But Bacon was not implicated more than the Crown lawyers before him, in what all the Crown lawyers had always defended.

There was dissatisfaction about the King's extravagance and wastefulness, about his indecision in the cause of the Elector Palatine, about his supposed intrigues with Papistical and tyrannical Spain; but Bacon had nothing to do with all this except, as far as he could, to give wise counsel and warning.

The person who made the King despised and hated was the splendid and insolent favourite, Buckingham.

It might have been thought that the one thing to be set against much that was wrong in the State was the just and enlightened and speedy administration of equity in the Chancery.
When Parliament met, though nothing seemed to threaten mischief, it met with a sturdy purpose of bringing to account certain delinquents whose arrogance and vexations of the subjects had provoked the country, and who were supposed to shelter themselves under the countenance of Buckingham.

Michell and Mompesson were rascals whose misdemeanors might well try the patience of a less spirited body than an English House of Commons.