Copy 1, Volume 1
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 ... Anthony Bacon, esquire, and other manuscripts never before published / By Thomas Birch.
- Thomas Birch
- Date:
- 1754
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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 ... Anthony Bacon, esquire, and other manuscripts never before published / By Thomas Birch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![few lines feverally to the extraordinary affe&ion, which my lord keeper and Sir 44 John Fortescu protetl and profefs to my brother. Whereunto if it pieafe your lordfhip to add fome general recommendation by the way to her majeity of him, 44 without any particular defignment, I know not what more toaik in my brother’s 44 behoof*, upon whofe preferment to the rolls I would very willingly make a releafe 44 to my lord treafurer and Sir Robert Cecil of all claims, titles, or interefts, that 46 I may juftly pretend to fome royal effects of her majefty’s favour in reward of 44 my loyal endeavours and fervices, which I dare boldly affirm, all due and true 44 circumilances confidered, cannot be fo foon matched by fome, as unjuitly carpt at 44 and mifinterpreted.” In the poftfcript he defired leave to put in this caveat,, which he knew to be concurring with his brother’s mind, that the earl would not mention nor recommend his brother’s preferment to the lord treafurer, or Sir Ro¬ bert Cecil, or any other but to the lord keeper and Sir John Fortescu. With refpedt to Antonio ^erez, he protdled, that he knew not what to write more than was already written,44 having no lefs caufe to wifh^fayshe^ that my mind and ears 44 were free from hearing and thinking of his continual and defperate complaints, 44 than that my kidneys were deliver’d of the Hone, which at this inftant gives me 44 fuch pangs.’5 The earl wrote the fame day. May ioth, the following letter to his fecretary in which he anfwered fome particulars in his letter, of the 6th. 44 Reynoldes,. 44 Deliver this inclofed to my lord of Buckhurft from me. It is an anfwer to one of 44 his fent in Sir Robert Cecil’s packet. I like well your diligence in writing,. 44 which I would have you continue. And as for the duke of Bouillon’s complaint, 44 tell Monfieur de la Fontaine, that they dome wrong to charge me. I have 44 loved the duke [of Bouillon] more than all the flrangers of chriftendom, almost 44 more than all mine own country. I am about to do more for the public and 44 for all our friends, than they can hope for. But they are unquiet-hearted, and 44 know not our queen and hate fo well as I do: For they feed the queen in her 44 irrefolution ^ wherein tho5 they firft undo me, they fhall next undo thernfelves ^ 44 for the queen wrangles-with our adlion for no caufe but becaufe it is in hand. If 44 this force were going to France, Ihe would then fear as much the iffue there, as 44 fhedoth in our intended journey. I know I fhall never do her fervice but againft 44 her will ; and fince I have racked my wits to get this commiffion, and my means 44 to carry that, which fhould do the feat, as they fay, I will either again!! the 44 hair go thro’ with it, or of a general become axnonk upon an hour’s warning. 64 From your loving mailer, 44 E S S E X.. { u Commend me to Monfieur de la Fontaine, for all my quarrel*. u ioth of May 1596.’* * Original letters, &c. collected by John Castle ; and Mr. Bacon’s papers, vol. xi. fol. 93; CLq q 2 Mr,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30531469_0001_0493.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
