d
become some sorry bookmaker, or a true pioneer in that mine of
truth."--Spedding, _Letters and Life_, i. 108-109.

[3] Spedding, _Letters and Life_, i. 234-235, cf. i. 362. This letter, with
those to Puckering or Essex and the queen, i. 240-241, should be compared
with what is said of them by Macaulay in his _Essay_ on Bacon, and by
Campbell, _Lives_, ii. 287.

[4] See _Letters and Life_, i. 289, ii. 34.

[5] See Macaulay's Essay on Bacon.

[6] The whole story of Essex is given in Spedding's _Letters and Life_. It
is vigorously told by J. Bruce in the introduction to his _Correspondence
of James VI. with Sir Robert Cecil_ (Camden Society, 1861).

[7] See _Letters and Life_, iv. 177, vi. 38, vii. 116, 117.

[8] In October 1608 he became treasurer of Gray's Inn. The tercentenary was
celebrated in 1908.

[9] _Letters and Life_, iv. 380.

[10] _Ibid._ iv. 365-373.

[11] _Ibid._ iv. 375-378.

[12] _Ibid._ v. 81-83.

[13] Not to be confounded with any of those of the same name who held the
title of Baron St John of Bletsho (see _Dict. of Nat. Biog._ vol. 1. p. 150
_ad fin._).

[14] _Circa_ 1554-1616; educated at Cambridge; ordained priest 1581; vicar
of Ridge, Herts, 1581; rector of Hinton St George, Somerset, 1587;
eventually condemned to death at the Taunton Assizes (7th August 1615). The
sentence was not carried out, and Peacham is said to have died in gaol
(March 1616). See Gardiner's _Hist. of England_, ii. 272-283; _State
Trials_, ii. 869; _Calendar of State Papers_ (1603-1606); Hallam's
_Constitutional Hist._ i. 343; T. P. Taswell-Langmead, _English
Constitutional History_ (5th ed., 1896), p. 425. Nearly all works on
constitutional law and history discuss the case.

[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