Janus: Basil Montagu: Papers concerning Francis Bacon.

Manuscripts/MS Add.4326-4338 contains:
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MS Add.4328	List of works by or concerning Francis Bacon, compiled by Basil Montagu
MS Add.4329	Two works by Francis Bacon
MS Add.4330	Transcripts concerning Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, made for Basil Montagu
MS Add.4331	Collectanea regarding Francis Bacon, in English and Latin, in various hands
MS Add.4332	Transcripts of tracts dealing with Bacon's Novum organum, made for Basil Montagu, in English, Latin and French
MS Add.4333	List of manuscripts regarding Francis Bacon, compiled by Basil Montagu
MS Add.4334	Francis Bacon: 'Instauratio Magna', Parts IV and V, translated by F. Wrangham
MS Add.4335	Francis Bacon: foreign correspondence, compiled for Basil Montagu
MS Add.4336	Miscellanea concerning Francis Bacon, compiled by Basil Montagu
MS Add.4337	Miscellanea of Francis Bacon, in English and Latin, made by or for Basil Montagu
MS Add.4338	Copies of papers regarding the trial of Francis Bacon

Basil Montagu: Papers concerning Francis Bacon.

Title	Two works by Francis Bacon
Reference	MS Add.4329
Creator	Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851
Covering Dates	1630 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper

Content and context

(Fos 1-28) 'An Advertisement touching an holy warr...The rest was not perfected'; (fos 29-36) 'To the king, of a digest to be made of the lawes of England'. Bacon first put forward these proposals for law reform in the 1590s, but this version is addressed to James I, and was first printed in 1629. On fo. 1 is 'W. Hone. XVII.30.15', possibly referring to the author and bookseller who lived 1780-1842.

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