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1611—1707.

CREATIONS 22 1611 to 27 March 1625. May

JAMES

BY

I.

BACON

(Premier Baronetcy):

cr. 22 May 1611.

[Note. — With this Baronetcy the Baronetcy of Bacon, cr. 29 July 1627, has been united since 30 April 1755.]

I. 1611. "Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, co. Suffolk, Knt.,"^[1] s. and h. of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1559-79), by his 1st wife, Jane, da. of William Fernley, of West Creting, Suffolk, and of London (being elder br., of the half blood, to the still more celebrated LordChancellor, Francis Bacon,^[2] afterwards Baron Verulam and Viscount St, Albans), was b. about 1540; Pensioner of Gonville and Caius Coll., Cambridge, Nov. 1554; student of Gray's Inn, 1562; Sheriff of Suffolk, 1581-82, and of Norfolk, 1597-98; M.P. for Beverley, 1563-67; and for Suffolk, 1572-83; Knighted by Queen Elizabeth, at Norwich, 22 May 1578; suc. his father, 20 Feb. 1578/9; Sheriff of Suffolk (again) 1581, and was cr. a Bart., as above, at the institution of that Order, 22 May 1611, being the 1st person^[2] ever advanced to that dignity.^[3] He m. 1564, Anne, da. and

↑ The style of each grantee (here given in inverted commas), and the date of creation, during the reigns of James I and Charles I, are taken from the Creations of Peers and Baronets, 1483 to 1646, in the 47th Rep. of the D.K. of the Public Records.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 It appears to have been by Francis Bacon's advice, given in 1606 (some five or six years before it was carried into effect) that the order of Baronets was instituted; so that "it is not surprising to find that the first of the new dignity was Sir Nicholas Bacon," his eldest brother, and the head of the family. See Notes and Queries, 3d S., xii, 168.
↑ He was the first of a batch of eighteen persons with whom the order originated. This was followed, about five weeks later (29 June 1611), by a larger batch of fifty-two (53 according to Dugdale and others, who, erroneously, include "Dallison" therein), and, subsequently, on 24 Sep. by one of four, and on 25 Nov. following by one of seventeen, after which creations (91 in all, ending with that of Holte, all being in 1611), each creation in this reign, and for the most part in those following, is dated on a separate day. There were "twenty-two patents originally intended for the first seal (22 May 1611), of which four "were stayed " viz., those for (1) Sir George Trenchard, of Wolverton, Dorset; (2) his son in law, Sir John Strangways, of Melbury in that county, "subsequently conspicuous for his opposition to the measures of the Court;" (3) Sir Thomas Walsingham, of Scadbury, Kent, who d. 1639, aged 69; (4) Sir Thomas' cousin german (by the mother), Sir Thomas Barnardiston, of Ketton, Suffolk, who d. 23 Dec., 1619, two of whose great grandsons were, in 1663, createdBaronets. See a fuller account in Her. et Gen., iii, 208—212.

[1] The style of each grantee (here given in inverted commas), and the date of creation, during the reigns of James I and Charles I, are taken from the Creations of Peers and Baronets, 1483 to 1646, in the 47th Rep. of the D.K. of the Public Records.

[b-2] 2.0 ^2.1 It appears to have been by Francis Bacon's advice, given in 1606 (some five or six years before it was carried into effect) that the order of Baronets was instituted; so that "it is not surprising to find that the first of the new dignity was Sir Nicholas Bacon," his eldest brother, and the head of the family. See Notes and Queries, 3d S., xii, 168.

[3] He was the first of a batch of eighteen persons with whom the order originated. This was followed, about five weeks later (29 June 1611), by a larger batch of fifty-two (53 according to Dugdale and others, who, erroneously, include "Dallison" therein), and, subsequently, on 24 Sep. by one of four, and on 25 Nov. following by one of seventeen, after which creations (91 in all, ending with that of Holte, all being in 1611), each creation in this reign, and for the most part in those following, is dated on a separate day. There were "twenty-two patents originally intended for the first seal (22 May 1611), of which four "were stayed " viz., those for (1) Sir George Trenchard, of Wolverton, Dorset; (2) his son in law, Sir John Strangways, of Melbury in that county, "subsequently conspicuous for his opposition to the measures of the Court;" (3) Sir Thomas Walsingham, of Scadbury, Kent, who d. 1639, aged 69; (4) Sir Thomas' cousin german (by the mother), Sir Thomas Barnardiston, of Ketton, Suffolk, who d. 23 Dec., 1619, two of whose great grandsons were, in 1663, createdBaronets. See a fuller account in Her. et Gen., iii, 208—212.

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