He was never to sit in Parliament or come within the verge of the Court.

This was agreed to, Buckingham only dissenting.

"The Lord Chancellor is so sick," he said, "that he cannot live long." What is the history of this tremendous catastrophe by which, in less than two months, Bacon was cast down from the height of fortune to become a byword of shame?
He had enemies, who certainly were glad, but there is no appearance that it was the result of any plot or combination against him.

He was involved, accidentally, it may almost be said, in the burst of anger excited by the intolerable dealings of others.

The indignation provoked by Michell and Mompesson and their associates at that particular moment found Bacon in its path, doing, as it seemed, in his great seat of justice, even worse than they; and when he threw up all attempt at defence, and his judges had his hand to an unreserved confession of corruption, both generally, and in the long list of cases alleged against him, it is not wonderful that they came to the conclusion, as the rest of the world did, that he was as bad as the accusation painted him--a dishonest and corrupt judge.