"Bacon consented to part with his house, and Buckingham in return consented to give him his liberty." Yet Bacon could write to him, "low as I am, I had rather sojourn in a college in Cambridge than recover a good fortune by any other but yourself." "As for York House," he bids Toby Matthews to let Buckingham know, "that _whether in a straight line or a compass line_, I meant it for his Lordship, in the way which I thought might please him best." But liberty did not mean either money or recovered honour.

All his life long he had made light of being in debt; but since his fall this was no longer a condition easy to bear.

He had to beg some kind of pension of the King.
He had to beg of Buckingham; "a small matter for my debts would do me more good now than double a twelvemonth hence.

I have lost six thousand by the year, besides caps and courtesies.

Two things I may assure your Lordship.