of

Lord Bacon

From Unpublished Papers

by William Hepworth Dixon

Of The Inner Temple

Boston:
Ticknor And Fields

1861

Author's Edition
Seventy-Five Copies Printed

Note From The Author

I feel happy and proud that an arrangement with Messrs. Ticknor and Fields to reprint The Personal History of Lord Bacon gives me the opportunity of pleading before the American public for the good fame of one who, dear as he is to the Old World, has an especial claim on the sympathies of the New.

W. Hepworth Dixom

CONTENTS

Chapter	Page
I. The Biographers	1
II. Early Years	13
III. The Earl of Essex	47
IV.Treason of Sir John Smyth	89
V. The Irish Plot	109
VI. The Street Fight	132
VII.The New Reign	152
VIII. Solicitor-General	190
IX. St. John And Peacham	218
X. Race with Coke	241
XI. Lord Chancellor	272
XII. Fees	290
XIII. The Accusation	314
XIV. After Sentence	344
Appendices	361

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