Resuscitatio or, bringing into publick light several pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the right honourable Francis Bacon : Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts. The third edition, according to the best corrected copies, together with his Lordships life. / By William Rawley, doctor in divinity, his lordships first and last Chaplain. And lately his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary.

Francis Bacon

Date:: Anno Domini 1671

Credit: Resuscitatio or, bringing into publick light several pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the right honourable Francis Bacon : Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts. The third edition, according to the best corrected copies, together with his Lordships life. / By William Rawley, doctor in divinity, his lordships first and last Chaplain. And lately his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$t z6 I A Report-iinl [ the Houfe of \ Commons-i of I the Earl of ' Salisbutiesa j and the \Earl of iNorchamp- I tonsSz;^.^- i ches. ! l/vnj pi »• RE SVSCIT ATIO. Parti. lupon every breach ot Covenants, there Qiouid be limitteda Re-entry. il Fourthly, his Lordfhip did obferve, in the manner of preferring^their Pe¬ tition, they had inverted due order 5 addreiling themfelvesto the Foot ^ and not to the Head. For confide ring that they prayed no new Law, for their * Relief, and that it concerned, Matter of Inducement, to War > ox Peace , I They ought to have begun with his Majedly^ unto whofe Royal Judge- [menc. Power, and Office, did properly belong the difeerning of that, ■ which was defired, the putting in Ad of that which might be granted. And f the Thanks for that which might be obtained. I Fifthly , his Lordfhip did obferve; That, as they had not preferred their Petition as it fhould be \ So they had not purfued their own Diredion , as it was. For 3 having direded theirto the Ring:, the Lords fpiritual] and Temporal, and the Commons in Parliament allemblcd 5 It imported, as if they had offered the like Petition to the Lords ^ which they never did , Contraryjnot only to their own Dircdion,but Jikewife to our Conceipt, who prefuppofed, (as it fhould feem, by feme fpeech,that paffedfremus, at a for¬ mer Conference 3) That they had offered , feveral Petitions^ of like tenour, to both Houfes, So have you now, thofe eight OS/ervation^, pm General part Special , which his LordlTip made touching the Perfonsoi thofe, which exhibited the Petition , and the Circumflances of the fame. For the Matter of the Petition itfclf, his LordiTip made t\\is Divijion \ That it confiffeth of three parts. Firft, of the Complaints of wrongs in Fad. I Secondly , of the Complaints of wrongs in Law, as they may be rruely termed* that is,of the Inequality of Lawes,which do regulate the Trade. And thirdly, the remedy defired by letters of Mart. The wrongs ^ in FaB:,xeceivea\Qca\ Diffribution of three. In the Trade to Spam'') In the Trade to the Wefi IndiesAnd in the Trade to the Eexiant. Concerning the Trade to Spain: Although his Lordfloip did ufc, muchfig- nification, of compaffion , of the Injuries, which the Merchants received j and attributed fo much, to theirProfeffion,and Effate, as from fuch amouth ill fuch a Prefence, they ought to receive, fora great deal,’ of Honour, and Comfort (which Kind of Demonftration, he did cnccrlace, throughout his whole Speech, as proceedings Ex Ahundantia Cordis J yet neverchclefs, he did remember four Excufations^ot rather Extenuatm.s of thofe wronoS: Thefirftwas, that the InjufliceS: complained of, were not in the* Hif^h- eft Degree, bccaufe they were Del ayes , and hard proceedings, and notJn- ique Sentences, or definitive Condemnations. Wherein Tcallcdto mind, what I heard a great Bifhop fay, that Courts of JaBice, though they did not turn Juflice into Wonnuvod, by Corruptionyet they turned it into Vinegar, by dc iaies,whichfoweredir. Such a Difference did his LordlTip make which,no ^ueflionyis a Diffexenccpfecundum Magis Cf Mi/;m Secondly his Lordfhip aferibed thefe Delayes, not (o much to'Mallic^ or Alienation of mind towards us, as to the Nature of the People^and Naibn, which is Proud, and therefore Dilatory: For ail proud Men are full of De- Hayes, and muR be waited on, and fpecially 3 to the Multitudes, and Diverfi- Tribunals, and places of Juftice, and the Number of the Kings Coun- cills/ull of Referrmgs;, which ever prove ofneceffity.to bedefecringsj Bcfidcs , the great difiance of Territories. All which have made the Delayesof Spain ' to come into a Byword , through the \A orld. Wherein I think his Lordfhip might allude to the of Italy, Me vengala Morte di Spagna. Let my Death come from Spain: For then, it is fure, to be long a comin<T. ._Thirdly$

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