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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: more fruit of conference. To requite your proclamation, which, in my judgment, is wisely and seriously penned, I send you another with us, which happened to be in my hands when yours came. I would be glad to hear often from you, and to be advertised how things pass, whereby to have some occasion to think some good thoughts; though I can do little. At the least it will be a continuance in exercise of our friendship, which on my part remaineth increased by that I hear of your service, and the good respects I find towards myself. And so in Tormour's haste,1 I continue Your very loving friend, Fk. Bacon. Prom Gray's-Inn, this 23d of Octob. 1607. Though the King's bounty flowed much more freely to those about him, where he could see and share the pleasure it gave, than to those who were doing his heavy work in their chambers or in the Courts, yet the working men came in for some of the crumbs. Near the end of a list of fees granted by his Majesty before the 5th of August, 1607, I find the following entries: ? A Baron of the Exchequer increased 113' 68 8d A Judge of the King's Bench increased 188' 6 8d A Judge of the Common Pleas increased 188' 68 8d Sir Francis Bacon 1001 - But it was one thing to obtain a grant of the money, and another to obtain the money itself. For the King himself must get it before he can give it, and the royallest mind of bounty cannot make it como forth from the place where it is not. The Exchequer not being able to answer all such demands, questions necessarily arose which should be answered first, and these would naturally lead to disputes with the officers. It was probably this grant of 100, or some other grant of the same kind, that led to the letter of expostulation which comes next, and which gives us an opportunity of seei...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217145336 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217145337 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $26.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 432 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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