Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".

However others, including Daphne du Maurier ( in her biography of Bacon ), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians.

It rests on the assumption that any individual involved in the Hollywood, California film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to Kevin Bacon within six steps.

The imprisonment of Eleanor is lightly dealt with, and the story of her crown is turned to the advantage of Bacon, who is said to have received the crown as a gift to secure funding for the publishing of his last great book, Liber de retardatione, concerning old age and its amelioration though the sciences.

Bacon helped secure the position of Archbishop of Canterbury for his friend Matthew Parker, and in his official capacity presided over the House of Lords when Elizabeth opened her first parliament.

Bacon, like many of her time, approached Shakespearean drama as philosophical masterpieces written for a closed aristocratic society of courtiers and monarchs, and found it difficult to believe they were written either with commercial intent or for a popular audience.

The cenacle opposing the ' despotism ' of Queen Elizabeth and King James, like the knights of King Arthur's Round Table consisted of Francis Bacon, Walter Ralegh, and, as far as Shapiro can make out from her confused writing, perhaps Edmund Spenser, Lord Buckhurst and the Earl of Oxford, all putatively employing playwriting to speak to both rulers and the ruled as committed republicans vindicating that cause against tyranny.

Emerson, who greatly admired Bacon, and who was sceptical of her claim originally, wrote that she would need ' enchanted instruments, nay alchemy itself, to melt into one identity these two reputations ', and retrospectively remarked that America had only two " producers " during the 1850s, " Our wild Whitman, with real inspiration but checked by titanic abdomen ; and Delia Bacon, with genius, but mad and clinging like a tortoise to English soil.

" Though he was intrigued by her insights into the plays, he grew sceptical of the ' magical cipher ' of which Bacon wrote without ever producing evidence for it.

There is a biography by her nephew, Theodore Bacon, Delia Bacon: A Sketch ( Boston, 1888 ), and an appreciative chapter, " Recollections of a Gifted Woman ," in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Our Old Home ( Boston, 1863 ).

Bacon and her theories are featured heavily in Jennifer Lee Carrell's novel Interred with Their Bones.

The overseer Edmund Bacon said that he gave her $ 50 and put her on a stagecoach to the North, presumably to join her brother.

In his memoir, Bacon said Harriet was " near white and very beautiful ," and that people said Jefferson freed her because she was his daughter.

She was not initially impressed with him, and her father, Judge Daniel Bacon, disapproved of Custer as a match because he was the son of a blacksmith.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618 and the Viscount St. Alban in 1621 ; as he died without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death.

According to his personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, as a judge Bacon was always tender-hearted, " looking upon the examples with the eye of severity, but upon the person with the eye of pity and compassion ".

Francis Bacon argued the case for what would become modern science which would be based more upon real experience and experimentation, free from assumptions about metaphysics, and aimed at increasing control of nature.

The idea can be traced to Roger Bacon's observation that all languages are built upon a common grammar, substantially the same in all languages, even though it may undergo in them accidental variations, and the 13th century speculative grammarians who, following Bacon, postulated universal rules underlying all grammars.

The idea of a universal grammar can be traced to Roger Bacon's observation that all languages are built upon a common grammar, substantially the same in all languages, even though it may undergo accidental variations, and the 13th century speculative grammarians who, following Bacon, postulated universal rules underlying all grammars.

When Sir Francis Bacon wrote an essay " Of Building ," ( XLV ) he said that " He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison.

Building upon their English predecessor Francis Bacon, the two main empiricists of the 17th-century were Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

The garden rare book collection is both a unique tool for historical inquiry and a testimony to the enduring human delight in gardens and garden creation, which is, as Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “ the Purest of Humane pleasures .” It was a claim echoed by Mrs. Bliss, whose testimony to the value of gardens and scholarship is inscribed upon the exterior walls of her library.

* It was used by the English philosopher Francis Bacon, who referred to it as the necessity of " keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving the images simply as they are.

The monument, designed by Henry Bacon, famed architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and sculpted by Evelyn Longman, is a single " Tennessee-pink " marble Doric column, based upon the same proportions as the columns of the Parthenon in Ancient Greece, and topped by an eagle, in reference to the state flag and symbol of the state and the nation.

Roger Bacon may have given the movement inspiration with his observation that all languages are built upon a common grammar, a shared foundation of ontologically anchored linguistic structures.

The artwork included explicit homoerotic artwork by Francis Bacon and the Iranian government stated that upon its return, it would be put on display in Iran.

In the early 17th century, the phrase was familiar to John Smith of Jamestown, and to Francis Bacon, who writes: " both the East and the West Indies being met in the crown of Spain, it is come to pass, that, as one saith in a brave kind of expression, the sun never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shines upon one part or other of them: which, to say truly, is a beam of glory [...]" Thomas Urquhart wrote of " that great Don Philippe, Tetrarch of the world, upon whose subjects the sun never sets.

In response, Cheek and the Liberals claimed that the government had abandoned small business and promised a wide range of spending initiatives-something that was seized upon by Bacon as a means of attacking the Liberals ' economic credentials.

As late as the eighteenth-century some juries still declared the law rather than the fact, but already before the end of the seventeenth century Sir Matthew Hale explained modern common law adjudication procedure and acknowledged Bacon as the inventor of the process of discovering unwritten laws from the evidences of their applications.

Bacon begins the work with a rejection of pure a priori deduction as a means of discovering truth in natural philosophy.

In fact, Elizabeth believed that faith was personal and did not wish, as Francis Bacon put it, to " make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts ".

Around the thirteenth century, the English monk Roger Bacon wrote a book in which he listed seven cipher methods, and stated that " a man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Another of Fabyan's pet projects was research into secret messages which Sir Francis Bacon had allegedly hidden in various texts during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.

Christian Rosenkreuz is believed by many to be the secret name of Francis Bacon.

* Roger Bacon ( English friar and polymath ), Epistle on the secret Works of Art and Nobility of Magic, 13th century, possibly the first European work on cryptography since Classical times, written in Latin and not widely available then or now

Queen Elizabeth I revoked a thought censorship law in the late sixteenth century, because, according to Sir Francis Bacon, she did "' not to make windows into men's souls and secret thoughts ".

In 1910 / 11, the castle and adjoining river bed were the site of well-publicised excavations by Dr. Orville Ward Owen, who was attempting to find secret documents to prove that Shakespeare's plays had in fact been written by Francis Bacon.

Bacon's cipher or the Baconian cipher is a method of steganography ( a method of hiding a secret message as opposed to a true cipher ) devised by Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon ’ s utopia world, described in his book New Atlantis described the natural philosophers quest as determining “… the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

In The secret grave of Francis Bacon and his mother in the Lichfield chapter house ( 1923 ) and The Shakespearean mystery ( 1928 ) he used a " key cipher " to find further messages connected with the Rosicrucians.

' Writing these pieces ' said Tóibín, ' helped me to come to terms with things-with my own interest in secret, erotic energy ( Roger Casement and Thomas Mann ), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren ’ t afraid ( Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar ), my abiding fascination with sadness ( Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin ) and, indeed, tragedy ( Thom Gunn and Mark Doty ).