This tract was long supposed to have been written by Sir Francis Bacon.
Written primarily in secretary hand with the first word of some paragraphs in Gothic script.
Margins ruled in brown ink and with page catchwords throughout. Later penciled foliation in lower right corners.
Anonymous letter to Sir Edward Coke, written during "this the tyme of yo[u]r Affliction" (following his removal, by King James I, from the King's Bench of Court in 1616). Accusing him of avarice and talkativeness, and declaring that "you make the lawe, a little to much, to Lean to yo[ur] opinyon, whereby, you shewe yo[u]rself, a Legall Tyrant" (fol. 3v). Also critiquing Coke's handling of the Overbury trials, saying he used "to many delayes, tyll the delinquent[es] handes were loose; and yo[u]rs Bounde". Advising that "[t]hough it bee true, that whoe soe Considereth, the wynde, and Rayne, shall neyther Sowe, nor Reape, yett, there is a season, ffittinge every occasion, Soe, there is a tyme to speake, and a tyme, to bee silent" (fol. 1r), exhorting him not to "fflye, from the servyce of virtue", and to continue to be "a greate enemye of the papistes" (fols. 6v-7r).