...consideration of the charge, descending into my own conscience, and calling my memory to account as far as I am able, I do plainly and ingenuously confess...corruption, and do renounce all defence, and put myself on the grace and mercy of your lordships." He then, J as he had been required to do, replied upon each...

...me, the Lord Chancellor." It begins: " Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into my conscience and calling my memory to account so far...that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense, and put myself upon the grace and mercy of your Lordships." He then goes over the different...

...charge Bacon with corruption in the exercise of his office. He at once pleaded guilty to the charge. " I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence." " I beseech your Lordships," he added, " to be merciful to a broken reed." The heavy line imposed on...

...himself entirely on the mercy of his peers. " Upon advised consideration of the charges," said he, " descending into my own conscience, and calling my memory to account so far as I am able, I do • By kind permission of Messrs. Longman and Co. plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty...

...me." So, on the 30th of April, his full confession was read before the Lords, in which he says, — " I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence." One of the charges was, that he had given way to great exactions by his servants ; and " he confessed...

...himself from the imputation of gross misconduct, and in his last final appeal for grace he said : ' I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence.' Bacon has since been furiously attacked in verse and hotly defended in prose. He has been represented...

...His own words to the House of Lords, when the facts had been disclosed by an investigation, were, " I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense, and put myself upon the grace and mercy of your lordships." He was, accordingly, sentenced...

...a paper declaring his own guilt and dishonour. " I do plainly and ingenuously confess," he wrote, " that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence, and put myself on the grace and mercy of your lordships." He then proceeds to admit that he received ,£500 from Sir...

...entirely on the mercy of his peers. " Upon advised consideration of the charges," said he, " de»cending into my own conscience, and calling my memory to account so far as I am able, I do plainly aqd ing«w nuously confess that I am guilty of cortnption, and do renounce all defence." The Ixjrds...

...corruption in his high office. The evidence is too clear. The Chancellor admits the crime, and declares, " I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence." The Lords sought to know if he had really signed such a confession. "My lords," said Bacon, " it is...