Editors: Angus Vine and R. W. Serjeantson
OFB VII features Bacon’s writings after he gains his first important legal position, that of Solicitor General. In addition to his legal business, the volume documents Bacon’s involvement in the various Parliaments of the period, and the enlargement of his Essays for the enlarged second edition that appeared in 1612. Volume VII also includes the Commentarius solutus (1608), Bacon’s audit of his affairs following his appointment as clerk of Star Chamber, his biography of Queen Elizabeth I, In felicem memoriam Elizabethae (1608/9), and the Certain Considerations touching the Plantation in Ireland (1609).
| 1 | Commentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla memoriæ (July 1608) | CS |
| 2 | A proclamation for buildings (25 July 1608) | PrB |
| 3 | In felicem memoriam Elizabethæ (by 1609) | FME |
| 4 | A letter to the king, upon presenting the discourse, touching Ireland (Jan. 1609) | LKI |
| 5 | Certain considerations touching the plantation in Ireland (Jan. 1609) | CPI |
| 6 | A speech unto the Lords for wards and tenures (8 Mar. 1610) | SpWT |
| 7 | Speech on receiving the King’s messages (1610) | SpKM |
| 8 | Argument proving the King’s right of impositions (June/July 1610) | ArRI |
| 9 | Speech to the King presenting the Commons’ grievances (3 July 1610) | SpCG |
| 10 | Speech persuading supply (23 Nov. 1610) | SpPS |
| 11 | Letter to the King upon sending him a beginning of a history of his time (c.1610/11) | LKH |
| 12 | History of Great Britain (c.1610) | HGB |
| 13 | Advice to the King touching Sutton’s estate (c. Jan. 1612) | AdKS |
| 14 | A certificate touching the scarcity of silver at the Mint (Feb. 1612) | CSS |
| 15 | Charge upon the commission of oyer and determiner for the verge (1611/12) | ChV |
| 16 | A frame of declaration for the Master of the Wards (Jun. 1612) | FMW |
| 17 | Speech at the arraignment of Lord Sanquer (27 Jun. 1612) | SpA |
| 18 | My Ladie Shrewsburies cause touching Arbella Stuart (1612) | ChS |
| 19 | Letter to the King regarding the commissions concerning aid (Aug. 1612) | LKC |
| 20 | Instructions to the commissions concerning aid (Aug. 1612) | ICA |
| 21 | Reasons to remove Coke to be Chief Justice (1613) | RRC |
| 22 | Account of the committees for repair of the King’s estate (Aug. 1612) | ACRE |
| 23 | Proposition concerning the augmentation of the King’s revenue (Aug. 1612) | PAR |
| 24 | The Lord Chancellor and Lord Privy Seal to the King (21 Oct. 1612) | LCK |
| 25 | Letter Dedicatory to Prince Henry (Oct. 1612) | E12 (ded) |
| 26 | Essayes (Harleian MS) (1612) | H51 |
| 27 | Letter to Prince Henry (1612) | LPH |
| 28 | Essaies (1612) (c. Oct. 1612) | E12 |
| 29 | About the oath of allegiance (12 Oct. 1613) | AOA |
| 30 | An essay of fame | EsF(MS) |
| 31 | Of the true greatnes of kingdomes and states (between 1612–25) | TGKS |
| 32 | [On the Sutton Hospital Case] (1612) | [SHC] |
| 33 | In Henricem principem Walliæ elogium (1613) | HPW |
| 34 | Act in Council concerning Whitelocke and Mansel (12 June 1613) | ACWM |
| 35 | The charge of Mr Whitlocke (Jun. 1613) | ChW |
| 36 | [Proclamation on Gold and Silver] (1612) | PrGS |
| 37 | [Proclamation on Farthings] (1613) | PrFa |
| 38 | [Proclamation on John Cotton] (1613) | PrJC |
| 39 | Two prayers | TP |
| 40 | Breviate of Irish business (2 July 1613) | BIB |
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.