Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 1581 Till Her Death: In which the Secret Intrigues of Her Court, and the Conduct of Her Favourite, Robert Earl of Essex, Both at Home and Abroad, are Particularly Illustrated : from the Original Papers of His Intimate Friend, Anthony Bacon, Esquire, and Other Manuscripts Never Before Published, Volume 1 |
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Page 273 - My Lord, I see I must be your homager, and hold land of your gift; but do you know the manner of doing homage in law? always it is with a saving of his faith to the King and his other Lords; and therefore, my Lord (said I), I can be no more yours than I was, and it must be with the ancient savings: and if I grow to be a rich man, you will give me leave to give it back to some of your unrewarded followers.
Page 198 - I told his lordship of this purpose of mine to travel, accompanying it with these very words, that upon her majesty's rejecting me with such circumstance, though my heart might be good, yet mine eyes would be sore, that I should take no pleasure to look upon my friends ; for that I was not an impudent man, that could face out a disgrace ; and that I hoped her majesty would not be offended, that, not able to endure the sun, I fled into the shade.
Page 79 - If you have anything to do with Sir Walter Ralegh, or any love to make to Mrs. Throckmorton, at the Tower to-morrow you may speak with them ; if the countermand come not to-night, as some think will not be, and particularly he that hath charge to send them thither.
Page 9 - He had been furveyor of the court of augmentations in the reign of HENRY VIII. and knighted at the coronation of EDWARD VI.
Page 314 - ... came himself, he was met by an old hermit, a secretary of state, a brave soldier, and an esquire. The first presented him with a book of meditations, the second with political discourses, the third with orations of brave-fought battles, the fourth was but his own follower, to whom the other three imparted much of their purpose before their coming in.
Page 488 - And because one occasion offers itself before the rest, I will commend unto you one above the rest. The place is the Mastership of the Rolls, the man Mr. Francis Bacon, a kind and worthy friend to us both. If your labour in it prevail, I will owe it to you as a particular debt, though you may challenge it as a debt of the.
Page 172 - And that she did acknowledge you had a great wit, and an excellent gift of speech, and much other good learning. But in law she rather thought you could make show to the uttermost of your knowledge, than that you were deep.
Page 62 - ... that a general demand is proposed not only of the ministry but of all who bear public office throughout the land to subscribe that the authority of the bishops is lawful by God's Word. When the Lord Treasurer was asked to subscribe to it, he answered, ' It is lawfully the positive law ; but to say it is lawful by the Word of God, that is another matter.
Page 153 - ... prince's favour, he could produce no pattern . . . but that a younger than Francis Bacon, of less learning and of no greater experience, was suing and shoving with all force for an office of far greater importance, greater charge and greater weight than the attorneyship.
Page 489 - ... to my Lord Keeper I do not dislike. I suppose there is some seal for the like occasions remaining with Mr. Reynolds, for to make up these letters. My desire is the letter to my Lord Keeper should simply be delivered by one of your men. The letter to Sir J. Foscue, accompanied with some few words of your own taking knowledge of the contents, and that it is a thing carried wholly without my knowledge between my Lord and yourself.