Prosecuted in Star Chamber 270	216

The Earl and Countess arraigned	220

Sir William and Sir Thomas Monson	226

1	242

Fees at the	261

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 homeul	303

The twentytwo charges and	305

The case sent up to the Lords	309

Ley appointed to preside	310

Preliminary vote in the Peers	315

Ley delivers sentence	316

APPENDICES	335

Title	Personal History of Lord Bacon
Author	Dixon
Published	1861
Original from	University of Bern
Digitized	Dec 7, 2020

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