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Show I I The Life of the Honourable Author. Fi~; off'~i~ting :. And that, though he obfer<vecl not, 110r took._ mty previouJ 1\.now/edge, ofthe Edip[c thereof: And affoon aJ the Eclipfe cenfed, he waJ reftored, to fJu jormerftrengt/; again. l-Ie died, on the 9th. Day of Aprill, . in the year 1 6 2 6 ; Iu the early Morning, ofthc Day, then celebrate~, for 01-ar Saviours RefurreCtion; In the 66rh. year of hiJ Age. ; A! tbe Earle of Arundells Houfe, in High-gate, near London ; To whicb Place, he cafually repaired, about a week.. before; God fo ordaining, that he fl;ould dye there ·.Of a Gentle F eaver, accidentally accompanied, with a great Cold ; wl;erc/.Jy the Defluxion ofRheume,jeU fo plentifully upon hiJ Breai1, that he died by Suffocation : Atld waJ buried, in Saint Mi- 1 chaels Church, at Saint Albans ; Bei1:1g the Place, defigned for hu Buriall, by hiJ laft Will, andTefian1ent ; Botf1 hecaufe, the Body, ofhu Mother, waJ inurred there; And becaufe, it -waJ the onely Church, then renurining, within the PruinCiJ, of oidVerulam : Where he hath a Monutnent, erected for him, ofWhite Marble; (By tbeCare, and Gratitude, of Sir Thomas' Meautys, Knight, formerly his Lordfhips Secretary; AfterwardJ Clark, oft he Kings Hotuourable Privy Counfell, under two 1\ings:) Keprefewtiltg biJ full Pourtraiture, in the. Pofhue, offtudying ; with an Infcription,compofed, by that Accomplijht Gentleman, and Rare Wit, Sir Henry_Wotton. But howfoever, biJ Body, waJ Mort a 11 ; y(t, no dor,bt, hiJ Memory, and Works, will live; And will, in .aU probability, laft, aJlong4J the World lafteth. In order to which, I have endeavoured, (after my poor Ability,) to do this Honour) to hiJ Lordfhip, by way, of conducing to tfJe fa1'te. SPEECHES .. ------~--~----------------------------------- SPEECHES • IN Parliame11t STAR-CHAMB'E R, · Kings Bench~ CHANCERY, AND OTHER-WHERE, Of the Right Honourable PRANCIS B A C 0 N~ Baron of Verulam, Vifcoqnt Saint Alb11n. L 0 N D 0 N, Printed by Sara~ Griffin, for William Lee, and are to be fold ~t his Shop in F leetjlrtet, at the fign of the Turks-head, neer the Mitre Tavern, 1 6·5 7· |