Oxford Francis Bacon II:
Late Elizabethan Writings, 1596–1602
Editor: Alan Stewart
Volume II completes Bacon’s Elizabethan writings, covering the period 1596 to 1602. In common with Volume I, it contains a number of anonymous writings, and a majority that circulated only in manuscript during Bacon’s lifetime. In this volume, however, we also encounter Bacon’s first printed writings: the 1597 edition of his Essaies, and government publications on the Edward Squire affair (published anonymously, 1598), and the fall of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex (1601). Many of this volume’s items are related to Bacon’s vexed relationship with Essex, whom he advised, wrote for, and later prosecuted.
Contents
| 1 | Essaies (1597) | E97 |
| Meditationes sacrae (1597) | MedS | |
| Colours of good and evil (1597) | CGE | |
| 2 | Short notes on civil conversation (by 1597) | CC |
| 3 | Maxims of the law (1597) | ML |
| 4 | Humble motion and allegations (1597) | HMA |
| 5 | Speech on a motion of subidy (1597) | SpS |
| 6 | Second letter of advice to the earl of Essex (1598) | AdE2 |
| 7 | Third letter of advice to the earl of Essex (1598) | AdE3 |
| 8 | Fourth letter of advice to the earl of Essex (1599) | AdE4 |
| 9 | A letter written out of England (1599) | LWE |
| 10 | A consideration of the laws of this realm concerning the transportation of gold and silver (TGS) (1599-1600) | TGS |
| 11 | Reading on the Statute of Uses (1600) | RSU |
| 12 | The proceedings of the earl of Essex (1600) | Pro |
| 13 | Two letters framed (1600) | TL |
| 14 | A declaration of the practises & treasons (1601) | DPT |
| 15 | Elegancies miscellany (1601) | EM |
| 16 | Considerations touching the queen’s service in Ireland (1602) | CQS |
| 17 | Helps touching the intellectual powers (before 1604) | HIP |
| 18 | The history of King Henry 8 … (before 1604) | KH8 |
| 19 | Direction for reading histories with profit (before 1604) | DRH |
| 20 | The sum of the Bible (before 1603?) | SB |
| 21 | A confession of faith (before 1603?) | ConF |
The Oxford Francis Bacon I: Early Writings 1584-1596, ed. by Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 1,136. ISBN: 978-0-19-818313-6.