The Lords admit no evidence except on oath.

One Churchill, who was dismissed from the Chancery Court for extortion, is the chief cause of the Chancellor's ruin."[3] Bacon was greatly alarmed.

He wrote to Buckingham, who was "his anchor in these floods." He wrote to the King; he was at a loss to account for the "tempest that had come on him;" he could not understand what he had done to offend the country or Parliament; he had never "taken rewards to pervert justice, however he might be frail, and partake of the abuse of the time." "Time hath been when I have brought unto you _genitum columbae_, from others.

Now I bring it from myself.

I fly unto your Majesty with the wings of a dove, which once within these seven days I thought would have carried me a higher flight.
"When I enter into myself, I find not the materials of such a tempest as is comen upon me.