Several letters, / written by this honourable author, to Queen Elizabeth, King James, divers lords, and others.

  • Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Date:
1671
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Credit: Several letters, / written by this honourable author, to Queen Elizabeth, King James, divers lords, and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | RESVSCITATIO. Parti., \ - - - — ■ - 1 ■ — ■ ■ — ..... - --_ hathbeen, a great Cafting-back, of the Affairs there. Neither if any EngliJI] Papifi or Recufant, (hall for Liberty of his Confcience, transfer his Perfon, Family, and Fortunes thither, do 1 hold it a Matter of Dan¬ ger, but expedient to draw on Undertaking , and to further Popula¬ tion. Neither if Rome will cozen it Self, by Conceiving,it may be lome Degree to the like Toleration in England, do I hold it, a matter of any Moment 5 But rather a good Mean, to take off the Fiercenefs and Eager-* nefs of the Humour of Rome $ And to ftay, further Excommunications,or Interdictions, for Ireland♦ But there would go hand in hand with this, (ome Courfe of Advancing Religion indeed, where the People is capable thereof.* As the fending over fome good Preachers,efpecially of that fort, 1 which are vehement and zealous Perfwaders, and not Scholaftical$ To be refident in principal towns} Endowing them,with fome Stipends out of Her Ma jetties Revenues $ As Her Majejly hathmoft religioufly, and gracioufly done in Lancajhire : And the Recontinuing, and Replenilhing the College be&un at Dublin 5 The placing of good men to be Bijhops there $ And the Taking Care of the Verfions, of Bibles, Catechijms, and other Booh of lnflruttions, into the lrijh Language', And the like Relim gious Courfes, Both for the Honour of God , and for the Avoiding of Scandal, and Infatisfattion here, by the fhew of a Toleration of Religion, in fome parts there. • For jf uftice, the Bar barifm, and Defolation of the Country confidered, it is not poftible, they (hould find any fweetnefs at all, ofjuftice^ If it (hall be (which hath been the Errour of times paft) Formal, and fetched far off from the State 5 Becaule, it will require running up and down for Procefs 5 and give Occafion for Polling and Exactions by Fees, and many other Delayes, and Charges. And therefore, there muft be an Interim, in which the JuJlice muft be only Summary 5 the rather, becaufe it is fit and fafe, fora time, the Country do participate of Martial Govern¬ ment: And therefore, Icouldwifhin every principal Town or place of Habitation, there were a Captain, or Governor , aDdaJudge $ fuch as Re» eorders and learned Stewards , are here in Corporations 5 who may have a Prerogative CommiJJion, to hear and determine. Secundum fanam Difcre* tionem 5 and as near as may be, to the Laws and Cuftoms of England', and that by Bill, or Pleint, without Original Writ 3 Referving from their Sentence, matter of Freehold, and Inheritance^ to be determined by a (uperiour Judge, Itinerant: And both Sentences, as well of the Bayliff- wichjjudge, as Itinerant, to be reverled (ifCaufebe) before the Counjel of the Province, to be eftablilhed there, with fit Inftru&ions. For Obligation, and Reward 5 It is true (no doubt) which was ancient¬ ly (aid; That a State, is contained in two words, Premium, and Poena. And 1 am perfwaded, if a penny in the pound which hath been (pent in Poena fFor this kinde of Warr is but poena, a ckajlifement of Rebels, with¬ out Fruit,or Emolument to this State) had been fpent in pramio, that is, in Rewarding, Things had never grown to this Extremity. But to (peak forwards. The keeping of the Principal lrijh per [on sxnToxms of Con¬ tentment, and without Caute of particular Complaint 5 And generally the Carrying of an even Courte between the Englijh and the lrijh 5 Whe¬ ther it be in Competition 3 or whether it be in Controverfie; as if they were one Nation $ (without that fame partial Courle which hath been held by the Governors and CounfeUors there,that fome have favoured the lrijh, and fome contrary 5 ) Is one of the beft Medicines of State* And as