Oxford Francis Bacon II:
Late Elizabethan Writings, 1597–1602
Ed. by 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 | The humble motion and allegacions … concerninge certaine fees (c.1597) | HMA |
| 2 | Maxims of the law (1597) | ML |
| 3 | Short notes on civil conversation (n.d.) | CC |
| 4 | Essaies (n.d.) | E97 |
| 5 | Meditationes sacræ (1597) | MedS |
| 6 | De spe terrestri (by 1597) | DST |
| 7 | Colours of good and evil (1597) | CGE |
| 8 | Speech to the Commons on a motion of subsidy (1597) | SpS |
| 9 | Advice to the earl of Essex (1597) | AdE2 |
| 10 | Third letter of advice to the earl of Essex (1598) | AdE3 |
| 11 | A letter written out of England (8 Dec. 1598) | LWE |
| 12 | Helps to the intellectual powers … to Sir Henry Saville (1598) | HIP |
| 13 | Advice to Essex before his going into Ireland (1599) | AdE4 |
| 14 | The proceedings of the Earl of Essex (1599) | Pro |
| 15 | Reading on the statute of uses (Lent 1600) | RSU |
| 16 | Two letters, as by Anthony Bacon and Essex (1600) | TL |
| 17 | A declaration of the practises & treasons … of Essex (1601) | DPT |
| 18 | Elegancies miscellany (22 Apr. 1601) | EM |
| 19 | A direccion for the readeinge of histories with profitt (c.1601–2) | DRH |
| 20 | The history of K. Henry 8, Edward, Mary and … Elizabeth (c.1602) | KH8 |
| 21 | Considerations touching the Queen’s service in Ireland (1602) | CQS |
| 22 | Considerations touching the Queen’s service in Ireland (1602) | CQS |
| 23 | A confession of faith (c.1602-3) | 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.