Editors: R. W. Serjeantson and Angus Vine
Volume III will contain the full range of Bacon’s non-philosophical writings between 1603 to early 1608., the period immediately following the accession of King James VI of Scotland to the crowns of England and Ireland in March 1603. The Jacobean project for the Union of the Crowns shaped much of Bacon’s professional life during this period, and a good number of the works in the volume relate to this, including the Brief Discourse Touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland (1603); his opening speech on behalf of the crown in Calvin’s Case (1608); and his political treatise on Of the True Greatness of Britain (by 1608).
| 1 | [On the King’s prerogative] (from 1603) | OKP |
| 2 | A proclamation drawn for his Majesty’s first coming in (Apr./May 1603) | PrC |
| 3 | A brief discourse touching the happy union of the kingdoms (May/June 1603) | DUK |
| 4 | Certain considerations touching … the Church of England (Aug.–Oct. 1603) | CBP |
| 5 | Apology in certain imputations concerning the late earl of Essex (late 1603) | ACI |
| 6 | Obiections against the change of the name of England (25 Apr. 1604) | OCN1 |
| 7 | Of the title of Great Britain (1604?) | OTGB |
| 8 | Objections against the change of name or style of England and Scotland (27 Apr. 1604) | OCN2 |
| 9 | Speech touching purveyors (27 Apr. 1604) | SpP |
| 10 | An acte for the better grounding of a further union (?May 1604) | AFU |
| 11 | Certain articles touching the union (Summer 1604) | CAU |
| 12 | A draught of a proclamation touching his Majesties style (by Oct. 1604) | PrS |
| 13 | A kallender of the lawes … of hostillitie (Nov. 1604) | KLH |
| 14 | The certificate or return of the Commissioners (by Dec. 1604) | CRC |
| 15 | The examination of John Drake (6 Nov. 1605) | ExD |
| 16 | Arguments against the bill of sheets (1606) | ArBS |
| 17 | Speech concerning the article of naturalization (17 Feb. 1607) | SpN |
| 18 | Speech concerning the union of laws (28 Mar. 1607) | SpL |
| 19 | A preparation for the union of lawes (by 1608) | PUL |
| 20 | A report … att a conference concerning the peticion of the marchantes (17 June 1607) | RPM |
| 21 | A proclamation for jurors (by 5 Oct. 1607) | PrJ |
| 22 | A proclamation touching the Marches (between 1607–8) | PrM |
| 23 | Argument in maintaining the jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches (Apr. or Nov. 1608) | ArCM |
| 24 | Reply to the arguments of the serjeants (1607?) | RAS |
| 25 | Argument in the case of the post-nati (1608) | ArPN |
| 26 | Letter to the King upon presenting papers concerning the post-nati (28 Nov. 1608) | LKPN |
| 27 | Cases of the King’s prerogative (c.1608?) | CKP |
| 28 | An answer to the questions … touching the office of constable (1608) | OC |
| 29 | The certificate to his majesty touching the projects of Sir Stephen Proctor (summer 1608?) | CPP |
| 30 | Of the true greatness of Britain (between 1603–8) | TGB |
| 31 | Imago civilis Julii Cæsaris (by c.1608) | IJC |
| 32 | Imago civilis Augustæ Cæsaris (by c.1608) | IAC |
| 33 | Answers to the questions sent from Ireland (c.1608) | AQI |
| 34 | Dispute between the King’s Bench and the Court of Wales (1606) | DCW |
| 35 | Report on a speech in Parliament (25 Nov. 1606) | RSp06 |
| 36 | A view of the differences in question betwixt the king’s bench and the Council in the Marches (by June 1606) | VDQ |
| 37 | Report of the conference with the Lords (2 Mar. 1607) | RCL |
| 38 | Report of the first dayes conference (28 Feb. 1607) | RFC |
| 39 | Collections out of the bookes receaved from the earle of Salisbury (by 1612) | CBES |
| 40 | Inter Banc. Reg. et Cur. March. Wall. (c.1606–8?) | IBR |
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.