PERSONAL

HISTORY OF LORD BACON.

FROM UNPUBLISHED PAPERS.

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

By THE SAME AUTHOR.

JOHN HOWARD: A MEMOIR.

ROBERT BLAKE: Admiral and General at Sea.

WILLIAM PENN: AN HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY. With a Reply to Lord Macaulay's charges against Penn.

THE LONDON PRISONS: With some account of the most celebrated persons confined in them.

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HISTORY OF LORD BACON.

FROM UNPUBLISHED PAPERS.

BY WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1861.

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