| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | MS OGDEN/8 |
| Title | Bacon's 'Advertisement touching the Church of England' |
| Date | 1590s |
| Description | Contemporary manuscript copy, perhaps dating from the 1590s, of Francis Bacon's 'An advertisment touching the controversyes of the Church of England'. A tract beginning "It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised..." First published as "A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires" ([London], 1641). |
| Extent | 1 volume containing 9 pages |
| AdminHistory | Francis Bacon: born in London, 1561; Lord Chancellor under James I, 1618-1621; lawyer, statesman, philosopher and essayist; Viscount Saint Alban; died in London, 1626. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |
| Acquisition | Part of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Related Material | University College London Special Collections also holds a manuscript copy, in a contemporary hand, of Francis Bacon's 'Vox Populi, Vox Dei' (Ref: MS OGDEN 9); a copy of Bacon's 'The Two Books of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning' (London, 1853) annotated by Thomas Markby (Ref: MS OGDEN 64); the Bacon/Tottel Collection, c1590-c1660, which includes notes on Bacon and copies of his texts, including transcripts of letters from him (Ref: MS OGDEN 7); a copy of Castiglione's 'The Courtyer' (London, 1561) with Bacon's monogram and symbolic annotations (Ref: OGDEN B5); a copy of Sir John Fortescue's 'De laudibus legum Angliae' (London, 1616) with Bacon's manuscript inscription (Ref: OGDEN A775).
British Library, Manuscript Collections, holds correspondence, speeches and other papers (Ref: Sloane MSS, Lansdowne MS 236, Harleian MSS, Add MS 4106, Add MS 27278). Lambeth Palace Library holds correspondence and papers (Ref: MSS 647-62, MS 936). Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, holds correspondence (Ref: Tanner MSS). Oxford University, Queens College Library, holds letters (Ref: MSS xxxii). The Inner Temple Library holds miscellaneous correspondence and papers. The Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library, holds a confession of his faith (Ref: Forster Collection). The Centre for Kentish Studies holds correspondence with Lionel Cranfield (Ref: U269). Hatfield House holds letters and papers. The Mirehouse, Keswick, holds papers and books. The Francis Bacon Library, Claremont, California, USA, holds personal and family correspondence and papers. See also 'Index of English literary manuscripts', i: 1450-1625 (London, 1980). |
| FindingAids | Handlist at University College London Special Collections. |