Page:The Advancement of Learning (Wright, 5th ed).pdf/52

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

CALENDAR

OF THE LIFE AND WORKS

OF

FRANCIS BACON.^[1]

1560-1. Jan. 23. Born at York House

1573. April 5. Went up to Trinity College, Cambridge.

" June 10. Matriculated.

1576. June 27. Entered at Gray's Inn.

" Nov. 21. Admitted of the grand company of that society.

" Went to Paris with Sir Amias Paulet.

1578-9. Feb. 22. Death of his father, Sir Nicholas Bacon.

1582. June 27. Admitted as utter barrister.

" About this time wrote Temporis Partus Maximus.

1584. Nov. 23. Sat in parliament as member for Melcombe Regis.

1586. Oct. 29. Member for Taunton.

1588. Lent term. Elected Reader at Gray's Inn.

" Nov. Member for Liverpool.

1589. Oct. 29. Reversion of the Clerkship of the Star-Chamber granted to him.

1589. An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England (1640).

†1592 Nov. 17. Discourses in praise of Knowledge and of the Queen (1734).

" Observations on a Libel (1657).

1592-3. Feb. 19. Sat as member for Middlesex.

1593-4. Jan. 25. First appearance as a pleader in court.

1594. A true Report of Dr. Lopez his Treason (1657).

" July 27. Made M.A. at Cambridge.

1595. Nov. 17. Contributions to the Device presented by Essex to the Queen: printed by Mr. Spedding (1861).

1595-6. Formularies and Elegancies (1859).

†1596. Made Queen's Counsel Extraordinary.

1597. First edition of the Essays.
Colours of Good and Evil.
Meditationes Sacra.
Maxims of the Law (1630).

↑ In the list of his Works I have not included his speeches in Parliament or his arguments in law. The date of composition when it could be ascertained is given; the date of publication, when different from that of composition, is included within parentheses. Probable dates are indicated by a dagger † Those pieces of which the date is altogether uncertain are placed at the end.