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Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of Verulam (1561-1626)
Also called (1603-18) Sir Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England (1618-21). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials and as James I's lord chancellor; and intellectually as a man who claimed all knowledge as his province and, after a magisterial survey, urgently advocated new ways by which man might establish a legitimate command over nature for the relief of his estate.
Select Texts:

• Essayes. 1597.
• A letter vvritten out of England to an English gentleman remaining at Padua. 1599.
• A declaration of the practises & treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his complices, against her Maiestie and her kingdom. 1601.
• A briefe discourse, touching the happie vnion of the kingdomes of England, and Scotland. 1603.
• Certaine considerations touching the better pacification, and edification of the Church of England. 1604.
• Sir Francis Bacon his apologie, in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex. 1604.
• The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane. 1605.
• Francisci Baconi equitis aurati, procuratoris secundi, Iacobi Regis Magn. 1609.
• The charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching duells. 1614.
• Saggi morali del Signore Francesco Bacono, cavagliero inglese, Gran Cancelliero d'Inghilterra. Con vn'altro suo trattato Della sapienza degli antichi. Tradotti in Italiano. 1618.
• The vvisedome of the ancients, written in Latine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Baron of Verulam, and Lord Chancelor or England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight. 1619.
• Essays Moraux, Du Tres-honorable seigneur Francois Bacon Chevalier, Baron de Verulam, & grand Chancelier d'Angleterre. 1619.
• Certaine considerations touching the better pacification, and edification of the Church of England. 1621.
• The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seuenth. 1622.
• Francisci Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam. 1622.
• Opera Francisci Baronis de Verulamio. 1623.
• The translation of certaine psalmes into English verse. 1625.
• Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie. 1627.
• Considerations touching a vvarre vvith Spaine. 1629.
• The essayes or counsels, ciuill and moral. 1629.
• The elements of the common lavves of England. 1630.
• Of the advancement and proficience of learning, or, The partitions of sciences, IX bookes. 1640.
• Cases of treason. 1641.
• The confession of faith. 1641.
• The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times. 1651.
• A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury. 1651.
• The naturall and experimentall history of vvinds. 1653.
• The mirrour of state and eloquence. 1656.
• Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban. 1657.
• New Atlantis. 1658.
• A letter of advice written by Sr. Francis Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, when he became favourite to King James. 1661.
• The union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England. 1670.
• The history of the reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary. 1676.
• The novum organum. 1676.