[15] Letters and Life, v. 101
[16] Ibid. v. 121, n.
[17] Ibid. v. 124.
[18] Macaulay's Essay.
[19] Campbell, Lives, ii. 344.
[20] The mysterious crimes supposed to be concealed under the obscure details of this case have cast a shadow of vague suspicion on all who were concerned in it. The minute examination of the facts by Spedding (Letters and Life, v. 208-347) seems to show that these secret crimes exist nowhere but in the heated imaginations of romantic biographers and historians.
[21] A somewhat similar case is that of the writ De Rege inconsulto brought forward by Bacon. See Letters and Life, v. 233-236.
[22] Ibid. vi. 6, 7, 13-26, 27-56.
[23] Ibid. vi. 33.
[24] A position which Bacon in some respects approved. See Essays, "Of Ambition." "It is counted by some a weakness in princes to have favourites; but it is of all others the best remedy against ambitious great ones; for when the way of pleasuring and displeasuring lieth by the favourite, it is impossible any other should be over great."