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Sir Francis Bacon's MSS relating to Ireland

Author: Francis Bacon

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Introduction by Hiram Morgan

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Sources

    MS sources
  1. Hatfield, Cecil Papers, Ms 65 no. 35 (Document 6); Ms 67, no. 19 (Document 7).
  2. Lambeth Palace, (Carew Papers) MS 619, pp. 288–9 (Document 30).
  3. London, UK National Archives, Kew, SP63/232, no. 19 (Documents 21, 31).
  4. London, UK National Archives, Kew, SP63/234, 6A (Document 33).
  5. New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1160 (Collections of charges and speeches by Francis Bacon), no. 13, ff.161–71 (Document 19).
  6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Carte MS 61 p. 64 (Document 24).
    Literature
  1. Thomas Smith, A Letter sent by I. B. gentleman (London 1572).
  2. Richard Beacon, Solon his follie (Oxford 1594).
  3. [Francis Bacon], A declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earl of Essex and his complices against Her Majesty and her kingdoms (London 1602).
  4. Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, his Apologie, in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex (London 1604).
  5. Thomas Blenerhasset, A direction for the plantation of Ulster (London 1610).
  6. Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (London 1617).
  7. Edwin A. Abbot, Francis Bacon: An account of His Life and Works (London, 1885).
  8. Hiram Morgan, 'Francis Bacon and policy-making in Ireland under Elizabeth and James', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol 119C, 1–25 .
  9. Richard Serjeantson, 'Francis Bacon, colonisation and the limits of Atlanticism', Nature, politics, and the imagination in the thought of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) (Berkeley, CA, 2014), available online at https://docplayer.net/65319781-Francis-bacon-colonisation-and-the-limits-of-atlanticism.html.
    Secondary literature (a selection)
  1. T. W. Moody, The Londonderry Plantation, 1609–1641, (Belfast 1939).
  2. D. B. Quinn, 'Sir Thomas Smith (1513–77) and beginnings of English colonial theory', Proceedings of American Philosophical Society 1945, 543–60.
  3. J. M. Jones, Mountjoy: the Last Elizabethan Deputy, 1563–1606, (Dublin 1958).
  4. Philip Robinson, The Plantation of Ulster, (Dublin 1984).
  5. Raymond Gillespie, Colonial Ulster: the settlement of East Ulster, 1600–1641 (Cork 1985).
  6. Hiram Morgan, 'The colonial venture of Sir Thomas Smith in Ulster, 1571–75', Historical Journal 28 (1985) 261–78.
  7. Hans S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism (Cambridge 1985).
  8. Michael MacCarthy-Morrogh, The Munster Plantation (Oxford 1986).
  9. Micheal Percival-Maxwell, Scottish migration to Ulster in the reign of James I (London 1990).
  10. Raymond Gillespie, 'Documents and sources: plantation and profit: Richard Spert's tract on Ireland, 1608', Irish Economic and Social History 20 (1993) 62–71.
  11. Willy Maley, 'Another Britain'?: Bacon's certain considerations touching the plantation in Ireland (1609), Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 18/1 (1995) 1–18.
  12. Robert J. Hunter, 'Plantation in Donegal', In: William Nolan, Liam Ronayne, Mairead Dunlevy (eds.), Donegal: history & society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, (Dublin 1995) 283–324.
  13. Victor Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland, 1616–1628 (Dublin 1998).
  14. John McCavitt, Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1605–16 (Belfast 1998).
  15. Brendan Bradshaw, and Peter Roberts (eds.), British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533–1707. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998.
  16. John Andrews, 'Plantation Ireland: a review of settlement history'. In: Terence B. Barry (ed.), A history of settlement in Ireland (London 1999) 140–157.
  17. James Stevens Curl, The Honourable the Irish Society and the plantation of Ulster, 1608–2000: the City of London and the colonisation of County Londonderry in the province of Ulster in Ireland, a history and critique. (Chichester 2000).
  18. Nicholas P. Canny, Making Ireland British, 1580–1650. (Oxford 2001).
  19. Toby Christopher Barnard, 'The Making of Great Britain and Ireland', In: Barry Coward (ed.), A companion to Stuart Britain (Blackwell Companions to British History) (Oxford 2003) 26–44.
  20. Raymond Gillespie, 'Planned migration to Ireland in the seventeenth century', In: Patrick J. Duffy, Gerard Moran (eds.), To and from Ireland: planned migration schemes c.1600–2000 (Dublin 2004) 39–56.
  21. Hiram Morgan, The Battle of Kinsale (Bray 2004).
  22. Patrick Fitzgerald, 'Scottish migration to Ireland in the seventeenth century'. In: Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch (eds.), Scottish communities abroad in the early modern period (Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 107) (Leiden 2005) 27–52.
  23. David Edwards. 'A haven of popery: English Catholic migration to Ireland in the age of plantations', In: Alan Ford; John McCafferty (eds.), The origins of sectarianism in early modern Ireland (Cambridge 2005) 95–126.
  24. Jon Crawford, A Star Chamber court in Ireland: the Court of Castle Chamber, 1571–1641, (Dublin 2005) 305–6.
  25. Hiram Morgan, 'Francis Bacon and policy-making in Ireland under Elizabeth and James', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Sect. C, forthcoming 2019.
    Francis Bacon's Life and Work (a selection)
  1. Arthur Rowland Skemp, Francis Bacon, T. C. & E. C. Jack. (London 1912).
  2. A. W. Green, Sir Francis Bacon, his life and works. (Syracuse, New York 1948).
  3. Benjamin Farrington, Philosophy of Francis Bacon. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1967).
  4. F. J. Levy, Tudor historical thought. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1967).
  5. Paolo Rossi, Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science, translated by Sacha Rabinovitch. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1968).
  6. Albert Joseph Loomie, 'Bacon and Gondomar: an unknown link in 1618', Renaissance Quarterly 21 (1968) 1–10.
  7. Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon: the Discovery and Art of Discourse (Cambridge 1974).
  8. Jan Van Dorsten, 'Literary patronage in Elizabethan England: the early phase', In: G. F. Lytle; Stephen Orgel, (eds.), Patronage in the Renaissance (Folger Institute essays) (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1981) 191–206.
  9. Ian Box, 'Bacon's Essays: from political science to political prudence'. History of Political Thought 3:1 (1982) 31–49.
  10. Clark Hulse, 'Spenser, Bacon, and the myth of power', In: H. Dubrow; R. Strier (eds.), The Historical Renaissance: new essays on Tudor and Stuart literature and culture. (Chicago, Illinois 1988) 315–346.
  11. Julian Martin, Francis Bacon, the state, and the reform of natural philosophy. (Cambridge 1992).
  12. Jürgen Klein (ed.), State, science and modernization in England: from the Renaissance to the present time (Herborn symposium 1990), (Alstediana–Forschungen zur Mentalitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit 1). (Hildesheim: Olms 1994).
  13. Markku Peltonen, (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Bacon. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996).
  14. Perez Zagorin, Francis Bacon. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1998).
  15. Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart, Hostage to fortune: the troubled life of Francis Bacon, 1561–1626. (London: Gollancz 1998).
  16. Stephen Gaukroger, Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001).
  17. David Burnett, A thinker for all seasons: Sir Francis Bacon and his significance today. (Durham: New Century 2000).
  18. Kenneth Cardwell, 'An Overlooked Tract by Francis Bacon', Huntington Library Quarterly, 65:3:4 (2002).
  19. Joseph M. Levine, 'Intellectual History as History', Journal of the History of Ideas, 66:2 (2005) 189–200.
  20. William A. Sessions, 'Bacon's Spenser', In: Ton Hoenselaars; Arthur F. Kinney (eds.), Challenging humanism: essays in honor of Dominic Baker-Smith (Newark: University of Delaware Press 2005) 209–228.
  21. Sarah Irving, 'In a pure soil': Colonial anxieties in the work of Francis Bacon, History of European Ideas, 32:3 (2006) 249–262.
  22. Julie Robin Solomon; Catherine Gimelli Martin (eds.), Francis Bacon and the refiguring of early modern thought (Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity). (Aldershot: Ashgate 2006).
  23. Stephen A. McKnight, The religious foundations of Francis Bacon's thought. (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press 2006).
  24. Todd Wayne Butler, Imagination and politics in seventeenth-century England; (Aldershot: Ashgate 2008).
  25. Correspondence of Francis Bacon project, directed by Alan Stewart (see http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/projects/correspondence-francis-bacon).
  26. Another Internet resource is: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/
    The editions used in the digital edition
  1. Basil Montagu, The speech used by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, to Sir William Jones, upon his calling to be Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1617 in The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A new edition. , London, William Pickering (1825–1834: 1825) volume 2 of 16 page 476–477
  2. Basil Montagu, Letter of Francis Bacon to George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham, 27 July 1618 in The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A new edition. , London, William Pickering (1825-1834) volume 3 of 16 page 83
  3. Basil Montagu, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland, Certain considerations touching the Plantation in Ireland in The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A new edition. , London, William Pickering (1825-1834: 1826) volume 5 of 16 page 169–185; 187–196
  4. Basil Montagu, The proceedings of the Earl of Essex in The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A new edition. , London, William Pickering (1825–1834: 1826) volume 6 of 16 page 277–298
  5. Basil Montagu, Francis Bacon to Sir Robert Cecil, Letter of Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex, Letter of Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex, Letter from Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex, Letter of Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex, Letter of Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Robert Cecil, Letter of Sir Francis Bacon to King James, New Year 1609, Letter from Francis Bacon to Mr. Pierce, Secretary to the Deputy of Ireland, Letter of Francis Bacon to William Jones, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, April 1618, Letter of Francis Bacon to George Villiers, The Marquis of Buckingham, 12 November 1618 in The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A new edition. , London, William Pickering (1825–1834: 1830) volume 12 of 16 page 15–23; 27–28; 73; 117; 156; 165; 352; 360
  6. Basil Montagu, The speech used by Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, to Sir William Jones, upon his calling to be Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1617 in The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A new edition: with a Life of the author. , Philadelphia, A. Hart, late Carey & Hart (1850) volume 2 of 3 page 476–477
  7. James Spedding, Letter of Francis Bacon to Anthony Bacon, 26 August 1594, Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir Francis Allen, 20 December 1598 in The letters and Life of Francis Bacon: including all his occasional works, namely letters, speeches, tracts, state papers, memorials, devices, and all authentic writings not already printed among his philosophical literary or professional works. , London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (1861–74) volume 1 of 15 page 264–265; 314–15
  8. James Spedding, Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir John Davies, Attorney General in Ireland, 23 October 1607, Letter of Francis Bacon to King James, 13 August 1613 in The letters and Life of Francis Bacon: including all his occasional works, namely letters, speeches, tracts, state papers, memorials, devices, and all authentic writings not already printed among his philosophical literary or professional works. , London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (1861–74) volume 4 of 15 page 5–6; 386–387
  9. James Spedding, Letter of Francis Bacon to King James, ?Feb1614, Letter of Francis Bacon to King James, 5 June 1616, Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers, 1 July 1616, Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir George Villiers, 2 July 1616 in The letters and Life of Francis Bacon: including all his occasional works, namely letters, speeches, tracts, state papers, memorials, devices, and all authentic writings not already printed among his philosophical literary or professional works. , London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (1861–74) volume 5 of 15 page 1–2; 355–6; 375; 377
  10. James Spedding, Mr Attorney's certificate touching the Patent for slitting Iron Bars, 27 January 1616, Privy Council to Lord Deputy of Ireland, 16 March 1617, Letter of Francis Bacon to George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham, 25 May 1617 in The letters and Life of Francis Bacon: including all his occasional works, namely letters, speeches, tracts, state papers, memorials, devices, and all authentic writings not already printed among his philosophical literary or professional works. , London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (1861–74) volume 6 of 15 page 135; 154–156; 207–208
  11. C.W. Russell and John P. Prendergast, A direction or advice unto her Majesty's Attorney-General of Ireland, touching certain doubts in law, which may arise in the proceeding against the recusant corporations in Ireland, Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir John Davies, Attorney-General of Ireland, 26 December 1606 in Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1606-08. , London, Longman & Co. (1877) volume 14page civ–cv; 47

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