Exeter College, Oxford

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Quene Elizabeths Answer to the L. and others in the Parliament .15.7.5. howse vpon Thursday xv^o martij.

Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses.... Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted.... Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Beniamin Rudyard.

Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning This is the crisis of parliaments...; (2) beginning It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...; II, 68, third version, beginning If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse....

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Ben: Rudyer.

Speech beginning The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer....

Copy of a speech, headed at the side S^r. Ben: Rudyard.

Speech beginning I hold the same ground still that I brought with me....

Copy, headed at the side S^r. Beniamin Rudyer.

Speech beginning We are here upon a great business.... Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyer atc.

Speech beginning We have been long about framing of words for a strong law.... Yale 1628, III, 172. Variant versions: III, 175, 179, 180, 181-2.

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamyn Rudyer.

A brief speech beginning I am sorry that that which I have said....

Copy, headed S^r Beniamyn Rudyer.

Speech beginning Justice ought to be a great favourer of the Innocent....

Copy, headed S^r. Beniamyn Rudyer.

Speech beginning I would we were as ready to reward as punish....

Copies of five speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and his speeches to Sir John Denham, to Serjeant Hutton, and to Sir William Jones, 19 May 1617.

Copy of 100 ordinances, headed Ter: Hillar: 16to Jacob: Regis. 1618 / Ordinances made by S^r francis Bacon..., followed (ff. 48r-9r) by fifteen Addicionall rules.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale.... Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some MSS and editions of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

Copies of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...); 22 April 1621 (beginning It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...); and 30 April 1621 (beginning Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and his speeches to Sir John Denham, to Serjeant Hutton and to Sir William Jones, 19 May 1617.

Copy of Version II, headed Notes of the Queenes speeche to the Lordes and comons of the Parliam^t in answer of their peticon exhibited the xij of November 1586: by the Lo: Chancello^r vnto her Ma^tie: for y^e speedie execucon of the Scotish Queene, as neere as my Capacity w^thout tables could serve to note them, and my memory next morning might avayle to set them downe.

Edited from this MS (as Text ii) in Hartley (pp. 254-8).

First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

Version I. Beginning When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me.... Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty.... Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

Version III. Beginning My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me.... Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots.

Copy, ascribed to S^r. Rob Cotton in a later hand.

Speech beginning My Lords, Vpon the occasions delivered by the Gentlemen, your Lordships have heard.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [219]-250, with The true Copies of the [Latin] Records not printed which were used on either side in that part of the debate on pp. 251-69.

Copy, in two secretary hands, of the dedicatory epistle to King James and of the beginning of the dialogue, described as written in the Tower of London by Sir Walter Raleigh...In Anno 1610, subscribed in a later hand Perlegi et pro Libitu Excerpsi Aug. 5. 1697. W. K., incomplete.

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ..., the dialogue beginning Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?.... First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (Midelburge and Hamburg [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

Copy, untitled, on three separate sheaves of paper in different secretary hands, subscribed vita Thomae Mori p Roperio.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

Copy.

First published in Workes (London, 1557), p. 1432. Yale, Vol. 1, p. 45.

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, here ascribed on a title-page to S^r Ro: C: B:.

Tract beginning What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been.... Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.