A.D. Sir Francis Bacon his Apology in certain imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex, first printed copy is dated 1604 Bacon repeatedly chosen to be spokesman for Committees of the House of Commons in Conference with the Lords. 1604 Draft by Bacon of An Act for the better grounding of a further Union to ensue between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland . Appointed an 'ordinary member of the Learned Counsel' Certain Articles or considerations touching the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland Draft of a Proclamation touching his Majesty's Stile. Prepared, not used The most humble Certificate or Return of the Commissioners of England and Scotland, authorised to treat of an union for the weal of both realms. 2 Jac. 1. Prepared but altered Marriage of Bacon to Alice Barnham Bacon requests Dr. Playfair to translate the Advancement 1604 1604 1604 1604 1604 1605 1605 1608 Bacon shows Sir Thomas Bodley the Cogitata et Visa de . Conversion of Toby Matthew (one of Bacon's most inti- Begins of the true Greatness of the kingdom of Britain; Bacon sends to Toby Matthew a part of Instauratio Bacon sends to Bishop Andrewes a copy of Cogitata et Visa, with the last additions and amendments. 1608 1608 1609 1609 1609 A.D. He also sends to Toby Matthew his De Sapientia Veterum 1609 1609 Sends to Toby Matthew a MS. supposed to be the Redar Publication of the Authorised Version of the Bible The first English settlement in India is founded at Surat. 1612 1612 Writes Descriptio Globi Intellectualis and Thema Cali The Princess Elizabeth marries the Elector Palatine Russia. Bacon returned for Cambridge University 1613 Napier invents Logarithms 1614 Prosecution and examination (with torture) of Peacham Prosecution of Oliver St. John for a seditious libel concerning the Benevolence The last Assembly of the States-General in France Bacon appointed Privy Councillor Coke suspended from his office of Chief Justice of King's A letter of advice written by Sir Francis Bacon to the Bacon made Lord Keeper Episcopacy introduced into Scotland Buckingham alienated by Bacon's opposition to the mar riage of Buckingham's brother with Coke's daughter Buckingham made a Marquis A.D. 1617 1617 1617 1618 . 1618 1619 1619 Official declaration concerning Sir W. Ralegh, which is supposed to have been, in part, composed by Bacon Bacon's 'great sickness' The Bohemians offer the crown to the Elector Palatine To the Novum Organum he prefixed a Proæmium beginning with the words Franciscus de Verulamio sic cogitavit ; a dedication to King James; a general Preface; and an account (entitled Distributio Operis) of the parts of which the Instauratio was to consist. Of these the Novum Organum is the second; the De Augmentis, which was not then published, occupying the place of the first Bacon created Viscount St. Alban Bacon charged by a disappointed suitor with taking money for the dispatch of his suit The confession and humble submission of me the Lord 1621 Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower, but almost immediately A.D. Alienates Buckingham by his refusal to sell York House. 1621 His pardon is stayed at the seal 1621 1621 Consents to part with York House to Cranfield, a creature of Buckingham's, and thereupon obtains Buckingham's help in his suit for leave to come within the verge The Commons make a Protestation of their Rights, the entry of which is torn from their Journal by the King. 1621 Publishes Henry VII.; speaks of the De Augmentis as a work in the hands of the translators, likely to be published by the end of the summer; writes Historia Naturalis, &c., containing Historia Ventorum, with titles of five similar Histories, proposed to be published month by month; writes the Advertisement touching a Holy War . Parliament is dissolved. Writes Historia Vita et Mortis; sues in vain for the Provostship of Eton; publishes the De Augmentis; writes a few lines of the History of Henry VIII. Prince Charles visits Spain to negotiate a marriage with the Infanta 1622 1622 1623 1623 War is proclaimed against Spain and Austria 1624 The New Atlantis is supposed to have been written about Extinction of hopes of being enabled to live out of want; his anxiety now is to die out of ignominy Third edition of the Essays 1624-6 1625 1626 The following is a description given by Bacon himself, in the year 1625, of his intentions with regard to his writings : Most reverend Father Fulgentio, : I wish to make known to your Reverence my intentions with regard to the writings which I meditate and have in hand; not hoping to perfect them, but desiring to try; and because I work for posterity; these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. I have thought it best, then, to have all of them translated into Latin and divided into volumes. The first volume consists of the books concerning the Advancement of Learning'; and this, as you know, is already finished and published, and includes the Partitions of the Sciences; which is the first part of my Instauration. The Novum Organum should have followed; but I interposed my moral and political writings, as being nearer ready. These are: first, the History of the reign of Henry the Seventh, king of England, after which will follow the little book which in your language you have called Saggi Morali. But I give it a weightier name, entitling it Faithful Discourses, or the Inwards of Things. But these discourses will be both increased in number and much enlarged in the treatment. The same volume will contain also my little book on the Wisdom of the Ancients. And this volume is (as I said) interposed, not being a part of the Instauration. After this will follow the Novum Organum, to which there is still a second part to be added: but I have already compassed and planned it out in my mind. And in this manner the Second Part of the Instauration will be completed. As for the Third Part, namely, the Natural History, that is plainly a work for a king or a Pope, or some college or order; and it cannot be done as it should be by a private man's industry. And those portions which I have published, concerning Winds and concerning Life and Death, are not history pure, because of the axioms and greater observations that are interposed: but they are a kind of writing mixed of natural history, and a rude and imperfect form of that intellectual machinery which properly belongs to the Fourth Part of the Instauration. Next therefore will come the Fourth Part itself; wherein will be shewn many examples of the Machine, more exact and more applied to the rules of Induction. In the Fifth Place will follow the book which I have entitled the 'Precursors of the Second Philosophy,' which will contain my discoveries concerning new axioms, suggested by the experiments themselves, that they may be raised as it were and set up, like fallen pillars: and this I have set down as the Fifth Part of my Instauration. Last comes the Second Philosophy itself, the Sixth Part of the Instauration, of which I have given up all hope; but it may be that the ages and Posterity will make it flourish. Nevertheless in the Precursors—I speak only of those which almost touch on the Universalities of Nature—no slight foundations will be laid for the Second Philosophy. * * Life, Vol. vii. pp. 531-2. |