Personal History of Lord Bacon From Unpublished Papers
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But the case shall stand alone. This tribute paid to personal merit and public service must not be drawn, say the applauding members, into a pre- cedent dangerous to their franchise. He is the first to sit, he must be the last. That an exception in favor of the new Attorney-Gen- eral should have been made by men so hostile to the court that they broke up at last without passing a single bill which the Crown could assent to, is most strange. The results are yet more strange. As if to witness to ...the latest generations the profound estimation in which Bacon was held by a House of Commons which had known him closely for thirty years, and which had seen him vote and act under every form of temptation that can test the virtue and tax the genius of a public man, this exception, made in his favor solely, became the rule for his successors and for succeeding times. Once only has the restriction been referred to in the House. That was in the case of his immediate successor. Since his time the presence of the Attorney-General among the representatives of the people has been constant.
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