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Historical person
1561–1626
Francis Bacon was an English lawyer, parliamentarian, philosopher and statesman who rose to high office under James VI & I. After a long legal and political career he became attorney general in 1613 and lord chancellor in 1618, while his writings on learning and method later became central to his intellectual reputation.
Francis Bacon was an English lawyer, statesman and writer who served James VI & I as attorney general and lord chancellor. Francis Bacon was born in York House, London, England and died in Highgate, England.
In Steven Veerapen’s Assassination, Ned Savage is summoned by Robert Cecil and Francis Bacon to investigate a threat that appears to place a king in danger during the elaborate entertainments surrounding the royal visit.
Series
The Spycatcher trilogy follows Ned Savage, a fictional thief recruited into the intelligence world of Robert Cecil during the transfer from Tudor to Stuart rule. Succession centres on Elizabeth I’s death and James VI’s accession in 1603; Coronation uses the plague-stricken early Jacobean capital; and Assassination is set…
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