Bacon's 'Advertisement touching the Church of England' 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). 1590s