. The works of Francis Bacon . o you this right, and I willnot be referved in this, but to declare that, that is true -, that you came after-wards to a better mind; wherein, if you had been conftant, the King, out of his 582 CHARGE AGAINST WILLIAM TALBOT. his great goodnefs, was refolved not to have proceeded with you in courfe of juf-tice : but then again you ftartcd afide like a broken bow. So that by your varietyand vacillation you loft the acceptable time of die firft grace, which was not tohave convented you. Nay, I will go farther with you : your laft fubmilTion I conceive to be fatif-fa
. The works of Francis Bacon . o you this right, and I willnot be referved in this, but to declare that, that is true -, that you came after-wards to a better mind; wherein, if you had been conftant, the King, out of his 582 CHARGE AGAINST WILLIAM TALBOT. his great goodnefs, was refolved not to have proceeded with you in courfe of juf-tice : but then again you ftartcd afide like a broken bow. So that by your varietyand vacillation you loft the acceptable time of die firft grace, which was not tohave convented you. Nay, I will go farther with you : your laft fubmilTion I conceive to be fatif-fadtory and complete ; but then it was too late, the Kings honour was upon it;it was publifhed and a day appointed for hearing j yet what preparation that maybe to the fecond grace of pardon, that I know not: but I know my lords, out oftheir accuftomed favour, will admit you not only to your defence concerning thatthat hath been charged ; but to extenuate your fault by any fubmifCon that nowtGod fhall put into your mind to r H E [ 5^3 ]THE CHARGE G I V E N B V Sir FRANCIS BACON, Knight, His Majestys Attorney-General, Againft Mr. Oliver St. John, for fcandalizing and tra-ducing in the public fe/Tions, letters fent from the lords of thecouncil touchinor the benevolence. o My Lords, I Shall inform you ore tcmis, againft this gentleman Mr. I. S. a gentleman, as itleems, of an ancient hoiife and name -, but, for the prefent, I can thini< of himby no other name, than the name of a great offender. The nature and quality ofhis offence, in fum, is this: This gentleman hath, upon advice, not fuddenly byhis pen, nor by the flip of his tongue ; not privately, or in a corner, but pub-licly, as it were, to the face of the Kings minifters and juftices, flandered and tra-<luced the King our fovereign, the law of the land, the parliament, and infiniteparticulars of his Majeftys worthy and loving fubjedls. Nay, the flander is of thatnature, that it may feem to intereft the people in g
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