When we remember what Coke was, what he had thought of Bacon, and how he prized his own unique reputation as a representative of English law, the effects of such a disgrace on a man of his temper cannot easily be exaggerated.
But for the present Bacon had broken through the spell which had so long kept him back.

He won a great deal of the King's confidence, and the King was more and more ready to make use of him, though by no means equally willing to think that Bacon knew better than himself.

Bacon's view of the law, and his resources of argument and expression to make it good, could be depended upon in the keen struggle to secure and enlarge the prerogative which was now beginning.

In the prerogative both James and Bacon saw the safety of the State and the only reasonable hope of good government; but in Bacon's larger and more elevated views of policy--of a policy worthy of a great king, and a king of England--James was not likely to take much interest.

The memorials which it was Bacon's habit to present on public affairs were wasted on one who had so little to learn from others--so he thought and so all assured him--about the secrets of empire.