[334]. Life of Sir Edward Coke, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, p. 22.
[335]. “Perhaps,” says Mr. Amos, “Sir Edward Coke never descended lower in point of wit and insult of misery, than when he told Cuffe, when under trial for high treason, ‘that he would give him a cuff that should let him down by-and-by.’”—Grand Oyer of Poisoning, p. 460.
[336]. Life of Bacon, by Basil Montague. Preface, p. 9.
[337]. The essay or letter treated of the following subjects:—1. Matters that concern religion, and the Church, and Churchmen. 2. Matters concerning justice, and the laws, and the professions thereof. 3. Councillors, and the council-table, and the great offices and officers of the kingdom. 4. Foreign negotiations and embassies. 5. Peace[5. Peace] and war, both foreign and civil, and in that the navy and forts, and what belongs to them. 6. Trade at home and abroad. 7. Colonies, or foreign plantations. 8. The court and curialty.
[338]. Life of Lord Bacon, by Basil Montague, p. 181.
[339]. Lord Bacon’s Works, i., p. 518-19.
[340]. Macaulay’s Essay on Bacon in the Edinburgh Review.
[341]. Sir Anthony Weldon’s Court and Character of King James.
[342]. Biog. Brit. Art. Bacon, note.
[343]. Bacon’s Works, ii., p. 201.