Note 1284 — THE 'LIVES' (continued 7)
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The chronology is here difficult. William Cavendish, second earl of Devonshire, died 20 June, 1628; and it is he whom Hobbes regarded as his 'first' lord (see his inscription, infra, p. 386), not his father William, first earl, who died 3 March, 1625/6. Bacon died 9 Apr. 1626.