Letters, Memoirs, Parliamentary Affairs, State Paper: With Some Curious Pieces in Law and Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

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Having many years past transcribed from the originals, several Letters and Memoires of the Lord Bacon, which had never been made publick, and disposed them with others, in a series of time: I then engaged my self to make a supplement thereto, if I might be obliged with other of his Lordship's genuine writings. And to that end, a Gentleman long since deceased, gave me the opportunity of copying some other of his Lordship's letters, which had been a part of the former collection: But not having a sufficient number, and being soon concerned in affairs of another nature, I laid aside all thoughts of troubling my self or others in the same kind, till the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford was pleased to put into my hands, some neglected manuscripts and loose papers, to fee whether any of the Lord Bacon's compositions lay concealed there, that were fit to be published. Upon the perusal, I found some of them written, and others amended with his Lordship's own hand, and believed that all of them had been in the possession of Dr. Rawley, his Lordship's Chaplain, and faithful Editor of many of his Works. I found, that several of the Treatises had been published by him, and that others, certainly genuine, which had not, were fit to be transcribed, and so preserved, if not divulged.
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