The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV.Blanchard and Lea, 1851 - Great Britain |
Contents
His mercantile Descent 30 Birth 31 Early Profligacy 31 Professional Progress | 31 |
STEPHEN GARDYNER Chancellor 53 His Extraction 54 His Education 54 | 58 |
CHAPTER XLI | 65 |
Marys Difficulty in appointing a Chancellor on the Death of Gardyner 77 | 80 |
CHAPTER XLIII | 88 |
Burghley conducts the Prosecution 121 His dread of an Acquittal 121 Court | 121 |
CHAPTER XLVI | 162 |
CHAPTER XLVII | 171 |
แ for Murder 285 Cogitata et Visa 286 Bacons Letter to the King asking | 292 |
Great Scal delivered to BACON as Lord Keeper 305 His Delight 306 His Letter | 311 |
Made Viscount St Albans 323 His sudden Fall 223 He advises the Calling | 323 |
the Peers 328 Answer of the Peers 329 Kings Message to the Commons | 329 |
tempt to move the King in his favour 335 Sentence is pronounced 335 Justice | 336 |
CHAPTER LVI | 339 |
he always fainted away at Change of Moon 359 Charge of Infidelity 359 Free | 364 |
CHAPTER LVIII | 379 |
meres second Wife and of his eldest Son 192 His Third Marriage | 192 |
Charities 203 Equity Reports | 203 |
in House of Lords 213 Parliament dissolved | 214 |
CHAPTER LI | 238 |
His maiden Speech on Law Reform 248 Ben Jonsons Opinion of his Oratory | 249 |
His Hopes of being made Solicitor General 254 He is Disappointed 255 | 258 |
CHAPTER LIII | 264 |
Accession of James I 276 Bacons Letters to be shown to the King 276 Bacons | 279 |
by Commons before Lords 418 Coventry made Lord Keeper by Buckingham | 419 |
Petition of Right 424 Tonnage and Poundage 425 Abrupt Dissolution | 425 |
Plan of introducing Despotism into England 426 Lord Keeper Coventry | 431 |
Infamy of new Lord Keeper 445 Reasons for selecting him 446 Family of Finch | 446 |
Firmness of the popular Leaders 451 Petition of Right passed | 451 |
his Conduct to Bishop Williams 456 Gross Impropriety of his Appointment | 460 |
CHAPTER LXVII | 495 |