No More Learning

In John Speed, who had the assistance of the eminent antiquaries Sir Henry
Cotton (especially in his account of the reign of Henry VIII), Spelman and
others, some critics have recognised the earliest of English historians as well
as one of the trustiest of annalists. A great impulse was, no doubt, given to
the study of English history by the author of Britannia (1586), William
Camden, whose Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth Selden couples with
Bacon's Henry VIII as distinguished from all other attempts at writing
contemporary English history. For a list of the works comprised in vols. I
and 11 of bishop White Kennett's History of England to the death of
William III, 1706, see Gardiner, S. R. and Mullinger, J. B. , Introduction
to English History (3rd ed. ), p. 217, note 5; vol. 111 was Kennett's own com-
position.
Bacon, Francis (Viscount Si Alban). The Historie of the Reigne of King
Henry the Seventh. 1622. Rptd in Bacon's Literary and Professional
Works, edd. Spedding, J. and Ellis, R. L. , vol. 1, 1858.
Of the History of the reign of Henry VIII, which Bacon was recom-
mended to write by Charles prince of Wales, only a page or two were
written. See L. and P. Works, u. s. pp. 267–8. A rather larger fragment,
not devoid of grandeur, remains of The Beginning of the History of Great
Britain, written a little before 1610; see ibid. pp. 271 ff. Of much
historical interest are:
Advertisement touching on Holy Warre, written in 1622, ptd by
Rawley, W. , in Certain Miscellany Works of (Bacon), 1629, and rptd in
L. and P. Works, u. s. vol. II, pp. 8 ff. ; and the fragment of the True
Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain, ptd 1634, rptd L, and P. Works,
vol. II, pp. 37 ff. The former, in dialogue form, advocates a war against
the Turks; the latter advocates the policy of employing in war energies
otherwise likely to spend themselves in domestic quarrels.
Bedell, William, Bishop of Kilmore (1571-1642). A True Relation, of the
Life and Death of William Bedell, Lord Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland.
Ed. Jones, T. Wharton. Camden Soc. Publ. 1872. (Previously publ.
without notes 'by Mayor, J. E. B. , 1871. )
Speculum Episcoporum; or The Apostolique Bishop, being a brieffe
Account of the Lyfe and Death of that Reverend Father in God,
D. William Bedell, etc. (By his son-in-law, Alexander Clogy. ) Edd.
Wilkins, W. W. , 1862, and, with A True Relation, Letters, etc. under
the title Two Biographies of William Bedell, Shuckburgh, E. S. , Cam-
bridge, 1902.
Bedell was, as Sir Henry Wotton's chaplain at Venice, associated
with his protestant schemes. He died in 1642, as a victim of the Irish
rebellion. Later lives of him were published by Burnet (1685) and by
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prefixed to Sir Henry Savile's Edition of some of our oldest Historians
in Latin (1618). ) First publ. by Hall, A. , in Nicolai Triveti Annalium
Continuatio, 1722. Rptd by Haslewood, J. , in Ancient Critical Essays
npon English Poets and Poësy, vol. 11, 1815.
- (Philanactophil). Nero Cæsar, or Monarchie Depraved. 1624. The 2nd
ed. (1627) contains as an Appendix An Historical Parallel, or, A
demonstration of the notable oddes, for the more use of life, betweene
reading large Histories, and briefe ones, how excellent soever, as those
of Lucius Florus. ?
This work recapitulates the affairs of Britain from the time of Julius
Caesar to that of Nero, taking occasion to show that Stonehenge (more
commonly called Stonage) is a monument to Boadicea.
Buc, or Buck, [Sir] George (d. 1623). The History of the Life and Reigne
of Richard The Third. Composed in five Bookes. 1646.
Rptd in Kennett, u. s. vol. I, 1705. The "George Buck Esquire'
mentioned on the title-page as the author of this work, which anticipates
in lucid style Horace Walpole's defence of Richard, is thought by Ritson
to be identical with Sir George Buc or Buck, author of The Third
Universitie of England. Or A Treatise of the Foundations of all the
Colledges, Auncient Schooles of Priviledge, and of Houses of Learning
and Liberall Arts, within and about the most famous Cittie of London.
1615, appended to Stow's Annales, ed. Howe, E. , 1615.
Camden, William. See ante, vol. 111, pp. 527-8.
Charles I. Memoirs of the Two last Years of the Reign of that unparallelld
Prince, of ever Blessed Memory, King Charles I. By Sir Thomas Herbert,
Major Huntington, Col. Edw. Cohe, and M Hen. Firebrace. With the
Character of that Blessed Martyr, by The Reverend MJohn Diodati,
M' Alexander Henderson, and the Author of the Princely Pelican. To
which is added, The Death-Bed Repentance of M' Lenthal, Speaker of
the Long-Parliament; Extracted out of a Letter written from Oxford,
Sept. 1662. 1702. Re-ed. by Nicol], G. , 1813.
The Reign of Charles I. 1656. (Annalistic. )
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil
Wars in England, together with an Historical View of the Affairs of
Ireland. Now for the first time carefully printed from the original MS
preserved in the Bodleian Library. To which are subjoined the Notes of
Bishop Warburton. 7 vols. Oxford, 1849.
The Miscellaneous Works of . . . being a Collection of Several Valuable
Tracts, Published from His Lordship’s Original MSS. 2nd ed. 1751.
Contains:
Contemplations and Reflections upon the Psalms of David. Con-
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of my self from the Charge of High-Treason, with which I was
charged by the House of Commons, November, 1667. Montpelier,
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Essays Divine and Moral.
Of Human Nature; Of Pride [on funerals]; Of Anger;
Of Patience in Adversity; Of Friendship [lofty, but temperate);
Of Counsel and Conversation; Of Promises (a notable essay);
Of Liberty [attack, of an orthodox kind, on Hobbes]; Of
Industry; Of Sickness [fine]; Of Repentance; Of Conscience
[also polemical]; Of an Active and Contemplative Life, and when
and Why the One ought to be preferred before the other; Of
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